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by gustavus 3y ago
> I question if my tolerance is moral often. To be highly moral you probably need to have good intolerances which I'm not capable of. I don't know about that, there's this one Jewish guy who is taken to be largely morally
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by gustavus 3y ago
I've got to ask then, what is the end tolerance is towards?
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That's not quite right, there are several things Marx offerred that could be tested. Such as, the most capitalist countries would be the first to fall to communism. Except they didn't the only countries that have ever fallen to co
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by gustavus 3y ago
The wikipedia on this provides some context > The National Helium Reserve, also known as the Federal Helium Reserve, is a strategic reserve of the United States, which once held over 1 billion cubic meters (about 170,000,000 kg)[a] of he
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by gustavus 3y ago
Ya but I'm not talking about Skynet at this point, maybe when the AI gets more capable we'll get there, but I don't imagine that ChatGPT is going to be replacing most of the engineers on my team right now.
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by gustavus 3y ago
This has been my big question with all of these Generative AI stuff that will - write emails - go to meetings - any other type of activity that involves sharing information. Humanity didn't develop emails, or have meetings, or communic
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by gustavus 3y ago
So for those who don't know, Microfocus is a retirement home for technologies that need to be taken out behind the barn and shot but can't be because there are like 3 major customers out there that have a Microfocus product as a c
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by gustavus 3y ago
It's interesting because I saw an article just yesterday where someone was taking corporations to task for misleading or fudged information on packaging. Yet it seems many people are opposed to this. Curious
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by gustavus 3y ago
Ya I used to buy into that idea about using vendor products with the rationale that "at very least they wouldn't want to get sued for negligence so they have to have some basic security in place" then that huge bug came out w
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by gustavus 3y ago
> a thousand page fan fiction set in the Harry Potter world where the Death Eaters won, Harry Potter is dead, and Draco Malfoy has been assigned to Hermione for “breeding purposes”. The premise sounds like trash, but she was describing t
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by gustavus 3y ago
> Increasing rates will raise rents in the professional demographic cohorts of folks who buy houses. Well with the way houses have inflated in my neck of the woods very few people even financially savvy DINKs are going to have trouble bu
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by gustavus 3y ago
> Do online platforms facilitate the consumption of potentially harmful content? Using paired behavioral and survey data provided by participants recruited from a representative sample in 2020 (n = 1181) I question the value of any socio
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by gustavus 3y ago
And a bigger problem for me is the high cost of losing my job when some code cowboy leaks a bunch of people's data and passwords because "md5" was already in the standard library and easy to use. Or someone replaced all the p
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Home Office considers plans to put electronic tags on asylum seekers(independent.co.uk)
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by gustavus 3y ago
So my wife is a type 1er. The way glucagon fits into her life is that we have an emergency glucagon shot that she carries in her purse to use in the case of an emergency. The glucagon is more of an immediate emergency recovery. On the flip
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by gustavus 3y ago
"how expensive aid to Ukraine is, so it's a good opportunity for this CEPA report that notes that for just 5% of the US military budget, we've disabled 50% of Russia's military power." - Bret Devereaux of acoup.blog
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by gustavus 3y ago
So my wife is a type 1ner. She recently got a pump that also reads her transmitter and it will change the amount of insulin being delivered based on what the transmitter is saying. It isn't perfect she can overwhelm it if she eats a to
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by gustavus 3y ago
My understanding, which could be wrong, is that in a lot of cases severance is offered on condition you won't fight the termination or take legal action. So it is in part a CYA from the companies side.
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by gustavus 3y ago
> best software technicians. This here is the fundamental issue right here. There is a difference between technicians and engineers. There's a heavy emphasis on technicians, not as much on engineers. The big way to spot the differen
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by gustavus 3y ago
"Okay," I say. "Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit
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by gustavus 3y ago
Hello readers! Generative AI burst onto the scene like a summer blockbuster, promising transformative experiences. The tech-savvy among us were both awed and slightly terrified at the notion of AI creating human-like content. But has it liv
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by gustavus 3y ago
Already being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37249002
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by gustavus 3y ago
So after years of being an engineer there is a part of me that is entranced by the idea of being a quick talking, sharp suited business consultant. Anyone whose been one of those "management consultants" have any advice for moving
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by gustavus 3y ago
There's an episode of Sienfeld about this. George realizes that he always makes the wrong decision so he decides to do the opposite of whatever he would normally do, and it ends up working out for him pretty well.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Yes but it might make their claims ring more hollow. The purpose isn't to convince the diehard zealots, it's to convince the people that might be on the fence and could see it go either way. Maybe Joe down the street isn't ve
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by gustavus 3y ago
"The average employee has enough resources to do one of two things. 1. Be productive 2. Lie about how much is being accomplished. All smart employees will direct all effort away from number 1 and towards number 2." - Scott Adams,
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by gustavus 3y ago
Regardless of whether or not Xi wants to reunify China there is still risk. A talk I watched a while ago basically pointed out that China is making a turn towards authoritarianism right now as several major challenges are piling up, i.e. th
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by gustavus 3y ago
I love agile I think the fundamental underlying principle is sound. Iterate quickly, be flexible, focus on doing a thing and change when it isn't working. The problem is not and never had been agile. It is the "agile" industr
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by gustavus 3y ago
From the article > In the power companies’ joint submission to the California Public Utilities Commission, they suggest these fixed fees for each customer’s income range. > Households with incomes earning less than $28,000 a year woul
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by gustavus 3y ago
Here's the meat of the article. > Senate Bill 680 would allow the government to prosecute platforms for promoting harmful content about eating disorders, self-harm, illegal firearms and drugs like fentanyl. Lawmakers are trying to c

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