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quails8mydog
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Sounds like if the OS doesn't track anything else about the user, then it won't receive any other signals and will just use whatever was typed in at account creation.

If websites accept this as age verification it could provide a very easy way to bypass it.

In fact, looking at it again, point B specifically says if the "developer" has information rather than the "system" has information. So really sounds like if the developer isn't collecting logs that they can access themselves this wouldn't apply to them.
quails8mydog
·6 mesi fa·discuss
That's not been my experience living in the UK. Whe I've asked for directions people either give correct ones (as far as I remember) or say they don't know. When people ask me and I don't know, I say I don't know.
quails8mydog
·6 mesi fa·discuss
They're not, but the point is that users can see the 403 due to network errors. If vpn + networking work then the user can access the resource through the private interface. If there are issues with network routing or VPN then they end up on the public interface and get 403. So from the user perspective the same action can result in success or 403 based on whether there are network issues.
quails8mydog
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I wonder if people are talking about the same things in these discussions. 50 people working on the same deployable in the same repo is going to create friction. Similarly, having a few people work on 50 deployables across 50 repos will create challenges.

You need to scope services appropriately. A single small team shouldn't break their application down for the sake of doing microservices, but once you have multiple teams working on the same codebase splitting it up will probably help.
quails8mydog
·8 mesi fa·discuss
I think this is exactly it. It's easy to see that there's a chance to improve things while ignoring the ways it could make things worse when they won't affect you. Should you quit the job you don't like? "Of course" the friend will say. But then you might just end up with a job you hate more that pays less, or even no job. Whether the outside perspective is helpful probably depends on how much your own perception deviates from reality. Though people do have a tendency to prefer the status quo until things change, so maybe you should always prefer the "change" option when you aren't sure.
quails8mydog
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Maybe splitting them is helpful, but why would you have to do them sequentially? Many of the things that reduce income inequality also help reduce poverty. Poverty isn't "low-hanging fruit" and it's something people have been trying to eradicate longer than we've been alive.

Saying "let's not even think about B until we've 100% sorted A" is just a way to ensure B never gets done.
quails8mydog
·8 mesi fa·discuss
I think part of the reason is the embrace of an "each package should do exactly one thing" by many in the community, often taken to a ridiculous extreme. Possibly better now after left-pad and other similar incidents.
quails8mydog
·9 mesi fa·discuss
And anyone who calls that method may find themselves dealing with the implementation details of Entity Framework and whatever db provider you're using because it's a leaky abstraction.
quails8mydog
·11 mesi fa·discuss
I thought cqrs was a code pattern where you segregate query models from command models, rather than something that specifies where the data is read from or is written to.
quails8mydog
·anno scorso·discuss
I agree that it's an interesting question, that's why I spent so much of my free time reading it.

I'd also agree that using AI for sentiment analysis could be a good approach, I'm not an expert in the area, but I believe this is one of the things AI is best at. But it needs an extra step to translate that into bias. Establishing a sympathy baseline is my initial idea, but I haven't tested it and maybe there's something better.

Whether something is biased is less about how any given individual(s) feel about what's been said and more about if the different viewpoints are presented honestly. Though it can get really difficult to identify except in the most extreme cases. As you say, it's not just what's said where the bias occurs, but also in the choice of what not to say.
quails8mydog
·anno scorso·discuss
I read the 1st third (it's really long) and while the data analysis is interesting, the conclusions say a lot more about the biases of the author(s) than those of the BBC. Fundamentally you can't use sympathy as a measure of bias without first establishing a baseline for how sympathetic the views and/or groups of people are. The report mentions that Palestinians might be more sympathetic because they're the ones being blown up, but then discards this by pointing out that the BBC is supposed to "ensure broadly comparable treatment of the Palestinian and the Israeli viewpoints" without acknowledging that maybe they do and one viewpoint is more sympathetic than the other. The least sympathetic group according to the report is Hamas, so according to it's logic they're the group the BBC is most biased against. Not a reasonable conclusion. There's plenty of other indicators that this report started with a conclusion then tried to gather data to support it, but I've already spent more time on this comment than the report deserves.