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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> The problem is that for the vast majority of people to be psychologically healthy they must have a job. This isn't a societal decision, it's a reality about how humans are. The "job" can be things like volunteering,
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> Data warehousing with cold/hot storage along with basic statistical analysis You missed the point. The cost of physically entering the places that the government wants to surveil is much much higher than the cost to Warehouse the
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Please re-read my statement about being a control freak. This is the lawsuit against the Diamond Rio all over again.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> To ensure a consistent reading experience, the feature is always on, and there is no option for authors or publishers to opt titles out. > It also sounds as though authors and publishers were, for the most part, not notified of this
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
The big shift is that law enforcement now has to do their job, instead of trying to make tech companies do their job. Even more important: The cost of surveillance this way is very high. It's not practical to perform massive surveillan
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
The article explains this.
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> Honestly, how can you ride a motorcycle that sounds like a kitchen blender? All the more reason to aggressively ban gas motorcycles. FWIW: Harley designed a "loud" drivetrain for electric motorcycles so they can have a distin
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I assume that git (not Github) verifies that, if you checkout a hash, the contents of the commit match the hash. Anyway, software is so complicated that at some level, you need to trust something because it's impossible to personally
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> Has anyone built a “deep fork” tool that lets you make a private fork of all dependencies, then modifies their transitive dependencies to point to private forks, and so on? Ideally in a way where updates can be pulled in manually? Seem
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> Well, we were trying to start the vacation but had to wait until leaving uptight red state I live in Massachusetts, the bluest of blue states, and we still have special laws about Alcohol on Sunday. According to Gemini, Logan airport c
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Don't want people stumbling into church drunk! (That being said, even though I think it's a silly rule, it just seems to exist to annoy alcoholics who can't plan ahead. I'm not an alcoholic, and I rarely consume alcohol
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
There's a lot of old laws that special case alcohol in the US; mostly artifacts of prohibition and temperance movements.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
That's just the money cycle. Ray Dalio explains it in his new book, "How Countries Go Broke, Principles for Navigating the Big Debt Cycle, Where We Are Headed, and What We Should Do" ( https://www.principles.com&#x2
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
IMO: We should be using AI for the common good, IE, lower the cost of living, increase our living standards, improve health, improve access to food and shelter, ect. I still have yet to see any LLM that appears to do that. They all seem t
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I've started to suspect that election season is the time to do anything "newsworthy" that you don't want in the news, because the election drowns out everything else.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Videos about Jesus aimed towards children. She never showed them to me. I'm assuming they're either Bible stories, "Jesus loves you and died for your sins" kind of things, or otherwise typical American evangelizing towar
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I had a friend in high school who was able to take untimed tests. I later heard a teacher griping, because they didn't think my friend needed them. (I agree.) My friend had a very good life, until he took a job that really clashed with
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> when the latest issue of the DSM, the manual psychiatrists use to diagnose patients, was released in 2013, it significantly lowered the bar for an ADHD diagnosis. I've suspected for many years that ADHD is like Medical Marijuana.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
You either don't have kids, or your children are adults. It's impractical in today's world to raise children without access to devices like tablets and smart phones. That's like having a sugar-free, no TV, hand-sewn, ect
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
I can hear when my Dell laptop uses the flash drive heavily. It sounds kind of like a hard drive, so I actually had to verify that I have a flash chip. Apparently it's a known issue; I've assumed that something in it vibrates due
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
It's more about picking battles. I noticed a glaring problem and pushed to refactor a product to fix it, and kept pushing, and kept pushing. In this case, there was a critical need to fix the product, and I was rewarded for it. It lead
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Impressive. A few weeks ago I asked Claude how to use FreeCad, and I got stuck and Claude couldn't help me get out. When I told Phind I'm a complete novice, it came up with very detailed instructions and troubleshooting tips.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Not every organization prioritizes being able to ship a code change at the drop of a hat. This often requires organizational dedication to heavy automated testing a CI, which small companies often aren't set up to do.
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> So what does the US value? Every time we (the US) try to fix / change anything, a bunch of wonks with irrational arguments whine and complain until they get their way. The initiative fails, and we don't fix / change anyt
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> How do they even pay their executives' salaries? I suspect less goes to executives than you think. Most of it is going to pay employees in the insurance industry. The irony is that they are being paid to say "no." Perhap
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Some movies were shot in 4:3 (ish) and cropped in the theater. Titanic is an example. (For the pedantic, yes there is a name for this technique, and yes the ratios aren't exactly 4:3.)
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> as the electorate has already shown they don't care enough to vote their representatives out for doing it The problem arises from how we run elections. It's very hard to dislodge an incumbent when the small group of people vo
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
> This is the entire point of copyright. That was never the point. Copyright was invented with the printing press. What was happening was that authors couldn't get compensated, because everyone with a printing press was re-printing
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
Let me oversimplify Current system: exclusive control for a period of time, then public domain. My proposal: exclusive control for a period of time, then compulsory licensing (for fair use), then public domain. Makes sense? The point of com
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by gwbas1c 11mo ago
You're getting far too defensive, and are missing the point that I'm making about fair use. Then perhaps let me explain what I mean by fair use: For example, I'd like to write an ebook reader that can give me an AI summary of

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