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torton
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That's the nice part about having your own country -- no more systemic discrimination or prohibition on owning land, or joining professional guilds, or having some king being upset about his debts and organizing a small confiscation of wealth.

The ambition of keeping that country, however, is something that many people would rather deny that specific etnoreligious community.
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·6 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
In the age of AI, interchangeable content farms that earn pennies by filling 80% of the screen with ads are dead. In fact, the user hostility of those "blogs" is what pushes people even further towards AI interfaces that output what matters up top and (for now) without ads.
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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yes, the antisemites are rejoicing all over the world. Let's not confuse negativity and hatred with genuine popularity.
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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Also don't trust any of the managers. Don't take anything people say at face value.

"Did you enjoy Game of Thrones? You'll love working here!"
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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You can't rely on UDP experience.
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·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Did the flow ask them explicitly for scopes? If not, then they should know there are no restrictions.

It also seems, from the post, that customers were "long asking for scoped tokens" so who and why assumed that this particular token can only add and remove custom domains?

The author is getting roasted here and not without reason.
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·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Things have changed. I worked with a very senior and professional recruiter at FB during that time. While things didn't work out then, someone else reached maybe a year and a half ago for a fairly similar role -- massive difference, strictly a disposable drone style process and barely a conversation. I chose to not even start the process.

A sample size of one but many anecdotes together can make a trend.
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·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
iPad is the best consumption device in existence. Reading, video, casual games, it handles all without breaking a sweat. And as speech recognition and translation into intent using LLMs and other tools continues to improve, the keyboard will become less critical and so will be the shortage of screen real estate.

I'm excited about the future of the tablet form factors.
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·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
People can have different lived experiences and it's OK; they are differently valuable and beneficial. I'm a certified unc, easily double the age of your oldest, and I have 0 animals depending on me for survival. It means, among other things, that I can simply decide to leave town for a week and don't need to arrange for replacement humans to take care of other living beings -- and this is a valuable freedom to have.
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·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think people living outside the US don't realize how few disputes here are actually allowed to use the official legal system when dealing with companies of non-trivial size. Many employment contracts, many service contracts, and even website terms of use require mandatory arbitration in lieu of pursuing one's claims in court.

And arbitrator companies (some of which are explicitly for-profit) know the hand that feeds them.
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·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Apparently, OpenAI already folded.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/tech/openai-pentagon-deal-ai-...

A unified front from tech companies could have stood a chance, but there's too much money to be made and the imbalance of power is too great without departing the area of influence of the US government entirely (and then go where? China, UK, Australia, etc. are equally not shy of coercing commercial capabilities in pursuit of government goals, including military goals).
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The housing market is a textbook example of the opposite of a free market. In most markets, anything that does not "improve the character of the neighbourhood" is impossible to build by design.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
NotJustBikes doesn't have a particularly great reputation among transit enthusiasts. A lot of his videos have become repetitive and focused on complaints rather than specific ways of making things better. Understandably, few people are willing to spend an hour listening to someone complain on the Internet.

> "Autonomous cars will clog up existing cities..."

Congestion charges. Limited licensing for TNCs. Dedicated public or private holding areas rather than "milling about". All of these have solutions.

> Meaning fewer "difficult" intersections, straighter roads, no bike lanes or pedestrian sidewalks.

It is already best practice in urban design to separate cars that need to quickly transit an area without interacting with it into completely independent routes where there are no bikes or pedestrians, and combine transit/bikes/walking into livable mixed mode streets where cars are not allowed. NotJustBikes has many examples of this, most commonly around Europe.

> To get anywhere one will need to hail one of those autonomous taxis and then zoom in it to a destination where it's again safe to walk in whatever pocket of human activity.

This is what already happens in places that don't have usable, safe, or car-competitive transit, modulo autonomous, including currently most of North America. The solution to needing fewer cars -- self driving or not -- is investment in transit and in ground-up overhaul of existing cities to optimize for transit and deprioritization of cars.
torton
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That is true for all algorithmic iterative learning. I'm sure early models from Tesla, Waymo, Zoox, etc. were also driving a few hundred feet before the operators had to take over at first as well.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Some projects, where the constraints are hard (immovable deadlines, inflexible scope, etc.) can still benefit from detailed estimation as far as possible. This way any problems or misalignments have a chance to come out early.

Most stuff I do that is long term isn't that critical and gets broken into reasonable size phases; the closest one is planned in detail, the next one has no major open questions, and the rest have a brief summary of what will be accomplished / what is the goal of that phase only.

That gets rid of a lot of the lack of flexibility of waterfall, and it does happen that priorities change a lot and many projects don't get to the latter phases (often, by definition/priority, the less "immediate fire" ones).
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Even the most cursory research into mail-in voting shows a number of safeguards designed into the process; one summary can be found at https://responsivegov.org/research/why-mail-ballots-are-secu.... Instances of mail based voting fraud are extremely rare despite the extremely high motivation of some actors (such as the current US federal leadership) to find any evidence to the contrary.
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Isn't that the exact description of the current U.S. car market?
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Excellent troll post. I've had a good chuckle.
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·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
iPhones and MacBooks can be serviced to replace the battery.

My iPhones typically get a fresh battery around the 3-year mark, or whenever the battery health dips below 80%, and do a second tour of duty with someone in the family. In all cases so far, the OS goes out of support and apps stop working before the second battery degrades.
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·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'm old enough to remember having an individual office (and, a bit later, two-person offices). Great for collaboration, because it had a whiteboard and enough space/furniture for a few people to huddle, and for focused individual work, and for meetings with remote people without disrupting anyone and without taking up a meeting room. Nowadays we have unforced poor conditions and outcomes, mostly for pretend savings on facilities.

And, of course, serendipitous collaboration rarely happens when everyone is sitting with noise cancelling headphones, focusing on hitting their ambitious individual goals for the quarter/half/year.