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Comment · 3 years ago
The less edgy, pithy, probably correct explanation is that the over-worked developer wasn't aware of the standard.
Comment · 3 years ago
Do people actually replace the battery in cars once it dies and continue to use the car? Former Coworkers old Prius had the battery stolen out of it and insurance totaled the car. Wondering if the lifetime between ice and ev is valid.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think it would be difficult to find a majority of people who support minors having unrestricted access to pornography and shock content. The sticking point seems to be in the implementation details and true intentions of the people behind the initiatives that gives people pause.
Comment · 3 years ago
Jury nullification doesn’t exactly have a spotless history. Although I do agree with the sentiment.
Comment · 3 years ago
I recently bought age restricted materials online and had to upload a picture of my photo id with a selfie to a 3rd party verifier. Similar to what crypto currency verification goes through.

I think the underlying disagreement/debate is whether or not these initiatives are in good faith. Any implementation of this is going to be imperfect and a motivated person will probably be able to get around this. So the debate, I think, is, if we implement this are we going to incrementally improve it? Or is it just a pretext to point to and say, hey look, this can never work perfectly, so we should ban x, y, and z.

Comment · 3 years ago
reddits api is ip4 only
Comment · 3 years ago
Ai generated news has actually been a thing for a while now. The news agencies that use it still do fact check the output.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe I’ll finally get ads for products I haven’t already purchased yet.
Comment · 3 years ago
Violation of the Foreign corrupt practices act carries a prison sentence up to 5 years and $100k of fines. This is not Sam's year.
Comment · 3 years ago
My personal prediction is that llm powered search will be as terrible as google search once people figure out how to game it. In a way probably worse because it will only give one answer instead of a list of answers that you can pick through.
Comment · 3 years ago
Assuming you’re pretty close to the hardware? As a standard backend web service dev os/library/device bugs are incredibly unlikely and usually defective application software is to blame. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I can’t recall in recent memory this sort of thing happening as high up in the stack I work.
Comment · 3 years ago
In addition to this I think picking problems that you don’t immediately know how to solve but is within your wheel house is important. Also sticking with a single problem or domain. Constantly starting and never completing things doesn’t expose you to the next iteration of challenges.
Comment · 3 years ago
They haven’t included an amortized cost breakdown with depreciation of hardware including backup. Or the geographically local personnel required (data center remote hands or dedicated employee that gets the call?). Even still I suspect it’s still probably cheaper.

Also it looks like these are retail prices. You can get cost savings by negotiating but I’m sure there’s an NDA required.

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