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by efitz 2y ago
You sound like an advocate for telemarketers. Am I correct? I doubt very seriously that the pool of people who have knowingly and intentionally and explicitly opted in/consented to telemarketing - that is, without any dark patte
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by efitz 2y ago
I don’t want to frame it positively. In my experience, people who hoard knowledge and/or relationships (as with other teams or customers) are toxic. I hate all sorts of gatekeeping behavior but I especially despise having to wheedle i
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by efitz 2y ago
Only ‘Fants
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by efitz 2y ago
Yes, that is the point. Juries are our justice system’s protection against abuse. If the crime was bad enough for police to sweat someone for 12 hours, then having a jury watch for 12 hours seems a reasonable check and balance - after all
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by efitz 2y ago
For a confession to be accepted in a court, I think that the entire interrogation should have to be filmed and viewed by a grand jury. Separately I think that it is ridiculous that LE is allowed to lie to you but that it is a crime to lie t
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by efitz 2y ago
Maybe it was an STI and they are embarrassed.
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by efitz 2y ago
No, but why the hell should someone else’s misbehavior cost me time and inconvenience? The cost of these regulations is millions, perhaps billions of dollars in extra effort, bookkeeping and security by tens of thousands of businesses, not
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by efitz 2y ago
And if they require a drivers license but their system is based on an electronic reader and that reader is broken, then you are out of luck. No sudafed for you.
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by efitz 2y ago
Also former AWS :-D
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by efitz 2y ago
> And frequently these antiquated practices are carried to the cloud, negating any benefit. I should have brought that up too. Airlifting your stuff to the cloud and expecting cloud to run like your data center is a way to set yourself
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by efitz 2y ago
> Multitenant instances on AWS statically partition the hardware (CPU, RAM, network), so tenants don't really share all that much. You are missing several points: First, density. Cloud providers have huge machines that can run lots
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by efitz 2y ago
There are certain workloads that have never been really economical to run in cloud. Cloud economics is based on multi-tenancy, eg if you have a lot of hardware that is sitting idle a lot of the time, then cloud may be economical for you as
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by efitz 2y ago
I will stop complaining about executives measuring my performance with objectives and metrics they define, if I can define my own metrics and objectives for them and measure executive performance, complete with PIPs, layoffs and forced attr
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by efitz 2y ago
Re: FPTP vs ranked choice/condorcet/instant runoff/etc In US elections, any alternative voting system would essentially require computers. With all the complexity, problems and mistrust that they bring. Also those alternati
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by efitz 2y ago
Or we could have more elections, with each focusing on a specific topic. The biggest advantages here are that you only have to vote in elections you care about and that the more we exercise a process the better we get at it. Of course the
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by efitz 2y ago
Computers anywhere in the vote casting process introduce new, additional failure modes. These modes may be intentional (hacking) or unintentional (misconfiguring the paper size of the ballots). They may be mundane (power failure, out of i
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by efitz 2y ago
I don’t get what the author means by “design”. Do they mean architecture or UX design or ??? I have a much simpler approach. Most engineers I have met (myself included) tend to design an architecture and data model, then overlay an API on
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by efitz 2y ago
Most people don’t need a public IPv4 address and can live with CGNAT. For the relatively small number of people who do need public addresses, renting them from a cloud provider or buying blocks at auction are still economically viable, in c
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by efitz 2y ago
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by efitz 2y ago
I’m don’t need to analyze any scientific paper to form an opinion on a matter of policy; what scientific paper should I read to decide whether to support an increase on property tax in my county to support schools? The idea that I have to
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by efitz 2y ago
These are interesting tests but my question is, why are we doing them? LLM models are not “intelligent” by any meaningful measurement- they are not sapient/sentient/conscious/self-aware. They have no “intent” other than what
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by efitz 2y ago
I don’t analyze the papers, I analyze the policies. Take the climate. Assuming the science is correct (storms worse, oceans rising, etc), let’s do a cost benefit analysis of the proposed policies. The proposed policies in the US all dramat
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by efitz 2y ago
The problem is, that as soon as a paper is published in a peer reviewed journal, it can be used to justify public policy positions. Then a large number of people will points to the study, or even worse, to press characterizations of what a
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by efitz 2y ago
Why was this downvoted? It’s exactly right. The reason that IPv6 is so lightly used is that it’s cheaper to use IPv4 + workarounds. I’m not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, or making any value judgment about IPv4 vs IPv6. People
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by efitz 2y ago
The big problem with modern health “insurance” (as opposed to catastrophic major medical insurance, which is true insurance), is that it prevents the formation of of health care businesses that cater to different socioeconomic strata. I m
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by efitz 2y ago
FTC rule is doomed to failure. I'm working with a state lawmaker in my state to try to get a law to this effect passed, but I'm asking him to write into the law an individual cause of action. In other words, I don't want peo
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by efitz 2y ago
I don't want to challenge my existing beliefs with new knowledge or points of view, unless it can be expressed in a sentence or two on the internet.
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by efitz 2y ago
Half the user guide is empty. I want to understand what communication channel(s) it has from guest to host. It's not clear from the cut-and-paste support described in the VNC section of the manual, how this works and what other functi
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by efitz 2y ago
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by efitz 2y ago
Yes, you are right.

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