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by coldbrewed 3y ago
That's an easy statement to make but in practice it's no longer acceptable; the Internet has become far too hostile and code that's "never going to be connected to the Internet" constantly does.
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Theft is the unauthorized taking of another's property; eminent domain is the power of a state to take private property for public use which means it's expressly authorized. Eminent domain is included as state power in the US Cons
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Apple is an edge case because of their incredibly strong market position, and their ability to maintain such high profit margins should be inviting a bit more antitrust investigation. But in this case, I'll accede the point for Apple&#
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Modern building construction is cheaper and doesn't demand old growth timber, but it's also much less resilient during a house fire. We use smaller dimensional lumber, it has less densely packed tree rings causing it to burn faste
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Laws like this stem from an attempt to ban the use of flood lights to stun deer and thus make a shot easier. Like much firearms legislation it's still intentioned but leads to absurd scenarios.
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Reasonable working hours where employees aren't pressured to work more than 40 hours per week, actual PTO rather than "unlimited time off," limits to on-call rotations, protection against layoffs masquerading as PIPs, reasona
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
The bank would have to either find a way to make significant profits from that heavy computation or reduce the computation; CPU time is an operational cost and banks exist to make profits. Crypto mining is designed to be inefficient; it&#x2
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
The impacts of climate change are nonlinear. For example 100 year storms become 10 year storms, weather anomalies like polar vortices become much more common, and in general climactic extremes become both more extreme and more common. More
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Firefighter turnouts both have PFAS right after manufacture, and continue to emit PFAS though wear and tear. Source: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/wear-and-tear-...
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
I relate to this. Golden handcuffs seem great until you're trapped in an expensive mortgage in a HCOL city in a career that you despise. If you want out, I'd strongly encourage you to start investing in that education now. Working
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
I was working on a high pressure/tight timeline pressure with the CTO and a handful of engineers. The CTO was working a minimum of 16 hour days because he absolutely loved to code and was having the time of his life cranking out enormo
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
tl;dr: complicated; I'm looking at leaving tech. Last year I was working 12 hour days at a startup with regular spikes into 14-18 hour days, until I was abruptly and unceremoniously laid off. I've been dealing with varying degrees
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
A society without art is a society without joy or self awareness. A society with only AI created art is a facsimile of joy or self awareness. If we're trying to remove the parts of society that challenge and inspire us then we'll
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
It's definitely happening across swaths of the US. Maker spaces have high positive externalities but low margins and require a lot of work and upkeep. With rent prices shooting through the roof and redevelopment taking cheap shop space
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
Fully agree; keep people off the street and get them off the street as fast as possible; and build a culture where deaths of despair are less likely to happen.
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
There's causation between homelessness and fentanyl use. Being homeless is absolutely hellish in this country; if your life has fallen apart that you're truly living on the street then there's little support and a lot of dang
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
While not inaccurate, this point is tangential. The lack of affordable housing in Portland drives homelessness; and being homeless pushes people to use meth during the night to stay awake so they can protect themselves and fentanyl so they
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
The big differentiator is long term durability. Quartz glass will be stable and readable for millennia, whereas even DVDs have a relatively short shelf life. I agree with your analysis though, the majority of use cases could just use existi
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level - https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/supermarket_reins_in_... > One user decided to play around with the chatbot, s
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
I treat unit tests like double-entry bookkeeping; I wouldn't describe it as a particular pain and consider it more of a matter of due diligence. Not everything needs this level of rigor but there are plenty of cases where the tests are
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
It's a good time to point out that the Reason Foundation is a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch Foundation.
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
It's probably not the first thing on the chopping block as there's plenty of revenue to be squeezed from vSphere; over the next 2-5 years I don't see a world where the free ESXi will be left unmonetized/uncrippled.
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
My heart goes out to all of the institutions that are about to get hammered by this change, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't excited about a potential increase in investment in open source cloud virtualization infrastructure. Pr
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
> Economists have discussed it, and just like with previous automation, there'll always be new job Past performance is not indicative of future results. > human wants are unlimited Physical resources are limited, and producing wo
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
This is patently false. GPT-4 will have more information pertaining to North America than to Africa because there is more training data available for North America than Africa. That's not a reflection of reality; that's a reflecti
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
I found Design for Hackers[1] to be an incredibly informative book; it provides a great deal of insight into UI patterns, color schemes and selections, and overall UI design. It's definitely more oriented towards graphical UIs but prov
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
AI is not an inert tool that you can wield; it's a crystallization of human beliefs, knowledge, and processes. It is vulnerable to biases and this vulnerability can't be neatly chopped out because it's impossible to fully rem
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
A system with truly "free markets" in a hypothetical economic system will have perfect competition [1], which includes zero cost to enter and exit markets, large numbers of buyers and sellers, rational buyers, perfect information,
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
In addition to this, there's been a lot of people flooding to tech because the financial incentives are so high and the cost of entry isn't overwhelming. A lot of people want to cash out -- which isn't a crime -- but it'
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by coldbrewed 3y ago
I agree that many people perceive this as an absolute truth, and I have to reluctantly acknowledge Milton Friedman's success in completely changing the narrative around corporate responsibilities. I don't think that the adoption o

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