Incredibly suspicious that there's no mention of Reddit
Does Reddit require sms verification? The last time I made an account it didn't even require a valid email (but you got the "validated email" badge if you did it)
Readit Newssiegecraft commented on Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms cam.ac.uk/stories/price-b... · Posted by u/teleforce
siegecraft commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
It still astounds me that the big dogs still do not phase config rollouts. Code is data, configs are data, they are one and the same. It was the same issue with the giant crowdstrike outage last year, they were rawdogging configs globally and a bad config made it out there and everything went kaboom.
You NEED to phase config rollouts like you phase code rollouts.
I think it's uncharitable to jump to the conclusion that just because there was a config-based outage they don't do phased config rollouts. And even more uncharitable to compare them to crowdstrike.
siegecraft commented on OpenTelemetry: Escape Hatch from the Observability Cartel oneuptime.com/blog/post/2... · Posted by u/ndhandala
really? for a lot of us the datadog query language for dashboards is absolute trash. getting it to do what you want sits somewhere between difficult to impossible.
i guess it depends on what you're used to
what do you use instead and what does it give you that you can't get from datadog? as someone who's been locked into datadog for the past few years i'm wondering what i've been missing.
siegecraft commented on A recent chess controversy chicagobooth.edu/review/d... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
It's frustrating that their entire analysis is based on the claim that cheating occurs in maybe 1 out of 10,000 games; they got this from a quote in an interview with the deputy president of the World Chess Federation after he had been beaten in a charity match by someone who admitted cheating. To their credit they also ran the analysis assuming cheating is 1/500 and the odds rose to 7%. I suppose it makes sense that they are merely rebutting the accusations based on the same methodology but it's still frustrating.
From the article
> The only other BBC documentary which focused on the apocalyptic plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza was taken down as a result of a hysterical pro-Israel campaign - because the father of the child narrator’s son had a junior technocratic position in the Hamas administration. Irrelevant, given the narrator’s words were written for him by the documentary producers.
> the father of the child narrator’s son
this was confusing but I think it's supposed to just be "father of the child narrator." Also kind of weird they (the original parent link, it is in the bbc article) didn't name the documentary (maybe it's common knowledge to their audience?).
They are just marketing for Microsoft's AI now.
It's all just drama to draw attention and investor money, that's it.
When the inventors leave there is nothing left to do but sell more.
people are starting to realize they don't have any significant technical advantages over other AI companies. so all they have left is hype or trying to build a boring enterprise business where they sell a bunch of AI services to other large companies, and their lack of experience in that area is showing.
Another point for Geyser and Floodgate.
I have Minecraft on iOS, as well as two Java licenses. You can have both mixed on the same server if you are using Paper with Floodgate and Geyser. It's great; my younger child can use iOS, while my elder kids can use the java licenses on their computers.
Constantly updating geyser to keep it up to date with the most recent bedrock versions is quite a pain. Maybe paper has tools to automate these updates (I use fabric) but it seems unlikely.
Then they should just not publish for iOS lol.
Don’t like it? Don’t publish to it.
As a consumer I want and like the tight restrictions apple puts on the App Store.
It’s not like users can’t purchase stuff without paying the 30% premium added by developers to offset the apple tax. Just go to the website and buy there. And save the 30%.
My parents who are older use iPhone. They don’t have to wade through trash like android play store. Most apps are good in the iOS store.
If epic wants kids to buy more stuff have their parents pay the 30% premium. If your kid is glued to the phone I’m sure you enabled that and can continue enabling it. Sorry not sorry.
The Supreme Court ruled that apple must allow users to purchase from vendor websites. Apple takes a 27% cut instead of 30%
siegecraft commented on The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer johnwhiles.com/posts/vimm... · Posted by u/jwhiles
Almost every so-called bloated editor has a vim plugin (I guess that's an upside of their bloat): vscode, intellij and friends, even vimium for the browser. And although I wouldn't argue that vim (or, to be precise a subset of vim functionality in editor plugins) makes me more productive I would argue that vimium does.
siegecraft commented on Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling scarletink.com/p/crush-yo... · Posted by u/jseliger
"For interviews, it's not what you've done, it's how you explain what you've done."
Ye no. Just no.
Any interview advice that is not some general "behave and for God's sake hide your flaws" or meta discussion how to game them are bad.
"[Example] We needed to remove the cancellation feature because customers were confused by the self-service cancellation function."
Haha ... ye that is a funny example but I don't know if it was on purpose. Show how you are able to delude yourself into doing enshittification is probably a good advice for many positions.
does this article not qualify as "meta discussion of how to game them"?