chaps

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by chaps 2mo ago
I think you're misinterpreting my words. Of course there's malintent with copaganda. I'm talking about the random schmos out there who don't know what "ALPR" even is. These folk are more and more learning abou
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by chaps 2mo ago
More and more, yes. This was in June: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-112_0am4.pdf
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by chaps 2mo ago
It's simply because the language hasn't caught up with the technology yet. A similar problem happens in courts where legal terminology hasn't caught up with technology. There's no malintent with it, it just means that th
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by chaps 2mo ago
Orrrrrr... it could be a complex combination of outsourcing, an over-reliance on degrees, LLMs, a lack of "apprenticeship" mentoring, etc etc etc. I was very fortunate to get a job in a NOC a little bit after high school where I l
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by chaps 2mo ago
Yes, and that's exactly why the curl|sh exists; you don't need to know the weird esoterica of a 26 year old piece of software. Accessibility matters.
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by chaps 2mo ago
Played a lot of Worms Armageddon when I was a kid. WMD is the best one by far and carries Armageddon's spirit. The others lost the script trying to make cooler games.
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by chaps 2mo ago
You're missing the trees for the forest, friend. I know how to troubleshoot this stuff. I wouldn't expect some random schmo who's just learning ubuntu for the first time to be able to. This, "just run these three command
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by chaps 2mo ago
You're right about all of that up until the point any one of those commands doesn't work and you get a garglblargl amount of incomprehensible error messages. You've been in the sauce for so long that you've forgotten wha
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by chaps 2mo ago
You're not wrong about the appearance of sketchiness of that, but.... dude, come on. "It's not hard" is only true because you already know how to do it.
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by chaps 2mo ago
Are fax machines designed within a tight feedback loop specifically between law enforcement? (Actually yeah. Chicago Police uses an on-prem 3rd party blackbox fax service to avoid those records being FOIA'able. But that's beside t
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by chaps 2mo ago
This is a broad, broad statement about journalism that's just... untrue. Local investigative journalism is wonderful and you should consider donating to a local newsroom to see more like it.
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by chaps 2mo ago
As someone who's pushed on a technical law change.... "easily" DEEPLY, DEEPLY misstates the challenges of getting the law changed. Fun fact: people who oppose something tend to get in the way.
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by chaps 2mo ago
> Well, I did write out a couple of paragraphs about what I thought I learned. > And further, because of the highly contrived nature of the game and it's uncanny closeness to the material world, it might be actually harmful: it e
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by chaps 2mo ago
TBH the "don't call yourself a programmer" part of this blog is the least interesting part of it. It's decent or awful advice depending on the person. The more interesting part, to me, is the 15 year old recognition that
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by chaps 2mo ago
"Code was never the hard part" misses the point but so does this blog post. This blog post from 2011 is worth reading and really cuts into the middle of the dreads-of-programmer. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011&#x2F
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by chaps 2mo ago
I mean, ICE is already sidestepping transparency by delaying FOIA requests to the Nth degree. Have a look: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?page=1&per_page=100&agenc...
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by chaps 2mo ago
In the same way that I have to think about how to respond and think about why you have a negative reaction to what I wrote, I also have to struggle with a reasonable way of communicating why I think you don't understand what I wro
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by chaps 2mo ago
No true musician got their start in Guitar Hero, eh? I got my start in drumming from playing on Rockband. When I mentioned it to the folk that I bought my first e-kit, they rolled their eyes. Fine, whatever, I expect musicians to be pretent
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by chaps 2mo ago
Anecdata, friend. Two old friends became extraordinarily good at guitar hero and even won competitions. They're also some of the best guitar players I know. One of them is an extremely good drummer and can do improv piano like a beast.
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by chaps 2mo ago
Thanks!
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by chaps 2mo ago
Totally. But I just gave one example of the anti-camera activism from the UK at the time! There was a lot more than just this.
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by chaps 2mo ago
Is anyone actually arguing that it conveys creative skill though?
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by chaps 2mo ago
The paragraph in-question: Sure, it’s all gamified and fun and even addictive, but at the end of the day no outside, transferable skill accrues to the player. To do that, you have to set the controller down, pick up an actual guitar, an
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by chaps 2mo ago
Not the argument you're looking for, but I've been playing drums for over ten years now because of Rock Band. Even used the sticks that came with it on my first e-kit. The game didn't teach me how to drum, but it taught me th
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by chaps 2mo ago
FWIW, CCTVs in the UK weren't exactly loved either: https://www.wired.com/2007/12/burning-british/ "Motorists Against Detection, the vigilante anti-speed camera group have announced a summer of
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by chaps 2mo ago
Great! Glad you were able to take off your rose tinted glasses, even for a moment. Peace.
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by chaps 2mo ago
I'm aware of what they're good at. I got claude 4.6 to run linux as a native postgres module inside linux inside postgres inside linux inside postgres on a mac. It was impressive then and it's still impressive. IOW, I really
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by chaps 2mo ago
For those interested in FOIA lawsuits, there are many, many attorneys out there who'd love to take on a pro bono FOIA case. Lots of it is quite boiler plate and pushing back on arguments that the courts decided on years prior.
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by chaps 2mo ago
Because I find what you have to say interesting. Sorry about that, I'll try to consider you less interesting.
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by chaps 2mo ago
What things have you tried that didn't go well? At this point, that's more interesting. If you want to have a whack at a hard problem, have a try at the cryptographic puzzle in Noita if you want to see the silly failure modes of t

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