jordanb

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by jordanb 10mo ago
You are a despicable and unamerican person to support the summary execution of an American citizen in cold blood by masked agents of the state.
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by jordanb 10mo ago
If "criminals" are now are the mass population then we need to think about how we're defining "criminal." Police were always allowed to bug a vehicle with a court order. They weren't allowed to just casually
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by jordanb 10mo ago
ICE just murdered a US citizen in cold blood and this isn't even the first.
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by jordanb 10mo ago
The Stasi needed a significant segment of the DDR's population to be snitches. ICE just needs Palentir.
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by jordanb 10mo ago
There was a time when police were banned from putting a tracker on people's cars without a court order. The argument was, yes it's legal to put a tail on a person when they're out in public because that's just a cop obse
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Well color me impressed the CIA managed less than 24 hours turnaround on their dancing locals images! I'm disappointed we didn't get anything like the toppled statue in Baghdad but what can you expect with a rush job? At this rate
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Yes I'm quite sure the Venezuelans are greeting us as liberators.
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by jordanb 10mo ago
I think you're starting from the conclusion that the poster made it up and working back from there. Nothing in that article reads implausible to me, both that they were building things like "desperation score" (probably not c
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by jordanb 10mo ago
I've literally never worked anywhere that works like this, and I've worked everything from startups to very large companies. Product always gives both description and intent to software engineering so that engineering can make app
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Russia commits acts of aggression against NATO states that straddle the line of ambiguity where a bad faith actor could call it accidental or at least unauthorized. This makes invoking article 5 likewise somewhat difficult because it allowe
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by jordanb 10mo ago
To be fair they would definitely do this to rural and/or poor white people too.
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Burning gas always creates stuff you don't want to be breathing. These small portable turbines were allowed to run dirtier than a full-size NG plant because the premise was that they are small and temporary. But then xAI put 40 of them
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by jordanb 10mo ago
I think what Altman is looking at is becoming so codependent with NVidia and Microsoft that they'll all go down together, meaning the US government would have to deal with the biggest software company and the biggest chip company both
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Tesla's stock is a tulip future at this point.
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Yeah by the 90s the travel agents had metastasized into a middle man. The airlines saw them as a necessary evil because they made bookings appear automatically in SABRE to fill up their planes without having to do any customer outreach or s
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Most of the "foiled lone wolf Islamic attacks" in the US were planned by the FBI. They'd find some kid, radicalize him, recruit him, supply him with dummy weapons, plan a terrorist attack for him to carry out, then arrest him
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Istr major resource unavailability in US-East-2 during one of the big US-East-1 outages because people were trying to fail over. Then a week later there was a US-East-2 outage that didn't make the news. So if you tried to be "smar
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by jordanb 10mo ago
auto-troubleshoot
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by jordanb 10mo ago
"Hey guys what are you complaining about? We didn't (directly) kill anyone!"
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by jordanb 10mo ago
His Tesla short was off many years before his fund closed and he pretty much said he wasn't going to bet in meme stocks since their value is so detached from any kind of objective analysis. The problem for him (and muddy waters and oth
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Ironically I think Chanos got murdered by the data center boom. Back before his fund folded he was talking constantly about how data center REITs were an awful business by the numbers and they were an artifact of ZIRP because they were maki
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by jordanb 10mo ago
Mozilla is controlled by Google, they supply all the money and control the board. The board and executive suite are entirely SV VC types, no not-for-profit backgrounds, no free software backgrounds. Mozilla is controlled opposition for Goog
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by jordanb 10mo ago
At some point it's going to make sense to buy a computer without ram once the lack of ram pushes demand down for all other components. Maybe this won't last that long given the RAM shortage is apparently a corner attempt by Sam Al
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by jordanb 11mo ago
The assistant thing really shows the lie behind most of the "big data" economy. 1) They thought an assistant would be able to operate as an "agent" (heh) that would make purchasing decisions to benefit the company. You&#
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by jordanb 11mo ago
Is the implication from the first story that HLS is going to need nine tries to get to Tranquility?
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by jordanb 11mo ago
The servile stuff was trained into them with RLHF with the trainers largely being low-wage workers in the global south. That's also where some of the other stuff like excessive em-dash stuff came from. I think it's a combination o
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by jordanb 11mo ago
It was annoying but if it hadn't happened Python would still be struggling with basic things like Unicode. Organizations struggled with it but they struggle with basically every breaking change. I was on the tooling team that helped an
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by jordanb 11mo ago
Shell is a crappy scripting language because it has primitive data structures and data flow control making it hard to manage and manipulate data as you process it between applications. The fact that newlines are such a problem is a case in
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by jordanb 11mo ago
I always found the Perl "community" to be really off-putting with all the monk and wizard nonsense. Then there was the whole one-liner thing that was all about being clever and obscure. Everything about Python came off as being mu
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by jordanb 11mo ago
How is RAM not a commodity?

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