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by yashap 4y ago
Agreed, both ChatGPT and DALL-E feel significantly different in their ability to at least simulate “understanding.” They aren’t perfect by any means, but they’re a big step up from anything I’ve seen before.
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by yashap 4y ago
- It turns out that a shocking amount of TSLA’s value was tied up in Elon’s personal brand. Tesla keeps crashing, hits a low of ~$50 (it’s currently at $123) - The rumours about Putin having a serious medical condition are true, he dies of
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by yashap 4y ago
There’s a couple that stand out as “nice ideas in theory, but rarely practical in reality” - undo over confirmation, and progress bar over spinner. Confirmation dialogs take about 2 minutes to implement. Undo, while there’s the odd problem
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by yashap 4y ago
I think the largest fine here, the $3.75 billion fine for the American Home Products diet drug in 2002 ( https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker... ), is mis-attributed to Pfizer. American Home Products b
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by yashap 4y ago
Solar and wind are fantastic, cheap sources of power, but they have their limits. They generate power when the sun shines and the wind blows, which is not necessarily when humans need it. We still aren’t very good at storing this power for
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by yashap 4y ago
I’m a fan too, especially the episodes from 2020 onwards. Some of my favourites: - Talking with Richard Hipp about SQLite: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/corecursive-coding-sto... - What it was like working
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by yashap 4y ago
I agree you should not have been banned - I think GH was wrong there. You got taken advantage of, you weren’t being malicious. However, getting banned is pretty minor compared to the other bad things that can happen if you grant sketchy web
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by yashap 4y ago
FWIW, I agree GH shouldn’t have banned OP. But … I’m pretty sure they weren’t giving out access to control OP’s account through a standard SSO flow, as OP assumed. Massively more likely, OP just didn’t pay attention, and granted said access
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by yashap 4y ago
As I said, it’s a lesson to read more carefully. If you’re granting a sketchy website broad access to your accounts without even reading what you’re granting, bad things are guaranteed to happen. Also, seems like you’re probably a developer
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by yashap 4y ago
True, there’s often a “GitHub will have access to your email address” type confirmation in SSO flows, as that’s basically what SSO is (it’s GH telling a 3rd party “yup this is bob@example.com, feel free to log them into your site as bob@exa
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by yashap 4y ago
That I do agree with.
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by yashap 4y ago
It probably wasn’t actually a standard “sign in with GitHub”, minimal SSO flow, it was likely an OAuth2 authorization code flow, where OP granted them explicit access to do things like star repos. Like, the button on the nopecha site may ha
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by yashap 4y ago
Agreed, it’s not perfect but has plenty of good parts, and Lee Pace is excellent in it.
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by yashap 4y ago
Ah you’re totally right, I listen to episodes in semi-random orgs, never noticed those more “FP/programming techniques” episodes are years old! Very outdated feedback in that case - going through the episode list, all the more recent o
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by yashap 4y ago
I enjoyed the article, lots of interesting tidbits! Also, side note, ty for the CoRecursive podcast, lots of excellent episodes :) I especially like the more “story time” ones, e.g. ppl talking about the early days of Apple/Unix/S
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by yashap 4y ago
Oh yeah, it’s definitely not about making decisions in isolation - do your research, talk to stakeholders, think them through! Anyone who is given decision making power, and uses that to just do whatever they like with minimal consideration
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by yashap 4y ago
I’ll also add, “too many cooks in the kitchen from day one.” If you’re starting some ambitious new greenfield project at a company, IMO it’s best to start out with a small team where you can make decisions quickly, and where everyone has a
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by yashap 4y ago
Agreed - from a purely personal morality argument, I’m convinced this guy did indeed pay for contracted killings for 5 people. Yeah, some of the cops setting up the sting were corrupt, I can certainly see why it was sketchy in court and pro
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by yashap 4y ago
Fun article/writing style, but IMO not very accurate. No company is perfect, but most are not genuinely fucked up, just a little dysfunctional here and there.
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by yashap 4y ago
But their CDN providers (CloudFlare, Amazon and Fastly) aren’t. That’s the claim made in the article, that using American owned CDNs makes your business illegal in Europe, even if no data processing or storage happens outside Europe. I find
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by yashap 4y ago
I don’t think you’re right about that? What I got from the article is that customer data is processed and stored in the EU, it doesn’t go through America. However, static assets are downloaded from CDNs operated by American companies (Cloud
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by yashap 4y ago
My main experience with their software is turborepo, which is IMO great. Don’t know much about their marketing or community, but turborepo is an excellent tool, much prefer it to nx and lerna (it’s main competitors).
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by yashap 4y ago
Affirmative Action is always going to be a very controversial topic. Personally I'm for it, but I understand why people dislike it. I do strongly believe that, even with Affirmative Action policies, it's still a lot harder to succ
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by yashap 4y ago
This article is written in such a scattered/hectic style that I’m honestly kind of worried for the author. Has the vibe of a manic episode and was almost impossible to follow.
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by yashap 4y ago
With analytical column store DBs the standard is to do massive batches writes of thousands to millions of records at a time, vs. inserting individual records. Inserting individual records is basically always crazy inefficient with column st
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by yashap 4y ago
> Hence, over-fetching is not an option If you actually measure real latencies (e.g. collect metrics from your mobile apps), this is not true most of the time, at least in my experience. Most responses are fairly small, making them a bit
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by yashap 4y ago
Yes, but not for long. Typelevel will patch the last open source version (2.6) with critical security updates for the next year (until Sept 2023), but not afterwards.
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by yashap 4y ago
In the open source world, Akka, the most popular actor system library in the JVM ecosystem, that’s heavily used in tonnes of open source projects, recently went from “free and open source” to “paid/proprietary and source available.” h
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by yashap 4y ago
Strongly agree, this is one of PG’s worst essays IMO (I’m also generally a fan of his essays). On top of it feeling sales-y, it really gives the vibe of someone who DOESN’T listen to users. There’s essentially nothing concrete that he’s lea
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by yashap 4y ago
This was a surprisingly bad essay (and I generally enjoy PG’s essays). It claims to be about “what PG has learned from YC users (startup founders)”, but basically just says “founders are wrong, YC is amazing,” then descends into a YC elevat

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