jzellis

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by jzellis 1y ago
Me: sees headline Golly, I wonder if anyone in the HN comments is going to be angrily pro-AI
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by jzellis 1y ago
There's a lot of open positions in the beachfront hospitality industry in various lovely spots around the world. Personally, if I wasn't the sole tech decision maker for my company, and some jerkoff told me we'd be pivoting t
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by jzellis 1y ago
A bit of unsolicited advice: there's a reason we use the pyramid structure in essay writing: begin with your point and expand upon it. If someone (like me) is coming to this with no idea of who you are, who Spooner is in this context,
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by jzellis 2y ago
I'm all about it! I'm old enough to remember text only browsing and there's a lot of use cases I can think of for this for myself at least.
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by jzellis 2y ago
Very cool, though it doesn't seem to work on Firefox on Android - I had to use Chrome to get it to work. Dunno what API it's using, but worth mentioning.
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by jzellis 2y ago
Is that the guy who looks like a damp slightly younger guy and brags about his kid's boner? Where do I sign up for ticket to that train?
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by jzellis 2y ago
looks at my little Pi 4 running LibreElec with my media library on it so my wife can watch Landman and my Pi Zero 2 W I carry on a lanyard that's got my git server on it just running PiOS Lite and laughs in old man
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by jzellis 2y ago
Google Keep, mostly. I write down words and fragments of songs - lines, rhymes, choruses - as they occur to me. When inspiration hits, I turn these into a song lyric, and then I sit down with my guitar or my keyboard and I come up with a ch
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by jzellis 2y ago
I find AGI fascinating. Generating bad airbrush art and crappy prose to be summarized badly by another vastly inefficient machine wasting energy on a dying planet so more douchebags desperate to have their very own Smaug horde of gold have
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by jzellis 2y ago
"We’re confining the applications for this Internship to those within this demographic due to a current underrepresentation in our workforce. Not sure if that’s you? Scroll down to the bottom of this section for a full breakdown of the
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by jzellis 2y ago
I have decades of experience with homelessness, as a journalist, a direct outreach activist and for brief periods as a homeless person myself, many years ago. Most homeless people don't start out mentally ill or addicted to drugs, but
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by jzellis 2y ago
I've worked remotely my entire career since the 90s with only a few short exceptions. It's a dealbreaker for me and always has been. I do not like to have people around when I'm working, I don't do office politics, I&#x2
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by jzellis 2y ago
Ironically, when I clicked on it I got one to sign into StackExchange.
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by jzellis 2y ago
I'm not autistic and my family was more emotionally neglectful than anything else, but I had a miserable childhood nonetheless. I was a child prodigy who could read aloud by two and a half, I was studied by pediatric developmental psyc
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by jzellis 2y ago
Working on a new free and open source social platform called Kowloon that doesn't even have "algorithms" (unless you count sorting posts by date as an algorithm), much less AI. When I was a kid I went to the Media Lab and got
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by jzellis 2y ago
There's a reason Thiel and those weirdos are cozying up to loonies who call themselves "neo-monarchists".
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by jzellis 2y ago
Apparently it was the other way around: Tandy started as a hobby store and bought the tiny RadioShack brand in 1963, and spun off Tandy Leather at some point. I never knew they were founded by the same dude. My mom bought beads and supplies
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by jzellis 2y ago
Weird to post an article decrying the concept of pivoting on a news site for tech startups, but sure, it's the leftists' fault.
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by jzellis 3y ago
I tried it in Firefox on my Android and got this error when I tried to use the demo: "Error: NotSupportedError: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not
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by jzellis 3y ago
Oh, man. I just barely glanced at the features and the editor but - and I mean this in the best possible way - it looks like you've recreated Flash. Regardless of what anyone thinks about the proprietary file format and Actionscript an
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by jzellis 3y ago
Waiting for the comments to the effect of "just because this guy imagined the Torment Nexus and is explicitly warning us about the Torment Nexus doesn't mean it's wrong to want to try to build the Torment Nexus, especially if
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by jzellis 3y ago
You probably could have saved some cash and made a sort of "fruitarian" mattress by going out to any nearby park on a couple of weekends and collecting discarded pigeon feathers to stuff in a coconut fiber bag. Sometimes the hobo
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by jzellis 3y ago
You can tell this is effective satire because it's flagged on HN. I swear, some of y'all would read Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and try to do a hackathon to get it implemented, the weekend after TortureNexusCon.
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by jzellis 3y ago
My long term goal is to eventually be able to mostly run my house off DC solar. Considering that I moved to London from Las Vegas three years ago, it might not be the most realistic goal anymore, I grant you. ¦-D
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by jzellis 3y ago
It's super cool, but I'm not sure the explanation of how to calculate Fahrenheit to Kelvin is, uh, accurate. ;-) <3 "By using our Fahrenheit to Kelvin conversion tool, you know that one Fahrenheit is equivalent to 255.93 K
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by jzellis 3y ago
Ted's manifesto is a remarkable piece of analysis. It's his solutions that weren't really, uh, constructive.
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by jzellis 3y ago
It sounds as though criticism either makes you feel insecure about your own abilities, or resentment when others unfairly blame you for problems. So here's the thing: management is metadata for actual work. It has very little to do wit
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by jzellis 3y ago
I'm imagining this story as an Everything Is Terrible educational video from the 90s about the evils of cheating and it's much better frankly
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by jzellis 3y ago
I moved to Britain from the US almost three years ago, and I'm astonished by how little is actually produced here. Aside from the Pi and ARM and maybe, what, Rockstar Games, the tech industry here seems almost entirely focused on finte
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by jzellis 3y ago
Oh, man. Ungern-Sternberg was absolutely batshit. I mean, I'm sure the communists told stories about him, but even his fellow anti-communists regarded him as a bloodthirsty psychopath: Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski's Beasts, Gods &

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