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charlesfries

70 karma · joined December 8, 2020

Software Engineer · Sacramento, CA · me@charlesfries.com
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charlesfries··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
The business model is fundamentally broken. Reddit, unlike other sites driven by user-generated content, forgoes the cost of huge (but ideally impartial) content moderation teams in favor of unpaid user moderators, leading to what you've described. Nothing will change unless the business model changes.
charlesfries··on Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush
You'd rather your vacuum be made of metal?
charlesfries··on Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Tangentially related, but I was rewatching the old iPhone 3G keynote recently, and you wouldn't believe who made an appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X5xOI_qu9I&t=1649s

charlesfries··on I think I have LLM burnout
The domain "alecscollon.com" was also registered today, according to WHOIS
charlesfries··on Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses
"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"
charlesfries··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
I'd like to see some kind of "whitespace aware" smart diff in whatever comes after git
charlesfries··on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
https://news.ycombinator.com/submit

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charlesfries··on Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
Christopher Hitchens on Chomsky and 9/11:

"...it would be a credulous fool who swallowed the (unsupported) word of Osama Bin Laden that his group was the one responsible. An attempt to kidnap or murder an ex-president of the United States (and presumably, by extension, the sitting one) would be as legally justified as the hit on Abbottabad. And America is an incarnation of the Third Reich that doesn’t even conceal its genocidal methods and aspirations. This is the sum total of what has been learned, by the guru of the left, in the last decade."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/05/noam-chomsky-on-...

charlesfries··on GitHub is investigating an incident with Pull Requests, Issues and Webhooks
It'd be great if the apparent "world's leading AI-powered developer platform" didn't go down every week.
charlesfries··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
The sales and marketing people are running the company now