Syonyk

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by Syonyk 3y ago
They're physical things, interacted in the physical world, without any way for the companies involved to claw back the content, or to data-mine the scrapbook, your albums, etc, for listening data and such (though I imagine a smart TV w
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> It seems that we've entered the rent-seeking phase of corporate capitalism. Doctorow's word "Enshittification" (which, amazingly, has a rather filled in Wikipedia page now - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Syonyk 3y ago
In the long term, yes. In the human lifespan terms, our digital stuff is a lot more stupidly temporary than it has any good reason to be, and physical media (especially in the realm of music) has rather outlasted it. Records (vinyl) from 60
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Wasn't there some recent article about how Bandcamp got acquired by a competitor and is more or less being left to rot on the vine? I agree, the FLAC downloads are a major perk of it, and I'll happily buy music there. But I would
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> Sign it unmodified or GTFO! That's the secret. Being willing to GTFO if they don't meet your terms. And being good enough at what you do that they're willing to meet your terms. My current employer, on initial contac
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Yup. Sound right. The time spent re-ripping my CD collection to FLAC, my DVD collection to MKV, etc, has been well spent. I can rapidly enough transcode from that to "Whatever I happen to need for where I'm listening to it,&quot
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by Syonyk 3y ago
None of my 32h/wk arrangements have been listed as such. If it's an interesting 40h position, talk to them and put 32h as one of your non-negotiables in early conversations. Some will tell you they're not willing to consider
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Sure, but the same is true of a 40h work week - there are still another 128 hours in the week you have to cover. You need 4.2 40h teams of people for full coverage in a 168 hour week. You need 5.25 32h teams for the same coverage. It&#x27
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by Syonyk 3y ago
If you're doing interesting, deep level work, I've found I'm a lot more productive when I spend my weekends doing "literally anything but computers." I'll typically spend Thursday afternoon curled up with some
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by Syonyk 3y ago
In general, I don't think it's "less time in school" - our local school days are a bit on the long side (for my kids, it's about 7AM to 4PM counting the bus ride), and the year extends further into the summer than a
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Senior enough, and skilled enough in particular low level arts, that I can set my own terms. And I do "weird low level crap." Generally if I'm interacting with the kernel, it's from below. Think introspection, emulatio
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Huh. I actually didn't know it was that high - it's just the way the local district has worked for decades now.
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Overtly advertising it? No. Hasn't stopped me (and quite a few others) from getting 4 day weeks out of them. The trick is being senior enough (or in demand enough) that you can get one company to agree to a 32h week for you (and be
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> 4 hour work-week ain't happening. Four hour or four day ? Both are terms that have been tossed around, though this is discussing four day (which you then discuss as 32h weeks later). > AI will make people who work 70 h
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by Syonyk 3y ago
I've "corrupted" (from the point of view of GDP productivity and such) a lot of people into asking for (and mostly getting...) a 32h/week work schedule. I've been doing it for almost 8 years now, and at this point,
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by Syonyk 3y ago
The people who refuse to buy stuff at the grocery store and grow all their own food seem less and less nuts these days... :(
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You stop using your cell phone for anything important, or anything that can't be gotten through other means trivially. Practically, this means you use your cell phone for phone calls (the metadata is public, and I assume anyone who wan
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You still do. I can't be the only person who burns install DVDs, finalized, verifies the hash on a few different systems, and then keeps them in a safe place for possible future use... I've got some external USB readers/burn
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Yes, and one can bypass those write protections with physical access. I'm going with what's written here as truth - if that's out of date, well... wouldn't surprise me, really: https://chromium.googlesource.co
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> Tell that to my Chromebook that you can't crack. Can I have it for a week or two, then send it back? Chromebooks are quite robust against remote attacks, and they're fairly robust against local physical attacks, but "P
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> No one has hit a model/dataset size where the curves break down, and they're fairly smooth. The same was true of transistors, until it wasn't and they started diverging from the predictions about how they would behave
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> How do we know it won’t just plateau in performance at some point? We don't. But that's also the sort of thing you can't say when seeking huge amounts of funding for your LLM company.
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Sounds fun to me and my social group. We not-quite-joke about the coming backyard refineries. I'm working on the charcoal production at the moment (not a joke, I have some small retorts in weekly production, though I'm mostly ai
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Oh, I'm aware it's a high bar. Like most people here, I've worked my life in tech, and I'm in the deeper weeds of it. But I don't see an alternative unless, as you note, one just gives into the "flow" of
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> Does the customer have some app on it listening to the environment and using some kind of voice identification to figure out who's there. This is no different from "So-and-so joined the group, but is secretly an FBI informe
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Why are you asserting it "wasn't going to happen"? The whole Paladium trusted boot/"known OS environment"/etc stuff could very easily have gone down the path of "This hardware only boots Windows.&quot
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> ...the more urgent debate is how to adapt to this being the reality. Start building more offline community. Building things that are outside the reach of AI because they're in places you entirely control, and start discouraging
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Two webkit fixes. > Impact: Processing web content may disclose sensitive information. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.1. > Description: An out-of-bounds re
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iOS 17.1.2 and iPadOS 17.1.2 Security Update: Actively exploited WebKit issues(support.apple.com)
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A hundred years ago, spare tires were also carried in a somewhat more visible and easy to access location. I'm sure "symmetry" was a consideration in having two as well.

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