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noitpmeder··on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well
Yes 1000% I'm glad you correctly interpreted my actual intent here.
noitpmeder··on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well
But most games have unrestricted chat, aside from maybe wordlist filters ...

Wow, runescape, call of duty, battlefield, ... Didn't and don't they still all have basically unrestricted chat? Sure they might not be expressly marketed to kids, but everyone I knew was playing wow and runescape in elementary school with no issues.

noitpmeder··on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well
Let the facts speak for themselves. I agree the interview sounds damning. However it reduces the quality of the article to introduce Roblox as a "pedophile hellscape" right off the bat, or tell me how it was so impressive how the interviewer "kept his cool" in response to the answers.

It's honestly the same style of writing anytime Fox news reports on any democratic action, or vice versa for other rags. Except this has a nice dose of "think of the children" that further lets them pull on heartstrings.

Again, fuck Roblox and their lack of an ability to improve on these issues, but this is just trash writing and editing.

noitpmeder··on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well
Most games out there are both simultaneously a) safe for kids and b) not available on Nintendo products.
noitpmeder··on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well
To say nothing of the Roblox situation, anyone else having a hard time reading this piece of "reporting"?

It reads, to me, as so obviously slanted and opinionated against Roblox from the outset. It's not trying to portray facts, it's clearly trying to make the reader interpret the situation in an anti-roblox light, instead of letting the reader arrive there on their own.

noitpmeder··on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
Agreed, but continued communication after he was found guilty of sex crimes is definitely a bright red flag.
noitpmeder··on Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
HAHAHAHA good joke. Oh wait. You're serious. Oh god please no.
noitpmeder··on Mag Wealth (2024)
Except if that human tried to make his assets liquid it'd be worth a whole lot less than the face value.
noitpmeder··on Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k
You can leave?
noitpmeder··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
Because Jeff Yass asked Trump not to
noitpmeder··on Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance
Tons of software projects have moved their communities to discord. Not saying it's a great thing, but you're self selecting out of the future.
noitpmeder··on Addiction Markets
I think the author was more trying to say that to ban sports gambling you may need to ban legalized gambling altogether.
noitpmeder··on Addiction Markets
I'm not sure this applies to these prediction markets. Normally when gambling you're at a casino playing e.g. blackjack, where if you're winning more often than expected you're taking the house's money.

But this is more like playing poker, where overall the casino could care less if you're continuously crushing the other players, as long as people keep turning up to play and they keep getting a rake.

noitpmeder··on Addiction Markets
What do you mean here by front run? Don't most of these exchanges use normal limit books with visible resting orders available to trade against?

My understanding was that these shops were acting more as market makers, with the idea of guaranteeing liquidity and tight spreads in some number of markets.

If you think the listed bid-ask spread is mispriced you're more than welcome to move the market to whatever price you think is more appropriate.

noitpmeder··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
Even if you allow package distribution whitelists, and even if we allow Google, by virtue of essentially owning/steering Android to, by default, be on the whitelist in their distributions...

At some point you need to just let the user say "I'm OK with being accountable for the installation" and get out of the way.

noitpmeder··on Boring is what we wanted
Sadly this approach is less likely to get the exec a bonus
noitpmeder··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
Maybe so I can develop a service without forking over profit to a company that deserves none of it.
noitpmeder··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
Sure, but you'd probably also agree it should be up to the device owner (end user) which parties are to be considered 'trusted'
noitpmeder··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
2m in outstanding volume on Kalshi: https://kalshi.com/markets/kxtrumppardon/trump-pardons/kxtru...
noitpmeder··on Living Dangerously with Claude
Bank accounts drained, ransomware installed, ...
noitpmeder··on US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review
So did they cancel it or didn't they?

If they deny doing it, what blocks the project from continuing?

noitpmeder··on A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers
so... references and pointers?

What is my_ptr->member but unwrapping an optionally null pointer.

noitpmeder··on Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification
I think it'd be near impossible to guarantee API compatibility, regardless of type hinting. E.g. if a function returns a list, in a new version I can add/remove items from that list such that it's a breaking change to users, without any API compatibility issues
noitpmeder··on California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing
Or just start charging back their fees
noitpmeder··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
pg has completely clairvoyant vision, if only about historical events
noitpmeder··on Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)
This is becoming less and less true every day. 24/7 markets are coming whether you want them or not, and if you're not trading outside of US Equity hours you're leaving significant money on the table.
noitpmeder··on A Clausewitzian lens on modern urban warfare
I think it's a bit insane to think that Russia couldn't completely and totally obliterate civilian central infrastructure in Ukraine if it wanted to. It's not like these locations are hidden or top-secret, or like Ukraine has the ability to completely and inevitably stop the attacks.

However, whatever wins this achieved would probably instantly be overshadowed by the negatives. Think of mass famine, relocation, refugee-ism, ... Not to mention a destroyed infrastructure that the eventual owner needs to rebuild as a first priority. Not even to mention the increased levels of international condemnation due to such a targeted attack on a civilian population.

noitpmeder··on A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
UV has provided easy solutions for engineers that are easily frustrated by a lack of easy solutions.

There's nothing wrong with easy solutions, but any python engineer worth their salt has long since solved and moved on from the issues that UV claims to solve.

I believe UV provides value, even significant value, to lite python users, but for those working with python day in and day out, maybe you're using a new tool, but life has not changed significantly for the better. Or you just sucked and didn't reach for any of the perfectly usable solutions to all of these problems that existed before UV showed up.

noitpmeder··on I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
What was the tell? And separately, why do you suspect he was playing GTO?
noitpmeder··on I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
But .. what .. why??

Sure you could use an AI agent to write that code, but it wouldn't actually being that AI agent in the hot loop constantly coordinating your UI interactions with the poker engine...

Comments like these make me feel a bit safer from AI in my engineering job. People think it's a perfect no brainer fit for so many inane situations.

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