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by RickS 2y ago
IDK how much E2EE from discord will help, not only because the DMCA requests are targeted at text links not covered by AV E2EE, but also because in my experience it's less about streams detecting content, and more often content detecti
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by RickS 2y ago
Here in seattle, volcanoes feel like an afterthought attached to the thing that's actually scary, which is the Cascadia Subduction Zone[1]. There's an hour long presentation from CWU [2] that's dry but fascinating, and pretty
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by RickS 2y ago
This is positively gut wrenching in its accuracy. Really well captured.
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by RickS 3y ago
This article glances but neglects two things: 1. ctrl-f "covid": 0 It's irresponsible to talk about the boom and bust cycles in hiring over the past ~4 years without mentioning covid and WFH [0]. Companies over-hired and ove
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by RickS 3y ago
Like so many other things, I see this often in the op-ed-osphere and r/teachers, but have a hard time determining how much is doomerism/alarmism, and how much is quantifiable/credible worsening. There are few topics where one
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by RickS 3y ago
It is only a tiny fraction of the population that are able to "opt out" at the level described here: seeking unsubscribe services that aren't scams, modifying the DOM, etc. If those are the only methods that even partially wo
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by RickS 3y ago
> Companies do marketing because these techniques work, not because they enjoy being evil These techniques work... to make them money... which is the part they enjoy. The distinction between evil for money and evil for evil's sake i
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by RickS 3y ago
(ex-Adobe, on a team highly related to an area where Figma out-executed XD, less knowledge about genAI stuff) > Adobe has probably captured back both mental and market share from Figma GenAI/Firefly's success is in a totally di
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by RickS 5y ago
for electronic music FL studio and ableton are the big ones, IMO. I loved reason back in the day but their lackluster approach to VSTs and audio clips eventually pushed me to Ableton. They've since made improvements to both, but the da
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by RickS 6y ago
> Are these boxes permissions declared by the app Pretty much. My understanding is that they're self-reported (as opposed to inferred from eg SDK/API usage), but I haven't looked into it super deeply. https://ww
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by RickS 6y ago
WOW those are cool. I'm excited to see the inevitable #vanlife conversions once civilians start getting their hands on them.
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by RickS 6y ago
Complete anecdata: the design team at a previous fintech company had a cricut machine. Head of security came down one day along the lines of "has anyone heard of cricut? there appears to be a keylogger on some of your machines". M
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by RickS 6y ago
r/unclebens for sure
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by RickS 6y ago
Agreed – the info is readily available, but to the GP's point, it's fighting an uphill battle against soft censorship. Subreddits have to tread carefully to avoid bans, and YT videos are frequently put behind login walls for conte
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by RickS 6y ago
Neat article, but inaccurate. >...tailored to one species in particular, the most potent and easiest to cultivate: Psilocybe cubensis. Wrong re:potency. cubes are ~50% the strength of the heavy hitters like p.azuresens & p.cyanescens
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by RickS 6y ago
> victims of the same broken game. I work with very smart people, to be honest. Couldn't agree more. I'm an SDE1.5 at best, working with a guy that's probably a 3.5. Writes code that's way over my head sometimes, and
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by RickS 6y ago
Anecdotally, I've found this to be surprisingly impactful. One of my brothers was a bodybuilder/athlete who ate clean and exercised a lot early in life. The rest of us were typical "mountain dew and warcraft" types. As w
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by RickS 6y ago
The weaponization of detail. Beyond a certain breadth, an overload of specificity becomes too vague to engage with. Claims that cover such wide ground are impossible to refute or dissect. The people who do it think they're well-informe
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by RickS 6y ago
I got 100% with mean reaction time 0.721, despite pretty severe ADHD. This test doesn't feel like a representative scenario. But I'm also a designer so I have unfair experience visually diffing images.
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by RickS 6y ago
> Are they after Musk and Bezos too? Yes Often enough that there's an entire insurance market around this: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/06291... Offered by places you've hear
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by RickS 6y ago
It's the "drained talent" aspect, which IMO is correct. If I remember correctly, government salaries typically max out around G14, which was lower than most starting SFBA bigco salaries. The world is pretty ripe with peop
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by RickS 6y ago
Agreed. Much as there's a difference between "free as in speech and free as in beer" there's a distinction between "usable like hammer and usable like cocaine". For as long as engagement is allowed to pay bette
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by RickS 6y ago
It's not that we aren't very good at it, it's that nobody wants to do it. I'd liken it to building codes: given the advances in materials science, one would expect us to be building wildly more diverse styles of homes, w
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by RickS 6y ago
This is cool. Seems like it could become a thing I've long wanted: a site where I can enter my geographic location/hardiness zone, indoor/outdoor, light level, and get a list of plants that will survive, ranked by effort. EG
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by RickS 6y ago
Absolutely beautiful landing page and docs. Congrats.
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by RickS 6y ago
At home: Experimental tools that connect max/msp(ableton) and arduino (LED control). Think highly general max patches that automatically export realtime audio, midi, and automation data to a central hub, with a GUI that allows you to
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by RickS 6y ago
> The scariest part is that many people are skipping straight to TRT instead of trying to identify underlying causes of low testosterone. For most people, simple lifestyle and diet changes can make a dramatic difference. Yep. This was an
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by RickS 6y ago
+1 for this warning. My scores are on the low end of average (mid 400s). Not low enough to warrant corrective T therapy (200s), but enough to wonder if the 600-700 range might mean a big change in quality of life. I was pretty adamant about
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by RickS 6y ago
I suspect they meant the economic/financial response to the pandemic, and the larger mom/pop => gig monolith and physical retail => ecommerce trends, rather than the pandemic itself.
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by RickS 6y ago
This is awesome. I just finished with a more narrowly scoped and probably worse version of something very similar – in JS/TS no less. Looking forward to digging deeper into this later.

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