Arainach

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by Arainach 1y ago
Florida is criminally investigating teachers who dare to call students by their preferred name : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxINwPrff0Q They've criminalized such awful things as having libraries in the classroom
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by Arainach 1y ago
Florida and Texas are spending because they make life for educators utter hell and there are plenty of other good reasons no teacher wants to go there. Illinois may be a single counterexample, but this is akin to saying "if you watch
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by Arainach 1y ago
Yeah, it's really disappointing. Circa 2006 his blog and analysis were insightful and something I followed closely, but his overall attitude and connection to reality radically changed somewhere between 2012 and 2016.
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by Arainach 1y ago
When Google Chrome was new it was advertised a ton of places. All sorts of applications and plugins would by default install Chrome at the same time unless you opted out. Not that that makes this any less bad, but it seems the more fair
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by Arainach 1y ago
Knowing that site exists, remembering that it does (and what it's called), going to a web browser, going to that site, and using it is faster than a tool that plenty of people have open constantly at this point? Again, I am an AI skept
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by Arainach 1y ago
>assumed teachers have the same protections in deep blue Washington state California is just as "blue" as Washington. >move to a state where the job prospects are better. That sounds like "let them eat cake", excep
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by Arainach 1y ago
s/feature/illusory promise/
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by Arainach 1y ago
Musk says a lot of things. Most of them aren't true, a number of them criminally so. No one should trust a thing he says after his baseless libel against the rescue divers in Thailand. ABSOLUTELY no one trust should anything he says a
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by Arainach 1y ago
You don't want to rely on a single supplier for critical infrastructure. Their management can extort you, their failures leave you with no backup plan, if they go bankrupt you're really screwed. Keeping multiple companies capable
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by Arainach 1y ago
>You might be right about the hours the teachers work, but they're not doing it to avoid being fired. It is entirely self-imposed stress. Teachers have unions and tenure. No, and no. Your perception of modern labor markets is dated
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by Arainach 1y ago
Amazon, on the engineering side, is rough for high-end software engineers , but let's be very real: it pays better than the vast majority of careers available in America, even right out of college, and while it's stressful so is
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by Arainach 1y ago
Correct, but again this is one of the things LLMs are consistently good at and an actual time saver. I'm very much an AI skeptic, but it's undeniable that LLMs have obsoleted 30 years worth of bash scripting knowledge - any time I
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by Arainach 1y ago
It's bad for society to have rapid turnover full stop. It's disruptive and stressful to the humans involved and can be disastrous for the environment (if a bankrupt company just leaves a bunch of waste behind or already did and c
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by Arainach 1y ago
Because the market can be irrational longer than I can remain solvent.
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by Arainach 1y ago
Over an over, this isn't true. Look at GE under Jack Welch. They sold off everything that made them great, but it sure looked like they were profitable, so the stock soared right until everything went to hell. Look at all the compani
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by Arainach 1y ago
Companies that go out of business hurt more than the owners - they hurt the employees, the community, the state (which has to care for the employees let go), etc.
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by Arainach 1y ago
This really isn't true. Take Microsoft, for instance - one of their recent layoffs eviscerated the Principal band including a number of high performers. I'm talking people I personally knew who had climbed the ladder rapidly, we
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by Arainach 1y ago
Healthcare is necessary to live. Rent is necessary to live.
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by Arainach 1y ago
Users can't be trusted. They don't read. You can put a popup that flashes in all caps saying "THIS WILL GIVE ACCESS TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT" and users will blindly click OK to get to whatever they think they want, be that a
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by Arainach 1y ago
No charter requires allowing access from any device. The charters don't even require banks to be open during hours most of their customers are off work.
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by Arainach 1y ago
The threat models aren't secret algorithms, they're apps reading the contents of the screen, stealing keystrokes, MITM attacks against 2FA, and much more.
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by Arainach 1y ago
No software is "easy to inspect". Only a tiny fraction of users will ever even try. When things are inspected and problems are found, you need a way to revoke the malicious bits. You'll never notify everyone, which is one
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by Arainach 1y ago
There are many, MANY ways things could have gone dramatically worse. There are things that could have been done better, but "as poorly as humanly possible" is a trivially wrong statement. Here's one way he could have handed
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by Arainach 1y ago
There's never a "right time". This is akin to arguing that LBJ passing the Civil Rights Act was "a catastrophe". Sure, it energized generations of racists to become angry, flip the south, abuse the filibuster, and
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Either way, in retrospect, him winning an election is in the long term arguably, and to no fault of his own, a catastrophe. What do you mean by this?
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by Arainach 1y ago
This is nonsense. Both a horse and a pickup truck can be used to pull a wagon, but no one seriously considers one an alternative to the other. What you are describing is a hobby item for enthusiasts who want to enjoy tinkering, setting som
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by Arainach 1y ago
The alternative to a Synology NAS isn't RPi. There are plenty of alternatives - QNAP, UGreen, a tower running TrueNAS - but a messy pile of overpriced unreliable SoCs attached to SATA hats isn't an alternative for a single device
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by Arainach 1y ago
I feel like the real problem is tying one's purpose to employment. If you can't find value in your life without someone telling you what to do you should take some time off work and reflect deeply on that. You don't have to s
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by Arainach 1y ago
....and? Different people make different choices on how to spend their money. Some spend their money on cigarettes, or sports season tickets, or modifications to cars, or collections of things. Some give most of their spare money to their
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by Arainach 1y ago
At no point was this positioned as a "for everyone" approach. It requires resources and compromises. None of the gear in this article is particularly cheap. That said, the cost is not significantly different from other forms of

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