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by yafbum 3y ago
Also the complete lack of critical thinking in tech journalism. Just a few years back reputable publications heaped praise on SBF as it was fashionable to jump on the crypto miracle bandwagon. Now it's fashionable to jump on the crypto
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by yafbum 3y ago
In the early stages of product dev I tend to do direct customer interaction (user research, customer troubleshooting, frontline support), instead of farming it out to junior team members the way I do with more mature products. This gives me
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by yafbum 3y ago
Works!
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by yafbum 3y ago
[EDIT: Fixed] I know you didn't mean this but the browser history trapping on every keystroke felt kind of abusive on mobile. Thanks for the fix.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Without the hardware limitations, is that different from just making videos?
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by yafbum 3y ago
I never stopped :) both at work and outside.
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by yafbum 3y ago
I was introduced to the scene at 15 and was active in it until about 17. Too young to travel to proper demo parties, but old enough to contribute code and music, and to enjoy the demo disks that came in the mail after a swap party. It'
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by yafbum 3y ago
You can wrap search terms in quotes for exact results
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by yafbum 3y ago
In the country applying export sanctions, what companies draw short-term benefits? Usually most commercial actors would rather be able to export anything anywhere.
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by yafbum 3y ago
> more work was shifted to be done in the restricted country Yes and it cost them more overall. People who design sanctions know well that they provide a powerful incentive to the development of indigenous alternatives in the target coun
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by yafbum 3y ago
You could say f-ck it, if nobody believes us anyways, let's just track the sh-t out of everything then
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by yafbum 3y ago
I don't think this is for tracking. If this was just for tracking, there are much simpler and discreet ways to do it (just add a background ping). I think this is to allow intercepting the user if Google determines that the link destin
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by yafbum 3y ago
Capitol cops might disagree... This country has had a recent armed insurrection and people convicted of seditious conspiracy. Meanwhile the people who organized it see themselves as the victims of weaponized law enforcement and call for vio
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by yafbum 3y ago
The question isn't really whether you got some useful service in exchange for your 3%. Monopolies and cartels don't always rob you blind. The question is whether you had a choice and meaningful competition on price.
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by yafbum 3y ago
... for a set of tasks selected to be answerable by AI Also access to AI significantly increased (!) incorrect answers in the case where the tasks were outside of AI capabilities.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Making something you like, and not some BS trying to triangulate the needs of some hypothetical user, is a very enjoyable way to go about a career in design and engineering. I'm lucky to be in that boat and have the ability to work o
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by yafbum 3y ago
In my observation, to a first approximation, cable operators take off-the-shelf equipment, connect it, power it on, and bill customers for it. They don't really have the r&d capability to innovate and create new monitoring solutio
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by yafbum 3y ago
Stats class role of thumb: if you need to calculate the relative probability of two outcomes, you can get to within about 10% once you get 100 samples of each outcome (so, need more samples overall if the distribution is skewed).
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by yafbum 3y ago
This is what I think about when I see people wiring a bunch of Google assistant devices and compatible widgetry in their homes. Home tech is supposed to last 20 years+, so why be okay with putting things in the walls from a company that has
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by yafbum 3y ago
Pretty cool... the third movement of that piece would be... something else!
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by yafbum 3y ago
Financial transactions are already typically transparent to the government (they can just ask the registered banks for data). As for commercial communications, it's already the case in many jurisdictions that every service provider ope
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by yafbum 3y ago
Is this the same argument as "bad people will always flout rules, might as well give every person a machine gun so the good guys can have an even fight"? Looking at China, I think that it is very possible to make it least very unc
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by yafbum 3y ago
Unpopular puffin opinion ahead, for the sake of argument only. Pls respond with arguments vs just downvoting. Throughout history, encryption has always been a government privilege. Only very recently, and then only in the West, practically
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by yafbum 3y ago
The article is not very clear about whether this kind of abusive data collection is actually happening and they can prove it, or whether they found the text of the privacy policies to be overly broad. I have no idea how a car would infer my
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by yafbum 3y ago
Kia driver here. There is a screen in my car, but also actual knobs and steering wheel controls for everything I might need (audio controls, climate controls) and when I use the screen to project my phone, almost all functions there can be
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by yafbum 3y ago
Ehh... Sometimes. I tried this modular approach with a project, some things worked very well, others not well at all. In particular I have a ton of EF interference noise in my audio circuit and no idea how to get rid of it.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Your take is right, but a bit extreme. One thing I feel people forget is that speed is a feature. Having used a code editor with excellent AI suggestions for more than a month, I can say that I'm very frustrated when it doesn't wo
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by yafbum 3y ago
My policy is no phone until middle school (11). Even then I intend it to be strictly for family comms while away from home, no social media or texting with friends. Re. FOSS the problem isn't the software, it's what they can acces
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by yafbum 3y ago
Also it's a matter of skill fit. To take extremes I worked with engineers experienced in mobile app game engineering, who were thinking about UI latency in obsessive detail, and engineers skilled in thinking about ML ranking problems,
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by yafbum 3y ago
No amount methodology is going to make gold come out of a team that doesn't deeply understand the reasons for building what they're building. I work with a small-a agile team, and the devs who "get it" just make it happe

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