JeremyNT

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by JeremyNT 4y ago
Anecdotally it really seems like this should be true. Cities in mostly ethnically homogeneous states tend to still have things of value that might draw people of diverse ethnic backgrounds. I'm in Nashville Tennessee and there are far
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But the people who would apply these things are humans, which are capable of making their own decisions, informed and restricted by societal norms and laws. The idea that "x is technically possible, therefore it is inevitable" - t
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This is some crazy NIH syndrome from Canonical. We've been here before, of course - they pushed their own DE (the original Unity, not the current GNOME theme) for a while as a competitor to GNOME, and they also pushed Upstart over syst
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I don't get nausea, but even without that I hate the experience of actually wearing the things. I find I get a lot of eye strain that prevents me from playing long sessions, the weight/bulk is uncomfortable, and it can get quite h
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Conviction of 'Serial' podcast subject Adnan Syed reinstated by Maryland court(reuters.com)
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Disney is a truly massive company. Looking at the performance of children's movies to gauge the overall health of Disney the company is sort of like looking at Whole Foods to gauge the overall health of Amazon.
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I know lots of the SV VC oligarch cult just wants to race forward and create something like AGI that will help them conquer the world and achieve immortality somehow, but hopefully this remains in the realm of science fiction. As RMS says,
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I'm reluctant for the same reasons. Google search might uncover BS too, but I'm already calibrated to expect it, and there are plenty of sources right alongside whatever I pulled the result from where I can go immediately get a se
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Of course, it's not a one-size fits all solution. I agree that ORMs are incredibly helpful and using them is almost always the right place to start for this sort of thing because they are very flexible and take away the cognitive load.
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> If you render the view without any cache with 10 things then you'd perform 20 queries but after the cache is warm you'd perform 0 queries. If item 5's Y gets updated then you only need to bust the cache for item 5 and qu
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I think this is where things can get kind of interesting, because future integrations of ChatGPT can farm the "real work" out to systems and tools which do have better models of the specific query. The LLM approach may not be ab
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Sadly, we are not headed to such a future. The economic benefits of these LLMs will go only to the capitalists, and any labor savings will allow them to reduce wages and headcount while leaving workers unemployed or with less bargaining pow
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Exactly. It's always really odd to watch an episode of eg NOVA about climate change only to see the underwriting by the Koch foundation. It seems like they aren't selling influence or pulling punches for their benefactors... but
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But filecoin is. IPFS is crypto adjacent and got plenty of hype because of it.
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I never understood why this was allowed for so long. IPFS is primarily used to store infringing content, yet few users directly interacted with IPFS. Instead, they usually rely on Cloudflare basically serving as a free proxy. It's like
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There's a lot of daylight between "use a HSM" specifically and "use a system that prevents junior developers from accessing the key and checking it into public repos." Storing the key in some kind of credential vaul
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It seems intuitively kind of bonkers that they can ignore copyright when generating weights using stuff on the internet, and then turn around and claim copyright on the resulting artifacts.
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This is a fair enough take from your position as (I expect) an experienced, seasoned developer who knows your own value. The power dynamic is tilted in your favor because there are way fewer people looking for work at your level, and if a c
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by JeremyNT 4y ago
> I typically see two kinds of raspi hate, and only one of them is reasonable imo. The first is stuff like this article, where you can probably get something better than a raspi these days for about the same price (especially when you co
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> the public's willingness to unquestioningly consume everything that such media produces. Is this part true? I thought the public's faith in journalism was at historic lows.
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> As with all of these articles that follow this same script, the author conflates "the metaverse" and all of the monetary investment being made in Reality Labs with just Horizon Worlds. Makes it hard to take anything said in t
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> Backstops have a cost, and infinite backstop subsidizes risk taking activity of deposit taking institutions. To me this makes intuitive sense, but are the only options 250k or infinity? What's the "magic" behind that $
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> It seems like Project Zero mistakenly thought that Google devices were already patched when they made their announcement ("affected Pixel devices have received a fix"). Whoops! Thanks for giving attackers a heads up. Do you
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I'm well familiar with this too. It's essentially a variant of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs." Given how many BS jobs exist - and I've witnessed them personally - it's a bit early to declare LLMs the death of t
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The only hope is for the fad to somehow go out of style. It seems hopeless but maybe there is a marketer somewhere who can convince Americans that more practical vehicles are also cool. Ford has just reentered the small pickup market with t
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Unneeded on pixel devices per the project zero announcement [0]: > affected Pixel devices have already received a fix for CVE-2023-24033 in the March 2023 security update [0] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023&
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It actually seems pretty reasonable to let BigTech host stuff, so long as you know the rug pull is going to come. Let the VCs light money on fire hosting the stuff we use for free, then once they stop throwing money at it figure out a plan
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Indeed, the implication of this is that capital now has yet another way to bullshit us all and jerk us around. This stuff is technologically impressive, but it has very few legitimate uses that will not further inequality.
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I think this is mostly a repost of this finding [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34930641
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> Funny how everyone loves this idea but it only ever hurts small companies. Why does size matter? These VC funded "small companies" are so sketchy that they needed their own special bank to manage the risk, and now their speci

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