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Because it's on the homescreen in the default layout and a large number of people don't change their defaults?

Code as configuration loses one primary benefit which is being able to read the actual config and know exactly what will apply. In the example in the article you would get the same benefit by disallowing users to edit the config directly and instead require the config to be generated via a cmdline app/service that encodes the same policy?

Totally agree, I even grew up in the quake/dn3d era and wasn't familiar with the term either!

What's the theater with sms 2fa? That is more secure than not having it enabled no?

When I started stardew I didn't know how to play so I would spend days waking up walking around and then go back to sleep repeating until my parsnips grew, but when I introduced my SO to the game, we ended up trying to learn how to actually play and then ended up with spreadsheets to track all the seasons, grow cycles, relationships and whatever else lol

Only in theory right? The moment you use it with a service that requires credentials or an email or a physical address to mail to, it's not, unless you somehow wash it through an anonymous pool somehow

I think he means in Moneyball

I don't know why you think it's randomly (or recently) decided -- it started in 2020 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_...), culminating in this act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...) banning the app, which passed 360-58.

Have you ever gotten 36 people to agree to something, let alone 360? There's obviously more to this that we aren't aware of.

Or maybe occam's razor suggests that there's indeed something more concerning about usage of the app that we aren't privy to?

To be honest, it's probably not enough to just block these scrapers if they are acting maliciously, people should just start serving generated content back to it and see how long it takes for them to catch on and fix the problem

I was just about to post the same thing -- quite a fascinating test of gpt's capabilities

But lots of airlines have come and gone or merged over the years and these systems would have already had to deal with new airlines codes?

I was thinking about that very thing as well, but I came to the conclusion that robotic movement doesn't really need to match human movements. If you want to have consistent fine motor control, you wouldn't really expect things like acceleration when hitting with a hammer, or pulling down the top of the griddle.

There's PBS, but yeah if it had the popularity of BBC it would probably look a lot different.

Right, and what the person above is saying is that spyware/bad extensions can be making random searches which muddy your profile's search data

I imagine the GPU also draws lower power during idle, so they would both scale at undefined rates when benchmarking

I've definitely bought my fair share of non-framed art on Etsy, so that is one option.

This is so interesting, I how you debug something like this (assuming there is no copy of the original pre-processed image as well)?

This is a good question, and one that I've been thinking a lot about as well. I think the problem is that

A) there's a LOT more people using computers now than ever before, and

B) the entry point into "computing" has lowered, which means that users come to a piece of software with a wide range of expectations of both what it should do, and how it should do it, and

C) the complexity matrix of the form factors that people expect to use software has also grown in size, and

D) software grows in complexity in response to the needs of the users (B) and the devices it runs on (C)

E) tack onto the above is that you really have to handle N+10 things nowadays to have a proper piece of software (ie. i10n, security, UX, performance, etc.)

It's a bit of a cop out to just blame complexity, but it's almost impossible to have a small team write a (sufficiently complicated) program that does all the above, but companies want single-software solutions (runs on everything for everyone from new users to veterans) and users also expect it. So as a result, developers are overworked, users complain the software doesn't do what they expect (often for good reasons), and devs often end up resenting users because despite their best intentions, it's simply not possible (a lot of the time) to make something that satisfies everyone.

As if Lego sets weren't already expensive enough...

Huh, I've never used a Chromebook (even a cheap one from 2014) that had more than a second wait to open a tab. Sounds like there's something wrong with whatever ones your school particular issued.

The only reason it works on a beach is that there aren't drive ways and intersecting streets. Are you proposing that we make the side walks level with the street? If so, then it's no different than what we have now, and if not, then you'll have ramps every block that go from street level and back up to sidewalk level?

Yeah, I found the same with my GoPro, but you don't have to go to the trouble of setting up an AP, just get a UHS sdcard and pop it out and into a compatible reader.

I like this idea, but because websites have the content, they can simply throw up a button that requests showing your identity to view the content and most people would blindly click it leading to the same situation we have now. The HTTPS push is important and works because the search engines can leverage their importance and the browsers can (effectively) scare people without any user input.

Sure, if you only bought a single item once, but when you have a shopping cart full and a repeated purchases over the year, $10 here and $10 there can easily add up over the year. The article is clearly just highlighting the wider problem using a single product as an example.

I tried spinning up a VM on google gcp this weekend since my laptop was low on memory, and easily scaled it to 24gb with a literal click of a button. At a few bucks per hour, it doesn't really seem that far out of reach for most people these days?

I remember hearing about that as well, likely from a Radiolab or This American Life podcast (can't find it right now), but http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1291121... talks about it a bit more.

LT;DR, people didn't actually experience time slowing, they just happened to remember more of what was happening.

Ditto, I was lucky enough to try out the beta a year ago, and since then, I've been using it more and more compared to Docs or even text files (for event planning, side projects, server docs, etc).

The markdown integration, especially for inlining code, is awesome and what Docs should have been. Being able to quickly make a checklist has also change my note taking behavior and I almost never use straight up text files or specific list apps anymore.

That said, they recently changed their UI to hide the starred docs from the side bar which really makes them harder to find, and I actually find the inline dropbox file links/tables fidgety. But all in all, it's pretty awesome at reducing the friction between mind to note.

Shameless plug, bug I wrote SQLBolt (http://sqlbolt.com) for the same reason, because there was a lack of good, simple interactive tutorials for SQL.

Software engineer, and my side projects involve helping people learn things interactively: RegexOne: http://regexone.com SQLBolt: http://sqlbolt.com