jzellis

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by jzellis 4y ago
That's just the usual NGO and charity crowd. You know why nobody solves anything? Because there's no solutions to be had. It's far too late for solutioneering, there's no sprints here, no hackathons, absolutely nothing t
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by jzellis 4y ago
There's a lot wrong with it. People like to point out Israel as an example of successful desalination, but that ignores the fact that Israel is a quarter of the size of San Bernardino County and basically a narrow strip of land next to
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by jzellis 4y ago
There were like a billion ways this all could have been really simple, anonymous digital cash. But y'all had to make it overly complex and y'all had to get greedy and all y'all libertarian fedora vape ass dudes had to inject
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by jzellis 4y ago
Goretek and the Microchips, but y'all probably a little young for that. :-D
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by jzellis 4y ago
I'd love to tell you it's to keep up on trends and ideas in tech, but really it's just to watch random alt-right trolls occasionally post thinly-veiled bullshit about eugenics and read the comments whenever anybody suggests p
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by jzellis 4y ago
I've been a writer and musician my entire life, since I was a kid. I'm also a professional coder and I have a decent understanding of how things like neural net modeling work, and the intermediate concepts of both strong and weak
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by jzellis 4y ago
Ah, the comments here never cease to provide amusement.
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No, it's definitely climate change. Values and that shit are always changing but humanity endures and has thrived, despite Jordan Peterson's bullshit. But we need a balanced, functioning ecosystem to do so, and we've destroye
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by jzellis 4y ago
This, by the way, was my first big burnout moment. You put your life into your startup and you truly believe this might make the world a better place, and then a bunch of MBA fucknuts come in and ruin it and you're left with useless st
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by jzellis 4y ago
Back in the dark ages, I was an early employee of Bitpass, a micropayments startup, and for Bitpass I co-founded what may have been the first completely indie online music store, Mperia (in the sense that artists could simply upload and sel
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by jzellis 4y ago
I guess that invisible hand of the free market can't install a security system. :-D
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I wrote for Mondo in my late teens and Ken was my friend and mentor. A remarkable man and extremely worthy of recognition and celebration. And a much kinder person than his rep might suggest.
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by jzellis 4y ago
I use safety and very non-safety straight razors for trimming my beard. The converse of the TSA thing is also true: using a straight razor allows you to travel anywhere with a very, very dangerous weapon in your bag that nobody will look tw
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by jzellis 4y ago
You forgot "spend three days trying to get a Bluetooth keyboard to pair at boot every time". :-D I love Ubuntu and I use it with Cinnamon desktop on the daily alongside my Mac, and I love the customizability, but I also like just
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by jzellis 4y ago
Money laundering on Oxford Street? Who could possibly be doing that? looks directly across Hyde Park at the big houses and luxury flats with appallingly tacky sports cars out front Oh, right.
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by jzellis 4y ago
Next you're going to tell me supersoldier serum and horny sentient planets aren't real either, you monster
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by jzellis 4y ago
Yes. My answer was to walk away from the tech industry and culture and do part time IT work for my buddy's law firm whilst writing code in my spare time for fun and recovering from my stress-induced triple heart bypass. I make about as
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by jzellis 5y ago
"For instance, priority targets in New York City are likely to include Bayonne/Port Elizabeth and Red Hook in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan, as Moscow cares more about New York as a place where armies can sail for Europe than as a
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by jzellis 5y ago
When they send Viktor Bout to jail in America and you got to buy all your military equipment on Wish
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by jzellis 5y ago
It depends on what the disagreement is about. Javascript vs Python? Floyd vs Zeppelin? Pineapple on pizza? Could care less. Will happily debate all day long. Whether different races are inferior? Should sick people just be allowed to die if
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by jzellis 5y ago
Ubuntu has just worked for me for a long time, though I always have to do some tweaks to get it exactly how I like it (Mac keyboard layout, Quake-style terminal, etc.) I've recently installed Cinnamon (Mint's desktop) on it and I
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by jzellis 5y ago
... I mean, this is very cool and definitely good work, but I'm pretty sure I remember transmitting data via audio quite a lot back in the day, and it sounded like BEEEEEEEEPBOOPCRRRSSSHHHWRRRRTTSSSFFFTHHHHH. (Ironically, I often then
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by jzellis 5y ago
Speaking for myself, I'm a writer and artist who learned to code so I could build the things I wanted to create and use, rather than starting from an innate love of logic, for example. I've always been fascinated by science and te
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by jzellis 5y ago
It wasn't hard at all. I ridiculed it and walked out of a restaurant in a Vegas casino because it had freedom fries on the menu and told the server so. There are always people who are scared of dissenting. History often refers to these
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by jzellis 5y ago
Maybe if the kids still remembered how to write html in a text editor without needing frameworks and fucking transpilers and bundlers. My first site was written with Notepad. Back then we just uploaded stuff to the server with FTP and we li
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by jzellis 5y ago
Recently my TV has been turning itself on at night. I looked at the settings on my Kodi box and realized the CEC settings could be doing it, so I disabled power management over CEC and rebooted. It's still doing it. Did it last night.
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by jzellis 5y ago
We don't have Einsteins because the brightest people don't work on astrophysics because there's no money in it. Instead, they're figuring out how to use AI to sell more dick pills and artfully distressed furniture to peo
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by jzellis 5y ago
As someone who's been poor for a long time, first due to tech burnout and then medical stuff, here's some advice: Budgets are great, if you have steady income. If not, you have to think heuristically rather than algorithmically -
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It's always so illuminating when economists talk about climate collapse, in much the way it's really useful to get a hairdresser's opinion on how to choose the best possible choice of chemotherapy so as to minimize hair loss
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by jzellis 5y ago
And all so people can buy expensive hardware to allow them to buy imaginary bling with fake money in Anna Delvey's Minecraft server. :-D

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