jancsika

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by jancsika 3mo ago
> This is going to be tough to enact, anywhere in the USA, even New York. You followed the link to the poll in the article, right? I haven't seen poll numbers that high on any poll in my lifetime. It shows people of all political af
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by jancsika 3mo ago
The author is confusing literalism with superficiality, and I don't understand why. For example, Hans Haacke had a piece which was literally documenting the provenance of a museum's Manet painting to reveal a connection between th
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by jancsika 3mo ago
Where are you finding the lien on that property? I don't see it listed at all. Edit: I'm asking how you came up with the $200k+ figure
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by jancsika 3mo ago
I wonder if the Catch Me if You Can guy counts. He apparently lied about a lot of his adventures as a scam artist, making him more of a fabulist. However, if anyone taken in by his stories were to complain publicly (say, a book publisher
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by jancsika 3mo ago
> An evil Debian maintainer would have to make a change that was well enough disguised as something else to evade scrutiny. The xz utils hack got slurped up into sid before it was discovered by a researcher's performance regression
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by jancsika 3mo ago
I don't get the drama here. Either Odin is mentioned in at least a handful of what Wikipedia considers secondary sources, or it isn't. Just skimming Rust's entry I immediately see stuff like MIT Technology Review and Tec
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> The oldschool forum format requires a lot more scrolling and superfluous content that is unrelated to the discussion On the other hand, the flatness and default chronology of those scrolls provide a reliable WYSIWYG experience the Redd
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> I do not know how this trust can be rebuilt but definitely not by publishing more reviews. Dear Previous Paragraph, Couldn't many small published reviews which don't show a noticeable or measurable positive effect on their ow
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by jancsika 4mo ago
OP is saying Trump has demanded loyalty as a condition of serving in his administration. As HHS Secretary, RFK caved on Roundup, something he famously won a case against as a lawyer[1]. That even lost RFK support from some of his MAHA fans.
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by jancsika 4mo ago
Curious that you include REI. It's a retail coop model, not a worker-owned coop. Apropos: the way they ended the REI Adventures program is behavior consistent with a normal big-box chain. That is, announce the end simultaneously to the
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. Just checked online. 8pc family meal of spicy white meat with large mash potatoes and gravy, one sweet tea, one purple lemonade, one chilled
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> There's an extreme selection bias there. Maybe. Unfortunately, what digitaltrees wrote here is ambiguous. It could also be read as this: Our caregivers serve low income families. Those caregivers, who are our employees, earn $12-
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by jancsika 4mo ago
You can choose a) a calm, level-headed passenger who knows they aren't a pilot, or b) a calm, level-headed passenger who almost has their pilots license but has a medical condition that prevents them from admitting when they lack certa
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by jancsika 4mo ago
I want a VCS that works this way: 1. download current version of Linux 2. an MS-DOS/Minix dualboot VM starts with Linus beating Prince of Persia 3. fast-forward all the way through the history of Linux to him merging the relevant pat
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> faster time to manufacture. In other words: improved responsiveness when loading a flu season.
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by jancsika 4mo ago
Now I'm curious-- if I do an image capture of my face on an Atari 2600, can AI recreate a recognizable image of my face from that data? Edit: by "data" I mean only the screencapture of the Atari 2600 output at some point in t
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> My agent loops tried even harder What happens if you ask to find the strings that will erroneously return True from validateSafeInlineAsm for disallowed asm? :)
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by jancsika 4mo ago
One man's spite against this type of self-satisfied, evidence-free opinion is what got the 27th Amendment passed.[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th...
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process. A good way to enforce this is to encrypt the data at the beginning of the process. Then any function that returns struc
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> Quite interesting to see. No, the article is a shitshow. Ben Dowse is an MD, not a pediatric nurse. The family ended up accepting the antibody treatment before leaving the hospital. The Daily Mail article bizarrely implies that they ne
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by jancsika 4mo ago
If you can't even guarantee internally consistent state then good luck communicating your "convincing and aesthetically pleasing effapt update && apt upgradeects" successfully.
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> Great question does intelligence require selfishness / evil? No. E.g., a bunch of chimps who come upon food will probably become aggressive, whereas a bunch of bonobos will probably get frisky with each other. They are closely rel
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> the quality and quantity of published work will increase. I know the argument from the late 1700s that having copyright wouldn't necessarily lead to higher quality works of literature, music, etc. But I've never heard the arg
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> as long as that power can be revoked at any time I understand the idea that "justice delayed is justice denied." But within reasonable governance time-frames for a municipality/region, why would revocation latency be a l
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> The way they would self-regulate (self-organize) is into tribes/gangs. I assume you mean "gang" in the sense of, "Hey honey, a non-rivalrous gang converted this luxury hotel into a mutual aid hospital, let's go
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by jancsika 4mo ago
Apparently Petri was driving when he figured out a new fingering for a Chopin Etude he'd use at a concert later that evening[1]. The passenger survived to tell that story, so I think this is more about your correct risk-assessment than
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> Now try this experiment with the JavaScript ecosystem. Wow, JavaScript ecosystem is bad! > Now try this experiment with [scrubbed] JavaScript [scrubbed]. Wow, JavaScript is great!
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> The fourth seems logical, but I'm sure what the impact is, if any. Why you would say that you're not sure what the impact would be of accidentally training an image model on "child sexual abuse material?" That'
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by jancsika 4mo ago
Hijacking this post for my own selfish curiosity: Since Linux has these built-in ttys, why wasn't login done like this: 1. put a bare-bones x11 instance on the "login" tty with the necessary graphical/DE crap for login p
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by jancsika 4mo ago
> This system ensures that every key and every note sounds equally good, but it sacrifices the purity of just intonation. Bach wrote two books of the Well-Tempered Clavier over 300 years ago that explain musically why that sacrifice is w

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