oasisbob

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by oasisbob 9mo ago
If you want to drop all non-local subnet originated traffic, you need to keep state. Otherwise, how can you tell which side originated the flow? Even that is only a partial solution - UPNP hole punching exploits holes in this logic to allow
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
And also entirely ironic. > Repetition and redundancy, ambiguity, illogical ordering of content, rambling sentences, opaque grammar. Repetition AND redundancy? Illogical ordering in an unordered list of things. Rambling (could be more it
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Why shouldn't it be relevant? The example you put forth supporting your claim that AI is perfect for Wikipedia editing is that you (ambiguously) edited an article, perhaps using AI. The post also reads like it was partially written wit
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
> AI is perfectly suited to fixing this problem. I recently spent several hours rewriting a somewhat important article. I did not add or subtract information from the article, I simply made it clearer and more concise. I'm confused
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Ahhh, that is fantastic tree. I've been there, it's in a really nice quiet place. Huge!
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Trees don't grow in a manner which can typically lift things. It's really unusual - and requires either distinct circumstances, or highly technical measurements between gauge pins. Those gravestones had help getting up there.
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
By "formal" I would include online writing advocating for particular development methodologies like this one.
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For me it's not about "is this AI", it's "this writing is obnoxious and disrespectful of the reader, and here's why I think AI is likely at the root of it."
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Those are sentence fragments, not perfect sentences. They're useful in some contexts, but are inappropriate for more formalized writing. When LLMs reuse the same patterns dozens of times in a single article, the patterns stops being in
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Obviously more than just tone. Based on the lack of structure and wording it's clearly substantially AI written.
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Perhaps kindness isn't a zero-sum game
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
Not sure I agree, the systematicness can be cultural as well. In my area there's a bunch of Islands with ferry service, but the ferry terminals are often remotely located on these islands, away from lodging and population centers. It&#
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by oasisbob 9mo ago
> from a pure technical point, double-entry bookkeeping is no longer needed at all Just because databases are transactional doesn't mean the entire system is. Double-entry accounting still helps catch errors. A concrete example, sin
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
> America has gone through 1-2 generations of English language teachers drilling their students to simplify, simplify, simplify I think so. Strunk & White is distinctly American. You see simplicity encouraged by others, including Vir
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
As someone who has enhanced privileges, I'm having problems thinking of what all the the issues here are. Corporate installs disable all USB functionality, and remove the ability to sync profiles? Something like that?
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
As a US student, clarity and simplicity was always emphasized when I was being taught to write. Never thought of Strunk & White as being distinctly American, but I guess you have a point.
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
The observation that stuck with me is how much of my county's total carbon emissions are due to air travel which begins/ends at our regional airports (~3%), vs what percentage of the population flies in a given year. The distribut
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
The dimensioning of DNA was an immediate turn-off for me. A common biochemistry demo is to show how long and macroscopically visible a chromosome can be. Saying DNA is 3.5 nm tall (long?) flies in the face of what is a pretty interesting an
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
If we're speaking about individual actions, isn't avoiding air travel more effective than any other form of individual vehicle travel choice?
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
Gold rush comparison is an interesting one. Much of Seattle's early economy was based on "mining the miners", especially gold rushes in the Yukon. In addition to profits to local merchants, it would distort the labor pool as
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
No true scotsman needs Cloudflare, as any true scotsman can block AI bots themselves is not a strong argument.
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
Quality of the writing and thought also reveals the construction method.
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by oasisbob 10mo ago
Ooh, I remember the Palm + modem + mail sync combination for sure. Was absolutely engrossing.
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
There's a classic well-illustrated book, _How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive_, which spends a whole illustrated page at the beginning building up a reference frame for working on the vehicle. Up is sky, down is ground, front is always v
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
To the contrary, CDN pricing will usually beat cloud provider egress fees. Common example: you can absolutely serve static content from an S3 bucket worldwide without using a CDN. It will usually scale OK under load. However, you're go
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
Might be just me, but I can think of many origins under my control which could live without a (non-functional) CDN for a while. CDN is great for peak-load, latency reductions, and cost - but not all sites depend on it for scale 24/7
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
I noticed the degradation when Gemini stopped being a good research tool, and made me want to strangle it on a daily basis. It's incredibly frustrating to have a model start to hallucinate sources and be incapable of revisiting its beh
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
That sounds more like availability bias, not selection bias.
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
"The Jungle" isn't at all the same now, and is mostly cleared out from its heyday in ca 2018. The larger problem with "The Jungle" is that nobody can agree on what it means, and where it is. I used to live on Beacon
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by oasisbob 11mo ago
The easiest way to notice it is its excessive use of what Wikipedia calls "negative parallel construction". [1] It's a super common genai tic > This isn't about efficiency—it's about extraction > The problem i

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