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by macNchz 3y ago
Also known as the scream test in IT: unplug that old server and see who screams!
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by macNchz 3y ago
Many phone providers actually offer what they call “Selective Call Forwarding”, which allow you to set up a limited number of basic routing rules to forward calls coming from specific numbers.
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by macNchz 4y ago
Sometimes these edits can be pretty subtle as well: a while ago my wife and I started watching the original early-90s Beverly Hills 90210 on one of the streaming platforms. It’s a kind of absurd and fun pop-cultural time capsule of a show.
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by macNchz 4y ago
I think–the way societies often have social norms around potentially harmful things–this reality is a significant driver of social norms among "old money" families with generational wealth. In those circles there is social pressur
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by macNchz 4y ago
Once again thankful to Elon Musk for giving me the push I needed to stop logging on to Twitter.
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by macNchz 4y ago
I’ve read plenty about the potential catastrophe of AI putting people out of work or becoming uncontrollable in some grand sci-fi way, but uses like this make me the most concerned for the near-mid term. Broadly I think the internet, social
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by macNchz 4y ago
For what its worth, this is called “occupational prestige” and sociologists run public opinion studies to create actual lists like that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_prestige
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by macNchz 4y ago
> It's kind of ridiculous that things are still stuck on gigabit. I’ve been under the impression that there are patents (expiring soon) keeping the cost of 10G hardware high enough to prevent it from becoming the default choice. I d
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by macNchz 4y ago
I think one of the issues is that once you start designing places around driving, cars become non-optional for day to day living, whereas many places designed around transit generally do not expect people to use transit for every single out
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by macNchz 4y ago
Yes there are so many tedious devops incantations I’d love to hand off, but my first thought watching the video (where it wgets a jar file and runs it) was we’re going to see the return of hard to contain worms being accidentally spread by
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by macNchz 4y ago
The future is bright for people working in cybersecurity.
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by macNchz 4y ago
I mean... I certainly know which languages I can write idiomatic code in and which I cannot. I can't know that my code will be free of critical flaws, but I do understand the common sources of flaws and techniques to avoid them, and I&
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by macNchz 4y ago
I think there is a degree of fatigue from the stream of breathless "this is going to change the world, if you disagree you're wrong or don't understand, and if you don't participate you'll wind up poor" takes.
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by macNchz 4y ago
It's interesting because the Copilot for PRs preview uses an app that does say "Owned and Operated by GitHub". Probably just an oversight, but I'm pretty sensitive about what access GitHub apps have, especially given the
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by macNchz 4y ago
For one it’s an absolutely massive force multiplier for scammers who often do not write well in English, and who have so far been constrained by human limits in how many victims they can have “in process” at once.
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by macNchz 4y ago
Reminds me of asking for driving directions (city to city)...for major cities it can often give perfect directions, for smaller cities it starts out surprisingly accurate but often devolves into invented exits or descriptions of a
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by macNchz 4y ago
I've recently started to think that an AI "deity" is going to emerge at some point, and things are going to get really, really weird. The human psyche seems primed for religion/worship. What if anyone could talk directly
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by macNchz 4y ago
> With security key if you lose it you lose access immediately to your stuff and you probably can not get a new one with in 24 hours even if money wasn't an issue. If you lose it while traveling and have a backup at home you can lik
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by macNchz 4y ago
> I do wish we had a more neutral source than the Rolling Stone. The wikipedia article on this cites several reputable looking sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs
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by macNchz 4y ago
This is one of the main reasons I love Firefox’s “Multi Account Containers” extension. I can easily keep logins segregated and don’t need to worry about whether any given part of Google’s ecosystem plays nicely with their account picker.
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by macNchz 4y ago
There may be a kernel of truth to this, but–as a lifelong nightowl who got in the habit of going for morning runs several years ago–I‘ve never been able to wake up as easily as I can stay up. I love the feeling of running early in the morni
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by macNchz 4y ago
This is what prompted me to start blocking ads many years ago…there’s simply too much malicious advertising out there and the corporations involved have the wrong incentives to deal with it properly. As long as ad networks allow arbitrary c
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by macNchz 4y ago
The commute is a big part! I was thinking about this recently and calculated that, since I started working from home (January 2020, slightly before everyone else), I've saved $4500 and 750 hours that I would have spent commuting. Tryin
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by macNchz 4y ago
Absolutely...I grew up in a rural place and got a driver’s license at 16, but have lived in NYC for over a decade and have thought about this often. Teenagers here have no need to have a license or a ride from a parent to meet up with their
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by macNchz 4y ago
> The sheer volume of bike traffic on largely safe infrastructure is phenomenal. Imagine if even half of these people took to cars instead, it would be gridlock. Having visited Amsterdam by chance after missing a flight to London due to
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by macNchz 4y ago
Yeah–as one of the replies above suggested it reminds me a lot of writing I’ve seen online from people suffering from schizophrenia.
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by macNchz 4y ago
Highly effective, fully automated romance scams coming to lonely people’s inboxes starting now.
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by macNchz 4y ago
The way it devolves into repetition/nonsense also reminds me a lot of playing with GPT3 in 2020. I had a bunch of prompts that resulted in a paragraph coming back with one sentence repeated several times, each one a slight permutation
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by macNchz 4y ago
> On the days I go to my office, all I observe is people wearing headphones to be able to focus. It's funny to hear all this hand wringing about the loss of spontaneous collaboration in offices, because in 10 years of working in tec
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by macNchz 4y ago
Having worked on a number of early stage startups and projects, in varied remote/in-person settings, and currently fully remote, the only thing I genuinely miss from an office is having a huge whiteboard to gather around. In my experie

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