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by dopylitty 2y ago
Having seen the results of everyone being able to spin up a VM (or an EMR cluster, or an EKS cluster) I can say a little more bureaucracy is probably a good thing. You end up wasting huge amounts of money on resources that are just sitting
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by dopylitty 2y ago
>As an employee at a terminal, you have a) no reason to trust some software people who may have never seen one of them steel boxes up close, b) if this works, you or your colleague gets laid off, and c) if it doesn't work, you'
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Nobody ever asks if these data centers are actually providing any value to society. There's just this assumption that ever growing compute capacity is a good thing. Then you get into this sort of induced demand situation where more com
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Several years after a project completes when the system is finally sort of working and the end users know what to expect new management will come in at a high enough level and demand everything be rebuilt using their tech stack of choice be
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I believe I speak for all when I say I keep all my most important files in /tmp and ~/Downloads
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by dopylitty 2y ago
In a way when people talk about encryption what they really mean is authorization to access data. The actual facts of whether or not data are encrypted using some whiz bang algorithm are irrelevant as long as some intermediary is ensuring t
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Related: https://www.404media.co/why-do-these-instagram-electricians-...
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Antibiotic tradeoffs are enormous. They can completely and permanently ruin your microbiome. Giving them to children has been linked to many conditions such as obesity, allergies, and asthma [0]. They have saved countless lives from infecti
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Rather than doubling all income one option would be to make the existing income more evenly spread out. For instance McDonalds' CEO makes ~$20 million a year[0] and they paid out $6.6/share with 726M shares[1] to parasite sharehol
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I wonder if this phenomenon happens in other industries as well. I can't imagine a road crew getting away with spending an extra year to build a road because they decided to use completely nonstandard equipment that doesn't work w
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Don't forget that people who aren't involved at all lose as well because the delivery drivers park in the middle of the street with their blinkers on and block traffic/bike lanes. As with most things the solution is to have b
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Profit is inherently waste. It is value that is taken out of an enterprise and doesn't contribute to improving the product of the enterprise. If there is surplus value it should stay in the enterprise and be used to improve the enter
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I guess that means I’m pivoting to not subscribing to the Washington Post. Hopefully the journalists can start their own outlets like 404 media which I’ll happily pay for.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Whether this succeeds or not it's nice when people put their time into societally beneficial enterprises rather than ad companies. The greatest minds of our generation (if such things exist) have probably been wasted on serving ads and
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by dopylitty 2y ago
If you ever give this talk in the US you can mention the fact that apparently US farmers are unable to farm without GPS[0] Surely it's no problem that their food supply depends entirely on a finicky and easily jammed system of satellit
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by dopylitty 2y ago
This seems a bit like nuance trolling[0] to me. The upshot of articles like this is essentially "so we should stick with the status quo" whether it says that outright or not. 0: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/e
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Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genome(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by dopylitty 2y ago|0 comments
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I noticed if I stare into the forest without focusing on any particular thing my vision starts to shimmer a bit and sometimes there are distinctive little perturbations in my peripheral vision. My mind wants to immediately look directly at
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by dopylitty 2y ago
I tend to agree but there’s a sort of induced demand effect with this kind of thing. Instead of producing the same amount but more efficiently it’s used as an excuse to produce and consume even more. The same happens with cloud computing. N
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Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season(404media.co)
124 points by dopylitty 2y ago|81 comments
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Seriously. I don't want an incredibly powerful chatbot or whatever. Those are just wastes of electricity and water and result in nature being paved over by data centers.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
This reminds me of Google’s claim that another “AI” discovered millions of new materials. The results turned out to be a lot of useless noise but that was only apparent after actual expert spent hundreds of hours reviewed the results[0] 0:
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by dopylitty 2y ago
That's not unique to Microsoft. It's a problem of the economic system. The only thing that's valued is how much money can be extracted by executives and shareholders. Good security, quality products, and employee well being d
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by dopylitty 2y ago
For similar reasons to those mentioned in the article it's possible the past century will be seen as a dark age by future humans. Computers are incredibly fragile and depend on complex systems (eg the electricity grid) to even operate.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Antibiotics can be really awful for your body. So many very important things are done for us by our bacterial microbiome but some doctors give out these dangerous medications like candy even for viral infections with no indication of second
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by dopylitty 2y ago
"Another crash occurred in March 2023 in North Carolina and involved a 2022 Model Y. The vehicle was traveling at highway speed when it struck a minor pedestrian exiting a school bus. The pedestrian was evacuated by air to a hospital f
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Articles Claim Hunters Died After Consuming Infected Deer: What Happened(outdoorlife.com)
2 points by dopylitty 2y ago|0 comments
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by dopylitty 2y ago
The point is a good one though. We can't expect companies to be ethical or moral or good in our current system because our current system values profits for shareholders/"owners" and high executive salaries above all e
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by dopylitty 2y ago
Right! The problem is before the heat gets to the room it sits in the milk for a while and raises it to temperatures where bacteria like to be.
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by dopylitty 2y ago
That's a great way to keep the raccoons out! If I make a big pot of soup in the winter I will cool it down outside before putting it in the fridge. That way it gets down below the zone where bacteria grow much faster than if it were in

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