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by devonkim 6y ago
Given the opposition from our left to nuclear and painting any nuclear proponent as a right-wing science denier trying to defund renewable energy I’m not sure what we can do. Michael Schellenberger has been pilloried by our left despite the
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One interesting thing I’m seeing is that both our (relative) extremes are culturally different how they try to silence and discredit opposing views, but both think the other’s approach and ideologies are more dangerous and Godwin’s Law is r
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The reality is most places keep running software architected for an era over 2 decades ago now and it’s ossifying harder if it’s still carrying enough business inertia. Those workflows of bootstrapping VMs and EC2 instances like it’s 1996
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The cruel exception is in military museums where all the military funded museums are paid somewhat decent wages but of course these wages pale in comparison to the military intelligence trainers getting paid $650k+ / year mostly tax-fr
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UPX binaries throw off most endpoint security models and so we have a chicken and egg problem where its more common use is for malware authors than commercial software vendors. But once UPX binary signatures are in significantly wider use n
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It sounds similar to the advice for a number of other disciplines I've seen in my family tree: classical musician and ministry. That is, you do it because you can't imagine doing _anything_ else because the dedication you need to
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I'm super confused how anyone could recommend Minio for the foundation of a production system as well. I've understood it to be primarily for development purposes and have used it for some local mock tests for S3 compatibility beh
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I have a C7 and after running it maybe 4-5 hours / day average I haven't seen burn-in. If anything, not watching cable news is an improvement to our lives and when I eventually upgrade I can use it for gaming and not mind that the
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This is a similar curve for cats even though domestic cats tend to live substantially longer than dogs despite having a fairly similar early growth curve. The world record longest living cat was 38 while the oldest dog was just under 30. Ca
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Software purchasers in a lot of enterprise IT are contractually and legally required to carry such insurance in the US. The problem is that the organizations usually impacted are similar to people refusing to pay for car insurance - ones th
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It's weird for myself because so long ago the left was all about this alongside carbon taxes and now I'm hearing "carbon taxes don't work" and "the poorest will be hurt most by removing subsidies" from the
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Perl’s lunch was eaten more by Ruby IMO. The bifurcation happened as the Perl programmers that wanted a more traditional OOP system picked up Ruby and the folks writing Bash++ oftentimes went to Python. These days it seems like Ruby is wher
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I think “no code” systems like these are mostly of value for people that want to produce some demo / prototype apps that they can then use to pitch around and then get resources for programmers to flesh out better. If said person canno
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It used to be the case I would swap MacBook parts out more when laptops were simply clunkier maybe 10 years ago (added a SATA SSD back in 2010). But lately with 16 GB RAM being fine for most developers even, NVMe SSDs being standard, Macs s
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One of the fun exchanges I saw transcripts in a linguistics course was between two ESL speakers - one native Spanish, the other native Japanese. Something as simple as not knowing the word “income” and using the Spanish “ingress” which was
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I’ve lived in various states all around the US and traveled for work often and honestly when I’m in most cities now I can’t tell them apart too terribly much besides native accents, weather, architecture, and some landmarks - the chain and
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It’s the same with almost all hyped up technology or movements trying to push stuff into the C suite for conversations.
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With current districting and gerrymandering frameworks a minority of rural voters have many, many times the electoral weight of someone in a metropolitan area so I have trouble coming up with something that is fair without overweighting one
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I’ve been having trouble reconcilling compelling evidence for and against automation based job loss / wage suppression, and usually the arguments against them look at super high level macroeconomic numbers (see: Pail Krugman’s analysis
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The implication I’ve seen is that the bosses of minimum wage workers would need to see a pay increase if their pay is also only a little higher than minimum wage already. So pay would get crunched higher in those situations and mostly at th
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Compensating for competitive factors both for customers and for investors to care that you're worth putting money into. If you don't have something that makes you special from your competitors, what's the point of you existin
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If the business model is boring, you’ll need complex technology to compensate. If your business model is complex like in a lot of enterprise software, you should strive to keep the technology as simple as possible. Simple doesn’t mean to no
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The other scenario is whether fully autonomous vehicles out-perform humans in sufficiently many other scenarios such that we will consider the comparatively rare scenario of an overturned truck not that big of a deal compared to the massive
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I wonder if this difference in jargon has origins in different sub-fields. I recognize that concept as "checkpoints" across different companies but I also remember seeing the term from data science folks and thinking that I just d
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Toolchain compromises are a non-zero risk but involve a lot of orchestrated resources to subvert systems to meaningful effect (simple exfil is sufficient for most corporate espionage v. stuff like Stuxnet to enact specific changes covertly)
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The crowns on my incisors are substantially stronger and more resistant to drills than the natural teeth they replaced. The issue with most artificial teeth I’m seeing are related to bone loss and inability to rest as securely into the jaw
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One problem with replacing natural teeth is that you will have bone loss in your jaw. The bone line is slightly lower where my crowns are compared to my other teeth and this is expected according to my dentists. So as a side effect your jaw
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It would make it clear or not whether the site tries at all to restrict certain recommendations like harmful content at least and the model would be different and less subject to top-down rules / policies like recommending government p
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The graph in itself is pretty close to privacy issues that border closely as well. Even if FB et al were government funded that wouldn’t make it good either. And said data could be considered competitive advantages but perhaps not. If every
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I think transparency matters more. I liked Andrew Yang’s suggestion to require the recommendation algorithms of the largest social networks to be open sourced given how they can shape public discourse and advertising in all mass media is re

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