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by atticora 3y ago
My "unit tests" do hit the database and file system, and I have found and fixed many many problems during testing by doing so. I have found many other problems with those calls in production when I didn't do so. Yes, they mak
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Positive labor sorting has been increasing for men in the last several decades(richmondfed.org)
40 points by atticora 3y ago|54 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
> The app was immediately banned from the App Store This is the kind of infantilization that has kept me out of the walled garden. I no longer feel the need to be under a parent's supervision, and if I did I wouldn't pick a gia
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by atticora 3y ago
That's 2.7 zorbas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_(dog)
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by atticora 3y ago
We need samizdat DNS. It looks like these folks are way ahead of me. https://samizdatonline.org/
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Reading Wars: How many times does phonics have to win?(carolinacurmudgeon.substack.com)
2 points by atticora 3y ago|1 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
> If you care about privacy as a human right, you really need another amendment to make it solid. You would need some kind of catch-all amendments stating that the enumeration of certain rights shall not be construed to deny others, and
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by atticora 3y ago
"illegal concepts" Embeddings mean that when we have a thought police they can now be more targeted and effective than before. Any thought you express can be objectively measured "using the euclidean distance or cosine simila
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Harvard OBGYN Professor accused of inseminating patient with his own sperm(jonathanturley.org)
1 points by atticora 3y ago|0 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
OK I watch porn. Lots of it, over decades. But I've never come close to getting to the end of the free stuff. Why buy bottled water when the good stuff is raining down and you just have to face up and open your mouth? I get that it&#x2
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by atticora 3y ago
> The inability of US government not to leverage 702 for immediate political gain of current political in power. will be its certain downfall unless certain guardrails are added ... Or unless its use to gain political power is successful
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by atticora 3y ago
Once a new version of my favorite file manager came out with remapped key bindings. I can't even remember the name of it now. But my own anger was memorable as totally out of proportion even when I was feeling it. My investment in musc
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by atticora 3y ago
> It's easy to cast them as bad guys because they were defeated. It's also easy because they were the aggressors. The attack on Pearl Harbor when we were at peace does not leave a lot of room for nuance. We were not their oppre
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by atticora 3y ago
I prefer bottom up decentralized curation of comments. Let readers curate as they read via moderation, and let other readers filter or rank comments by selecting zero or more other reader-curators that they find agreeable. That would be qui
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by atticora 3y ago
As a coder when I want to figure something out I can just try it an obnoxious number of times and ways within minutes, with almost no marginal cost. Even on the job. When a handyman wants to learn plumbing he has to do things like knock hol
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by atticora 3y ago
Language purity is a bug not a feature. For all of its fault English is wonderful salad bowl of multiculturalism. Concepts intermingle internationally in this tongue with wild promiscuity. It's similar to the controversy around interra
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by atticora 3y ago
It didn't take very long for AI to turn the tables and start prompting us to generate content.
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by atticora 3y ago
I think it's as significant as the rest of the computing revolution combined. We're just now at the base of the S-curve and it's already starting to reshape the economy, and fast. For good or ill it will be more disruptive th
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by atticora 3y ago
I wonder how many members of the Housing Authority, and the people who appointed them, own property with values that would decrease with more housing on the market.
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by atticora 3y ago
Any random person you pass here is about as likely to be criminal as someone in Albuquerque, which isn't good. But since there are magnitudes fewer people here the risk of coming across them is much lower. A great response time from th
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by atticora 3y ago
Since information can't escape a black hole, is this controversy permanently not testable?
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by atticora 3y ago
Please don't turn it up to eleven.
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by atticora 3y ago
He treats them with respect, asks them thoughtful questions, and puts their answers in front of a large audience of curious people. And how did he get such a large audience? By finding interesting guests, treating them with respect, asking
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October 7 Has Not Changed the Middle East(cato.org)
2 points by atticora 3y ago|0 comments
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by atticora 3y ago
It would be so easy to get away with this kind of extortion at my work. Nobody reads my code that carefully, or cares if I don't get it reviewed and just merge it. Only one other person could understand it if he tried, and he has no in
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by atticora 3y ago
No paywall for the Levine article here: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/43722
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by atticora 3y ago
It's fascinating to see him through the eyes of Cicero's slave Marcus Tullius Tiro in Robert Harris's Cicero Trilogy.
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by atticora 3y ago
> The place is unrecognizable to us Californians since the late 90s That frightens me, because the last time I was in San Francisco was in the late 90s for an event at the Moscone Center. It was so shockingly bad then that I've avoi
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by atticora 3y ago
Rural New Mexico, a couple of hundred miles from the nearest city with many coding jobs, an hour from a real grocery store. Remote work. Dark skies. Vast quantities of wild life. Sane, friendly neighbors, sufficiently far away. Surrounded b
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by atticora 3y ago
The morality of war is simply not a decidable problem by the discipline of philosophy. Whether and when war is justifiable is not objectively resolvable. But it is a vital subject in the disciplines of anthropology, sociology and history: W

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