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by istjohn 3y ago
Well, one of the loudest voices in American politics has called them criminals and rapists, so it's not exactly a non sequitur.
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by istjohn 3y ago
Maybe we need more conscientiousness around race, not less, given what is described in the article.
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by istjohn 3y ago
I agree, but typical GPT use is actually the opposite of the traditional Socratic mode in which the teacher uses questions to guide the student to understanding. But I wonder how it would do if it was prompted to use the Socratic method.
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by istjohn 3y ago
Bullets are typically made of lead, so it's not ideal, but I'd rather swallow a bullet than have strangers wield a loaded gun in my direction.
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by istjohn 3y ago
> The statement refers to a popular anecdote in international business and marketing about a supposed blunder made by American automaker Chevrolet with the car model, "Nova." > According to the story, when Chevrolet tried to
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by istjohn 3y ago
It was posted recently.
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by istjohn 3y ago
To add on that, there are several competing theories of statutory interpretation in US legal thought. It's a very complex subject. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_interpretation#Sta...
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by istjohn 3y ago
Jefferson advocated for the gradual emancipation of all slaves in the United States. He very well knew slavery was an abomination. Nevertheless, he enjoyed its fruits.
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by istjohn 3y ago
LLMs will soon make file organization something we never have to think about.
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by istjohn 3y ago
It does store file hashes. It has a repair command that will use file hashes to find moved files. I don't know how well it works.
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by istjohn 3y ago
It's a little harder to change the beginning bits than the end bits, but adjacency doesn't matter.
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by istjohn 3y ago
Not to mention the way it shapes culture, inculcating children with the materialist creed of insatiable consumers before they even know what advertising is.
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by istjohn 3y ago
That's naive. We all feel like we're the master of our story, but our history books show us that people are products of their time--their physical, social, and cultural environment. With determined effort, one person can fight the
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by istjohn 3y ago
I now see that eyeballing the first and/or last few characters of a checksum is not going to detect a skillfully altered executable or ISO.
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by istjohn 3y ago
The passage "Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish an
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by istjohn 3y ago
DEAR JOHN I WANT A MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT LOVE IS ALL ABOUT YOU ARE GENEROUS KIND THOUGHTFUL PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LIKE YOU ADMIT TO BEING USELESS AND INFERIOR YOU HAVE RUINED ME FOR OTHER MEN I YEARN FOR YOU I HAVE NO FEELINGS WHATSOEVER WHEN WER
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by istjohn 3y ago
I'd like to think we won't have any use for natural gas in the not-too-distant future.
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by istjohn 3y ago
Like I said, I just want a wrapper to make this stuff easier for me. It's just like not everyone wants all that comes with running Arch. Some people like having Ubuntu handle the nitty gritty of a Linux OS. What's wrong with that?
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by istjohn 3y ago
I like that. I was thinking Zoofus, easy enough for a doofus.
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by istjohn 3y ago
I think the key thing to note there is that you are on FreeBSD. The Linux integration isn't nearly as mature.
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by istjohn 3y ago
My problem is that that's a pain to type out. I've read that it's necessary (and other's have said it's not), but it'd be more convenient to just do `mirror /dev/sda /dev/sdb` than `mirror &
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by istjohn 3y ago
I'm not suggesting zfs itself change. I'd like a porcelain for people with very simple needs where zfs is almost overkill, for people who just want better data integrity and quicker backups on their main machine, for example. I th
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by istjohn 3y ago
I see the utility in recursive datasets and I wouldn't want them to go away, but if I were creating a zfs-for-dummies I wouldn't include the functionality. You'd have to drop down to the raw zpool/zfs commands to get tha
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by istjohn 3y ago
Fair point on the {pool}:{dataset} thing. I just don't like that the same {pool} name refers to both a pool of vdevs and the top-level dataset on that pool. It makes it that little bit harder to grok the distinction. Perhaps there&#x27
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by istjohn 3y ago
Do you use Restic or Borg with ZFS? How do you have that set up? Do you use them in lieu of zfs send/recv?
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by istjohn 3y ago
I looked into doing root on ZFS, but I ended up settling for /home on ZFS. Maybe I'll revisit it next time I build a new system when I'm more comfortable with ZFS.
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by istjohn 3y ago
No, not really. There's a lot of unavoidable complexity like needing to understand what ZFS pools, vdevs, and datasets are and how they relate to each other. And then if you want to encrypt your data that adds another bit of functional
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by istjohn 3y ago
Yes, there is a lot of essential complexity that is unavoidable, but there are a lot of people like me who just want a better desktop file system, and we don't need to know about SLOGs and L2ARCs and the half dozen compression algorith
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by istjohn 3y ago
I'm getting started with ZFS just now. The learning curve is steeper than I expected. I would love to have a dumbed down wrapper that made the common case dead-simple. For example: - Use sane defaults for pool creation. ashift=12, lz4
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by istjohn 3y ago
360 is much nicer than 400 though. 12 months of 30 days each versus 10 40-day months or 16 25-day months.

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