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Rumudiez··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
that’s not deleting the data then. making people play Only Connect to parse out weasel phrases is akin to lying by omission. they say the same thing at US airports which is why I still opt out of the face scan at security. of course they keep hashes of the image and its features otherwise what’s the point
Rumudiez··on Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales
it's reinforced in the same sentence after you cut off your quote and is repeated again further into the article:

> Nash said the caves would have been "quite a cosy place to live, especially compared with the -20°C outside".

Rumudiez··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
> working with what tech?
Rumudiez··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
trapped in a bubble… nobody is good enough to work here. go back to bangladesh where all your sr staff must live

still couldn’t answer a basic question. I know I wouldn’t be hiring you with this communication track record

Rumudiez··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
working with what tech? you didn't answer the question to a reasonable extent. it seems odd you need to hire people into principal and "distinguished" titles, you should be promoting from senior/staff to fill those internally. unicorn hunting is an organizational problem, not a useful reflection of the hiring market
Rumudiez··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
Care to share with rest of the class what the role is, then?
Rumudiez··on AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
Multi-model cross-review is important
Rumudiez··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
“If I’d had more time, I’d have written a shorter letter”

if this is how you write to LLMs, I can easily see why you aren’t more productive over all from using them

Rumudiez··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
my day job already had a messy codebase before AI. monorepo with half a million loc spanning 5 languages (excluding bash and declarative langs). everyone uses AI handily here.
Rumudiez··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
you misread the parent reply
Rumudiez··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
look at the sibling reply. these back-handed concessions are always either “AI is a great productivity boost if you’re just slamming out a CRUD web app” or the special snowflake “my big beautiful codebase is too complex.” maybe they are holding it, wrong with attitudes like that it’s hard to take them seriously. the phd holders at my office are some of the most prodigious vibe coders we have

ps: since when was complexity ever a good defense for why your codebase is difficult to work in?

Rumudiez··on Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
wouldn't treating lock-in as taboo be a good thing?
Rumudiez··on Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
I would call that a pipeline, which may be a type of graph, but might have communicated your point more concretely to begin with
Rumudiez··on Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
okay, I have that use case as well and it is driven by an invite code. it works well for new sign-ups and existing users, and you can even just let the user copy the link and send it themselves if they're on discord or something else. no email required for pseudonymous sharing, bonus feature to send an email invite if it is given
Rumudiez··on Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
email addresses are not good primary or foreign keys, so yes you should be using IDs of one form or another. this shouldn't affect your authentication scheme (cookies vs bearer tokens or what have you), just authorization. if you've muddied the two, you'll have some debt to resolve and this issue could just be a valuable tip-off to that
Rumudiez··on The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
I noticed very recently I actually prefer reviewing other people’s generated code over handwritten. There’s no ego involved and it usually does a better, more thorough job. We have enough infrastructure that by the time another human lays eyes on it for the first time each pull request has already been through 3+ rounds of automated review. Being the only specialist in my area on the team used to mean more coaching and more involvement in code review. Now my coworkers are sending me idiomatic solutions with modern approaches that I approve right away or with hardly any comments
Rumudiez··on The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
Knowing what to learn has always been an implicitly vital skill to career growth. Maybe it’s all right fewer people will know regex, just like as each year passes relatively fewer people know about var hoisting in JS

What does the business benefit from you handwriting regex vs a clanker?

Rumudiez··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
Unexpectedly successful fishing comment lol
Rumudiez··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
The van weighs 1500lbs less and has discs up front. It’s seriously not that far off
Rumudiez··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
the most unsafe drivers I see usually have a "baby on board" bumper sticker. foot out the window, eyes down looking at a phone, can't stay in their lane, let alone manage a consistent (speed limit obeying) pace
Rumudiez··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
the first time I drove a model 3 I felt like I couldn't stop. it's on par with my 80s van that has drum brakes on the rear. the brakes just aren't good enough for sport, the car weighs too much. if this is hard to understand, you're living in a different world from motorsports enthusiasts
Rumudiez··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
less than 1g is pitiful tbh. I’m no pro but have maxed out the meter on my wee sports car >1g front, left and right. it can only muster 0.5g accel so it’s worse than a tesla, am I right? having put in some serious miles on a model 3, those electrics are in another league — below
Rumudiez··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
here's a quote from wikipedia. it was an utter land grab and an easy way out of responsibility for those in power

> The League of Nations gave Britain mandatory power over Palestine in 1922. British rule and Arab efforts to prevent Jewish migration led to growing violence between Arabs and Jews, causing the British to announce its intention to terminate the Mandate in 1947. The UN General Assembly recommended partitioning Palestine into two states: Arab and Jewish. However, the situation deteriorated into a civil war. The Arabs rejected the Partition Plan, the Jews ostensibly accepted it, declaring the independence of the State of Israel in May 1948 upon the end of the British mandate. Nearby Arab countries invaded Palestine, Israel not only prevailed, but conquered more territory than envisioned by the Partition Plan. During the war, 700,000, or about 80% of all Palestinians fled or were driven out of territory Israel conquered and were not allowed to return, an event known as the Nakba (Arabic for 'catastrophe') to Palestinians. Starting in the late 1940s and continuing for decades, about 850,000 Jews from the Arab world immigrated ("made Aliyah") to Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine

Rumudiez··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
I'm confused, is 78 years a long time? even the US is considered a toddler by empirical terms. zionism wasn't a thing until a minority group had the loudest voice in the room when the allies were discussing what to do with all the european refugees after ww2, and it happened to align well with the brits abandoning their failed colony in the region due to disputes with the locals
Rumudiez··on Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine
lost me at the github stars chart, but "Bypassing Browser Constraints" is great. that's just what users want /s
Rumudiez··on Waymo Premier
do you buy things just to look at them? my vehicles (all 8) are for driving. fuel costs vary, and as another commenter in this thread said they were comparing $50 (max) to recharge an EV vs $40 (min) for gas. so depending on where you live, what you drive, and how you drive it you'll get wildly different ideas about fuel costs. fueling up is not maintenance either. even in the best case the difference in fuel cost is a drop in the bucket vs the difference in vehicle price
Rumudiez··on Waymo Premier
sure, but also that would drive new car prices down and put pressure on dealerships to stop adding ridiculous fees on top of the MSRP. and more used cars on the road means more independent mechanics means cheaper service. Japan is a great example. in addition to their strong domestic market, the driving culture there is a decent size tourist industry unto itself. there are more tracks per capita in Japan than any other country
Rumudiez··on Waymo Premier
yep, it's dirt cheap to maintain yourself. and only a few hours per vehicle per year tbh. lots of people on hn don't know basic real life skills so this all seems insurmountable to them, and there's the ev cope that somehow your 60+ grand car is going to save you money in gas and maintenance in the long run. I have 8 cars and motorcyles for less than the cost of that one car lmao
Rumudiez··on Waymo Premier
true, not all of these are created equal. that old volvo has side curtain airbags and other safety features that were ahead of its time. but it takes experience to know what you're shopping for. I turned down a corolla that was 10 years newer for the same price because the older volvo was actually the better vehicle inside and out
Rumudiez··on Waymo Premier
that's crazy. my 2005 volvo, 1991 nissan, and 1986 toyota altogether cost me a little over $1k per year (mostly insurance) and it was less than $10k total to buy them all. goes to show average financial literacy in the US. people won't save a few grand for a used car (or take out a small loan even!) and then pay 10x the cost for new
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