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by beej71 10mo ago
I'd do what I do now: computer science instructor and author. :) My wife is an SLP at a hospital and she loves it. I couldn't handle the more medical parts, but I can see crossover there with assessment and problem-solving. She ge
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by beej71 10mo ago
Used to be you could buy a starter home in those cool places. I live in one today with a $1200 mortgage. Good luck buying that now, kids.
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by beej71 10mo ago
It is interesting, but that's not the feature that people hate. They hate the monitoring, the power consumption, the inaccuracy, and the social and intellectual stupification. I use LLMs quite frequently, but there are some places I do
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by beej71 10mo ago
Well, it's a step in the right direction. I will never pay for an ebook that I cannot permanently possess. And DRM is pointless. At some point the words become visible and therefore are copyable.
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by beej71 10mo ago
They can do it legally if it's within the terms. Otherwise it's bait-and-switch. I can't sign a contract with you for $10/month for no ads and then start showing you ads.
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by beej71 10mo ago
Reminds me of that comic where the dog runs a ball up to his owner with the thought bubble "Throw!" When the owner goes to take the ball, the dog steps back, thinking, "No take! Only throw!" So in the glorious future, we
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by beej71 10mo ago
They could make it so we could subsidize development like with Thunderbird.
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by beej71 10mo ago
With my opinion of the current administration, I doubt I'd qualify.
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by beej71 10mo ago
They're doing everything they can to make piracy the best option.
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by beej71 10mo ago
Not the GP but I've been doing it for 16 years and I don't know or care how much traffic I'm getting. :)
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by beej71 11mo ago
I'm definitely against the government censoring any of those groups. But I don't see how the First Amendment allows Congress to pass a law telling web sites what they must publish.
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by beej71 11mo ago
> All the justifications for censorship during Covid were corrosive, "The 1st amendment only protects you from _government_ censorship, etc. Does the First Amendment not also give you editorial control over your websites, including
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by beej71 11mo ago
I definitely started reading more when I quit "algorithmic" social media a couple years ago. Still do. But I'm also mid-50s so I could just be reverting to my base. Maybe it's different for younger folks.
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by beej71 11mo ago
But on the plus (???) side, he's extremely bribable.
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by beej71 11mo ago
However, in the United States, the President is supposed to have very limited unilateral authority over any company.
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by beej71 11mo ago
I do believe it really is this simple. I don't buy a $47 carton of eggs because it's just not worth it. People do the math and think, "I don't want to spend $40,000 on this. I can get a decent job without spending that,
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by beej71 11mo ago
One good thing about Direct File being cancelled is that I get to make spreadsheets for taxes again (in Libre). Worth it? Not at all. But a consolation prize.
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by beej71 11mo ago
Features fully secure e2mitm2ee.
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by beej71 11mo ago
I'm sure that's true, but there are different kinds of "difficult" that rely on different kinds of effort.
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by beej71 11mo ago
It's not so much that, although I'd argue that LLMs can certainly teach you some bad habits from time to time, much more so than Deep Blue ever would. Rather, it's because early on, when beginners are learning the basics, t
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by beej71 11mo ago
Appreciate it! This response turned into more of an essay in general, and not specifically a response to your post, marginalia_nu. :) Sharing information, to me, was what made things so great in the hacker culture of the 80s and 90s. Just p
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by beej71 11mo ago
You're absolutely correct, of course. And part of that is because the degree that you get when you want to be a programmer is a "Computer Science" degree in the US. I've added a clarification to the first chapter about t
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by beej71 11mo ago
I think that's a valid point. The naming came from the fact that the (my) students reading this are in a degree program called "Computer Science". But I do thing that's worth a mention in the guide. Cheers!
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by beej71 11mo ago
In some places, free market healthcare is great. Dermatologists, dentists, chiropractors, things like that. And part of the reason it's great is because you get to shop around and people fight for your business. In other areas, like he
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by beej71 11mo ago
Because we pay less tax for other things; for example, making post-secondary education affordable. Our taxpayer-funded system for healthcare-over-65 costs us more than Germany's taxpayer-funded system for healthcare-over-0.
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by beej71 11mo ago
Sometimes it doesn't matter about the insurance if the price is right. Medical tourism is a thing already.
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by beej71 11mo ago
Japan has something to that effect. There are ways to make it happen.
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by beej71 11mo ago
We pay more tax for healthcare in the US than virtually anyone else. Last I looked, only Norway had us beat in terms of taxes for healthcare.
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by beej71 11mo ago
There's probably something in here about our personal tastes changing, as well. I used to really enjoy going to the movies and would go frequently to see all kinds of stuff. But now it hardly seems worth it knowing that I'll proba
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by beej71 11mo ago
Not me. I'm 86,000-something.

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