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by xmprt 10mo ago
You might be in that sweet spot where people use laptops as their personal computing device rather than an office PC or smartphone. I personally only have a desktop PC in a different room so there's no way I'd be able to plug it i
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by xmprt 10mo ago
A lot of the comments are complaining about how this metric is a terrible way to evaluate seniors but I'd disagree. If one junior can't grow then it's a problem for that junior. If no juniors can grow then it's a problem
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by xmprt 10mo ago
I wonder what Valve uses for source control (no pun intended) internally.
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by xmprt 10mo ago
To be fair, it was pretty much the entire western world fucking around before. Brexit was the first shock but I don't think the world learned many lessons from that. However a lot of western nations are taking the US as a cautionary ta
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by xmprt 10mo ago
On the other hand, if we force all systems to be resilient to an internet shutdown then we'd end up regressing society by a lot. Think about how much more work a single doctor is able to handle more efficiently by having internet acces
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by xmprt 10mo ago
On the other hand, investing in better tracing tools unlocks a whole nother level of logging and debugging capabilities that aren't feasible with just request logs. It's kind of like you mentioned with using the user id as a &quot
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by xmprt 10mo ago
It might be a bit nihilistic but at this point I don't think the current US administration has any strategy. In past administrations, it felt like even if there was a strategy, bureaucracy and lack of caring enough to do their job led
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by xmprt 10mo ago
I like it but I think the granularity needs to be fixed. For example, the cutoff points should be 21+ months -> 2 years instead of 13+ months -> 1 year.
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by xmprt 10mo ago
I don't even think that is the best defense because it takes a very passive acceptance to it. On the flip side, if someone steal my bike or assaults me in public, I'd like there to be some accountability which would otherwise neve
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by xmprt 10mo ago
My take on that is that they're different situations because a CCTV camera has 1000s of hours of footage to scrub through and will likely only be looked at if/when something bad happens. Whereas the guy pointing a camera at me pro
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by xmprt 10mo ago
An echo chamber is a product of your own creation. If you're willing to upvote people who disagree with your and actively seek out opposite takes to be genuinely curious about, then you're probably not in an echo chamber. The tool
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by xmprt 10mo ago
I've seen this happen when AI is asked to spot fix a single sentence in the middle of an essay and it fails to maintain the style of the rest of the writing.
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by xmprt 10mo ago
Not sure if I buy this reasoning. I just prompted ChatGPT and asked it to "pay attention to all the words". It still got it wrong but I'm sure if you told a human this, they'd actually do more thinking to get the right a
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by xmprt 11mo ago
Even if they aren't obligated to repay, they have to in practice because it'll impact their ability to get loans in the future. If the shell company declares bankruptcy and gets the loans off Meta's books no one will ever loa
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by xmprt 11mo ago
> Fundamentally, with LLMs you can't separate instructions from data, which is the root cause for 99% of vulnerabilities This isn't a problem that's fundamental to LLMs. Most security vulnerabilities like ACE, XSS, buffer
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by xmprt 11mo ago
I hope you share that same energy for people doing high frequency trading or writing advertisement engines. Cheating in neopets is probably at the lowest end of harm caused by cheating and also hurts neopets devs more than it hurts other pl
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by xmprt 11mo ago
The entire basis of this article/rumor is a single job posting on Google's careers website... Unifying Android across all devices is Google's holy grail and they've been hiring for that for most than a decade. I don&#x27
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by xmprt 11mo ago
> It's almost a law of nature We have tons of different systems for accumulating power all over the world. Corporate structures, democracy vs autocracy, etc. In each of those societies, we see different types of leaders on a sliding
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by xmprt 11mo ago
Please make sure that the new billing experience has support for billing limits and prepaid balance (to avoid unexpected charges)!
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by xmprt 11mo ago
Or * Helper: This is a great suggestion which I'll flag for the team to add support (5 years ago)
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by xmprt 11mo ago
One possibility is increased monitoring. In the past, issues that happened weren't reported because they went under the radar. Whereas now, those same issues which only impact a small percentage of users would still result in a status
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by xmprt 11mo ago
You don't need to have a bunch of unrelated riders to compromise. If the bill is healthcare funding, the compromise could be something like who receives the assistance, whether there are any cutoffs, how to implement it, etc. Or if tha
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Hiring and the Market for Lemons(danluu.com)
4 points by xmprt 11mo ago|1 comments
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by xmprt 11mo ago
So once again... why focus so much on cross platform? You're glazing Snap a whole lot but not answering my question. I don't deny that they have some incredible engineering, but that's not a reason to invest a lot into a cros
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by xmprt 11mo ago
You kind of just proved my point. If they want attention to detail and good performance then writing native is probably better. The simplicity that I was referring to was the number of views that need to be implemented. A cross platform UI
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by xmprt 11mo ago
I'm surprised Snap of all companies invested in a cross-platform UI framework given how simple their app seems in comparison to more complex ones out there. And more importantly, Snapchat seems like an app which could highly benefit fr
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by xmprt 11mo ago
Ok but what does that contribute to the conversation? I think a good enough definition for regular people is if the average person can achieve that title with talent and hard work more than luck (not that luck doesn't also play a major
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I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%(nee.lv)
1 points by xmprt 11mo ago|0 comments
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by xmprt 11mo ago
I think you're saying the same thing that I am. Python didn't work for them because they didn't use it correct and so accelerated the amount of tech debt they created. Posthog is using Django and they've scaled so clearl
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by xmprt 11mo ago
I think you're remembering Minecraft in a poor light. Even 10 years ago Minecraft was a great game because even in the base game it encouraged creativity and the community immediately realized the potential to expand that with mods.

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