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gus_massa commented on Everything I know about good API design   seangoedecke.com/good-api... · Posted by u/swah
swah · 18 hours ago
Thanks, not sure when the dupe detector fails!
gus_massa · 5 hours ago
I don't remember an official description, but my guess is that the dupe detector is hard for a few hour and detects any reposts, and then go to a soft mode that only detect dupes with a lot of upvotes and/or comments in the last year or so.

So if some post gets a lot of traction or gets to the second chance pool after the other has been posted, there are two live posts. This is fine after a few days, but for a few hours it's a tiny problem.

Probably dang/tomhow change the details from time to time without warning, but this is guess model matches the behavior I saw.

gus_massa commented on ASK HN: AI in high school. Will teachers and schools have to compensate?    · Posted by u/qrsbrrr
gus_massa · 5 hours ago
Hard question. Probably...

I have more information about Calculus for the first year of the university here in Argentina. Officially nothing changed, but we are not teaching some of the weird substitutions for integrations, like x=sen(theta) (or it was in the other direction?) for Integral[(sin^3(t)+cos(t))/(sin^5(t)+7cos^3(t))dt]. Wolfram Alpha can solve it, and unless you work in a very specific are it's not worth.

Linear substitutions like x=7t+2 are very important, and students MUST learn that. Not linear like x=t^2+1 are very useful and there are a lot of interesting tricks, probably worth learning.

Integration by parts, I'm not sure. In the first year it's only a nice trick but it's useful for some statistic results, like Integral[xe^{-x^2}dx] that have a lot of applications that are studied by many careers without more math courses. It's also useful in some branches of advanced math and physics, but perhaps it can be delayed in those cases.

A big chunk of teaching if giving a general understanding of the topic, later they can use the integrations tables, Wolfram Alpha or AI. It's very hard to understand the topic if someone only types the question in Google and copy whatever Gemini says. Some may claim it's important to teach critical thinking, but that's even harder than integration and it's even harder if someone wants to think critically about the AI results with zero understanding of the simple cases.

Back to your question... I don't know how the government can compensate that, unless they add 2 more years to high school. But everyone will complain and they will lose the elections and everyone will continue complaining.

gus_massa commented on A bug saved the company   weblog.rogueamoeba.com/20... · Posted by u/ingve
lylejantzi3rd · 9 hours ago
Am I the only one who thinks that describing this as a "bug" sounds a bit off? Most bugs don't come with their own updated alert text. It sounds a bit more like they had planned to switch to a different trial method and enabled it earlier than they expected? Or maybe a "rogue" employee added the feature as an experiment and didn't tell anybody?
gus_massa · 9 hours ago
Option 1: they had a minnutes and days funcion and someone typed days and minutes.

Option 2: they chech every 15 minutes if the trial time is over, so an inmediate expiration is notuced 15 days later. And 15 days - 15 minutes is a coincidence.

gus_massa commented on Joey Hess   joeyh.name... · Posted by u/keepamovin
gus_massa · a day ago
Is this your site? It's difficult for whole personal sited to get to the front page. Which is your favorite blog post? The one about the electrical car look interesting. Why vertical panels?
gus_massa commented on Are we heading for a world where no one ever needs talk to another human being?   theguardian.com/global/co... · Posted by u/rapnie
gus_massa · a day ago
Here in Argentina, audios are very popular in WhatsApp. Does it count as talking to a human being?
gus_massa commented on Anonymous (Paid) Email Account   xn--gckvb8fzb.com/anonymo... · Posted by u/dmarto
jqpabc123 · 2 days ago
"Anonymous" with respect to the provider doesn't equate to "anonymous" with respect to the privacy invading culture of the internet.

About the only way to keep an email address truly "anonymous" over time is to not use it for anything significant or important.

For example, friends and family will invariably store your address on their phone along with your name, address and phone number.

One roque app on their phone is all it takes to blow your cover.

Also, someone will eventually send you an email using a "free" privacy invading provider that includes all your PII. Busted again.

gus_massa · a day ago
> For example, friends and family will invariably store your address on their phone along with your name, address and phone number.

And each app will ask to see the list to upload it to the mothership and send invitations to everyone.

gus_massa commented on PrivacyPack   privacypack.org/... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
gus_massa · a day ago
The interesting part is that you can select the replacement of each Google tool after clicking "Create your Pack". It's not obvious. Perhaps if someone clicks the main image, it should redirect to the "create your pack" page page.

Also, when it loads the icons are empty, like when there is a download error. It should show a question mark or something.

gus_massa commented on Next-gen voice, video, and chat messaging using your domain name not your number   thunderbolt.com/... · Posted by u/vyrotek
gus_massa · a day ago
> What is a DNS record?

I don't want to be mean, but you lost 99% of the userbase there, unless you aim to a very technical public.

The main problem is that you must pay to keep your domain name, and people like free stuff.

gus_massa commented on I hacked a way to use URL shortener to extract users' emails from GitHub/Docker    · Posted by u/lexokoh
gus_massa · a day ago
I don't understand. Doesn't the git repo has the email in plain text?

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