callmeal

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by callmeal 1y ago
>government budgets should increase monotonically Well, they should track population growth. You cannot effectively serve a larger population with the same resources, otherwise we would continue to have two lane freeways everywhere.
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by callmeal 1y ago
>To effect cuts, you can either cut the budget without improving efficiency, leading to a loss of scope (which is what the current administration is doing, and is not great) Um, $11,000,000,000 for ICE is not a cut. $850 Billion for the
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by callmeal 1y ago
Or they could be inadvertently flipped if the "locking" version was not installed: (see the avherald link): >>India's media report that the investigation is NOT focussing on a human action causing the fuel switches to a
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by callmeal 1y ago
Except when they are not: From the avherald link: >Service Bulletins by Boeing issued in year 2018 recommending to upgrade the fuel switches to locked versions to prevent inadvertent flip of the switches, as well as the FAA/GE issue
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by callmeal 1y ago
Encrypted backups are "off" by default and need to be explicity turned on.
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by callmeal 1y ago
>Does Whatsapp expose these messages via an API? Whatsapp has dark patterns that "guide" you to "archive" your chats on google drive.
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by callmeal 1y ago
> If people aren’t willing to pay for the products, these companies have figured out how to make the customers’ data the product. This happens even when people pay for the products. See for instance the enshittification of streaming &q
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by callmeal 1y ago
>When you speak a foreign language than English, you accent is bound to be messed up. Look at Indian Americans or Pakistani Americans or other people who speak dual langauge. There is always something off about their accent. in the case
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by callmeal 1y ago
>If we can’t do anything about it, then might as well not think about it. The thing is, we can do something about it, but unfortunately we've been lobbied into believing that profits trump "doing something about it".
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by callmeal 1y ago
I run slack as a tab in a browser too, and in my case _disabling_ browser notifications has made slack a joy to use.
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by callmeal 1y ago
Isn't "vibe coding" a natural progression from https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs ? Through a process known as Eval-Rinse-Reload-And-Repeat, FuckItJS repeatedly compiles your code, detecting err
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by callmeal 2y ago
This is already being explored. See: https://nlp.elvissaravia.com/i/159010545/auditing-llms-for-h... The researchers deliberately train a language model with a concealed objective (making it exploit reward mod
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by callmeal 2y ago
Social security is 6.2% and is capped (you only pay social security taxes on a max income of $168,600). So if your income is 168,600 you pay $10,453 in social security taxes. And if your income is $1,000,000 you still only pay $10,453 in so
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by callmeal 2y ago
A quick back of the envelope calculation shows that an income of $1 million gets you an effective tax rate in the mid 40s in California. AGI: $1000k Federal Income Tax: $322k California State Income Tax: $102k FICA Taxes: $32k Total tax: $4
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by callmeal 2y ago
>For USPS imported package, you can't fine USPS Or you could do what pretty much every other country in the world does, and fine the recipient.
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by callmeal 2y ago
>that's bad because the income is first taxed when the corporation declares it as income and then again when the shareholders receive the dividend. Why is that bad? The first case is income to the corporation and they pay income tax
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by callmeal 2y ago
Haha I read the article - not surprisingly they pick lottery winners in countries that provide anonymity to winners (unlike the US where you will have a target painted on your back). > 2019 by researchers at the University of Warwick and
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by callmeal 2y ago
>and don't contribute in any noticeable way. >They are completely passive as far as you can tell Fundamental attribution error strikes again? Reminds me of the apocryphal/anecdotal tale of the management conultant who wa
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by callmeal 2y ago
>I don't want to partially break the software I do run by nit picking what connections it can make as that wouldn't improve my experience and would most likely cause issues. Partially breaking web pages by blocking all connecti
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by callmeal 2y ago
>> one and 100th of the data was missing >No idea what that means 1/100th of a dollar is a cent - goes towards the "missing cents" glossed over by calling that "dancing cents" in the blog post.
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by callmeal 2y ago
as PhasmaFelis pointed out, it's not the "dumb" and "religious", it's poor people, and the reason is simple - children are a source of "mostly free" labor, as the capitalist class here has (re)discove
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by callmeal 2y ago
>Same goes for "love of everyone". The core teachings of the purported "unofficially official religion" of the US would beg to differ.
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by callmeal 2y ago
>nature functions on the basis of survival of the fittest. And we have to watch out for thinking that "fittest" implies "strongest". "Smartest" or "most devious" as in the Cuckoo ( https:/&#x2
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by callmeal 2y ago
>15-80% of their daily calories from honey during certain seasons; why aren't they obese and diabetic? Maybe because it's "during certain seasons" and not the whole year around?
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by callmeal 2y ago
>val total = price + 10.percent * 2 If the price is 10, I would expect total to be 10,2. (price + 10.percent) * 2 would be 22. I don't see any way to get 12.
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by callmeal 2y ago
>How many people do you think got fired for the Log4J RCE for using the library. The counter to that claim is that there are certainly a lot more insecure logging implementations in use that never get (widely) exploited mainly because of
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by callmeal 2y ago
>government-owned space things last a lot longer than they're made for Don't forget that once upon a time, commercial-owned things lasted a lot longer too. Unfortunately the mba's took over and planned obsolescence became
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by callmeal 2y ago
I'm reminded of this supposedly ancient proverb I was taught in school: He who raises his voice first, loses.
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by callmeal 2y ago
Of course. They achieved their goal. Director William Casey Quote: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything they believe is false!"
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by callmeal 2y ago
an immediate one for me is to track notes from phone calls to support. My current process is to reply to the email with my notes from the call.

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