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by chasd00 6mo ago
> facing overwhelming dissent may indicate you're the lone free-thinker You just better be right. If you're wrong then no one will ask for your input ever again.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> they are doing business with U.S. defense company. any time you're flying on a Boeing 737, 787, 777 etc you're doing the same. Just like every time you turn on a GE light bulb.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
yeah and remember when those gatherings/protests got a thumbs up from the CDC but having friends over for dinner was off the table? God, what a ridiculous time that was.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
absolutely true. Masks + lockdown hobbies (baking etc) were virtue signaling and everywhere online.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> top down collectivism The Dallas County judge was driving my neighborhood berating people for walking their dogs and telling them to get inside. It was totally insane, i couldn't believe what I was seeing. I met him at a fundraise
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> where the country was asked to pull in the same direction together There was no asking, if the country was asked then the term "lockdown" wouldn't have been used. On the other hand, there were no soldiers on the street f
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I've never been to prison but i have spent a night in the pokey a couple times. Those may be legit websites but it's not my experience.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> I suspect prisons, at times, have to manage things specific to gay inmates. doubtful. There's no customer service in prison nor the ability to speak with the manager.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I’ve said for a while now that there’s going to be a lot of bizarre security incidents in the news over the next few years.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
One where there's 50 playlists and your hands are wet because you're right in the middle of doing dishes. Besides, your phone is in the other room anyway.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
The weirdness is creeping in to regular Youtube content too. For example, I like to watch Ryan Hall's stream during extreme weather (tornado season in the US). In his forecast videos he has to start with something weird to prove to the
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by chasd00 6mo ago
do you have any idea on what percentage of musicians use AI to create the song and then also create the sheet music so they can play it themselves? That seems like a decent workflow, use AI to get the song right, and then record yourself pl
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by chasd00 6mo ago
Boeing makes the minuteman 3, maybe now is a good time to invest.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
Geez you guys need to spend some time in orgs where your paycheck is depends on getting the bugs fixed and deployed. If your direct deposit happens whether you deliver or not then you’re missing the most valuable career lesson of all.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> I'd love to work for NASA i doubt it's that great, NASA is a huge government organization. There may be a handful of people/teams doing cool things but I suspect much of it is infuriating slow and bureaucratic. However,
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I guess what they want is a short term resource which would typically be a contractor or consultant but maybe they have to hire an FTE. So they're saying it's going to get real boring after year 2 so we expect you to leave. Sounds
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> The costs have increased: renting an additional dedicated server costs more than storing ~100GB at a managed object storage service. But the improved performance and reliability are worth it. Were your users complaining about reliabili
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> Great design is original thought not really, great design in a web application is no surprises.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
hah maybe the plan for Mythos is to solution all the security issues introduced by ClaudeCode. Anthropic makes money creating the security issues and identifying/fixing the security issues, that's a nice spot to be in.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
i was afraid someone would think that, if i just said "half-life" they wouldn't know what i'm talking about. If i just said "have a beer" then it wouldn't be doing justice to the one i really like. oh well
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by chasd00 6mo ago
So I work in enterprise tech. consulting, my current project is with a large, global, chemicals company (it wouldn't be right to call out my client by name). This client is extremely competent from their multiple enterprise architects
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by chasd00 6mo ago
Same story as always, writing the code in the easy part. Requirement gathering, analysis, consensus, direction, those are all the hard parts. Enterprises have a business to run and don’t want to run a software shop on top of everything else
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by chasd00 6mo ago
idk, i live in oakcliff in Dallas. Per google 20% of people in the area are undocumented. Elementary schools are around 50% undocumented and the area high schools around 30% if not higher. My son is in the second most selective magnet HS in
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I’m 49 and have all but given up on drinking. It does nothing for me except make me tired and then, ironically, mess up my sleep. On fridays I grill cheeseburgers for the family and usually have one Half-Life tall boy from Manhattan Brewery
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by chasd00 7mo ago
i've been saying there's going to be some interesting "computer glitches" in the news over the next few years. We've already had one where someone convinced an AI to sell them airline tickets for $1. I expect many m
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by chasd00 7mo ago
> beyond a consulting context "Consulting, if you're not a part of the solution there's money to be made prolonging the problem" - Despair.com :) /i'm a consultant
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by chasd00 7mo ago
I was wondering about tmux vs screen (+splitvt) but didn’t want to ask. What are the advantages?
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by chasd00 7mo ago
I've almost forgotten about AGI, that was suppose to be the reason for the valuations and all the hope/fear. Then, it just sort of went away and AI turned into the Software Developer doomsday machine. We're on month 4 since t
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by chasd00 7mo ago
that's been my feeling for a while now. Google just has to keep up while OpenAI and Anthropic go bankrupt. I can see MSFT and Amazon eventually consuming OpenAI and Anthropic respectively when the money runs out but I still think Googl
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by chasd00 7mo ago
> But love the Gatlinburg aside. It's like Myrtle Beach, but worse. Yeah Gatlinburg is a strange place, that one stuck out to me too. I described it in my comment as like a touristy beach town but small and not in a charming way. Th

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