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901.
by efitz 3y ago
It will tell you that it can.
902.
by efitz 3y ago
I was forced to read The Stranger in high school. Hated it. It seemed pointless and bleak. Complaining about the sun and the heat after unintentionally killing someone? Psychopathic. If that is what Camus intended, mission accomplished.
903.
by efitz 3y ago
No signatories from Amazon or Meta. Also: they focus on extinction events (how are you gonna predict that?) but remain silent on all the ways that AI already sucks by connecting it to systems that can cause human suffering, e.g. sentencing[
904.
by efitz 3y ago
There are several challenges with this: first, courts have adopted the concept of “sovereign immunity” that shields government personnel in most situations. Next, prosecutors usually have a very close relationship with law enforcement and
905.
by efitz 3y ago
I did a Google search for “list of us federal law enforcement organizations “ and this was the first result: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_t...
906.
by efitz 3y ago
I hate the “web was invented at CERN” trope. Yes, it’s trivially true, but TBL was standing on the shoulders of giants. When HTTP came along, we already had gopher. We already had HyperCard. SGML was already a thing. We already had FTP
907.
by efitz 3y ago
Why should I, as a taxpayer, want to my government to subsidize this research? I haven’t seen anything useful come out of high energy particle physics in decades. This is an honest question, not a troll. I see lots of spin-off technologie
908.
by efitz 3y ago
No, but I do.
909.
by efitz 3y ago
The US has wantonly applied “sanctions” all over the place, which in lay terms means “we take your money electronically and/or prevent you from moving money”. This has been applied both against governments and individuals, even indivi
910.
by efitz 3y ago
It has been happening for years. You go to 7-11 or Target and buy a “<app name> points card”, it gets activated at the register when you pay with cash, and then you use the code on the back to get Minecraft coins or Xbox points or Fo
911.
by efitz 3y ago
Slightly OT but related: one of the problems with identifiers that I have come to accept is that the things underlying the identifiers change over time. Things come and go, businesses launch and fail or are acquired/absorbed into othe
912.
by efitz 3y ago
A few years ago I read a great sci-fi book, "Children of Ruin", by Adrian Tchaikovsky[1]. The book features, among other things, an octopus civilization. It's the second book in the series; the first features a spider civiliz
913.
by efitz 3y ago
A recurring anti-pattern I have seen over and over is the app that is built and runs on a developer desktop, then becomes business critical and needs to scale and evolve, and eventually fails catastrophically. Maybe the SQL database design
914.
by efitz 3y ago
> Literally everything you said is the opposite of how I've seen people use "cloud" in the real world. I’ve been working in SaaS since 2008 and in cloud providers since 2012. And the use case I see over and over is people
915.
by efitz 3y ago
Downvoted? Really?
916.
by efitz 3y ago
With all due respect this is a trivial and misleading point of view. Of course if you have the staff you could do all the things they do in the cloud, on-premises. If you had the staff. And the skills. And the money. And you wanted to
917.
by efitz 3y ago
Engage the caterpillar dive, Vasily!
918.
by efitz 3y ago
People who implement modal windows are antisocial. And, there is a special place in hell for people who implement system modal windows.
919.
by efitz 3y ago
I have 921 items in 1Password; most of them are logins.
920.
by efitz 3y ago
> The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being created on the index in the past week has outpaced our ability to respond to it in a timely fashion, especially with multiple PyPI administrators on leave. People suck and that
921.
by efitz 3y ago
I hate hypocrisy in others :-) I did not fail to notice this. But in failing to read every word of the article I was not causing any other human to have a bad experience.
922.
by efitz 3y ago
I didn’t read the whole article because it had too many words. Probably some editor was demanding a certain length by a certain deadline. I think that the last 100 years or so have seen the west frequently go too far in optimizing everythi
923.
by efitz 3y ago
I never thought I would find sheep shearing or weaving interesting but this is a really cool article (and contest). It’s really cool to see how people can perfect these somewhat anachronistic skills and even optimize them to accomplish a t
924.
by efitz 3y ago
The same article (in the abstract) says that the 1M number was the high end of the range of estimates and that a more reliable number is less than half that. Also, the population of Rome collapsed less than a century later.
925.
by efitz 3y ago
Violent crime in the US was steadily falling since the early 1990s but has risen since 2014, with a hiatus during lockdowns. [1] Violent crime is more prevalent in urban areas of the US than in rural areas [2]. [1] https://crsre
926.
by efitz 3y ago
Rich salary earners can move out due to tax burdens while property investors and landlords purchase the properties.
927.
by efitz 3y ago
I said nothing fear mongering; weird is in the eye of the beholder. Never before in human history have humans lived in densities that they live in modern cities, especially surrounded by strangers. I think that is weird. There are certain
928.
by efitz 3y ago
If people want to live in cities and want to have a car-free lifestyle, then more power to you. Cities are becoming increasingly unaffordable and increasingly violent. I think that we are past “peak metro” and that the absolute refusal of m
929.
by efitz 3y ago
Hahaha "The first step of Byzantine Fault Tolerance is tolerance" omg. That cracked me up. Reminded me of the Rockwell Encabulator: https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
930.
by efitz 3y ago
I have a B210 but the project indicated that it was only compatible with the X310 with two daughterboards.

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