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by acuozzo 1y ago
> it tells a vivid truth about america that many millions have experienced but very few put down in words The similarly-titled "The Road" by Jack London does the same for an earlier America. It's one of my favorite books.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
This depends heavily on geolocation. Experiencing economic collapse in the Montana wildnerness would be very different from experiencing it in Washington DC. I wasn't thinking of fighting off hordes or anything like that. Ammunition ca
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> People who try to time the market If you have doubts about the long-term __existence__ of the market, then investing in the first place necessitates "timing the market" since you'll need to determine when to sell before
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Plenty happens, but: 1. Events, including big ones like 9/11, don't unfold like in the movies as even direct consequences are often far removed. 2. Pax Americana + Hypernormalization + Cheap Food + Digital Escapism = a drug which
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by acuozzo 1y ago
"The end of the world as we know it" != "Eradication of humanity"
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> don't we all use VC? This assumes you're working with text files. What if you're working with ~100MiB (each!) frames from a scan of a 35mm movie? (Note: This isn't fictional. I've worked with file-sets like thi
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> use of the emdash is undeniably correlated with AI writing Where do you think the training data came from?
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Unless it's a contracting or union position, what you get is something resembling a contract, but your agreement to it comes with the mutual understanding between you and your employer that no effective enforcement body exists to uphol
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by acuozzo 1y ago
I'm not trying to shift blame to the operators here, but in the absence of flying fingers, nobody would have died. Many, many, people received the right treatment in the Therac-25 machine. Also, the author of the buggy software had no
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Taking it further, it's worth asking if we're talking about: 1. Freedom TO or 2. Freedom FROM? Both are valid in discussions of freedom, but I find the west tends to focus considerably more on #1 than #2.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> You'd see people who really knew the interface fly through tasks being multiple keystrokes ahead of the UI. I remember. This, unfortunately, killed people: Therac-25. Granted, the underlying cause was a race condition, but the tri
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> Then why do we have a growing obesity epidemic in countries that DON'T have nearly as many problems with ultra-processed food? Smoking down; office work up. Eating is a quick dopamine hit which can be enjoyed WHILE working on bori
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> I got pretty into this alt archaeology stuff Links?
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by acuozzo 1y ago
The fundamentals behind the 2008 financial crisis didn't come from nowhere and the "solution" to 2008 did little more than kick the can down the road.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
I was provided with a battery of externally-produced tests, benchmark scripts, etc. I was told to assume that the tests were comprehensive. Independent of this, I used competing models produced by different organizations (e.g. OpenAI vs. Go
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by acuozzo 1y ago
I've been writing code for over 20 years, mostly in C. My only experience with vibe-coding is when working under a time-crunch very far outside of my domain of expertise. No amount of "knowing how to program" is going to give
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> I've been coding for 25 years. 20 here, mostly in C; mixture of systems programming and embedded work. My only experience with vibe-coding is when working under a time-crunch very far outside of my domain of expertise, e.g., build
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> Tell me how you, without knowing the code base, get the LLM to not add these classes? Stop talking to it like a chatbot. Draft, in your editor, the best contract-of-work you can as if you were writing one on behalf of NASA to ensure th
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by acuozzo 1y ago
I agree with you. I'm no fan of C++. With that being said, it is (and has been) used to produce valuable software.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
HPC? Windows NT? GCC? Video games? I'm a veteran C programmer with a deep dislike of C++, but to say it's not used for valuable software is just wrong.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> If they do know, and you tell them, then you've only really confirmed what they already knew. Not necessarily. This opens you up to accusations of engaging in "mansplaining" which has broadened in definition over the yea
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by acuozzo 1y ago
YES!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Thank you!!! Can you please edit the metadata to mention that it's from the CD?
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by acuozzo 1y ago
I meant "archival" in an absolute/save-all-the-exact-bits sense. For whatever reason, if someone were interested in knowing exactly which bits were on the CDs, my copy wouldn't suffice. Trust me, I know I wouldn't b
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by acuozzo 1y ago
I meant "archival" in an absolute/save-all-the-exact-bits sense. Trust me, I know very well that I would not be able to hear the difference in an ABX test, even with incredible equipment.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Verizon FiOS has had symmetric gigabit service available for well over a decade for a reasonable price. Where in the USA are you?
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by acuozzo 1y ago
You're very welcome! Please pass it along.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Agreed. With that being said, I meant that it was a stupid move from an archival POV.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
I have the CD version, but I stupidly re-encoded it to something like 256kbps CBR MP3 back in 2012. Still, the fidelity is far greater than what was shared here. I can uploaded it somewhere if you'd like. Edit: Here you go: https:&#x2
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Possibly greater e-waste than there would otherwise have been.

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