ashtonbaker

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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
I've parsed a lot of logs for our SIEM - adding a JSON parser is usually the nicest, barring overly-clever nesting, which does happen.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
Agreed, it’s a default choice with vague implications to the average person.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
I think people accept tracking because they feel like they don’t have a choice. But when the choice is as easy as a button, they happily opt out.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
Thanks for expanding. I agree with your delineation between raising awareness or convincing, I think. I don't think it's the most helpful way to understand ads and their potential for harm. There's another way to categorize a
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
Even with the narrow definition, you missed: > in a way that's going to be detrimental to them. A dentist recommending that I use more toothpaste may change my behavior, but not in a detrimental way. If the dentist is paid to make t
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
> No doubt there's some sort of backend telemetry that proves the value of all this trouble. And it seems like unless you go to a lot of trouble, you're essentially relying on the ad network's own metrics for efficacy... W
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
A scuba tank is like an hour of air for a person, less if you're stressed - and that doesn't look as large as a scuba tank.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
They do this to me too every month, as the card on my AWS has expired, and they complain and complain and complain before finally charging the card on my Audible account. Definitely need to get around to separating those.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
What is this, by the way? I'm having a hard time searching for it.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
very nice, thank you.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
"They" don't set the goalposts - reality does. Also, they are not saying that no level of vaccination is good enough - they are saying that the level of vaccination needed is dependent on a variety of factors, and that level
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
The link at [1] seems to be mostly about "pasture and rangeland weed control" with limited applications to forestry and crops. The examples for those are good, but seem at a glance application-specific. The most general recommenda
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
I'm all about regenerative agriculture, permaculture, etc. But I've never seen a solution to weeds other than to spend a lot of manual labor removing them. Is there a method that reduces the number of weeds that appear, or reduces
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
You should check out the book "Radicalized" by Cory Doctorow! It's four short stories. The first one - "Unauthorized Bread" was published online: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01&#x2F
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
It's a better experience for sure, but loading the app takes time, and it often (for me) takes a couple tries to pair with your apple tv. Also, you can't adjust the tv volume.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
"this little book" refers to "The Nation of Plants" - from which this piece is an excerpt. It's probably more obvious when you're holding the book, as opposed to reading an excerpt on the internet.
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by ashtonbaker 5y ago
For sure, point well taken. There is a question of differing goals and values there between me and the "startup" or "get rich" people, I think, but I suppose we all have our own dogma in the end.
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
In fact, the battery life really is good enough to cause this issue. Similar problem with Garmin watches and their proprietary cables.
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
So to be clear, "Hopper" would unambiguously refer to Vincent Foster Hopper in this context, and not famed computer scientist Grace Hopper? Not Vincent Foster's father? What if he was adopted and began life with a different f
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
The first part of your comment is arguing for the second justification. Which I agreed was logically fine to do, and I think you laid out the case well. The second part seems to reveal a difference in opinion unlikely to be resolved easily
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
No real argument with this! I think we're talking about different things. If I could put my difference in opinion in my own words, it would be that I believe many people play the startup game with the right "intrinsic" qualit
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
This is a huge part of "start up culture" though - like any religion (or lottery, or whatever), superstition plays a large part, and the most important superstition is that those who have been successful before know how to do it a
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
Yes, that's true. But title sponsorship is an increasingly hard sell for "real" companies. I think it's becoming more like yacht racing, where the sponsorships are kind of vanity projects for billionaires. For example yo
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
Which is sort of the point of not standardizing things. In cycling for example, if everyone rides the same bike, then bike companies have nothing to advertise, so no money for cycling teams. So the whole thing is really an advertisement. Th
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
> Is a waiter with a really bad peanut allergy required to serve a guest a dish with peanuts in it? I'm having a hard time constructing a scenario in which the only way to accommodate a guest with a disability to the same level as o
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
Right, of course! And it even makes sense for a vegan food company to make its products taste as close to meat as possible to appeal to meat-eaters expectations about food, and decrease the amount of meat eaten in the world. It's sligh
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
It's a bit odd to me to have a very clear condemnation of De Beers, their advertising, the diamond industry, purchasing diamonds, paired with a recommendation for a "diamond alternative". Isn't this just buying into the
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
I tend to agree with this - Emacs is my daily driver and the way I use it, it's really 1) a tightly integrated window manager/text editor powered by elisp, and 2) a great community providing additional functionality. It would be r
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
> You think Amazon, one of the largest companies in the world, will engage in any anti-union campaign without consulting their lawyers on what's right and what's not? What? You could conclude that anything that Amazon does is l
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by ashtonbaker 6y ago
Again, both IFR and transmissibility matter when we're discussing the severity of a disease. You're only talking about IFR.

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