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by kjellsbells 5mo ago
> make more money > stop spending so much fucking money I'm all in favor of this but part 1 has been made politically toxic for decades, and part 2 only seems to be taken seriously when the Other Guys are in power. For example,
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by kjellsbells 5mo ago
lately I've been stuck by the similarities between the conversations workers are having now (we are toiling to increase someone else's capital, and need to reverse the imbalance of power) and the conversations people had in the 19
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by kjellsbells 5mo ago
I sense a privacy problem brewing. It reminds me of Microsoft Recall in the sense that some portion of the screen is going to be continuously transmitted outside of the users control. What happens when someone browses something very private
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by kjellsbells 5mo ago
i dont know that it's a modern phenomenon. For example law enforcement being used to attack strikers in West Virginia, cops from Los Angeles being sent to the CA border to attack Dust Bowl Okies, maybe other readers can think of others
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by kjellsbells 5mo ago
Yes. Because, the incentives for companies are too big to ignore. The math being done right now is $10/hr for voice support in (say) the Phillipines is much more than $0.10/hr having an AI do it, even factoring in the cost of some
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by kjellsbells 5mo ago
imho: because Microsoft fabulously, utterly dropped the ball. I suspect a combination of well-meaning intentions, Microsoft inanity, and their infamous internal politics helped. - VB apps weren't great from the point of view of interna
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
There's a museum in New Orleans that has a Katrina display and it turns out that they did indeed call in Dutch experts to advise them. The Dutch gave them sensible ideas like building low elevation parks that could flood without issue
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
But all your last statement really does is make the problem someone else's, and more dangerously, because the design doesnt help even with caution. If I have made an accidental kimchi bomb then I will want to defuse it safely before I
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
You know those Christmas cards that show a frosty twinkly white treescape? That climate will kill you even at -5C. People die on Ben Nevis every few years because they think its not that cold. But Scottish cold in that part of the world is
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
Yes I am, but it might not be very comforting, since a 20 year horizon is a long time to endure before you get to the sunlit uplands. The US periodically goes through periods of intense corruption, political instability and inequality. It s
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
That link displays as raw content, maybe [1] is kinder, and is rooted on the original author's blog. [1] https://sasamat.xen.prgmr.com/michaelochurch/wp/?p=881
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
preface: not of VN extraction, I just like the food. Houston has excellent Vietnamese cuisine. I guess it's Southern Vietnamese style? (can't help but notice the ARVN veterans memorial on Bellaire Blvd.). In the East, Falls Church
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
I mean yes, look at Corey Quinn [1] for example. He has built an entire career out of the fact that cloud billing trips people up. (Generally, tech seems to skate by on creating insanely complicated things, knowing that given enough pain, p
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
Back in the era when Zip drives were around, there was a prosumer/SMB tape standard: 1/4-inch QIC. I sold many PCs with a tape drive in one of the drive bays. They were awesome. They also sucked from a support point of view. Peopl
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
Years ago the BBC would put on educational distance learning TV on Saturday mornings. It's where I first learned group theory [0] ...and all about Guernica [1]. Both memorable TV for a bored teenager. [0] https://youtu.be&#x
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
I hate that I agree, and yet, I agree. The EU has a giant single market, has a pipeline of elite tech talent from everywhere from Finland in the North on down, has long since settled on English as the lingua franca of business but has plent
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
It's high time that programming under resource constraints was rediscovered and valued. It's been so easy to throw hardware (or someone else's hardware, ie cloud) at problems that efficiency and cost per compute output has be
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by kjellsbells 6mo ago
True, but it's so incredibly fragile. 90% of the time copilot returns sensible things, eg when prompted to list all the f2f meetingsI had last month. 10% of the time it fails to find things, makes things up, etc. Problem: if I cant rel
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
Noone would be remotely surprised if Iran attacked a nominally American target, so it's puzzling why the Iranians would talk about it instead of just doing it. They would also need to be careful not to cross the line between pressuring
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
I blame "Impact". That's what you are graded on at Microsoft. Every performance review ('Connect'), every stock award, every promotion run: did this person have that magical impact. Ostensibly, grading by impact is
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
You might find that some providers simply disable comments, e.g. there's no particular reason that, say, the New York Times needs to support comments on articles for their business to remain viable. Other sites, say, YouTube, that don&
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
Ironically,the classical target, Washington DC, is less than 25 miles down a very simple highway to Northern Virginia's massive datacenter alley. Our national defense is ultimately predicated on heavy ordnance not being able to show up
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
No,I'm not suggesting that at all. Some of the brass love spending the taxpayers money on new toys. I'm saying that one control mechanism for them not being able to do that, namely, an effective Congress, is totally AWOL and captu
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
Do the Iranians have to win against a Navy ship or an oil tanker? Asymmetric warfare suggests they would ignore the well fortified ship and wreak havoc on commercial shipping to get the same result. The Strait of Hormuz is so shallow and na
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
There's no shortage of national security and military analysis talent in the US. There is a gigantic shortage of intestinal fortitude in the politicians. The Army tried reducing the sizeof their tank force, and had to back down after s
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
The classic answer is Delaware because that's what everyone else does so there are scale effects. Practically this means that Delaware's legal and banking system is extremely experienced with business customers. At the level of
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
Username checks out, I guess! Seriously though I'm not so sanguine about local forces. Assuming the local PD is well trained seems like a big if, to say nothing of the risk of localized pressure or corruption. Eg would the local sherif
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
One difficulty is that fascism is a very modern phenomenon, in the sense that it stood out to 20C societies because they had known alternative forms of state power, whereas someone in 14C England, say, would not have known any other form of
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
I don't know what "working on it" really means. Isn't Scott's job a sort of Azure/Windows developer relations gig? podcasts and speaking slots and Build demos. How is he working on it in any meaningful sense? N
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
Ilove the emulation, but it will never come from the hyper scalers. One issue is that local emulation runs into some big political rocks as soon as it gets good. To start with, the emulator is good enough and covers a tiny surface of what p

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