chaps

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by chaps 8d ago
Yeah, that's kind of what I'm talking about! It's a very specific visualization where it comes and goes and feeds into itself. It's really cool. The brightness you're talking about is legit. It's fun to play wi
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by chaps 8d ago
Years ago while working as a contract sysadmin for a clearing firm, a coworker made an overbroad puppet change that changed every server's time zone from UTC to CDT. The only thing I heard about it was from a text from an old colleague
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by chaps 12d ago
When you close your eyes, can you make any visualization whatsoever? Not the press-fingers-into-eyes stuff nor from-memory visualization, but just anything. When I close mine, I can let my brain wander with little intention/feedback an
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by chaps 13d ago
Ridiculous and only tangentially related question, but.... is Base83 uniquely useful in any way?
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by chaps 15d ago
Last time I stopped smoking cannabis I got these for a couple days. They are intense . The most recent was kind of like taking a slow rollercoaster ride through three black hole sized perfect spheres orbiting nothing. Another one was less
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by chaps 15d ago
I'd argue that chess similarly has "useless skills". But learning "useless skills" is one of the most important things you can do for yourself to learn "useful skills". Not everything has to be an absolute
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by chaps 16d ago
You (and others) should check out real time strategy games if your hope is to learn much of what you're sharing here!
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by chaps 19d ago
Since when are Pokemon Go players representative of everyone else? Methinks you should surround yourself with fewer technical people if your goal is to understand what's generally understood about the world.
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by chaps 21d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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by chaps 22d ago
You have a substantially undeserved set of rosy glasses for the courts. For your own sake, please try some court watching. :)
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by chaps 22d ago
Friend, these things happen even with buffer zones.
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by chaps 22d ago
Next time try to make yourself easier to talk to and maybe you'll get better answers. When responding to you it felt like all you were trying to do was "own the left" instead of approach it with actual curiosity and interest.
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by chaps 22d ago
The documents I'm talking about didn't come from FOIA. They came from printing them at the clerk of courts' office. They aren't redacted. But yes, these documents should be FOIA'able and I shouldn't have to red
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by chaps 22d ago
I don't know what to tell you besides yes, it's really that bad. A lot of it is just people passing the buck down the road, a lot of it (at the time) was covid, a lot of it was the difficulty of people on EM to publicly talk about
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by chaps 22d ago
It happened with both RF and GPS! The Cook County Sheriff's Office moved between the two at one point so it was possible to see the effects over time as folk moved over. Some people got more false alarms when moving to GPS, some got fe
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by chaps 22d ago
It wasn't easy to find, heh. Lots of FOIA requests to even get to a point of where I could go through court records at the Clerk of Courts. Obstinate lawyers for months and months. But after all that, I can find the court documents at
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by chaps 22d ago
Yes, everyone on the devices received false alarms. It's why there was a call center that managed the false alarm flows. I highly suggest you read the articles I've shared. I fought tooth and nail to get access to the data showing
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by chaps 22d ago
That might be true for a place in the middle of nowhere with no features, the same device model managed by the same company and the same call center person and same sheriff and judges and prosecutor. But with GPS in an urban environment whe
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by chaps 22d ago
They did, yes. I hope you have a better day.
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by chaps 22d ago
"You've essentially claimed police/judges are doing something rather stupid and terrible." Yes, yes I am. You really need to realize just how unbelievably fucking arbitrary the criminal courts are. At every level. They&#
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by chaps 22d ago
That's totally fair, I shouldn't have said it like that!
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by chaps 22d ago
Ah. That's probably just a result of the pasted article being part of a series. To be explicit: yes, many, many, many people were reinarcerated because of faulty GPS.
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by chaps 22d ago
If someone's home is 30' by 30' feet, yes, that person's device will report them having left their home and they'll get a visit if GPS suddenly shifts 30 feet to the left. I'm talking about the class of problem
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by chaps 22d ago
Not sure where your confusion is coming from. Have you never used GPS in a place with bad signal? Where it gets confused and you miss your turn? It's the same failure mode. Just the repercussions are getting arrested instead of getting
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by chaps 23d ago
This is exactly the sort of thing that leads to people getting reincarcerated after their electronic monitoring devices mistakenly report them leaving their homes. Some reporting I did on the topic a few years back: https://chica
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It's Not Just Flock. Police Can't Be Trusted with Our Data(truthout.org)
9 points by chaps 23d ago|0 comments
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by chaps 24d ago
At the risk of callousness, why is this article on HN? AFAIK, that's not exactly a major or notable position in the bank because of how BofA inflates their titles.. super strange that their title's mentioned.
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by chaps 1mo ago
Thinking of it more as a generic environment enumerator (that definitely works without any caveats). Tried solving solving a similar abstraction after getting annoyed with infrastructures that didn't have lsof installed consistently, o
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by chaps 1mo ago
That doesn't make it any less important to recognize when it happens.
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by chaps 1mo ago
Same. Was thinking the other week what would be the smallest llm one could make that is able to figure out tooling in its local environment and build something that can then expand out to other hosts, build more of itself, etc. 1MB?

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