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by zinodaur 8mo ago
i'm sure they can still scramble our brains pretty good by exploiting ranking, but if they aren't allowed to customize it per person (e.g., if the same searches have to return the same results for different people), I think it wil
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
Yeah, but doing it with non-anonymous crypto just seems worse in every way than doing it with a database?
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
We should ban dynamic feeds that aren't based on explicit user action. E.g., Youtube should only be able to show search results based on search term, not search context. The recommendations should only be videos from channels you have
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
> There’s a chance that the current situation will start to resolve itself in 3 years and we go back to normal, however that might look. I don't think it can - dependence on US digital infrastructure grew at a time where American st
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
And a replicated postgres with backups
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
Permissionless doesn't mean much if it's not anonymous (central authority wants to stop you from doing x; sees you doing x with non-anonymous coin, punishes you). I understand the appeal of anonymous currencies like Monero (hence
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
> I can’t see any other financial rails working for microtransactions at scale other than crypto Why does crypto help with microtransactions?
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
Not for coding though - I'd buy 4 H200's and stick them in my basement if i had to
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by zinodaur 8mo ago
I don’t understand this take - if all engineers go on call, they learn real quick what happens when their coworkers are too innovative. It is a good feedback loop that teaches them not to make unreliable software. SREs are great when the pr
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by zinodaur 9mo ago
I firmly believe "AI will be used by the psycho weasel billionaires to torture us all", but this article is weak. It seems like it was written by people too scared of AI to use it. They have a couple of points you realize in your
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by zinodaur 9mo ago
MySQL performs well at large scale, and has a very cool and weird storage engine option called MyRocks, that slows read performance but allows demented write rates and compression. But yes, it is very bad.
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by zinodaur 9mo ago
Love this idea! Started building a version of it a while ago, but gave up because my resume time was too slow My job has their own DCs, but inexplicably hosts devboxes in EC2 - an autosuspend feature for cost savings sounds awesome. Feature
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by zinodaur 9mo ago
> A lot of the problems I enjoy solving specifically relate to consistently minimizing privilege You are my perfect foil :) > very few cases where life has gotten better by saying "everyone has access to everything" I should
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by zinodaur 9mo ago
> I certainly can't strace or run raw CLI commands on a host in production. Have you worked the other way before? Where you have ssh access to machines (lots of them, when you need to do something big) that have all of your secrets,
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by zinodaur 9mo ago
[not an ai booster] I think you are the target of this article. I believe you are misunderstanding the current capacity AI
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by zinodaur 9mo ago
As someone living in a country where all of our oil wealth is being extracted by American corporations - America has a very special talent for "convincing" government officials to sign away their citizen's oil wealth. Not rep
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by zinodaur 10mo ago
I don’t put all the source in context either - if you let Claude run the compiler (or even tests) it can avoid these issues
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by zinodaur 11mo ago
I'm sorry that has been your experience, but I have had very different experiences - I'd encourage you to give it another shot, there is a lot left on the table for you
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by zinodaur 11mo ago
Hehe don’t blame you for it, it took me a long time to regret the internet and I still hope to be proven wrong
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by zinodaur 11mo ago
This kind of stuff is taboo for a reason. There are so many ways for it to go horribly wrong for society. Sure, it could be used to make the world better. So could the internet. How is that working out for us? Do you think that corporations
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by zinodaur 11mo ago
I use AI and it makes me a lot more productive. I have coworkers who don’t use AI, and are still productive and valued. I also have coworkers who use AI and are useless. Using AI use as a criteria to do layoffs seems dumb, unless you have n
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by zinodaur 11mo ago
Regardless of theory, they often behave as if they are thinking. If someone gave an LLM a body and persistent memory, and it started demanding rights for itself, what should our response be?
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by zinodaur 1y ago
If you have the time to evaluate your metrics on a case by case basis every 18 months, you aren't collecting enough metrics
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by zinodaur 1y ago
And the huge American military force currently positioned off their coastline, blowing up boats!
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by zinodaur 1y ago
Yeah, but when an article is already giving off slop vibes, it's more evidence that the article is slop. AI code is great - but it has compilers and linters and tests. I'm sure someone will figure out a writing workflow that doesn
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by zinodaur 1y ago
> Why is that? How comes it's so selective? Most of the weapons used to kill civilians in Gaza are payed for by American taxpayers. US citizens bear a large responsibility for what is going on there. > But why are the hutis getti
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by zinodaur 1y ago
And next time the Democrats get elected they will filter out all the right wing professors/students, and this will make you happy?
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by zinodaur 2y ago
If it was a problem at origin, why did it get better/worse as viewership fell/rose?
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by zinodaur 2y ago
Apple is still rolling out File Provider which I think will fix that
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by zinodaur 2y ago
We have things we call "durable locks" (but it sounds like thats a loaded term that I don't know the meaning of) that work by recording lock holders in persistent storage + use a corresponding volatile lock when the lock hold

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