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by jiscariot 2y ago
I liked Recursion and Dark Matter a lot, but the last two pages of Upgrade really left it on a poor note for me.
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by jiscariot 2y ago
> He said, with a smirk, “I am not an extrovert”. In this likely fabricated scenario, our initial introduction to the introvert has them also coming across as a dick.
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by jiscariot 2y ago
New York Times market cap drops 12% based on people now actually being able to cancel their subscriptions. j/k
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by jiscariot 2y ago
And the no-go zones were just fox news right-wing propaganda. Well, my Swedish friend drove me through one (daytime) two years ago. Pretty significant cultural changes, like now in their hometown, there are separate swimming days for the se
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by jiscariot 2y ago
Middle-upper management also excels at this method of escaping blame/consequences. Move in, talk big and change a bunch of stuff, then on to the next before the tickets start coming in.
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by jiscariot 2y ago
20 year listener here. I now listen until they force identity politics in to the subject at hand, then change the channel. In my experience it's much less than 10m, but could be my market too.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
If you've already read 1, you really should read 2/Dark Forest.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
Seems like everyone disagrees with the ranking of 3PB books. Probably a good thing. On 2 read-throughs, I vastly prefer 2 then 3, and consider 1 a bit of a slog.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
How many popup warnings will I need to bypass/accept in order to use my LLM of choice?
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by jiscariot 3y ago
Big thanks to FIRE for picking up the torch dropped by the ACLU. The ACLU, in their stampede to rebrand themselves as a racial justice org, like everyone else did a couple of years ago, has completely lost their way. I cringe everytime the
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by jiscariot 3y ago
I look at it as signal to noise ratio. If someone communicates a lot but has a very low signal to noise ratio, parsing what might be valid from everything else, becomes a chore and adds cognitive overhead.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
The most disingenuous use of stats I see regularly published, are those bemoaning wealth inequality between ethnic and racial groups that don't control for family makeup. There is a 30+% difference between some groups on one vs. two pa
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by jiscariot 3y ago
I tend to agree with this analysis--that a part of the TM business model is extracting additional money for venues, artists and themselves, and taking on 100% of the reputational hit for fees. It's fascinating but have a hard time thin
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by jiscariot 3y ago
When anyone says 'Yes, I believe in free speech, but …,' I stop listening. ~ Salman Rushdie.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
A link to gizmodo is the internet equivalent of those direct mailers that go directly to the recycle bin.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
This sentence doesn't know if it's in the local paper or at a slam poetry reading: "Paying at the pump is for chumps - when you can get gas for free - and illegal, but it didn’t stop a Detroit man from stealing almost 800 gal
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by jiscariot 3y ago
Taxi roulette was not a fun game to play: a) will it show up? b) will someone else take my cab? c) will the driver get angry if I attempt to use a card? d) does the driver know where they are going?
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by jiscariot 3y ago
Agreed. We all just need to stand shoulder to shoulder and we'll be fine. Social security and pensions will be well funded with all the new payers.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
Norway's done an amazing job of convincing the world how green they are.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
That is eerily similar to what happened to us in IBM "Cloud", in a previous gig. An engineer was doing "account cleanup" and somehow our account got on the list and all our resources were blown away. The most interesting
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by jiscariot 3y ago
My concern isn't copyright law, but that if trained on the NYT, these llms are going to be favorable to starting conflicts in the middle-east. https://fair.org/home/20-years-later-nyt-still-cant-face-its...
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by jiscariot 3y ago
When you own the platform, your ads are a "Personalized digital user experience" and your competitors' are "ad tracking".
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by jiscariot 3y ago
From what I've seen recently is the inverse of that. There are scores of developers who have little understanding of OS scaffolding or networking, but are good at writing merge sorts in Python. Most Devops people I know are not the one
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by jiscariot 3y ago
That stuff with the wolf in The Crossing was as deeply affecting to me as an adult as say, The Never Ending Story's Atrax in the Swamp of Sadness was for me as a kid.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
I enjoyed this book as well and remember thinking at the time how it was much more violent than Blood Meridian.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
If we're going to put the SF homeless problem on "neoliberal ideology", we should also give "neoliberal ideology" (e.g. free markets/trade/globalization) credit for lifting almost a billion people out of p
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by jiscariot 3y ago
I think there is also value to the general online/web community, in keeping the reddit community on reddit.
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by jiscariot 3y ago
I know a lot of people like Shop Class as Soulcraft, but I found the author's rosy glasses and philosophy about the "dignity" in manual labor to be extremely tiresome. There is an irony that really didn't transition to c
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by jiscariot 4y ago
> That's like saying the person who leaves their car unlocked is the root cause of the theft. Funny that should come up. Minnesota Attorney General Kieth Ellison is blaming Kia and Hyundai for our rash of auto theft and associated c
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by jiscariot 4y ago
This case is the whole reason the "disparate impact" phrase exists and its had a chilling effect on employment testing. If you're a large FANG company hiring programmers, you risk testing (validating someone can write code),

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