gremlinunderway

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by gremlinunderway 1y ago
What? The author isn't claiming they were abused or a victim of abuse. Abuse is only mentioned through one specific story, which was from a friend: > In one case, GPS was used to first construct an inaccurate and accusatory narrati
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by gremlinunderway 1y ago
Calling this an issue of resiliency is completely missing the point about autism. I recommend you do some more reading because it has nothing to do with resiliency. People on the spectrum can have incredible resiliency in certain activities
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by gremlinunderway 1y ago
I think you're overly inflating the word "interesting" here. It doesn't imply novelty, innovation or anything groundbreaking. It's just of interest, which isn't a high bar.
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by gremlinunderway 1y ago
Ok so Ive heard this rumour spread around a lot and I still have yet to hear anyone back this up with anything beyond just speculation and hearsay. It also doesn't make sense. This premise assumes two things for it to be true: 1. These
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by gremlinunderway 1y ago
Is there any third-party validation on these claims of E2EE? Everyone keeps asking for some sort of validation or testing to these claims and everyone is just ignoring them. Without some kind of third-party testing none of this matters, any
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by gremlinunderway 1y ago
This is like the equivalent of "my girlfriend goes to another school, you wouldn't know her". Okay, so there's in-house systems as good as this. Big whoop if no one can actually see or use them.
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by gremlinunderway 1y ago
Nothing to do with software is real engineering in any case. Engineering outside the software world actually refers to real codified standards (not just "standards" based on vibes or popularity or generic best practices) that are
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
I wouldn't put so much stock in these kinds of historic anecdotes about "self-made" or rags-to-riches people. Most of them are rose tinted recollections given by the person themselves in an interview with a journalist writing
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Hate to burst your bubble, but even the super tight-laced "serious" journalism, especially in tech, all works the same way too. Going super hardcore on "professionalism" makes it easier to sell objectivity whereas in the
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
I play a video game that I'm sure someone has speedrun way faster than me, and got way more points and did it with way more efficiently than me. I still play video games. Making a Tailscale replacement doesnt sound fun for me, but for
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Self-reporting on these reasons from the business itself is basically useless. No one's fact checking their claims nor do they provide evidence when making these kinds of social-narrative driven claims like "taxes are too high!&qu
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
I don't think there was anything "accusatory", it's a legitimate question.
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
>I'm not sure how much value making something "not fugly" really matters. Eh its still good advice. Far too often decent UX/UI criticism is waved aside as "who cares about making it pretty" and aesthetics an
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Absolutely, I wish we would get rid of this cult-like devotion to the private sector and its amazing profitability and efficiencies. Government shouldn't be based on profitability, it should be based on services and outcomes. Adding al
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
> The wisdom of local communities can be seen in angry letters to the council about how bike lanes are satanic This is such a stupid dismissal and a provides a great example of what the article is trying to point out. This paternalistic
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Yeah and I think he responded saying its not similar.
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
not op but probably because some people are so used to using spreadsheets that even if you built them a database with custom visualizations, they'd ask for spreadsheet export.
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
This is such nonsense because you're claiming that these companies are actively imposing these activities in support of "left-leaning values" when there is absolutely nothing genuine with their support for those initiatives.
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Forget the layout and such, at the very least academia needs to completely get rid of PDF as a format. Completely unreadable on different format screens and makes accessibility impossible and therefore narrowing the field of possible reader
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
> For example, Google’s Gemini had secret meta prompts that biased it towards certain types of answers and also caused it to produce hallucinated images that were funny but also dystopian ( https://arstechnica.com/informat
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Really cool to see other attempts at historically understanding Warsaw Pact and fUSSR tech industries. Every other treatment I've ever seen for describing the Soviet computing and internet development has always just been a lazy "
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Not open source like OP's
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Consultants are hired because hiring consultants is the first advice that consultants generate. Its a recursive loop of scamming government money on undeliverable projects. This whole boogeyman over "unfireable" government employe
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by gremlinunderway 2y ago
Yeah but saying "you ought to go outside / relax / rest / spend time with family" and then saying "not everyone can because shit sucks" is missing the point. Shit does suck, for a lot of people, in a lot o
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
this is pretty pedantic alright. For better or worse and as much as lots of people wanted to push back against it, you're just going to have to accept that "toxin" has become a general term now no longer tied to just naturall
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Echoing same thoughts here too and was even going to lay some kudos for any tool looking to provide some improvements to the more mundane day to day aspects that we still have to deal with because of a lack of much innovation. Meetings, ema
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Are there FOSS licenses which can mandate some kind of "non-commercial" open source use or ethical-use clauses of some type? Seem to recall this being something that some folks were either trying to make happen after the Palantir
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Sorry, this is sketchy. If you're not clear about your revenue generation and finances, how do I know your project isn't just about harvesting as much user data as possible? Open-source projects obviously need to pay the bills, bu
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
There are a lot of business roles where the "manager" is in fact the main "worker" (as in, they have to be involved in EVERYTHING. CC'd on every email. Approval for anything, etc) and they're just given varying
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by gremlinunderway 3y ago
Won't someone please think of Nintendo? Poor, poor Nintendo?!

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