dave_sullivan

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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Fair, but at least in the US, if there was (somehow) a huge popular rise in the public's perception of privacy, and there were marches every day for weeks, we could maybe get a law passed. I'm not holding my breath for this to hap
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
"I just read a study in Nature saying remote work is more trouble than it's worth, back to the office everybody!" /s
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I started using Kodi on a modded Xbox when it was XBMC. Recently got an odroid N2+ and put CoreElec with Kodi on it and I'm very impressed. On the hardware, it runs very smooth. Configuration is a mess, but overall it's come a lon
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
For Android, I'm using fennec with ublock origin and it's great. Also YouTube Vanced is very useful. And Infinity for a tolerable reddit experience on mobile.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Maybe I don't know enough about databases, but could you really not have done this with postgres?
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Nice! I've been looking for something like this.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Government can't make a website, let alone a chip fab. Talk to Intel and ask them why we've fallen behind. Do any VCs want to fund a direct Intel competitor? I doubt it. Making chips seems to be quite a bit more complicated than m
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
> Requiring COVID-19 jabs has become a way to exercise “total control” over people. “They want to force an experimental compound that we really don’t know the long-term effects [of]. Then they want to, on top of that, make sure everyone
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Hmmm, I would use Docker Selenium and have python connect to your container with remote web driver. You can make pretty robust scrapers that way. I didn't know people still used beautiful soup.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Plex is a media server mainly used for serving downloaded content, so I'll let you make of that what you will. Piracy has not gotten harder in the past 20 years. In many countries it is de facto legal.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I ended up on Havoc but I agree the experience is much better than stock. 2 things that make me much less excited about how much control I have: There is still a xiaomi boot rom running under Havoc or Lineage, I can only assume xiaomi can p
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Oh I dunno, I let it take over my life for a couple months, took it as far as I'd care to, and then moved on. I actually prefer Dyson Sphere Program over factorio at this point. They're addictive, but for good reason and in ways y
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
What are you talking about? It works effectively on HN and reddit and has for years.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I've been saying twitter needs a downvote button for years. Only having like or retweet means there is only positive signal, so messages can only be amplified. Downvotes allow a signal to be de-amplified. Bravo.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
> I think the economic model that leads to widespread inequity is absolutely a problem, and a thorny one that will need to be solved for sure. For sure. Let's not kick the can down the road, let's solve it now. > I see no ad
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
That's fine and all if you're talking about people in your immediate social circle. Why waste time worrying about what someone else has? But then there's this overall trend of stagnating wages for everyone except owners of ca
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Sometimes I think the whole universe is a cost function iteratively optimizing those constants.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
There are certainly scales, it's not all uniform. But the EU is a big place and people are free to pick which country they live in. It's disingenuous to suggest it's all the same thing. The larger point of EU workers having
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
This is a very good analogy. A similar one I have heard before is "It's like falling asleep... It takes a while to get into sleep mode and if someone interrupts you, you have to start the process again." Most people can under
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Yes, that's what I said, it's false. Easily.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
"This technology is only used by criminals and perverts" is a common refrain that almost always turns out to be wrong. People should relax.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
You would find "the transcension hypothesis" very interesting, it's along similar lines to what you are discussing.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
> What if the "honest" signal of intelligence is the ability to detect bullshit? In machine learning research, we have the idea of adversarial algorithms. One algorithm tries to generate convincing bullshit, and the other algor
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
A lot of reasons, although a big one is probably the difference in profit margins between a FAANG and most of the rest of the economy. FAANGs have more money and a respect for the value good software engineers represent, so they pay more.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I was in middle school when I found the l0pht archives, a bunch of text from BBSs and stuff posted on the internet in the 90s. I remember this thing I read about the future of nanotechnology blew my mind so much that I printed it out and br
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I think there's a balance to be had. I'm not sure what that balance is. In general, "spend less time around people that drain your energy and more time around people that you feel energized by" seems like good advice. I
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I had a project one time for a school district and had access to all of that. Made me think of the "changing grades remotely" trope and had a pretty good chuckle. Wouldn't have been possible when I was a kid but it is now I g
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Read SPIN Selling and The Challenger Sale. Only 2 good sales books, takes a reasonably sophisticated approach of interviewing salespeople and then doing PCA on their responses to generate clusters of sales behavior and then noting "the
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I'm speculating, but it might be a number designed to discourage purchase rather than reflect actual value. IE, we don't want personal users to buy these so we will price it higher than their data is worth but low enough that we w
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Funny you mention it, you can buy mushrooms, LSD, DMT, whatever on hippie hill in Golden Gate Park at all hours of the day. Although you're right, most people there are just walking around oblivious to all the hippies tripping. As an a

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