barrysteve

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by barrysteve 3y ago
The NSA does not reveal what technology it uses or how they use it. Snowden had to leak that information, for it to come to light. The public has no way of knowing if the NSA follows the law and the theoretically available technology for
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Alienating yourself into a 'security' bubble while GCHQ is capturing ALL internet data and holding it for up to a year, is like trying to catch the bolted horse. It's over, privacy is dead and so is a private bedroom. We need
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by barrysteve 3y ago
The world is completely surveilled and you're surprised people want to leave? I can't get off this authoritarian nightmare rock soon enough.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Encourage junior developers to speak first to avoid embarassing themselves in front of senior developers. Maybe collaborating and theory crafting on a task could take the pressure off his ego and image. Focusing on him could be a mistake, g
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by barrysteve 3y ago
A list of 'do-not' works for tasks that bottom out in science and the laws of physics. Like woodworking or fusion physics. Thinking about coding lacks a connection to a scientific terminus point. Under the hood it's all binar
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by barrysteve 3y ago
There is a decline in big mind blowing conceptual shifts in media, like we experienced in Star Wars after decades of Spaghetti Westerns. Social and conceptual shifts are happening in real time, out in the world now. The big media build up t
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Yes, many speakers like conviction and stand-alone facts. Shared evidence and scientific criticism is a lost art (or fading) in the public square. Unfortunately a lot of the science takes time and effort to dig in and understand.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Men of that age group are seeing their beloved 'old world' crumble and be replaced around them. I am one of the tail end of the old world types and I speculate that it adds up after a while. It's odd going around town and see
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Is the mental illness (the label aspect of it) a big stigma or does it help?
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Or you could ask rich people and get willing contributions. There is an amazingly deep irony that someone who was supposed to be building fully automated gigafactories, is being apologized for lying for funds and failing to deliver tech.
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By asking the question 'How did you overcome social anxiety?' to strangers and to myself.
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I agree. Though... Does begging/imploring to stay the same really work in the end?
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Every single media source is pumping out negativity. All sectors and all industries are constantly reported to be failing, a bad future ahead and wildly disconnected from reality. The media has very few positive news stories and they are ch
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Metafilter too became black and white, politically divided in 2015. Murdered by politics.
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That was the point all along. These technologies like surveillance, facebook, phones, ect are all imposing separately.. When you fuse those technologies together, you can track and clamp down on and own men like a farmer owns cattle. The ne
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by barrysteve 3y ago
The news is being unable to opt out or have downtime away from surveillance. Honestly who wants to have a private relationship that is constantly surveilled. The only places left to have a private conversation with my wife, is underground o
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by barrysteve 3y ago
I said nothing about writing any program. I explicitly said I don't care what AIs can output. It can read and devour every program. Imagine a database where all possible programs are stored. Any github project, any private repository o
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by barrysteve 3y ago
LLMs in theory can absorb a stream of integers into a pattern of weighted nodes. Every program written is vulnerable of being generalized into an LLM pattern. The outputs of AI and the predictive abilities, are not scary. The input capacity
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by barrysteve 3y ago
There's a gap in the market for mature games. The gaming experience is aimed at teenagers for obvious reasons. I know adults looking for a more mature tone and they're not finding it.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Feeling dumb is a good emotion. You are hitting your intellectual limits, when you feel dumb. If you didn't 'touch the walls' by feeling dumb, I would wonder how much you're learning.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
Thanks for saying it's nicely written. I don't care about past standards, I care about a continous existence. It is neither anxiety nor immaturity. Irrelevance is fine. The father and son connection across generations and the larg
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by barrysteve 3y ago
You're at a fancy restaurant because it's your daughter's birthday therefore everybodies' life stories are meeting at this moment, to make it a memorable evening. You might be a 40yr old man pondering what life means, as
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by barrysteve 3y ago
There's no coming of age moments and achievement milestones in life. We left behind a structured world where you are expected to do certain things by certain ages and you got social respect for it. Now we are free to do anything, knowi
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by barrysteve 3y ago
It is easy to spread oneself too thin on Youtube. Following clickbait titles and doom scrolling disconnects me from sequential thinking. It is really unhealthy.
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by barrysteve 3y ago
McCarthyism again. When social commitment drops the gov will arrest you, but the gov won't do anything when the problems started. Only when they are nearly over.
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Disgraceful. Not even ww2 touched it, and the council is forcing a cut. Too many cats in the council.
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We are entitled to it. The system cannot be compromised by a developer retracting their code from the machine. A developer cannot be allowed authority over the machine. Code is powerful, unlike ScarJo's likeness. Knowledge workers are
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Showing up on the internet and subscribing isn't enough to scratch the itch. Games are the place to go and 'show up'. The internet is no longer used for sharing relatable information. It saturated and walled off valuable info
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It would seem, believing marketing lies is worthy of death.
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Yes that's how it should be. When you throw computers into the mix and have them control people's lives, then authority is no longer about a structured relationship towards a common goal and facilitating social behaviour. It'

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