cyberax

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by cyberax 4mo ago
> We're selecting for robots. And to add to this, learning itself is a _skill_. Working on a complex problem, looking at it from different angles, spending time memorizing facts, working on learning to paint fine lines - these are a
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by cyberax 4mo ago
> the whole package of grades+activities+honors societies+test scores This is _also_ a very US thing. Without true competition, students have to fluff their "resumes" with nonsense to get admitted into good colleges. Other coun
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by cyberax 4mo ago
The US education has always been competitive. In sports. Its school system has always been a state-sponsored daycare. SAT/ACT tests reflect this. I can get a perfect score in SAT math easily. And I likely could do that as a kid (I neve
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Historically, I'm not aware of a single major case of the Gold Standard helping with inequality. In all cases where inequality went down, it was helped by inflationary spending. Yet Gold Standard (and its intellectual descendants) dire
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I researched this. And there are no insurance companies in WA that offer these kinds of products for landlords. Renters insurance primarily covers damage to _their_ property and only some narrow cases of damage to the unit (e.g. fires, floo
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Of course there are racist people in Seattle. But they are not a significant part of the population.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
> It seems like you don’t like the tenant having any rights, and you want to impose your will upon them. No. Have you heard the phrase: "justice delayed is justice denied"? I want this rule to apply to _everyone_. Also I would
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by cyberax 4mo ago
This is utter BS. Seattle is about 40% non-White. And has never been racist, or even had slavery (outside the Native population).
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by cyberax 4mo ago
It's not. Seattle is losing small landlords left and right. Instead, people are selling houses to large management companies that can spread the risk across multiple units.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I bought the unit from my neighbor as he was moving out. It's a townhouse, so I share a wall with that unit. To be fair, _some_ anti-landlord laws are relaxed in this case, but not enough to make the worst-case scenario reasonable.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
There are such people. I have a unit in Seattle that sits empty because I don't want to risk getting stuck with such tenants. In Seattle, you can't: 1. Evict people from November to April (it's "winter"). 2. Evict p
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by cyberax 4mo ago
My general rule is to start refactoring once you have three copies of the code. Starting with abstraction when you are only beginning something rarely works well and leads to code bases littered with interfaces having only one implementatio
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by cyberax 4mo ago
If you read "1984", then you'll note that the elites there were barely better off than the middle class now. While living in constant fear of purges. Russian "elites" are now getting the political-science-101 educa
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by cyberax 4mo ago
You still need a compiler for TSX, though. There's also a tiny bit of non-erasable Typescript (enums).
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by cyberax 4mo ago
What the heck is SMPTE?
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Ultrasonic welders sound like all daemons of hell rising up to get you. So... I wouldn't be too sure.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
There are! And you can buy them for a couple bucks. The biggest downside: rinsing. You have to do it manually. And no, just refreshing the water and letting the ultrasonic emitter run will do nothing. And doing it manually takes a surprisin
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by cyberax 4mo ago
A crucial part of learning is struggling with understanding and overcoming problems by yourself. AI removes that part.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
The initial section is way too long. Perhaps do an exponential difficulty increase? I got 93 words (not a native speaker), but the expert/grandmaster words were kinda easy?
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Does it FINALLY fix the "-Xmx" nonsense? Or do I still have to statically specify the max heap size, as if I'm still using MacOS 9?
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by cyberax 4mo ago
No, they support direct interconnect: https://aws.amazon.com/interconnect/lastmile/ So you just need to be present in one of their DCs.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Why is it different? And how about this: are Jewish people allowed to commit war crimes against Arab colonizers whose stated official goal is Jewish genocide ("from the river to the sea")? If not, then why is it different?
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I believe so? It connects to Internet, as long as you have a physical presence in a datacenter that is connected to one of their partners.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Punto Switcher for the new era! It works well for EN->RU, but not really for EN->CN (or RU->CN).
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Well, I still have a backup physical card. It just is annoying to get it out of my wallet.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
I extracted a chip (by dissolving the plastic in acetone) from my card and glued it to the wriststrap of my Pebble watch :)
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Stop using JWTs and instead use my copy of JWTs with all the same fundamental issues! But now it also has a custom snowflake serialization format! Yeah, right. JWTs are fine, as long as you use sane algorithms. The missing revocation really
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Here: https://aws.amazon.com/interconnect/multicloud/ - it's rolling out in us-east-1, and will come to other regions.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
"See no evil, hear no evil" - literally.
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by cyberax 4mo ago
Ahh... Good old funrollloops... https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge...

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