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by lumb63 4y ago
I find that opinionated tools like awk are esoteric and very niche, but for things they do, they do very well. Writing awk scripts for simple text transformations brings me immense pleasure.
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All of this is public knowledge and has nothing to do with my role: Nation states, especially the US, should be suspected of having compromised everything. Look at all the things Edward Snowden released. Look at the way the NSA has corrupte
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Your first source talks about all the things 230 is and is not. It’s good information. But just because something is codified in law and decided in court cases does not mean that it is how the world ought to be. Agreed that under Section 23
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by lumb63 4y ago
It is also worth mentioning, since I didn’t realize it until I worked in depth in the space: your CPU is not the only place to execute code, or the only place with access to hardware.
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The problem has, in my opinion, become opposite to what Section 230 was meant to solve. The majority of online communication platforms are, in my opinion, “over censoring” exactly as you described. If they can be trusted to over censor, why
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If they deem themselves fit to censor their users, why shouldn’t they be liable for the content their users produce?
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I can’t discuss my former role in too much detail, but it has convinced me that all the above is insufficient in a number of very realistic threat models. One issue is that software has vulnerabilities and bugs. I’m not talking about the so
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I’m a fan of a proposal by Vivek Ramaswamy, from his book Woke, Inc. Companies that want protection from liability for user content should not be able to censor any content not required by law. Companies that want to moderate content should
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by lumb63 4y ago
> This software is OLD, early Perl 5 old Heh, it never fails to crack me up how relative old is. I’ve worked on software that predates Perl, and even UNIX itself…
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With the exception of AWS, do you believe that any of the examples you cited are not “just milking the franchise for all they can”? When was the last time YouTube, the iPhone, or Microsoft Excel added a meaningful (i.e. users wanted it) fea
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by lumb63 4y ago
What came first for you, homesteading or software? I’m currently a software engineer but slowly wearing down and have an image in my mind of living in harmony with the land and would love to know how best to get started.
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I don’t think it’s correct to characterize the 10 million men who can’t or won’t work as a labor shortage; it sounds more like excess supply. The solution to this is to increase the demand these laborers have for work. As you say in your po
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I’m sympathetic to anyone who feels they “need” to take these, and wants to encourage others to do the same. I’m sure they work wonders for obesity, and that’s great. But we cannot get something for nothing, so I have to wonder: at what cos
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Common advice does address this. A lot of dieting has been, in my experience, finding ways to make less food make me fuller, or to think less about being full. For example, intermittent fasting is a great way to do both.
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Not only this, but also the impact having to read something has on enjoyment. There are books like To Kill A Mockingbird that I didn’t care for in high school simply because I had to read it. When I revisited it years later of my own voliti
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Even worse than this, sometimes I find myself changing my mind internally but feeling compelled to defend my initial opinion, as if being convinced is having lost. That’s definitely detrimental to a conversation.
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Goodreads recommendations are decent; I can often find at least one related book I’ll want to read from a book I’ve read. My problem is exactly the opposite as yours: I can’t read books as fast as my backlog grows! Most of my recommendation
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For the past three years, I’ve set the goal to read one more book than the goal I set the prior year. I started with one a month, so this year my goal was 14 books. Some of my favorites, in the order I read them: The Body Electric by Dr. Ro
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I agree that those companies are in “a healthy position”, but there are massive risks to their operations: AMZN: IIRC, AWS is the majority of their profit. This is web infrastructure; all the negative PE ratio startups and gig economy compa
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Surprising. If only there were a way that we could have foreseen that an AI trained to write code in part by looking at people who, self-admittedly, don’t know how to write code, and people who write code for others with minimal context (St
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I’m astounded by the family who didn’t feed their infant for 4 days because they couldn’t get formula. Isn’t breast feeding preferable to your child starving to death?
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That sounds like a good policy to me as well. I think the “they will do it anyway” logic is a slippery slope, but underage drinking in college is so mainstream that preventing it is a Sisyphean task. IMO it is best to discourage but encoura
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As someone who went to a large state school, this post blows my mind. I can’t imagine this level of restraint around parties. My fraternity and half a dozen other groups would host parties with 2-300 people each weekend. Most groups hosting
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Maybe the way by which the subscription software becomes better is different: perhaps because the SaaS model provides higher recurring revenues, these businesses and products draw more investment, which allows them to develop more quickly a
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Surely there is some middle ground here. It’s ingenuous to suggest that nothing someone does on their property has impact on others: - A neighbor who installs a billboard in their back yard is constantly bombarding you with unwanted adverti
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The book “Why We Sleep” discusses this. I believe it was Thomas Edison (I could be wrong) would fall asleep with a pan next to his chair, his hand over the pan, and his hand full of marbles. When he’d fall asleep, his muscles would relax an
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This is very similar to what companies like PayScale do, from my understanding. I have a friend who works there and has told me that companies pay a them for employer-provided salary data and provides them a model for what they should pay e
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I’ve been reading Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society lately (1960s), and it was absolutely an issue back then, according to him.
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Doesn’t Robinhood sell order flow to Citadel?
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Unproven allegations? 1% of Harvard faculty identifies as conservative: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/13/faculty-survey-... 77% of students say professors espouse liberal ideas: https:/

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