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by 1attice 3y ago
I mis-parsed this headline as "Strange Ways AI [possibly some new AI firm?] disrupts etc" Now I kind of want a startup called strangeways.ai
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by 1attice 3y ago
I actually don't buy this. Lurking in the background is analogy to e.g. car manufacture. There was an era of fomentation, followed by an era of consolidation. Eventually, we wound up with a handful of automakers. But the market for sof
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by 1attice 3y ago
Honestly, you should be preparing, emotionally and logistically, for your death, and the deaths of people, institutions, organizations and nations that you love. Buddhism is a useful tool in this regard. I recommend it.
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by 1attice 3y ago
Not necessarily -- there are a lot more wood-burning stoves in a world without solar panels, and we don't have the population that we had 500 years ago. It's not like rewinding a tape or time travel. I would predict we start movin
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by 1attice 3y ago
Ironically, as terrifying as the climate news is, I don't think that's what's going to do us in. Increasingly, I think the delegitimization of political institutions (which failed to prevent this predictable calamity) is goin
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by 1attice 3y ago
You should do it anyway. Not because it's easy -- it won't be -- but because it will inspire other people after you to try. People who are facing their own barriers -- sometimes the same barrier you're facing, but sometimes o
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by 1attice 3y ago
What I love about HN is that you can get from 'a plane went missing' to a thread that cites every plane loss since 1999 followed by a counterargument citing a downed MIG. Like, how the heck do you all know so much? The demographic
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by 1attice 3y ago
precisely this.
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by 1attice 3y ago
I was initially skeptical but the superior simplicity and rigor won me over. protip: nixos lets you use doas instead of (or in addition to) sudo. Since i run obsd serverside and nixos on the edge, this works great for me programs.doas.enabl
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by 1attice 3y ago
Canadian here. These are awesome and I 100% miss them when I'm not in the part of Canada where they are common
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by 1attice 3y ago
This is going to sound mean, but I don't intend it that way. But a clear question calls for a clear answer. The reason why your solution is bad is because your solution only solves the problem for certain imagined values of 'probl
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by 1attice 3y ago
....'M4T', ahem, might mean slightly more than you think it does
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by 1attice 3y ago
Once again, Ken Sim's municipal government has made an anti-human decision. It will be interesting to see how "but won't someone think of the children?" works here.
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by 1attice 3y ago
Sometimes folks look at me askance when I talk about my pride in 'my people' -- I get eyeball rolls now and then. But stories like these remind me that I'm from a psychosocial lineage that is strength and brilliance incarnate
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by 1attice 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand how you could read either claim from the above - I make no universalizing claim. Yet some corporations do use us; and some people do despise us, and this is the reasonable claim clearly made above. This sm
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by 1attice 3y ago
No one is making up excuses, gmerc. Please do not confuse explanations with justifications. And yes, the cycle continuously reproduces outgroups; I am describing the cycle, and how in this instance, corporations help spin the wheel for thei
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by 1attice 3y ago
It's intellectual candy, certainly, but it's made with real fruit juice
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by 1attice 3y ago
I've been a reader and subscriber of _The Baffler_ since the '00s and I'm glad it shows :)
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by 1attice 3y ago
Rainbow capitalism has repeatedly failed my people -- from Dylan Mulvaney through to the workers of Grindr. Large tech companies (especially west-coast tech companies) have taken to using LGBTQ+ people as a sort of ornament, or worse, moral
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by 1attice 3y ago
I could be wrong here but I don't read this as a claim of conspiracy. To my mind, this is more a systems-level description of currents in capital. Yes, there's a clickbaity headline about 'elites', but if you think more
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by 1attice 3y ago
NixOS is honestly so beautiful and rare. I'm delighted that the project is moving forward in this way. A friend of mine called it a "rabbit hole" but TBH it's words of power -- I can speak new instances of my environment
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by 1attice 3y ago
POV: Republicans are now afraid of [checks notes] Canadian 'foreign meddling'. Only thirty years ago, this was parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbfBzWJVbX4 Is there anything you all aren't afraid o
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by 1attice 3y ago
Babe, I've spent at least half my adult life living in the USA. Not only that, but I'm from literal Canada , which is basically a thin, one-dimensional strip extending from the Pacific to the Atlantic, right above your circus, su
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by 1attice 3y ago
HN has taken such a hard-right turn these past few years I've begun intentionally optimizing my karma-motivated behaviour for fluctuations in karma. Which is to say, I mentally overlay my actual karma score with a shadow score that i
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by 1attice 3y ago
There's still annual security training, but it's tapas-model. So basically you have to take N courses by <date>. If you're interested in lockpicking, but your job is in the cloud, you could still meet the requirement by
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by 1attice 3y ago
Yes. If your boss tells you that security isn't your concern as an IC, because other (presumably more specialized) minds are going to be reviewing everything later anyway, try to get transferred. It's not malicious, but the effect
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by 1attice 3y ago
Good. I can't talk about what I saw while working there, but let's just say that I have a nervous tic when someone tells we have a team for security so you need not worry, and when can you have it done by
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by 1attice 3y ago
One of the things I've learned in my 2.5 decades in this industry is that products/platforms which have a long history of defying gravity will generally continue to do so. Generally, the longer something has been out and about, th
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by 1attice 3y ago
upvoted for the latent pun
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by 1attice 3y ago
> I don't know, I haven't really seen the same level of interest from my "normie" friends that I've seen among the HN-adjacent crowd. Implicit in this counterargument is the idea that judging what is of genuine i

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