magic_smoke_ee

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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Memetic contagion meets cargo cult when someone or a group is trying to: a. "lead" and hide attribution of a nefarious or unpopular thoughtspace or particular idea. b. control other people through coercion with arbitrary rules lik
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Define "continuous use". The ones used daily sit around about half the time in major airports' temporary parking areas away from the ramp.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Yup. It's an all too common tendency for rich people to presume that they're better than everyone else and so don't have to follow any particular legal or ethical code.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Isn't it a subset of the problem of "excessive, continuous profit maximization is a virus", and advertising is just one obvious manifestation of it? Maybe we need social ventures along the entire stack of hardware, software,
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
If true, yet another reason why I'm glad I ditched Prime Video. I noticed that FireTV Sticks now autoplay ads on launch without an option to disable that. For such setups, I'm likely to replace them with Apple TV (not perfect, but
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
2.5 GbE is too slow for my home lab. I want 10 GbE-T PoE++ without having to add a craptastic hat that has a lot of failures. My network test boxes run 100 GbE of various flavors supported by E810-CQDA2.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
It's the implicit tyranny of building or contributing to public commons owned by corporations beholden to ideological individuals, investors, or advertisers, or to government jurisdictions with particular intrusive laws and policies. F
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Don't give Joe Rogan or Alex Jones any ideas.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/1/7/palisades-fire Edit: And hotspots - https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;@-118.21,3...
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
> from the same guidelines: don't be snarky; don't post thoughtless insubstantive comments; reply to the argument instead of calling names; don't sneer; respond to the strongest interpretation - assume good faith; eschew f
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
This. LLMs provide very low cost fake content generation capabilities. That makes due-diligence ever more comprehensive and thorough in the absence of a meaningful, proven referral.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
It's easy to catch when the customer is sophisticated. Business-unsophisticated writers looking at random for literary agents may well end-up paying money up-front for zero value services. I had a quick look around, and found this se
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Build-in either a keyboard or the gamepad. I have BT mice, keyboards, gamepads, and other things that already handle how they charge (USB-C). But it's not a single thing if you're carrying around other parts anyhow, and those appe
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
This. Cults hack groups of people to commit very irrational acts that go against their previously-held individual traditions and values. (There are several new, predominant cult-like factions these days... so this isn't a veiled critic
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
> don't cross-examine https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
NIST is involved (Dual_EC_DRBG). Verdict: nope. This is something that an independent , international cybersecurity nonprofit should be in-charge of, not a standards org that shills for what we think may have been the NSA (BULLRUN).
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Authoritatively-correct subtitles rather than distributed generation and/or publication by anyone and everyone, including AI. I don't know how many times I've seen subtitles that appear to be based on a script or were half-as
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
> Computers are INCREDIBLY efficient and still become orders of magnitude more efficient. That's what a software engineer would say who views resources as unlimited and free.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Maybe the US needs a bug bounty for the conjecture raised by Gödel's supposed loophole.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Yep. Impractical and fugly, but okay if you don't have a spouse, children, or care about aesthetics. BlueAir Classic 500/600 series-compatible models are the the way to go. (Was tested by Consumer Reports as the cleanest and quiet
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Oddly enough, I just bought some for my Aeron classic 2 weeks ago. They're about 10x better than the default casters on mid-height pile carpet with no/low padding and hardly move at all. It's not perfect, but almost usable. A
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Reminds me of the unrepairable, craptastic design of FitBits charging connectors that would fail just about the time the warranty expired and the tech support "solution" was to "buy a new one". At least on Apple and simi
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
And if flimsy parts and design-for-manufacturing rather than design-for-repair aren't done intentionally to increase sales through replacements and/or to optimize for minimal cost, then it's done through negligence.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
At the expense of more software dev and a bluetooth module, It would've been more extensible and versatile if it had just used BT for input (HID) and GPIO rather than creating yet another proprietary connector and forbidding the use of
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Indeed. Meta conducts most SWE/PE/SE interviews over VC (Zoom or similar) using CoderPad (which supports all sorts of languages), with unofficial prep using HackerRank. The language for the interview is set in advance by the can
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Whataboutism FUD. Nice try.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Back in my day, real cowboys wrote their papers in PostScript, making their papers as inaccessible as possible for user of consumer-grade devices. /s PS won on human readability and editability but lost on portability to Adobe's
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
Someone will inevitably create an app to create apps using Brainfuck encoded in Morse code running on a 16-QAM wireless protocol... just beam your app with your data.
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
There are many more: F'd-Over, Rebuilt Dodge Fix Or Replace Daily Faulty Overheating Rattlebox of Detroit Fails On Rough Driveways F'ing Old Rusty Dump
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by magic_smoke_ee 2y ago
All dumb, manual, HH:MM clocks, that is, unless the setter had patience and used a minute-crossing boundary to synchronize, reducing the error to ~1 second and resets them frequently to not drift more than a maximum of say 10 seconds. Most

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