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by zzzeek 11mo ago
yes. everyone install Cookie Auto Delete. the problem is a plugin like that would take out entire industries because it would basically end anonymous tracking cookies.
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
> Instead, it was triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a “feature file” used by our Bot Management system. And here is the query they used ** (O
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
because we're an open source project that accepts pull requests on github and we'd like our PR submitters to see why their PRs are failing tests
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
~~two~~ three comments on that: 1. DDOS protection is not the only thing anymore, I use cloudflare because of vast amounts of AI bots from thousands of ASNs around the world crawling my CI servers (bloated Java VMs on very undersized hosts)
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
it has to sound like a german word though
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
debating the environmental and public health effects of AI negates the possibility of debating those same things with respect to cars/trucks ?
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by zzzeek 11mo ago
as an American I will note you are breathtakingly incorrect about there not being policy differences between Republicans and Democrats, and the "cave in" over the government shutdown is strictly one of tactics, not ideology. >
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Indiana Professor Removed from Class over White Supremacy Lesson(nytimes.com)
31 points by zzzeek 1y ago|15 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
It's still marketing , "Claude is being used for evil and for good ! How will YOU survive without your own agents ? (Subtext 'It's practically sentient !')"
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Hetzner is German?
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by zzzeek 1y ago
it's getting hard to ignore Hetzner (as a Linode user). Thing is, Linode was great 10-15 years ago, then enshittification ensued (starting with Akamai buying them). So what does enshittification for Hetzner look like? I've alre
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by zzzeek 1y ago
wow add Posthog to Places Id Never Work "you asked someone what they thought of your approach? BAD! that's not our culture!"
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by zzzeek 1y ago
both of my parents have low cholesterol, my mom's cholesterol is naturally under 200, my dad is on statins but the highest he ever got was about 230. they are in their 80s. Nobody on any side of my family (for which I have about 25
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by zzzeek 1y ago
yeah I read all that and it's why i did "diet" (already exercised) first. still doesnt explain what my cardiologist was talking about, though. he's not the first dr. to tell me that "diet isn't really going t
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by zzzeek 1y ago
> Sure, it is absolutely true that better lifestyle and diet has a huge effect. not for me. My cholesterol was hovering in the high 200's, then finally hit 300 and I completely freaked out, radically changed my diet, and lost 22 po
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by zzzeek 1y ago
so now that jim crow is over, redlining is over, and legalized discrmination is...."over", so to speak, generation upon generation of Black people (the people who were referred to as "colored" in that photo) have been de
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I actually agree with you on that as well, watching claude take over so many tedious "oh this thing broke, I have to google how that works, re-learn its config format, fix the thing, then forget about it again" kinds of tasks does
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by zzzeek 1y ago
using LLMs for creative purposes is terrifying. Because why? learning the craft is the whole reason you do it. however using LLMs to get work done, I just had Claude rewrite some k8s kuttl tests into chainsaw, basically a complete drudge
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by zzzeek 1y ago
OK, so you reject the claim that systemic racism had any effect that can be meaningfully attributed (I guess sort of like how you cant blame climate change for the exact nature of a specific hurricaine). I see you carefully sidestep the
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I dont even know what "anti-wokeness" means. For me, "woke" means when I, as someone who has lived in NYC / LI his whole life, learned that all the highways were built in such a way as to intentionally exclude poor
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke'(businessinsider.com)
50 points by zzzeek 1y ago|38 comments
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by zzzeek 1y ago
It's garbage, reject it. Over engineered. Update your PR guidelines that AI is fine to help write code but PRs have to be ultimately human designed.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
async python has problems, but "anyio exists" is not one of them that can be blamed on python, simply dont use weird third party libraries trying to second guess the asyncio architecture edit: ironically I'm the author of a w
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by zzzeek 1y ago
it's from rick and morty that was referenced here last week with a post about robots that pass butter
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by zzzeek 1y ago
Good decision, judging by their general level of impatience with things they would have hated my ORM :). Also I think the node approach is probably still more performant than FastAPI but that's just a hunch. Hopefully they won't h
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by zzzeek 1y ago
the way to combat this is to legislate against media conglomeration in the hands of a small set of billionaires. We have anti-trust laws that can be pulled out of deep storage to be used for this purpose. while we're at it, deflating
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by zzzeek 1y ago
huh? public figures should not speak out against things they disapprove of, particularly by people they are known to be closely associated with? at the very least they should do it for themselves, to publicly distance themselves from som
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by zzzeek 1y ago
What's scaring me the most about AI is that FOX News is now uncritically showing AI videos that portray fictitious Black people fraudulently selling food stamps for drugs, and they are claiming these videos are real . AGI is not going
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by zzzeek 1y ago
More like they'd come out publicly against what Thiel and Palantir are doing, given that they are members of, and colleagues within, the same communities of moneyed tech leadership.
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by zzzeek 1y ago
I know, this is just how it is I guess . Those of us mystified what the big problem is with virtualenv and pip and why we all have to use a tool distributed by a for profit company and it's not even written in python will just have to

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