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by baumy 2y ago
Don't think of the above comment as normal. It represents perhaps .01% of Americans. The other ~99% would be just as flabbergasted after reading it as you are. As far as income is concerned, some of us have the skills to demand that ki
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by baumy 2y ago
Haha, no. You couldn't be more wrong! This is my impression from in person conversations with people I know, mostly in Seattle where I've lived since 2014. There's a bar I'm a regular at, plus a couple hobby groups where
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by baumy 2y ago
> In fact, left-wing people are generally open to divergent ideas and will debate them ad nauseam. That's the boogeyman. People on the left are generally very tolerant of diverging ideas. Fascinating. I'm sure you're not l
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by baumy 2y ago
To directly answer your question - when I was trying to setup whole home audio and decided I didn't want to go the rpi route of doing it myself, the alternatives to sonos that I found were "Audio Pro" and "Bluesound&quot
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by baumy 2y ago
I bit the bullet and got used to column staggered layouts but I feel your pain. Some options that I found when I was down this rabbit hole: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ (my personal favorite) https://keeb
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by baumy 2y ago
I don't entirely disagree, but your point is undermined somewhat by the fact that the Celtics won the championship literally last year, and are currently favorites to win again this year.
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by baumy 2y ago
Please, elaborate. What nuance and commonsense do you feel I'm not understanding?
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by baumy 2y ago
I promise you I mean this sincerely, and not in a memey internet insult kind of way - are you perhaps autistic? I ask because this is exactly the type of comment one of my siblings would make, and she is on the spectrum. She wouldn't b
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by baumy 2y ago
No, this is incorrect. This has not been the case for 60 years now. These tests were discontinued as part of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. That information is in the linked article, which is short and only takes a minute to
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by baumy 2y ago
It's definitely both. I'm sure plenty of professors use CUDA in their courses because it's what they actually use. At the same time, in 2013 when I was in college I took a course on "parallel computing" as a CS elec
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by baumy 2y ago
In a vacuum that's certainly the most pragmatic way to look at it. The problem is that tolerance of abuse tends to create more abuse, to the point that usually it's not a sustainable policy.
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by baumy 2y ago
Did you go to a public school? If you did, think back on all the kids that were your classmates. Not just the ones in the honors and AP courses you probably took, but all of them. Do you really find it surprising that they didn't learn
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by baumy 2y ago
I think what really makes the situation uniquely toxic is that after reading your comment, I genuinely have no idea which side you're referring to that you think is getting total impunity. Note: You don't need to reply and specify
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by baumy 3y ago
I worked for Amazon in Seattle when Amazon Go first launched. As you'd expect, lots of SDE teams made games out of trying to fool the thing in various ways. A few attempts were successful early on (passing items back and forth, one per
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by baumy 3y ago
First - Cultural differences are almost certainly at play here if you're not American. My only exposure to non-American workplace culture is a single German friend, and familiarity with how Linus Torvalds operates. Suffice it to say, c
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by baumy 3y ago
If you have a monitor that can serve as a USB hub (pretty easy to find) and has a thunderbolt input (less easy to find but there are options), you can hook multiple machines up to the monitor and use `ddccontrol` to toggle the monitor'
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by baumy 3y ago
Just tried it and my initial impressions are hugely positive. The main things missing that I frequently use like wrap around for focus and assigning applications to specific workspaces already have open issues that you've engaged on to
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by baumy 3y ago
You have to read between some lines and connect some dots here, since nothing is really publicly known and it's difficult to know if we can trust public statements anyway. Which of course means I could be completely wrong. Still, an ex
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by baumy 3y ago
You seem to be using a definition of "AI safety believer" that you've reasoned and arrived at yourself. It seems like a reasonable definition and I personally agree with it - the best path to maximal social good is for the ab
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by baumy 3y ago
Of course, but the particular exercises I'm referring to are ones that I think the vast majority of people neglect, and would be the most beneficial to both athleticism and overall mobility. Some exercise routines are better than other
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by baumy 3y ago
Anybody who thinks they can benefit from this should definitely check out the "knees over toes" guy on YouTube [1]. Walking backward is one of the first and most basic exercises he recommends in building up what he calls "bul
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by baumy 3y ago
I thought ABS was generally activated if braking really hard from high speed, but I hear the weird grinding somewhat consistently when lightly to moderately tapping the brake while going < 30mph. I do know (or at least, I think I know) w
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by baumy 3y ago
re: anti-slip detection going off a lot. I'm not a big car guy, but is that what causes the weird grinding sound occasionally when hitting the brakes, particularly when hitting the brakes around the same time as going over a speed bump
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by baumy 3y ago
For what it's worth I'd consider myself to be a moderately above-average news reader (Reuters and WSJ most days with misc other sources irregularly), and the first I've heard of this is just now
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by baumy 3y ago
Candidly, I think that this comment is actually the one rewriting history. There absolutely, 100% was complete denial, all originating on the political left, that a leak from a lab in China was a possibility. No confusion about intentional
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by baumy 4y ago
Wouldn't the alternative be to reconsider the merits of the 40 hour bimonthly task? If I'm understanding right, your wife is coming up with some bullet point style feedback about each of her students as part of a recurring evaluat
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by baumy 4y ago
No, I don't agree. I directly address the problems by arguing that they aren't actually problems. I feel I plainly stated the reality of the situation as it was described, and was not manipulative and accusatory in any way. I do n
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by baumy 4y ago
Seems like a very weird way of blaming a well defined system for your unwillingness to meet its prerequisites. It would take approximately a few minutes to discover that you need the app to get into the store and get that sorted. You are ca
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by baumy 4y ago
This is extremely interesting data, and not what I would have expected. I'm aware HR and recruiting folks are having much much harder times than engineers in finding new positions, but assumed engineers had still been hit harder than t
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by baumy 4y ago
I have repeatedly seen this happen personally, and every single person in my professional network who I trust enough to have a candid conversation with on this topic has seen the same at least once (in fairness, that is only 3 people. but b

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