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andrewpolidori

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andrewpolidori··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
for local Canadian based workflows that want sovereignty, I recommend https://about.worktree.ca
andrewpolidori··on The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass
Let's leave the analogy in it's grave. The point is that the responsibility for delivery falls to the provider of the internet service not the proprietor of the content in another country, who is not a business in the country and not subject to it's laws, the isp can ban connectivity to whoever they want to protect themselves from criminal liability. It's like saying the uk can criminally punish anyone for any content on the internet in any country because their citizens accesed it. It's ridiculous.

Agree with the point that it's mostly to extort larger firms who do in fact operate businesses there.

andrewpolidori··on The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass
Your analogy falls flat because they have to connect to the website, not the other way around. You can't argue that someone requesting access to a page is the same as delivering a book into their borders. They can choose to block access but the website doesn't operate there or owe them anything. They choose to be apart of the connected network, no one forces them.
andrewpolidori··on Is there a maximum length for resumes in this new era of ATSs?
I often wonder what are some better strategies for standing out in an application process like this? Resumes being generated by LLMs strikes me as a setback for this type of system.
andrewpolidori··on My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017)
While reproducible build envs are a nice feature of using containers, they aren't the primary benefit.

The primary benefit is resource usage and orchestration.

Rather than duplicating entire aspects of an OS stack (which might ne considered wasteful) they allow for workloads to share aspects of the system they run on while maintaining a kind of logical isolation.

This allows for more densely packed workloads and more effective use of resources. This is a reason why the tech was developed and pushed by google and adopted by hyperscalers.

andrewpolidori··on Visiting the most expensive nuclear station
Well it doesn't need to imply it, those measures do drive up the cost without debate. It's fine that they do though as we value people's lives more than that.
andrewpolidori··on Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises
also no, lol
andrewpolidori··on Show HN: An app that takes your money if you don't reach your goals
I'd be interested in reading more about the studies done on that group! Any particularly interesting ones or places to check?
andrewpolidori··on 'The Invention of Prehistory' Review: Facing Deep Time
Absolutely right! Famously every town in the ancient Mediterranean had a Hercules story about how he came around and did some unique thing.
andrewpolidori··on Open source pioneer Perens says it's time to contemplate a post-open world
It is an amazing model! I think it works well because it's a library that is "infrastructure" / "support" for other systems though (browsers, android)

I wonder if it applies to the kind of software that is more complete like anything with a UI etc. If I get the final result the tests don't mean much to me.

andrewpolidori··on Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water
In general, it's not a protection from gross negligence and/or fraud.

The problem is that in cases like these it's extremely difficult to prove such a thing, especially considering it's over many decades and potentially dozens of people.

There's also a bit of practical concerns where criminal prosecutions don't want to pick cases that are tough to win as it'll be resource intense to pursue them.

Of course like the Volkswagen situation you reference (in Germany) where the corporation operates may impact criminal prosecution.

andrewpolidori··on Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water
> Corporate entities and the legal protection they provide are accessible to only the wealthy and elite.

This is the part of the previous comment to which I was responding, giving just one example of how it's not the case. Limited Liability corporations protect business owners of all wealth levels. Just correcting a patently false claim.

I understand your concern about thread topic, but it's just not really applicable to my point above.

andrewpolidori··on Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water
This just isn't true though. Do you mean to say thay legal remedies are more accessible to the rich? Every single small business owner benefits from the liability protections of corporations. If my business burns down and it's not fraud or something then I am not personally liable, nor should I be.
andrewpolidori··on Latest ChatGPT 4 System prompt (1,700 tokens)
Did you read the prompt? it says this immediately after:

'Use all possible different descents with equal probability. Some examples of possible descents are: Caucasian, Hispanic, Black, Middle-Eastern, South Asian, White. They should all have equal probability.'

andrewpolidori··on Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
No exit but racked up 10s of millions of dollars in increasing salary since 2017 while laying off 250 employees
andrewpolidori··on Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day
Is attenuation in a vacuum also better?
andrewpolidori··on The humble brilliance of Italy's moka coffee pot (2018)
I'm pretty sure that's what the instructions in the box say
andrewpolidori··on A Writer's Ruby
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that wasn't a driving factor of it's creation. I should've said that it's a useful side effect
andrewpolidori··on A Writer's Ruby
True, but there are times when doing some analyzes or refactoring that what one wants to operate on is go source directly, so the output of gofmt is easier and standardized and doesn't require handling the ast at all.
andrewpolidori··on A Writer's Ruby
The benefit of gofmt has nothing to do with "style" per se. Because it's standardized, tools can rely on its output. This means that you can easily write tools that handle go source code and interoperate well with each other
andrewpolidori··on You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed
This is good advice, if doing dishes is boring, procrastination won't help it'll only make it worse. Taking pride in a dish well washed and a clean kitchen/living space makes the task worth it.
andrewpolidori··on Sweden reports damage to Baltic Sea cable with Estonia
I'm curious to know what is more expensive to roll out capacity for.

starlink launches are expensive but so is doing work under the sea.

andrewpolidori··on ChatGPT’s system prompts
Interesting! What do you think it's a red flag for? If it's easier to use the prompt why not do that at the level of abstraction that makes sense?
andrewpolidori··on Google no longer offers new domain registrations
What makes it so difficult to profit from? A yearly subscription to maintain some text entries doesn't seem that crazy to me.
andrewpolidori··on The Mediterranean diet works
PPV is pretty old concept, but it just gets wrecked by ad supported free content. Which is basically what you described but with unlimited access and higher upside no?

The content has to be genuinely very unique to be worth ppv, i.e a boxing match. I'd be very annoyed to ppv a listicle.

andrewpolidori··on IBM analog AI chip could give the Nvidia H100 a run for its money
Here is an example which shows how they participate in the cutting edge

https://youtu.be/DZ0yfEnwipo

essentially they develop and license technologies around the chip making process

andrewpolidori··on IBM analog AI chip could give the Nvidia H100 a run for its money
Modern IBM is at the forefront of modern chip design. They regularly publish some of the most advanced research in the world, and are part of the industry consortium driving those changes.
andrewpolidori··on Is shareholder capitalism a suicide pact?
I often wonder what certain industries could be if intensely focussed on "improvement" over profit taking. But then again the most "important" problems/industries are so capital intense without the profit motive I'm not sure who would sign up to fund such an endeavour.
andrewpolidori··on Asteroid with $10 Quintillion Worth of Metals Edges Closer to US Reach
We need it to cheaply build all the things that are made of those elements. We also need to stop strip mining our home for those things if we can avoid it. We might also want to use those things in space where it's harder to launch them from earth.
andrewpolidori··on Ten years of “Go: The good, the bad, and the meh”
It feels to me more like giving them the choice of two excavators one with many more options that are unnecessary and one with simple easy to grok basic controls
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