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by esseph 20d ago
> HN is not a forum for the global IT workforce. What things are intended to be and what they become are often vastly different things. There's huge amount of cross-pollination on HN, even from non-IT industry participants.
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by esseph 20d ago
Layers of an onion and all that. Often connectors are even proprietary. (This is partially to protect systems not from the enemy, but from the troops themselves...)
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by esseph 20d ago
> I have to assume that so many people require access to the specs that an interested party can surely acquire them. Those documents are often secret or top secret, or even more compartmentalized. There are training docs in wide use toda
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by esseph 20d ago
Every mil company designs unique bespoke things often with some exceptions, and even the "open systems" mostly aren't open by any stretch of the definition. Obscurity is part of the allure, not a repulsive factor. You don&#x2
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by esseph 20d ago
> True. However, if your child ends up developing a dependance on alcohol, do you seriously place the responsibility for that on the dealers who sold them the booze? Yes, absolutely. To not go after adults giving children booze would be
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by esseph 20d ago
> Probably a quarter of the people who frequent this site work at Meta or Google. No, lol That would make up between 0.3% and 0.5% of the global tech workforce, if you added all of their employees together.
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by esseph 20d ago
> Even in the western world most anti-ai sentiment ends on social media No. There's a lot of local regulations being enacted to prevent datacenter builds.
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by esseph 20d ago
> They participated in uploading the files as part of the downloading the torrent from other peers. Not necessarily. You can literally turn uploads off and leech torrents.
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by esseph 20d ago
... At the top? You're expected to read all of it! :)
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by esseph 20d ago
We don't sell alcohol or weed or controlled substances to children. That's how we do it today. They get their license pulled if they do.
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by esseph 21d ago
I haven't seen one since 2001. They don't have any of the paraphernalia around here in head shops either.
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by esseph 21d ago
Edit: study above says I am wrong in that it hasn't been a 1:1 exchange of alcohol for thc
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by esseph 21d ago
It's a long time trend around alcohol damage communication. https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-al...
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by esseph 21d ago
> Drinking is down for young adults and teens. My pet theory is that Covid broke the chain of party and drinking culture being passed down. Weed took its place.
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by esseph 21d ago
Go after the drug dealers ffs Are you a friend of Larry Ellison by chance? His ideas don't stop at kids.
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by esseph 21d ago
This also describes sharepoint
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by esseph 23d ago
> Dude probably sleeps on a bed worth more than your networth. I never understand shit like this coming out of people's mouths. Never. It's not a judge of actual Worth as a human being, it's not a judge of capability or
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by esseph 23d ago
Place yourself at the head of one of like 3 companies the entire rest of the world has been taking about nonstop for 4+ years now. You can move forward or you stop. If you move forward you get to have a hand in how stuff turns out and you m
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by esseph 23d ago
> Surely, we managed to negotiate a Non-Proliferation Treaty with most of the countries of the globe. N/S Korea, Russia/Ukraine and finally US/Iran changed everything in regards to stances on nuclear weapon ownership for m
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by esseph 23d ago
> but that my reason for commenting here is that public comment processes are a nightmare for democratic policymaking. The public comment process has stopped a lot, a LOT, of shitty things from happening at the federal and state governme
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by esseph 23d ago
No, I don't actually. It's part of their lock-in and market capture like any other large digital business. The only ones that don't do it, can't.
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by esseph 23d ago
> The cheapest vps can handle HN load serving static pages. Until it runs out of ram just from the tcp connections. 400-600 RPS should suffice given a default Debian install running Apache with a TLS cert, given 300MB of base OS and 1.7G
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by esseph 24d ago
It's a lot of the same people that refuse free CDNs.
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by esseph 24d ago
It is apparently a big deal. https://openai.com/index/building-an-early-warning-system-fo... https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2977-1.html --- "Prompting Moremi Bio Agent wit
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by esseph 24d ago
Well it IS being used to make vaccines... https://theconversation.com/worlds-first-ai-designed-vaccine...
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by esseph 24d ago
> If LLMs have a lasting effect on society, I'd prefer to see some options that don't have generic corpo-speak anti-liability status quo guards encoded into them by default. Non-zero chance the lasting impact LLMs have are a bi
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by esseph 25d ago
> So you would prefer a media circus and investor scrutiny when your employer's executives are fired for failures or misconduct? Yes, as a warning to the other executives. Signed, The Shareholders
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by esseph 26d ago
Larry Ellison must love them, they are helping carry out his idea.
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by esseph 27d ago
ahahahahah
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by esseph 27d ago
Me? I can read the 2 pages in ~30s or so. How long is the video? 15m? Nah. Edit: video is 37 minutes

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