cashew

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[–] cashew 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Security theatre" is what I've named the contact in my work phone for the call center I have to call every time I accidentally use the "one time password" more than once (because god forbid they implement proper SSO, meaning I have to do a shotgun login run every morning). When I call them all I tell them is my name and that my account is locked.They click a button and we're back. Complete waste of time on everyone's part.

[–] cashew 1 points 1 month ago

Abstractions aren't concrete and all of these standards you're referring to are concrete data serialisations. You may be interested in CUE which captures this concept in its design.

[–] cashew 4 points 1 month ago

You're doing it right by avoiding as much of Gitlab's CI features. I've seen versions where scripts are inlined in the YAML with expressions in random rule fields and pipeline variables thrown all over the place. And don't get me started on their "includes" keyword, it's awful in practice, gives me nightmares.

Then I write a Kubernetes manifest in YAML with JSON schema validation and the heart rate goes down again.

[–] cashew 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I agree. You can't just dismiss the problem saying it's "just data represented in vector space" and on the other hand not be able properly censor the models and require AI safety research. If you don't know exactly what's going on inside, you also can't claim that copyright is not being violated.

[–] cashew 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone should produce two identically named films in the same year and watch IMdB burn while they try to disambiguate them.

[–] cashew 3 points 1 month ago

I think that's just the JPEG compression destroying all detail, so in that lighting now they just look like orange polygons.

[–] cashew 10 points 4 months ago

We do understand the difference between speed and velocity. It's just that acceleration is the change in velocity over time, not speed.

[–] cashew 1 points 7 months ago

Online tea retailers

[–] cashew 6 points 8 months ago

Anyone who has done accounting 101 knows that Gross Profit is Revenue less Cost of Goods Sold.

Perhaps you can pay provide evidence of how fundamental accounting is wrong instead?

[–] cashew 7 points 9 months ago

I agree, though he is still a great director that makes great movies.

[–] cashew 13 points 9 months ago

I believe the myth was that you could use dynamite to clean dried cement from the inside of the drum. Of course they decided to go all the way with it :P

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