Frost1x

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by Frost1x 6y ago
I can't help but be reminded of the Potato King story with the current COVID vaccine discussions: https://wight.consulting/2020/05/19/marketing-and-stolen-pot...
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I don't think anyone would disagree that what you're highlighting are systemic problems that need to be addressed (well, except racists of course). The point I was making is that labeling a racist, IMO, should require a conscious
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I meant ethanol as one of the substitutes for lead (previously a common additive) in gasoline which was often used before to better control compression and combustion. Are microplastics or plastics used to better control combusion engines n
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by Frost1x 6y ago
How have plastics substituted for lead in paint and gasoline additives (genuinely curious)? Pipes I'm quite familiar with (lead/PVC). It's my understanding gas tends to use ethanol as a substitute, not plastics? No clue about
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I doubt the sort of tracking government agencies push or request from them is nearly as detailed as what they're currently collecting for advertising. It's not that such agencies that spy on their own citizens don't want su
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by Frost1x 6y ago
In the anthropocene era, sometimes we should err on the side of caution. If our human activities can reshape the Earth significantly and such changes can last for very long periods of time, we likely shouldn't proceed gung-ho on those
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I think you do, otherwise this opens the door to anyone and everyone being a "racist" by some secondary, tertiary, or nth order effect. Essentially everyone would have some degree associated with them of how racist they are. I pro
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I think we need to create new language for dealing with these sorts of cases to differentiate what's being said. When you make a claim that a statement someone makes displays racism, that usually implies indirectly that the speaker is
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>Any biological talk at this point is unhelpful mystification. The business marketing groups for NNs might push back on this a bit, I suspect.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>Or only work in a browser. Shouldn't everything only work in a web browser? I'm not sure why documentation hasn't been migrated to containerized microservices deployed on K8s with a React frontend yet. This stuff is all s
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Excellent video and summary, thank you for the links. I explain this same concept to people at less software savvy businesses frequently, so it's nice to have an external reference to point to. Going to borrow her nomenclature.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I'd be a bit weary of gaps in some environments. As you suggest, those gaps often exist for a reason. From my experience a lot of those gaps are essentially integration efforts between two systems where one person builds something inde
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>Find solid dependencies, don't use too many of them, make sure you update them, use static analysis tools and dependency scanners, etc. Same drill as for anything. That's hilarious simply because most heavy Docker users I&#x27
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I tried to push guix with a group where reproducibility really does matter and has been an issue and it's typically been met with "wha but Docker..."
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by Frost1x 6y ago
There seems to be an inverse relationship with power and accountability/responsibility: the less power you have, the more accountability; the more power you have, the less accountability.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Our society usually rewards these types of people, especially in business. The issue is these types of people usually aren't quite so flagrant about how sociopathic they are... but that seems to be changing more and more.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
>Finding it the first time is the difficult part. I frankly don't know how anyone finds any of these sort of burried attacks anymore. When software systems were simpler, it was already difficult to know enough about a system to dete
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Are they? That would be an interesting spatial data plot to see.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
AFAIK, late payments can also be subject to interest and late fees as well. So, while some might not be evicted during the pandemic, they might build up so much debt and interest without income during this time that when things are over, th
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Starving to death on the street sets up opportunities for much of the rest of what you described.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Keep in mind, there are also many illnesses and diseases that can be caused by inorganic content in water that no amount of boiling will make potable and can cause everything from poisoning to cancer long term (lead, etc). To be fair, water
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I find it funny how every single service builds out a community infrastructure, complete with messaging for near-synchronous and more async communication. I've always been a fan of distributed resiliency but when it comes to basic comm
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Lambda(TM) your entire infrastructure and save the most ;)
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Maybe were talking about enterprise datacenter giant more than hardware giant? I'm curious what those distributions are since I've worked very little in enterprise scale datacenters, just utilized them with non-Apple hardware. App
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Been a bit mind boggling to me as well. There seems to be an obsession with the most challenging problems (which is fine), but it seems like there are much lower hanging fruit that is easier to grab like long distance travel. I would love t
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by Frost1x 6y ago
I always find it comically ironic how the industry basically centralized a version management system (git) that was inherently designed to be decentralized. "Git is so great! Let's add these higher level project management feature
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Way past that. "Agile" (i.e. micromanagement) methodologies and tooling are already firmly seated which is basically this same special hell. I guess we have a generation of technologists that didn't realize when to stop foami
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Slack is the most unproductive application I think I've used.
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by Frost1x 6y ago
Not to digress too far but the general public at large won't even push to get funding for their own direct interests (e.g. COVID related stimulus right now). I don't know how we expect to get the general public to push for science

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