HankStallone

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by HankStallone 1y ago
That's how I took it too. For this to work, the penalties would have to be large enough to make the harmful actions unprofitable for the company (and its executives). Usually, fines given out by government regulators (who are sometimes
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by HankStallone 1y ago
That's true, not many use it the way it used to be used. If I go to my friends' timelines, most are empty for months/years at a time, except for a few who post several times a day, apparently craving attention.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
The worst news I've seen about AI was a study that said the major ones get 40% of their references from Reddit (I don't know how they determined that). That explains the cloying way it tries to be friendly and supportive, too.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I dunno, I've been hearing for years that no one uses Facebook anymore, or it's just Boomers, but that's not how it is in my area. Most of the small businesses use it as their main presence online, because it's so easy t
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Seriously? As a boy, I didn't need to see naked boobs to know I wanted to see more naked boobs. Seeing them clothed was enough for me to know I wanted a closer look at what was under there. I know the lengths I was willing to go to to
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I probably do that 2-3 times a day. Usually after writing the comment and proofreading it, I'll think about whether it's something I really want to put out there, and sometimes I'll pass.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I get the impression that they're just too lazy or incompetent, or in too big a hurry, to put some sensible logic in their scrapers. Maybe they have an LLM write the scraper and don't bother to ask for anything more than "Mak
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by HankStallone 1y ago
> Don't you want people to read your content? People, yes. Well-behaved crawlers that follow established methods to prevent overload and obey established restrictions like robots.txt, yes. Bots that ignore all that and hammer my sit
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, I've heard people say, "I don't use it for anything controversial, but it's accurate for other stuff." That's usually true, but you can't assume it, because you never know what will be someone's
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Depends on the version of BASIC. The BASIC 2.0 in the C64 didn't have those things, but 7.0 in the C128 had graphic and sound commands. Unfortunately, the C128's near-100% compatibility with the C64 meant that very few games were
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I've asked AIs for help in doing things in Salesforce, and the answers tend to be a 50/50 mix of correct steps and garbage. It's not hard to see why, because there's a lot of garbage on support sites, much of it because
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I think there were a lot of small commercial applications if you count programs you could order from the little ads in the back of magazines. BASIC was fine for something like a recipe or address database, that didn't involve any graph
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, I got a compact keyboard once because I was focused on other features. Never again. Give me all the keys. My favorite keyboard was the one I had about 1996, but the "retro" IBM-style keyboards are awfully pricey these days.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I suppose some people might freeze because it's so vague and they're wondering what you're getting at. Personally, I'd say, "Well, in most cases I use rsync or scp, but it depends on the situation." Then I&#x27
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, my Commodore 128 came with a 400-page system guide, nearly half of which was a BASIC reference and programming tutorial that explained concepts like looping and arrays. Those computers assumed you might want to program at least a litt
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by HankStallone 1y ago
My high school got its first computers in 1986, a dozen or so Sanyo CP/M systems. Our teacher, who was as new to computers as we were, was overwhelmed with teaching everyone how to get a directory listing and use Wordstar, so he handed
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Sometimes I wonder why I'm not running my servers from my home, considering my 1Gb fiber has 3ms latency, and a good UPS would get me through all but a couple of the longest power outages I've had in the last 15 years. As long as
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I went with buying and colocation because I found I sleep better this way than when I used to rent servers in a distant datacenter and have to count on techs I'd never met working on hardware I'd never seen if anything went wrong.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I almost mentioned Bernie, but his appeal seems limited to people who are very interested in politics and socialism. I'm not sure I'd classify them as "normal." Openly calling himself a socialist is always going to make
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by HankStallone 1y ago
The problem is, they don't like normal people. They don't trust them or think their opinions have value, and they've made that clear over the last several years. It took a while, but the normal people have finally started t
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, it's not that hard to grow good garden fruits and vegetables. Plant them at the right time in good soil, keep the weeds down (that's 95% of the job in the Midwest US), water them if it gets too dry, and watch out for pests.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I'm sure there's no hard "evidence" in the sense of a college administrator on video saying, "Gosh, I love these international students because they let us charge more!" But it's just how prices work. If y
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by HankStallone 1y ago
If they're filling 10-15% of the seats, that's 10-15% of the domestic student body they would have had that's been bumped.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Right, you're not being subsidized if you can't get enrolled at all at the school of your choice because the school filled up with full-freight foreign students.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Agreed. I watched an open-source project I was involved in go through this some years back. Some people used an expansive code of conduct to drive out others who made polite objections to some of its sillier rules, while those who had the u
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by HankStallone 1y ago
True, but having a cashier standing there waiting to scan your items will prevent most normal people from stealing. Sure, some will brazenly walk right past with a TV on their shoulder, but most people won't. If there's no cashier
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I wouldn't say it's unprecedented, since I first heard about a call center in Texas that was over 90% foreign labor several years ago. But it's certainly gotten worse. I suspect that some companies/policymakers may be tr
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It writes that way because almost everyone writes that way these days. It's annoying if you learned English grammar from textbooks and other materials written over 50 years ago, but it's extremely common now anyway. So a large chu
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by HankStallone 1y ago
In an example of that from academia[1], 88% of college students said they had pretended to hold beliefs they didn't have in order to protect themselves socially or academically. [1] https://thehill.com/opinion/educ
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It doesn't have to be either-or. We can expect grown adults to control their behavior, while at the same time deciding as a society that there are some industries/products that are harmful enough, and without any beneficial effect

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