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I am not happy about a trade-off which involves me having to cede control of my digital identity to 'providers' who will not give me access to it, in exchange for maybe not getting phished. If passwords continue to exist for a long time then this entire exercise is pointless as they can still get phished. If passwords go away and we can only use passkeys then you're only entry point to any kind of digital account is through one of the designated providers. If you don't have a provider that spans all of your platforms then you're screwed or have to manage multiple pass keys which is also stupid. Even the current crop of online providers as you illustrated in your post are unsecure and unreliable. No thanks.

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Appropriate that I just got my first obvious ad in Gemini last week. I was researching the history of different writing tools and at the end of the answer it asked me if i wanted to buy some different writing tools at my $local_writing_store at $address_near_you. Was kind of taken back by integration of geolocation of my answer. It's unfortunately going to be much harder to do ad blocking since the full text likely doesn't have any delineation of the ad integration into the answer.

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The article presents two possible methods to protect privacy in a dataset. It then attacks a theoretical weakness in a contrived scenario in the old method, which intends to incline us to choose the other, newer solution. The article does not describe in detail the newer solution beyond its name. I have have questions that the article doesn't cover in enough detail: 1) Has the coarsening failed in the way described in the article in practice which leaked information? 2) How does the 'other' solution we're expected to desire work? 3) What is an example of the difference in level of detail offered by the newer solution that was not possible when the data needed to be coarsened in practice?

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Just like the article and every other opinion in this thread...

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The prompt they used was probably more succinct. Not everything needs fleshed out.

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What in the dissenting opinions definition of jurisdiction did you disagree with?

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Why was 'can a user request a different email' not literally the first test that comes to mind when making something like this? Do they not test anything because the scale is too big?

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Ironic to use AI writing to complain about AI search results to advertise your product. But to the point, being an old school firefox user I still have separate address and search bars. My main search engine on my PC is 'google (web only)' which opens directly to the web tab which only has result links. I'm dreading the day they remove it as a feature.

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I haven't kept up with cljs in a long time but I remember it originally being pitched as just clojure on js--at least I think that's how Rich originally described it. My impression was it was just supposed to be, as much as possible, another runtime. This change seems to add in features that are exclusive to cljs and actually conflict with clojure itself as await is already a keyword in clojure.core. Have the two impls diverged over time, or was this feature specifically important enough to the users to overcome the differences?

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Amazon sidewalk and related technologies will likely allow devices to bypass needing your network at all in the future. The last TV that doesnt support these features will probably be my last.

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It does seem to introduce a lot of complexity for its own sake. This kind of workflow only survives on the absorb command and like you said it doesn't really cover all the interplay of changes when separated. It's a more independent version of stacked diffs, with worse conceptual complexity.

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After hearing about a workflow that used absorb I wrote a simple git version I called 'squash-index' in about 15 lines of bash in a few minutes. Since git allows subcommand extension I just made an executable 'git-squash-index' and everything worked as if it was a builtin subcommand. I get that initial ergonomics are important for new tools but if the only novel feature is reified merge conflicts it doesn't really seem worth making the switch. No one needed to evangelize git to people like myself who had worked with a variety of old version control systems (cvs, svn, etc). It was just obviously much, much better. jj seems like it streamlines certain things, and might be worth learning for new users who have no git experience, but doesn't really differentiate itself enough for people who've been using git for a long time.

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I miss the text only reading era. This is a blog and should not need to have JavaScript enabled to render text to a page. I would rather not have to be annoyed by flavor of the month duplicate scroll bars, cookie banners, newsletter pop-ups 5 seconds in, scroll to the top pop-ups, idle overlays, highlight helper bars that break copy paste, etc. This blog didn't have all of those but had some. I'm sure the metrics look great because I had to load this page four times. First initially, and then disabling JavaScript and realizing it doesn't load anything at all. A third time re-enabling JavaScript and then deleting all the annoying elements, and then a fourth time to make sure my cosmetic filter is applied correctly. 4x the interactions! Must be doing something right.

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A benefit to using the currying style is that you can do work in the intermediate steps and use that later. It is not simply a 'cool' way to define functions. Imagine a logging framework:

  (log configuration identifier level format-string arg0 arg1 ... argN)

After each partial application step you can do more and more work narrowing the scope of what you return from subsequent functions.

  ;; Preprocessing the configuration is possible
  ;; Imagine all logging is turned off, now you can return a noop
  (partial log conf)
  ;; You can look up the identifier in the configuration to determine what the logger function should look like
  (partial log conf id)
  ;; You could return a noop function if the level is not enabled for the particular id
  (partial log config id level)
  ;; Pre-parsing the format string is now possible
  (partial log conf id level "%time - %id")

In many codebases I've seen a large amount of code is literally just to emulate this process with multiple classes, where you're performing work and then caching it somewhere. In simpler cases you can consolidate all of that in a function call and use partial application. Without some heroic work by the compiler you simply cannot do that in an imperative style.

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I asked gemini a few months ago if getopt shifts the argument list. It replied 'no, ...' with some detail and then asked at the end if I would like a code example. I replied simply 'yes'. It thought I was disagreeing with its original response and reiterated in BOLD that 'NO, the command getopt does not shift the argument list'.

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Google had a feature in gmail for a long time that automatically sorts your email into categories like Promotions, Social, Updates, Forums, etc. It was automated and fairly effective imo. If you try to disable the 'smart' features they will then disable this categorization retroactively and dump thousands of emails in your inbox and then nag you about turning it back on.

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Did the article intentionally start with a LLM cliche to filter out all the people who hate reading obviously generated content? I would say it worked.

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YouTube Shorts exist, which they brag about hours watched, so I don't think they really care about those things at all.

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Right, if there's no legal weight to any of their statements then they mean almost nothing. It's a very weak signal and just feels like marketing. All digital goods can and will be made worse over time if it benefits the company.

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If I made a new, not-AI tool called 'correct answer provider' which provided definitive, incorrect answers to things you'd call it bad software. But because it is AI we're going to blame the user for not second guessing the answers or holding it wrong ie. bad prompting.