ben_jones

“Vote with your wallet”

Fake trending crime stories based on misinterpreted viral trends - and the content remains posted for over 5 hours despite being immediately recognizable fake news.

Because eventually premium users will get ads too as we are seeing with many other streaming services.

First it’s pay, no ads. Then it’s higher tier for no ads. Then it’s higher tier no ads but watch a trailer at the beginning. Then it’s higher tier and ads.

> but it's the industry standard.

I strongly disagree with this statement. Even at the most bubbly of Silicon Valley events you will not see kubernetes for a smaller deployment be an industry standard.

It’s ok to make architectural mistakes, or otherwise over engineer a thing. We all do it. Let’s not standardize it.

And to your credit thank you for publishing this example as a learning opportunity to others.

> I wish audit tools and corporate policies are smart

The ball is in the court of the enterprise purchaser mandating the auditing company and they don’t give a ** if your dev team has to hot swap a yaml parsing library

Firebase attracts teams that don’t have the experience to stand up a traditional database - which at this point is a much lower bar thanks to tools like RDS. That is a giant strobing red light of a warning for what security expectations should be for the average setup. No matter what genius features the Firebase team may create this was always going to be a support and education battle that Google wasn’t going to fully commit to

Before Apple/Android CarPlay/auto drivers would get the equivalent of a refrigerator magnet and stick their phone to the center dash.

By comparison a larger resolution and UI restrictions on controls and apps make this outcome safer. A lot of apps and gestures on a phone don’t work in auto mode.

Let’s be honest how aware were British citizens of events in Bengal under wartime censorship?

I’m glad this exists but would caution extensibility as the most important thing for devs to consider when picking there “ORM” stack especially in terse Golang.

For that I use squirrel which uses the builder pattern to compose sql strings. Keeping it as strings and interfaces allow it to be very easily extended, for example I was able to customize it to speak SOQL (salesforce). plenty of downide though.

> I can’t want for them to use AI to remaster Star Trek Next Gen (and other old sci-fi) into 4K. This kind of application hurts nobody.

If the remaster only improves video and audio fidelity sure. But they may also swap out characters, personalities, and plot points, based on the whims of the studio.

AI controlled by major powerbrokers is going to further the aims of those power brokers.

Call of Duty updates are 200gb regardless of pre existing installs. It’s absurd.

> both will have similar policies outside

The foreign, domestic, and economic policies of both potential presidents are different. Are you really arguing that they have negligible differences?

Future generations checking the vault after WW3: “Wow they SUCKED at writing code!”

> I personally know people who will jump on remote work only to st around watching netflix all day

In office work is prone to the same difficulty in different forms. You don’t think people were alt-tabbing in the office? Taking really long lunches or coffee breaks? Tying one or more drinks on during those breaks? Clocking out mentally if not physically by 2 on Fridays?

Popularity is an anti feature at the gym. Working adults have limited windows to workout and so once a gym gets affordable like 24hr fitness where seasonal sales at Costco make it VERY cheap it becomes a gym you might not actually want to work out in.

Then you have the whole gym owner archetype which I won’t dive into but IMO exasperates the issue.

You know... I understand people "want" to drink coffee and all. (Not me)

But the older I get, the more I realize this habit isn't necessary. It's not beneficial to society, and if someone feels the need for coffee, they should really reconsider their lifestyle and find something more productive to do.

If there was a way to completely eliminate the culture of coffee consumption, I'd support it. Might even take action myself if I could. I don't want my kids to grow up in a world obsessed with coffee.

There are so many better and healthier alternatives available. And yes, I understand not everyone has it easy. I certainly didn't, coming from a 3rd world country, but I still chose other options. That's no excuse, though. It's honestly quite demeaning and foolish when well-off people treat coffee drinking as something essential.

Reminds me of how US-based twitch streamers now need to call their local police department to inform them that there is a risk of Swatting.

I guess we need to give advance notice to traffic spikes if that is an abnormal historical occurrence for our accounts.

Yeah Cruise has been killing lately

It could mean multiple things. My guess is they used vendor specific services that don’t translate as well as the basic build blocks like vanilla S3/ec2

Companies are probing the boundaries of what is and isn’t acceptable for AI. Sports illustrated recently used AI generated avatars to publish AI written articles as if they were written by real people. They didn’t announce it they just did it and got caught. ESPN took a TNT video from several years ago and used AI to fabricate key details and appear as if it was under the ESPN brand. They didn’t announce it they just did it and got caught.

While this particular usage is less about a specific AI act and yes buying increased access on social media (where most users naively assume fair access) isnt new - I personally and fucking terrified of where we’ll be at just a year from now.

[1]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/economy/sports-illustrated-...

[2]: https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2023/10/28/e...

It’s more like data storage needs are not one size fits all so it’s better left to the user who best knows their storage needs.

But what if your car doesn’t have the latest emojiset or social sharing functionality within the notes app?

If we can continue to figure out basic needs better like housing and healthcare then it may not always be the case that one must sacrifice progeny for economic progress.

Hell just high speed rail could encourage populating less desirable areas if a 30 minute trip to the beach was a weekend event.

Wait wouldn’t a drone hitting a person or a ceiling fixture and then crashing into a person be really dangerous?

Like they’re fixing workplace culture by careening rotary aircraft around the room?

~10 years from now we’re going to have better data on chronic THC consumption and after being a heavy user I’m pretty confident it’s going to shock a lot of people with negative externalities.

Tip for getting off weed - start by lowering the damn dosage. A lot of commonly used products are the equivalent of a triple shot. And folks do it daily.

You’ve been very thorough with physical/biological variables which would suggest maybe psychological factors could be impacting you.

Do you have a high amount of ambient stress in your life? Existential fears? Past traumas? Unfulfilled responsibilities? Debt?

And a fresh wave of undergrads will take their place. CS programs have ramped way up though and will probably over saturate the market.

Seriously there is incredibly easy access via twitter, /r/combatfootage, whatsapp, and others to Hamas and Russian atrocities to any teen with a passing interest in global affairs.

And arguably they SHOULD be exposed to this content if we want our society to be versed enough to just maybe take steps to fight it.

Affirm, Klarna, and other services for deferred payment are just credit card debt in a different form. They’re used to encourage impulse buys like expensive event tickets.

Seriously go to an expensive event like the Cowboys v 49ers game or Taylor Swift concert and look around. It’s not a bunch of millionaires pow wowing around.

A horrifying human experience is living in a war zone. It’s not having to move to a different bart car or endure a pan handler requesting money.