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by jgerrish 3y ago
I try not to get involved in these kinds of discussions. But you lobbed this out there, so I feel like this community can benefit from a personal story. I'm not white. I'm human. Or just: I am. I had an Indian friend growing up
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by jgerrish 3y ago
> Remember though, the US is one of only three countries (Eritrea, Myanmar are the other 2) that taxes its own citizens even if they have not lived in the US for years. These are the kinds of things that can be changed relatively quickly
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by jgerrish 3y ago
I'm really enjoying Counterfeit Monkey. There are some other authors doing creative things with the parser. Junior Arithmancer by Mike Spivey is fun, but not as narratively rich as Emily Short's work. Andrew Plotkin's Lists
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by jgerrish 3y ago
I really do understand the plight of victims of scams. I know of a couple. I also see people hurt who were chased from communities, or are drawn into these kinds of things right here instead of just working on what they love.
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by jgerrish 3y ago
This isn't a review of a FTC show. It's not really my genre. It's a review of that classic 90s sub-genre of FCC, Net Neutrality. This is Net Neutrality 2015: Nettier and Neutrier, with Michael O'Rielly. Esteemed Chair
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by jgerrish 3y ago
I posted previously about SBCL and quicklisp. Great ecosystem. I'm still learning but it's usually fun to work in. I made some recommendations about quicklisp using http by default and how to lock it down. I don't know if t
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by jgerrish 3y ago
I wouldn't want to own a company that did that. Or be forced into a relationship or moved out. I'm not saying Boeing is a bad company. Lots of workers have put their lives into that company and believe in what they build. I&#x27
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by jgerrish 3y ago
Being trapped in an ambiguous situation where "improve" can mean many things can lead to unhealthy stress. If I have a real job and a real house, I have easier access to laws and what my responsibilities are. If I am in a situatio
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by jgerrish 3y ago
This isn't out of the blue. During the legislative process there was back and forth among NHTSA and MA sentators and representatives: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/nhtsa_...
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by jgerrish 3y ago
I've been doing an informal survey of Rust packages for RISC-V. A lot of the basic RT crates are broken. But the SBI integrated crates are top-notch. I wonder what would have happened if the other ecosystems had invested in QEMU deve
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by jgerrish 3y ago
This is related to your question, but not directly answering it. I have been privileged to exist in area where a lot of feedback to my projects comes from informal means. Friends taking a look at projects or just giving me time to think ab
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by jgerrish 3y ago
Yay. Spin up the Mastodon instances for the K-Street exodus. Because there will be board and campaign meetings on platform risk after this. Give them their branded snowballs to launch at the other instances. "Capitalize" on the r
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by jgerrish 3y ago
It was an honor knowing and having Mario and Cloud Strife and all the rest in my life. Have a good day, I'm closing this tab.
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by jgerrish 3y ago
Smart idea. There are a bunch of different basic strategies and policies that could be implemented in a series of weekend projects. Ranged / extent reads/writes, upcoming allocations, locality-sensitive data, Short-range vs. L
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by jgerrish 3y ago
It raised a lot of interesting questions in the original thread about automatic updates and other issues that will plague us for decades to come. And for all the talk of OpenWRT, which is a great addition to the wireless ecosystem, I'm
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by jgerrish 3y ago
Yeah, you could work around this with anti-tamper APIs and trip-wires and tech solutions to secure your phone. But then you're playing an arms-race game against inventive thieves with jammers and portable Faraday cages. Another solutio
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by jgerrish 3y ago
> The reason is that an important part of their ownership rights, i.e. the freedom to use the software of their choice, has been withheld from them. Thank you for your comment and info. But be careful, this is the wrong argument here.
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by jgerrish 3y ago
Sorry, just to add: Those new OSes and new languages and the entire growing ecosystem of computer engineering may be beautiful. And this statement can be viewed as throwing out the baby with the bathwater. But it's important recognizi
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by jgerrish 3y ago
Microsoft make a ton of products that are still great to use. Microsoft Flight Sim? No jokes, it's just good fun from what I hear. Their Visual Whatever IDEs? They built that by creating great things like the LSP. And they aren&#x2
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by jgerrish 3y ago
> Console emulators (especially of the HLE variety) seem to have a similar flow. Good insight. I was going through this same spiel in my head the other day. It's a flow that if properly managed can provide a good feedback system.
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by jgerrish 4y ago
Even if it's the opposite direction, big guy losing and small guy coming out ahead, it's still drama. Just like Covid introduced epidemiological terms to the general public, this issue can introduce design choices around licensing
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by jgerrish 4y ago
I related this "story" elsewhere, but in another context is good too. So, when I was younger, I used to frequent DEMF, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival. It's now called Movement or whatever. It was a great time. And one
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by jgerrish 4y ago
And of course you could turn that into a community family event at your local hacker-space. For those who didn't like the solo message/messenger.
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by jgerrish 4y ago
Sure Mr. Snooty Scientist. Let me get my <checks Internet>: scale, test-tube or conductive container, a way to measure water, a way to hold and burn food, a way to measure temperature. Well shit, I've got most of that at home.
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by jgerrish 4y ago
I'm sorry, the language style was terse and short, and ignored the diversity of our media landscape. Imagine Kristen Bell or Terry Crews Pez Dispensers, but for stoners. That's the joke. The other mumbling was a response to the r
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by jgerrish 4y ago
Free one-hitter with every box! Did you get the Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell or Jason Bateman one? We are funny and clever marketing people. Yes, we can all Google Scholar REM sleep studies on various substances. Christ, I don't want to b
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by jgerrish 4y ago
Reminds me of the phone bin joke bit in Parks and Rec., during the bird flu practice exercise. I guess if you're selling it as a tool to get people to spend more time together, it's good? It feels kinda bad I wasn't able to u
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by jgerrish 4y ago
And I could see some social media companies incentivizing longer prompt sessions for engagement and eyeballs. Not necessarily OpenAI. Aka, the "Oopsy, I did a poo-poo! Dear User pays more attention to me when I smear it on the wall.&
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by jgerrish 4y ago
> You cannot skim the AI's code. Every word of it must be examined. I understand what you're saying. But be careful of this argument, it's susceptible to safety counter arguments. "Well, this person thinks we shouldn
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by jgerrish 4y ago
I participated in a paired programming interview once. I didn't get the job, but I walked away with respect for the organization doing it. It gave them a chance to see how I worked as part of a team. Even if day to day I'm not p

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