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by acdha 1y ago
Predating Trump’s first term, the fringe right had conspiracy theories about elite child trafficking rings and those increasingly became part of the Republican mainstream as they proved a useful rallying point against Clinton (targeting her
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by acdha 1y ago
It’s fairly limited: taking over maintenance for popmail or forking NTPSec certainly isn’t nothing but his reputation is built on the Cathedral and Bazaar essay getting attention at the right time in the 90s when open source was really taki
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by acdha 1y ago
Note the word “like”: I was using a simile not to say you are a creationist but to convey the idea that any time you have to chop a single sentence that aggressively you might want to consider whether that strengthens your argument or under
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by acdha 1y ago
I don’t think we’ve really figured out how to handle international shipping being so cheap. If there were mountains of nominally-recyclable stuff building up in Hoboken, I think we’d have some kind of tax or regulatory fix because it’s hard
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by acdha 1y ago
I don’t see that as Indian culture as much as outsourcing. I’ve had tons of that from entirely domestic contractors, including people who’d bid on a project only to admit their team didn’t have the domain experience promised. I’m talking ab
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by acdha 1y ago
This is like seeing a food poisoning outbreak at a fast food restaurant and concluding that it must be CIA/FSB/Mossad bogeymen trying a bioweapon. These breaches are things like not validating authentication tokens (at all, not ju
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by acdha 1y ago
How many Republicans were purged from party leadership after they didn’t vote to shelter Trump from the consequences of attempted election theft? His first term you had Romney, McCain, Cheney, etc. in Congress and a lot of people in his adm
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by acdha 1y ago
In my city, the origin of those laws was partially trying to push the national discourse for immigration reform but mostly due to wanting law enforcement, public health, and education to work better. Without legal paths, you inevitably get
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by acdha 1y ago
In some cases but the economics need to be improved. Companies don’t have to pay for the externalities so it’s often cheaper to build new things instead of recycling, but if that shifted we’d see a lot more capacity arise.
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by acdha 1y ago
That last part is key: the MCAS system was designed to fake handling like the older planes but they skimped on safety to save the cost of a second sensor and didn’t train pilots on it or have an override mechanism. If the whole thing had be
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by acdha 1y ago
There’s a really good podcast episode here: https://engineered.network/causality/episode-33-737-max/ Basically they were looking for an edge against Airbus and a really big one was being able to promise that pilot
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by acdha 1y ago
I’d also add that there’s a lot of money in producing astro-turf content. All of those “influencers” effectively auditioning to see if they can go viral enough for one of the right-wing outfits to hire them, the bot farms promoting certain
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by acdha 1y ago
They announced grassroots donations for 10% of the total. That’s good, but still short of where it should be for something so popular. I think of it like crime or natural disaster: a PyPI compromise could easily cause economic damages on th
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by acdha 1y ago
That’s really the problem: the grant comes with vague terms covering the entire organization, which could be arbitrarily redefined at any time in the future. It’s like signing a contract to deliver a product without any clauses protecting y
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by acdha 1y ago
YMMV: I haven’t seen age discrimination from people who seriously supported DEI: quite the opposite, they are generally summed up as “hire people who can do the job” which doesn’t exclude age. I have seen it from the same types of people wh
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by acdha 1y ago
Funding supply chain security for one of the most popular open source ecosystems in the world isn’t even a rounding error on the budget. The debt increases are a political choice: the budget was balanced at the turn of the century, which wa
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by acdha 1y ago
AGI wouldn’t be, LLMs are because they’re still far from that level.
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by acdha 1y ago
At this point I am struggling to maintain the assumption of good faith. As I’ve said throughout, slavery is bad. That doesn’t change the fact that cheap solar panels are good and will save millions of lives. I have never said that the latte
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by acdha 1y ago
Lack of reasoning or true understanding. It’s not just that it’s like IQ 47 but that it’s unreliable and inconsistent so you can’t safely deploy it in adversarial contexts.
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by acdha 1y ago
Not in the slightest. I’m saying that it’s possible to recognize that evil without denying that something else is good. Just do both at the same time, like how we might say that the world has benefited from polyurethane, digital computers (
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by acdha 1y ago
I agree their treatment of the Uyghurs is deplorable but the way you had to chop that quote like a creationist undermines your point. It’s possible to say China has done both good and bad things, and recognizing the cost rather than denying
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by acdha 1y ago
The flip side is that the median C program has more first-party security bugs and likely has third-party bugs included as copies which will be harder to detect and replace. I remember years ago finding that a developer had copied something
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by acdha 1y ago
This is a very confrontational way to make your point. There could be a good discussion about media diets, filter bubbles, and how domestic politics shapes coverage but we’re not going to get that from an insulting dismissal.
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by acdha 1y ago
I think it’s reasonable: just look at how many scams there have been over the last few years since cryptocurrency made it so easy to convert running code into money. The open source world is not what it was a couple decades ago and it’s rea
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by acdha 1y ago
Why are you so concerned by this? People commonly describe children as their greatest accomplishment, and it’s the only one of the ones you listed which doesn’t change back over time. The writer was trying to humanize the subject and that’s
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by acdha 1y ago
Use SSH’s dynamic proxy mode (-D) so you have the full browser running locally and only the network traffic running over SSH. This is enormously better for UI response time and things like compressed files: you only transfer the compressed
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by acdha 1y ago
TUIs still need to comply with 508 so that “massive pain” is there either way. What’s actually hard with screen readers isn’t getting text (that’s been easy on most GUI systems for decades) but communicating things in the right order, remov
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by acdha 1y ago
In the U.S., the answer usually comes back to racism. In the post-WWII era, a lot of mostly-white people moved to the suburbs. This pulled a lot of tax base and business away and also lead to a lot of neighborhoods being partitioned by high
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by acdha 1y ago
Google’s employees didn’t mention government pressure earlier and the company only started talking about that in conjunction with their PR plan to get favorable treatment from the current administration: https://www.wired.com&#x
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by acdha 1y ago
> Which means the most prices can be lowered is 2%. For people who live near one of those stores and can afford to shop competitively. In many urban environments, the competition is smaller shops or places which know you aren’t going to

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