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by angst_ridden 2y ago
"I cannot recommend X too highly. X always served as an example to their colleagues. The quality of X's code was unequalled in our department, and X's work always merited special attention." (etc)
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Sure, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. But this claim is not so extraordinary. It's just against what was (at one time) the common wisdom. Extraordinary claims would be that humans were in this location far earlier
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
What I miss is the ability to throw together a simple stand-alone (denormalized) relational database application in minutes. When Uncle Roy wanted something to track his LPs and search them by artist, musician, whatever, it was literally ju
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
That, and record corporate profiteering.
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
If you look at the study itself, the accuracy was pretty poor. They hype it up, but it was only marginally better than random (a correlation of r=.13). So, pretty much bullshit.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I worked with Peter Spronck and created the last add-ons and a few quests to Space Trader (e.g. The Scarab). I miss those days!
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
“So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite ’em; And so proceed ad infinitum.” — Swift
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I don't think that gets around the code licenses. They may use it as if it does, but I'm not convinced that would hold up if soemone were wealthy enough to make a court case.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I suspect you're right. Even though even permissive licenses like MIT and BSD require attribution and preservation of copyright notices. Maybe their AI just can't "reliably detect" licenses.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I'm curious how they get around licenses. For example, I have repos that show up in The Stack. Some have licenses that require inclusion of the copyright in any source re-use or redistribution. IANAL, but it seems like inclusion in the
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Definitely! I revisit these every decade or so, and each time I think "wow, I really didn't get this the last time I read it."
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
It’s not direct disruption. Grassroots organizers use FB and messenger and Insta for “get out the vote” communications. People use these services to goad their friends to go and vote. People use FB as a search engine to identify their polli
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I’m seeing a lot of non-FB services down too. Mostly AWS-based, but not all. My original conspiracy thoughts (this being Super Tuesday in the US) are giving away to thinking it’s some low level routing issue.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
As others have said: encryption. Even before they supported full-disk encryption, I made it a habit of making yearly encrypted disk image files where I store all my financial and medical data. I open them when working on the info, close the
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
For my high-school civics class final project, I wrote a 2d-scroller on the TRS-80 in assembler. The game was a map of the high school, and you had to avoid the "losers," "socs," and teachers, and steal supplies from var
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Oh, and who can forget the “splash page flash movie” that you had to sit through? It was vital that the brand got to show you their vibe before you could access any actual information… I knew a guy who bought several expensive sports cars a
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Oh, and remember the glory of Frames!? How many hours did I spend slicing images in Photoshop and coding tables with rowspans? Funny that coding HTML email is still not far from that experience (table-based layouts) if you want it to work i
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
As a frequent pedestrian in Los Angeles, the hierarchy of people being absolutely furious at me for walking on the sidewalks or using crosswalks goes (in decreasing order of rage): 1. Pickup/SUV drivers 2. Luxury car drivers 3. Other a
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
In the 80s, I played “Dungeon” (predecessor to Zork) on an accoustic-coupled teletype my dad brought home from JPL. It was running on one of the PDP-11s there. An intern from Caltech had altered the text of Dungeon so the story took place i
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Gotta be careful with domain names! After one drunken binge in the 90s, I ended up maintaining andthehorseyourodeinon.com for years.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Being in excellent health can increase the required pathogen dose, and help resist illness. It can also, paradoxically, cause worse results. See, for example, “cytokine storm.”
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I'm an old man, and pretty much my entire adult life, we've had fusion energy as being "just ten years away." Given this is the era of zero-consequence big lies, Nucor and Helion just shifting the horizon a bit to greenw
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Copper sprays are a common anti-fungal and anti-bacterial used for fruit trees. I don't think it's an electrical thing in this context, but that doesn't rule out some other effect.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
That works too. I call it "proper" because it removes one step before I have coffee, which, no matter how trivial, is a big deal for me in the morning. Interesting about the filter. I prefer super dark roast, Italian espresso-gr
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Proper storage is just pulling the plunger out entirely. Every few years, soaking the rubber seal in mineral oil overnight then cleaning will restore flexibility (otherwise it shrinks over time, reducing the quality of the seal). Unrelated:
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
I wonder if this might be misleading. A lot of Los Angeles’ (LADWP) electricity has traditionally been generated generated by coal-fired plants in other states. I’d have to dig into more recent sources to see if that’s still the case, and w
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Yes, but after mass extinction, stuff won't just stop. Eventually, things will evolve to forests or the equivalent. You'll be unlikely to have the same kinds of dinosaurs as before, but as the old saying goes, nature like carcinat
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
When it starts seriously affecting the oligarchs.
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Back in the 90s, I helped clean out the apartment of a Holocaust survivor. She'd been taken out of a death camp for a labor camp, and nearly starved. There was food stashed all over the apartment. Like you mention, canned food in odd p
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by angst_ridden 3y ago
Yup. I know someone whose father was the son of refugees who lost everything and whose mother's family lost everything the Great Depression. By the time this person was born, both parents had good income, but they continue to live as i

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