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by zbentley 7mo ago
That only grants market control so long as Microsoft keeps releasing new APIs, otherwise the people reimplementing them like valve/wine will catch up. I think Valve’s play isn’t to steal tons of Microsoft’s gaming market share; their p
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Thanks for explaining your workflow. It seems predictable, but like it really locks you into one of the few (albeit popular) programming languages that has many/most of its development libraries repackaged by your OS. There are plent
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Does pipenv download and install prebuilt interpreters when managing Python versions? Last I used it it relied on pyenv to do a local build, which is incredibly finicky on heterogenous fleets of computers.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Do you not use non-OS package managers? If not, do you develop software with source dependencies (go, java, node, rust, python)? If so, how do you handle acquiring those dependencies—by hand or using a tool?
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Wouldn’t help. The problem isn’t unsafe interpolation , the problem is unsafe interpretation . Models make decisions based on strings; that’s what they’re for. Problem is, once external data is “appended to the string” (updates the contex
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by zbentley 7mo ago
> Like the M.2 connector? Yes, though likely something with a higher pin count since memory access is more likely to be random and can be parallel versus block storage. > Like the data lines going all the way to an on-motherboard stor
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Oh man, I remember the kamikaze hack. I was so chuffed when it worked; I felt like a brain surgeon for a moment.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
> Are you sure you don't use Gooby just because it's fun to write? A lot of technically minded people do not have the self-awareness to answer that question honestly even to themselves.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
I’m curious: why was this marked dead?
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by zbentley 7mo ago
In a lot of domains, carelessness used to be associated with incomplete, terse, or minimal output. Not so now.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Addendum: A significant exception to that rule is when the journalist themselves is the source or an involved party in the story, e.g. when Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic was included in a Signal chat with US government officials disc
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by zbentley 7mo ago
How? I’m not going to name agencies or security products if that’s what you mean. It was a US government owned/issued computer. It had 9 fully overlapping/redundant endpoint security products running. Opening websites took ages. U
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by zbentley 7mo ago
> the "bad" minority will continue using the underground version? …which they already did before this market was made mainstream.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but the “it’ll just go underground” claim seems silly. The negative effects of driving a gambling market to the economic fringe are already happening in the mainstream market: fixing, extortion, dea
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Narrowly (skipping the question of whether this journalist should have included copies of evidence), GP is right: most journalists with verified source material quote it/assert what it contains, rather than linking or copying it verb
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Many kinds of betting markets are or were banned all over the world. The sky didn’t fall, and what underground markets existed didn’t lead to huge gang wars or whatever. Given that the article is discussing some of the bad behavior typicall
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by zbentley 7mo ago
> Prediction Markets you don't have to participate, so no harm done. Did you read the article? It is about a journalist getting death threats from members of a prediction market.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
I’d be surprised if there wasn’t already a huge crypto-only dark market where lots of rich criminals bet huge sums. If you’re in that telegram channel, though, I imagine the threats on your life are a lot more credible than the ones discu
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Yeah, that claim was always ludicrous to me too. Wisdom-of-crowds isn’t an unbiased decision making strategy, it’s quite biased. Crowd-wisdom works best as a limiter on the bias of other decision making strategies—this is why democracie
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by zbentley 7mo ago
The AP and Reuters are well-staffed and have functional websites. The sites aren’t great (they’ve been afflicted with bloat and advertising along with most outlets, just at a marginally lower rate), but they are at least usable.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Sure, but GP’s still right: savvy internet users are a rounding error in volume … and thus revenue as well. So whatever forces are enshittifying news websites, they’ll not reconsider because power users complain.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Yeah, it’s really hard to compete with a solution that takes engineers out of the loop. The biggest reason large orgs go so crazy with GTM is that it’s a shadow deployment pipeline that doesn’t require waiting for engineers to work a reques
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by zbentley 7mo ago
While I assume that there are plenty of critical websites out there which are built with efficiency and resource consumption control in mind, the few I have worked on were not. On those sites you’re right: the approach was different , but
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by zbentley 7mo ago
True, but this describes at least half of software engineering organizations in my experience.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
> Every sane approach to security relies on keeping the bad guys out, not mitigating the damage they can do once they're in. That’s not true at all in the field of cybersecurity in general, and I have doubts that it’s true in the su
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by zbentley 7mo ago
> it’s not acceptable to leave 5% performance on the table whereas for other uses it usually is. I think that’s an incredibly rare stance not held by the vast majority of gamers, including competitive ones.
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by zbentley 7mo ago
I once worked on a computer for the US Government that felt slow. I counted nine (9) directly competitive and redundant endpoint protection products on it. Not nine different/only somewhat overlapping pieces of software from companies
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by zbentley 7mo ago
AWS has a privileged position compared to other deprecation struggles in the industry, though. They can price the v2 version aggressively/at a loss to incentivize migration without major bottom line impact. And sure, v1 is forever, but
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Why would "human originated" be a better place to draw the line than "no generated/AI-edited comments"? Like, I'm sure that AIs technically can write non-crap HN comments, but they rarely do. Even if it was l
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by zbentley 7mo ago
Would prompts really be interesting or thought-provoking, though? I don't expect AI HN responders to out themselves by sharing, but I would be curious to learn if people are prompting anything more involved than just "respond to t

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