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by floren 3y ago
Yeah I'm sympathetic but this feels like something you see over and over -- rather than adapt to reduced demand / value of your product by lowering prices, just throw your hands in the air and declare that you're stuck with t
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by floren 3y ago
God Emperor
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by floren 3y ago
I've always wanted to write to Vinge and pick his brain about Rainbows End, because of all his novels (that I've read, anyway) it seems like the one that you could just about extrapolate from current tech and society... but it&#x2
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by floren 3y ago
Searching the archives for "wage theft" turns up examples pretty trivially, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37703395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37751850 You're right that
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by floren 3y ago
It comes up in every crime discussion -- a poster runs in to point out that actually, wage theft is worse than someone beating and robbing your elderly grandmother.
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by floren 3y ago
Most of those bullets are "we are using a LLM with some basic LLM-interfacing techniques"
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by floren 3y ago
Whoa now, whoa now, that would be bad for collaboration. They've done interesting things with plants, walls, and sunlight. He has his own office, of course.
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by floren 3y ago
> However, the exodus from the state worsened, with a net of 407,000 residents leaving for other states between July 2021 and July 2022, according to the study. When you subtract the number coming in from the number leaving, you get a
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by floren 3y ago
But what will you do when you only have 2 good Thai restaurants to choose from in your immediate area, instead of 5??
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by floren 3y ago
For a state of ~40 million, that's 1% of the population. If they all moved to Wyoming, they'd almost double the state population.
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by floren 3y ago
That's how it is with all the articles on that site, which occasionally reach the front page. I'm sympathetic to a lot of the sentiments but the author pretty consistently fails to actually make any argument beyond "I am the
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by floren 3y ago
> Do the republicans look like a clown show? Sure. Is that a better overall outcome for the country than having a (barely, semi) functioning House? No (even if you're a democrat). This presupposes that the Democrats prefer "a b
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by floren 3y ago
So you're saying this is good for Bitcoin?
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by floren 3y ago
Soft to a boat, but not soft if you happen to be standing on deck and run into it. A modern straw bale is going to weigh about a hundred pounds. When this bylaw was written, straw was gathered and stored loose and they'd have been just
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by floren 3y ago
Boy, that's a level of "sysadmin read too many BOFH stories and also thinks being 5'11" & bearded is a superpower" bombast I thought died out years ago.
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by floren 3y ago
I bought two Pinephones early on -- the second because I figured my original one, a developer early-release device, must have been faulty -- and frankly they were paperweights the day they shipped. I tried several different OSes on them a
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by floren 3y ago
NAT is a strong argument against IPv4 -- it's an absolute pain in the ass for bidirectional communication. Yeah, NAT acts as a defacto firewall, but you can just... use a real firewall.
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by floren 3y ago
Same but every XKCD
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by floren 3y ago
I've made bochet. It's very different and quite tasty, and also a big hassle because you have to cook the honey for so long. The boiling honey smells amazing, though.
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by floren 3y ago
Preach! I complained about this a while back, noting that even when we had a 512x342 screen on the original Mac, there were chunky usable scrollbars... but now with 4k screens, we can't spare the pixels! http://jfloren.net&#
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by floren 3y ago
Still fighting science with wood, buddy.
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Comp.lang.go Usenet Group Created(big-8.org)
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by floren 3y ago
Lots of gun owners think the rules around suppressors are silly, because the reduction in noise is a huge quality of life improvement for everyone around you -- and a glance at the police blotter in any major city should show that gun crime
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by floren 3y ago
I was thinking the other day about embedding keys in cameras, etc. but came up with the problem that you could just wire up a computer that BEHAVES like a CCD sensor and send whatever the hell you feel like in to the signing hardware, so yo
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by floren 3y ago
I have definitely read "blogs" written by stitching together LLM outputs. For years people were advised that a technical blog "looks good on a resume" so we saw lots of lightly rewritten Stackoverflow content. Now it&#x2
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by floren 3y ago
You can't downvote a story. You can flag stories, but I don't like to flag things. I don't want to flag this story -- I just think it's yet another entry in a million shallow, vague, pointless "hustle" lifestyl
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by floren 3y ago
> An example of this succeeding is my friend Nicole, who started making watercolor paintings about climate change for fun and sharing on social media. Her work went viral, and after four months, she decided to quit her job and go all in
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by floren 3y ago
But will it generate stickers of Muhammad? I'm not trying to be a smartass here, I'm just plain curious but I deleted my Facebook account years back. Seems like something a lot of services will put safeguards against, but who know
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by floren 3y ago
Well, you're an Eagle Scout in everything but name, and honestly that might be better -- you get the personal satisfaction, but you don't do the thing all of us find extremely tedious about Eagle Scouts, which is constantly mentio
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by floren 3y ago
There is an extremely vocal segment of cylists who argue that actually, a helmet never saved anyone and if there were no cars at all, no cyclist would ever die.

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