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by freedude 3y ago
Blue Coat Systems warned about the .zip domain quite some time ago. https://www.cio.com/article/220242/the-webs-10-most-shady-ne...
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by freedude 3y ago
This a "Considered Harmful" essay about how "Considered Harmful" essay's are considered harmful.
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by freedude 3y ago
"Like fern leaves or any other plant branching system at the organ level, the cauliflower curd develops from the inside out through a process totally different from fractal drawing." Soooo, what the author is stating is they are a
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by freedude 3y ago
It doesn't. Once bitten twice shy...
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by freedude 3y ago
"Because of all the conspiracy theories" Why do you call them theories when they play out as described? Really it should be stated "Because of the government conspiracy to enact totalitarian rule..." It has been proven t
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by freedude 3y ago
I believe you are correct, but I would encourage you to not worry. Instead put it in God's hands to be your protector. There is only one solution to "hate speech" and that is not making it taboo and subjecting it to censure.
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by freedude 3y ago
I am not a fan of satire because it mocks the truth, but I am a fan of the truth that is insinuated by it. Zeller nailed it with his ChatTCM. "You may be skeptical about machine-written work at first, but once you see the software rear
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by freedude 3y ago
‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’ He is exactly correct and that is the warning of the ages.
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by freedude 3y ago
You missed wisdom (as does "AI"). Or the ability to adjust the algorithm based upon new information and the ability to reason.
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by freedude 3y ago
"The danger of this type of ML is not that it will take jobs (it definitely will, and already is), but why it will take jobs. It will take jobs not because the computer is replacing the thinking of one worker. It will take jobs because
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by freedude 3y ago
This isn't news. The link between schizophrenia and cannabis use was known in mental health world before it was ever made illegal. The legalization crowd wouldn't promote that. The news is the problem is increasing and a 3 in 10 c
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by freedude 4y ago
Ironically, if the OP had used straight 30w or 20-50w it would have run out of the car slower causing the car to take longer to catch fire because of less buildup of spilled oil.
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by freedude 4y ago
Another example of a lying machine killing someone. Recently posted in YC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35628485 https://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html
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by freedude 4y ago
Is Kent Beck a liar? ChatGPT is a liar. A proven liar. What happens when a machines lies to a person enough? Eventually that person dies. Sooo, unplug the lying machine. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/06/d
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by freedude 4y ago
My career in IT didn't exist at my place of business that far back. That said one of my coworkers is 53 and started in IT about 15 years ago.
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by freedude 4y ago
"Coming back to customers. Do you invest in extracting short term money from customers? Or do you invest in long term relations. In the case of ManyCam they could have sold me add-ons that feel like they are worth it. By honoring the l
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by freedude 4y ago
Horgan isn't exactly wrong. Accepting "established science" is always anti-science. How will you know Einstein was correct if you don't endeavor to test his hypothesis?
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by freedude 4y ago
"We're not shipping half baked hardware to end customers. That's what engineering development (alpha build, design validation build, production validation build, home pilot) is for." I can appreciate that. I am sure you
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by freedude 4y ago
Can the title be renamed to "software engineering blogs"? Perhaps this should be obvious but in the 30+ I checked they were just variations of software engineering.
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by freedude 4y ago
"But now, if she buys a home, she needs housing prices to keep going up to make her decision financially sound. And not just go up, but outpace inflation and — almost certainly — wage growth. Otherwise, she's cost herself hundreds
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by freedude 4y ago
Soooo, stop frequenting YC Hacker News? ;)
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by freedude 4y ago
Move to Arkansas. Buy a farm. Raise Chickens, Cows and pigs. Plant a BIG garden. Learn something new. Apply what you know to the the new thing that you learned. Have FUN!
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by freedude 4y ago
"There should be more trust." Nope. Trust is always earned, never given. Why? People, Corporations, NGO, Governments are all broken in some way and are basically as evil as you allow them to treat you.
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by freedude 4y ago
My motto is, All data gathered from my device is user identifiable until proven otherwise.
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by freedude 4y ago
Like most MS products it is a bloated pig of a software package designed in many ways to facilitate vendor lock-in but not necessarily provide the most satisfying customer experience. It's security is abysmal and I use two products to
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by freedude 4y ago
My expectation is that the judges you know are not Supreme Court Justices. Education comes in many forms. One of which is sitting in a class. I would propose that experience is a more powerful teacher. Another is the desire to learn. Posses
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by freedude 4y ago
Just don't promote, suggest, or downvote content. This is a distraction and non-issue... “The court might think it's doing one thing and it's actually doing something very different,” said Evelyn Douek, a law professor at Sta
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by freedude 4y ago
"the United States restrictive immigration policy prevents this." It is more than a restrictive immigration policy. Many other caregiver policies exist as well. I have an acquaintance that runs an adult foster care home with 5 roo
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by freedude 4y ago
I can appreciate that parenthood is a form of service because I have lived it. What I cannot appreciate is an ungrateful child. Society will continue to descend into morass because of unwillingness to care for others. However I didn't
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by freedude 4y ago
I wanted Thunderbird to be the answer to the question I have been asking for years. "How to replace Outlook in the corporate environment?" Every time I investigate it, Thunderbird is a resounding no. Why? This is not the vision of

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