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syncerr | 3 years ago | on: Passwordless Authentication – Access Your Bitwarden Web Vault Without a Password

Passwordless is going to be great. Though, this is just for unlocking your bitwarden account.

Real cross-device passwordless is likely coming in the next year or so. WebAuthn/Passkey is in its 3rd public working draft[1] and once finalized, we'll likely start to see it across sites. Most devices, browsers and managers have added or are adding support for it: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Auth0, Duo, 1Password, etc. If you haven't seen it, Auth0's demo is helpful[2].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/#sctn-api

[2] https://webauthn.me/

syncerr | 3 years ago | on: The 'attention economy' corrupts science

Attention is not the problem; it's the lack of accountability. Social platforms care about engagement, not quality of content (there's virtually no mechanism to incentivize content meets any standard of quality other than what can be measured in the moment).

syncerr | 3 years ago | on: Science says we could “cure” ageing. But should we?

While I don’t find the arguments in the article compelling (ie population increases are good as they lead to growth), enabling humans to live forever has a more dire consequence: an acceleration of the inequality gap.

Death provides a natural mechanism to reset wealth and power. Without it, power will accumulate to those who already have it, forever.

syncerr | 3 years ago | on: Dear Chess World

Hans is clearly cheating. Comparing his past games against what an engine would do is pretty damning. Chess engines are far superior to players and the best players in the world top out in the high 70s percent correlations (Magnus averages around 70%).

Hans has a string of games at 100% correlation[0], meaning he's playing perfect games. Past players who achieved this later went on to admit to cheating[1]. Magnus knows this because he owns part of chess.com and presumably sees the data.

Magnus has a lot riding on his statement. He wouldn't make it unless he was sure.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfPzUgzrOcQ

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Feller

syncerr | 3 years ago | on: A CTO should be technical

Titles are just titles. An executive's role changes dramatically as a company scales. CTOs in a 5-person startup are vastly different than CTO at companies with even 100 people (much less 10k or 100k). Great CTOs are capable leaders and will hire more experienced engineers they can rely on.

> One of the key roles of your company’s engineering leadership is to balance working on new features versus maintaining quality and squashing bugs.

Even at companies with 100 engineers, if the CTO is focused on software bugs, there are larger issues at play (i.e., talent density is too low, poor prioritization by product, etc.).

Aditya[0] seems has experience here, but he's likely addressing the market of early-stage startups where he advises.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagarwal3/

syncerr | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

correct me if i'm wrong, but it sounds like the monetization strat here is to sell this to companies for their teams to use to increase collaboration. it would follow then that most-everything (?) i'm doing is being mirrored to a remote server. presumably, your target market would be engineers.

if true, as an engineer, i'm a hard pass.

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