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by jl6 2y ago
Having a publicly routable address absolutely does “expose” your network, which at the very least has the potential to generate load on your firewall (your problem) that would otherwise be absorbed by the NAT device (your ISP’s problem). As
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by jl6 2y ago
Or maybe the RF leak is what will get noticed as a distress signal so that benevolent aliens can come and rescue us from our pitiful worchless, zitless existence.
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by jl6 2y ago
For the vast majority of companies, supply chain diversification represents a cost with little immediate benefit. In the long term, it can be a rational hedge against hostile supplier lock-in, but the vast majority of companies aren’t good
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by jl6 2y ago
Seems to me that computers do generally perform their tasks reliably. (I say generally, not infallibly; cosmic rays and power failures and such). The issue is really about whether their human programmers have successfully programmed the c
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by jl6 2y ago
There’s got to be more to it than just “playing as the bad guys”. There’s at least one Battlefield game where you can play as the Nazis. But I don’t think that includes committing atrocities. If the next Battlefield game included Nazi-mode
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s only relatively recently in history that we have relatively reliable methods for passing on knowledge. It is probable that all the “firsts” we know about were just the first occurrence that survived. It is probable that astronomical kn
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by jl6 2y ago
So this is essentially the government ending a subsidy for small businesses?
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by jl6 2y ago
> all produced information is unavoidably narrativization This is a future possibility but it has not yet come to pass, and we can still avoid it. We are not yet adrift in a sea of epistemological relativism where everyone has their ow
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by jl6 2y ago
The only weird thing here is your “my enemies have no culture” theory, which could not be a more transparent case of bubble blindness.
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by jl6 2y ago
Comments like this are why I have zero interest in Twitter or Bluesky or any of them.
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by jl6 2y ago
1. ChatGPT is in the title purely for click-related reasons. This is about data center water usage, and applies to any application that uses a data center. 2. Seems like water should be more expensive in water-stressed areas and that data c
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s become something of a cliche to see this exchange: “it never happens”, followed by clear evidence of it happening. One wonders if it ever leads to the person questioning what other misconceptions they’ve been fed.
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by jl6 2y ago
It is certainly not factual to claim that a drug which is safe in treatment X (precocious puberty) is also safe in treatment Y (gender dysphoria). The article conflates both as “puberty delaying treatments”, as if the learning from one is c
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by jl6 2y ago
Yes, this is the kind of nuanced take that has been squeezed out by ideological snap-to-grid from the warring tribes.
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by jl6 2y ago
“Female” is well-defined for 99.99%+ of the population (and for most non-human species too, in fact). For those with DSDs, a judgement call can be made. For example, a person with XY chromosomes and the 5-ARD DSD (who was raised as a female
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by jl6 2y ago
One part that isn’t factual is the statement on safety of GnRHs which cites their use in treating precocious puberty, which is a completely different indication and treatment (age of treatment, length of treatment, purpose of treatment), a
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by jl6 2y ago
> How many instances of trans athletes in female sports have there been? If it’s a small number, then presumably it’s not worth fighting over and sport can just have Open and Female categories?
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by jl6 2y ago
Red tribe orthodoxy has a lot of disdain for people with trans identities. Blue tribe orthodoxy has maximal dain for those people. But both tribes are willing to promote pseudoscience to achieve their goals. Singal occupies a narrow sliver
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s worth noting that the algorithm in question is not any kind of AI or ML as we might know it from the tech industry. Underneath, it is plain old statistical modelling. The article doesn’t make this clear, and the name of the blog does
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by jl6 2y ago
The true rival to X is not using social media at all . If you’re mad at your Skinner box, switching bubbles won’t improve your life.
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by jl6 2y ago
Cultures come and go, arising from circumstances that can change. Does preservation of a living culture take priority over the wellbeing of its members? Perhaps a culture is something that can be decommissioned humanely.
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by jl6 2y ago
I worry that this might make The Onion a less credible news source.
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by jl6 2y ago
An article about jungle music in 90s video games that doesn’t mention Unreal Tournament?!
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by jl6 2y ago
We need massive amounts of medium-term seasonal (3-6 months) stable energy storage, and liquid synthetic hydrocarbons are not a bad solution. Low efficiency isn’t a dealbreaker when the inputs are free.
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by jl6 2y ago
That's a cool video but I'm not 100% convinced that crow is "having fun". It looks equally plausible that the crow is trying to break open the object, possibly in search of food.
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by jl6 2y ago
The idea of “stochastic death” is a dangerous and unhelpful escalation of rhetoric that amounts to an excuse to call someone a murderer because they said something you disagree with. It’s the idea that Biden was somehow a “partial murderer”
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by jl6 2y ago
130m parameters isn’t insanely large, even for smartphone memory. The high GPU usage is a barrier at the moment, but I wouldn’t put it past Apple to have 4090-level GPU performance in an iPhone before 2030.
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by jl6 2y ago
Microsoft's neglect of Notepad paved the way for Notepad++. Now they're uplifting Notepad. Perhaps this will create room for a Notepad--.
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by jl6 2y ago
The Democrats just lost an election because they tried to dismiss poorly-articulated-but-legitimate concerns as trolling/ists/phobes. Could be a teachable moment, if they are willing to learn.
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by jl6 2y ago
I was rather hoping Hacker News would pay me.

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