apothegm

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by apothegm 7mo ago
I can’t tell what’s satire any more.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
We’re at around $100/mo/engineer, mostly for Cursor. We’re using it for augmentation, not vibing, and review every line (with less detailed attention to tests), because we’re building the foundation of something that needs to be s
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Paper ballots that we almost never bother manually checking against the insecure digital tallies unless there’s a very close race or explicit challenge to the count.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
In the US, this is a partisan issue. The left benefits from higher turnout and the right gets less traction. States with Republican leadership and vaguely competitive elections are doing their best to make it harder to vote.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Misinformation, low voter turnout, and an electoral system that massively over-represents people living in areas of low population density and underrepresents those living in areas of high population density. That’s ignoring any possibility
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by apothegm 7mo ago
AI-written.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
The trouble is that the backlash occurs even in places that are pedestrian and transit dominated.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Of course, determining DOB based on when the user graduates age brackets then becomes trivial anyway, if a little slow.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Right, that’s why it makes sense. And epigenetics are not changes to DNA sequences.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Do you have a citation for the notion they can modify their own DNA? I would fairly easily believe they can modify its expression, but I’m skeptical of the idea they can modify the sequence.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Since most of the patterns discussed are gray-to-dark patterns used intentionally to create anxiety in order to push people into decisions they might not otherwise make and others (like short-lived MFA codes) have legit security purposes, I
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Nope, no conflicts of interest or perverse incentives for people positions of power to see here. Move along, everyone. Move along.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood (mic drop)
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Metaphorically, yes.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
And will receive a slap on the wrist.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Leadership is being cut and the competition is fiercer and the bar is higher relative to IC roles. There are definitely a lot more IC roles, but they’re flooded with applications and you need an in to get your resume reviewed at all. I’d re
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Bread is not an ultra-processed food, though it is a processed food. Wonderbread, on the other hand, is an ultra-processed food. And classified as cake in some European countries.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
If this can replace your standup, you’re missing the point of standups.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
AI-written
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by apothegm 7mo ago
I love that both the top level replies to this are AI slop.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
They addressed completely different use cases. Most software development was either huge custom business systems or packaged desktop software complex enough to warrant fifty-dollar or more price tags at a time when $50 was worth a lot more
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Unions were a big part of what kept the proceeds of that economic boom from accruing benefits almost exclusively to those already at the top. And helped sustain said boom by ensuring a much larger swath of the population had disposable inco
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Telling you the ballot has been counted isn’t the same as counting it, counting it correctly, or protecting the count from tampering. Paper ballots and the possibility of a recount decreases the tampering incentive only if there’s sufficien
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by apothegm 7mo ago
The AI slop writing is borderline unreadable.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
TFA may have been about a hand recount, but the comment I was originally responding to seemed to suggest the existence of paper ballots negated the incentive to tamper with the computers. Do those vote by mail states that audit audit only m
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Hand recounts are almost never performed. So tampering with tabulation machines could easily sway an election. I’m the last person to believe the Jan 6 conspiracy theory (I’m more inclined to think the accusations of fraud were a pre-emptiv
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by apothegm 7mo ago
I keep accidentally clicking on the human one because my brain wants to treat it as “find the human content”. FWIW, I found the “medium” one’s hardest. Most of the “hard” ones have dead giveaways in the form of either punctuation or common
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Prepare for a major drop in what was already spread-too-thin enforcement of what are fairly low quality and safety standards relative to the rest of the developed world.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Shareware kind of gave way to OSS. Software is both shared and installed very differently from when people passed around cloned floppies or even DVDs.
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by apothegm 7mo ago
Thats not really what shareware was, tho.

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