insanejudge

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by insanejudge 2y ago
Gaining access to vast quantities of raw information while as the same time losing the addition of analysis by experts, verification of sources and empirical facts, and the context those can provide (rather than complementing them) is in mo
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by insanejudge 3y ago
You'd imagine if it was very predictable, that long term population projections wouldn't radically swing by billions and decades of trajectory every few years like they do. As far as I can tell, this narrative has been pushed by p
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by insanejudge 3y ago
fully agree on the failure of the rollout. There's also going to be issues with rolling anything out involving medical treatment into our gutted public health system and fragmented private system, so it has to be done through a lengthy
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by insanejudge 3y ago
kind of the same deal with spooky SQL queries and verifying your where clause with a select first
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by insanejudge 3y ago
I've operated by and described the concept of Chesterton's Fence countless times, so that's a great name to learn. It's such a regular thing working with new grads, etc. that they see some "old legacy crap" and
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by insanejudge 3y ago
If only there was some sort of organization, beholden to the people by democratic election, which was obligated to protect and provide what does not particularly align well with a profit-driven model (military, roads and public transportati
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by insanejudge 3y ago
Yeah a lot of these government programs do bear the hallmarks of 40 years of management dependent on people sworn to defund, dismantle and obstruct any efforts to improve or reform them, who promised their constituency they were dysfunction
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by insanejudge 3y ago
Germany like many other Europeans would absolutely be considered a socialist country by most US standards (holding no distinction between socialism and social democracy). This is a big part of the confusion, intentional as far as I can tell
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by insanejudge 3y ago
The winning formula that seems to work without fail for personal productivity is crystal meth (not overdose or paranoia/psychosis or permanent heart and brain damage of course). It's popular these days to dismiss negative conseque
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by insanejudge 3y ago
re: societal trust Really feels like we need a massive exercise wherein folks have to repeat back what they heard someone say before responding to it, something they have people do in couples therapy. In the last few years everyone's f
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by insanejudge 3y ago
That's a clever abuse of data but, though this may come as a surprise to you, very few people actually die by means so traumatic (crushing, incineration, explosion) that it's impossible to determine which organ or necessary biolog
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by insanejudge 3y ago
The data in SF is pretty clear ( https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/data-dashboards/ , "District Attorney Actions on Arrests Presented" for example), and as the trend appears to be everywhere else,
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by insanejudge 4y ago
Weird, I've only encountered the exact opposite.
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by insanejudge 4y ago
Seems like for a 'longtermist' something like climate change is such an insignificant blip (and one that will 'inevitably be solved by technology once it becomes a problem ') that it doesn't even bear thinking. I th
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by insanejudge 4y ago
I mean, they say they're a libertarian (and other libertarians are fake libertarians, which is possibly the most libertarian thing to say) and expressed agreement with the culture war issues like the "death of men" so the com
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by insanejudge 5y ago
what a wild single standard
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by insanejudge 5y ago
> Subsuming the individual to the social unit is at the heart of the worst excesses of racism, nationalism, etc. If you look for the worst mass crimes in history, you will find this idea at the core. Do you have anything other than the
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by insanejudge 5y ago
size, vm-itude, etc. aside, i've seen (albeit very high end) laser printers that can render text on paper faster than this scrolls. yikes.
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by insanejudge 8y ago
your description of "grafting in" consul and vault _is_ exactly what it feels like to do that with kubernetes, and it happens rather often. Using industry standard components like consul and vault is not really a second thought fo
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by insanejudge 8y ago
The thing the 'there's a ready to go helm chart' folks always seem to skim over is that outside of an absolute startup position where you can curlbash to hello world heaven, you will have integration to do, often huge amounts
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by insanejudge 9y ago
Interesting (well, interesting to me) note on the nfs case, on modern linux, `umount -l` should be able to unmount pretty much anything. You'll often still be left with a pile of processes stuck in uninterruptible sleep depending on th
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by insanejudge 9y ago
weird to see someone unironically bragging about inventing the humblebrag.
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by insanejudge 10y ago
There's a huge difference between a "no shaming" culture and a "don't be ashamed" culture. It's critical for people to be able to be open and transparent about their mistakes and the process leading to the