patcon

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by patcon 4y ago
Bah, "virtue signaling" accusations are such a toxic thought-terminating cliche :/
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by patcon 4y ago
https://archive.is/8ziZM
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by patcon 4y ago
Would be nice if airtags were built with a standard for delegating tag locations to companies as an enterprise offering. Bag lost? Just share the tag location with a ticket-specific email generated by the booking system, and some division o
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by patcon 4y ago
Respectfully, people getting a "50% off retail value" deal on a product are not what most would simply call "rescuers". They are people who got a stellar deal and maybe got a good feel or two that they wouldn't norm
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by patcon 4y ago
> lots of people out there seemingly can't handle disagreement at all, and attribute a fundamental moral failure to their conversation partner if they don't see eye to eye. Disagree with a few things said, but fully agree with
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by patcon 4y ago
> but damn if 20-somethings aren't emotionally fragile at a level the world has never seen before. 38 year old here. I do wonder if the sense of "emotionally fragile" has something to do with how we (America? Canada?) had
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by patcon 4y ago
> No -- as any product or marketing manager could tell you, it is the onboarding. Agreed. Onboarding is the main control of the boundary. The boundary (whether in a cell, in a community, in a company, in a fandom, etc) it controls what i
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by patcon 4y ago
> - Words that have long since lost any stigmatizing meaning by virtue of the original use being so ancient ("lame", "dumb", "stupid") If you've known someone with mobility issues (e.g., a limp from bir
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by patcon 4y ago
I'm so sorry to hear you're feeling this way. I was struggling with suicidal ideation over pandemic, and it was a really scary. As someone who just came out of depression (brought on by some family deaths, stagnation, and pandemic
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by patcon 4y ago
but if it's not using the same font, doesn't that make it almost impossible their tool will ever guess it? which provokes ye olde zen koan: if a joke is made in a pixelated font whose typeface will never be known, is it still funn
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by patcon 4y ago
as I understand, male chickens are aggressive and really hard to raise. they fight and destroy one another when kept at the density that industrial processes would like to keep them at. And I don't think the meat is very good or desira
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by patcon 4y ago
Do you make the same overclever statements when someone abuses freedom of the press?
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by patcon 4y ago
> Now look at your life through every facet. Are you really not in the top 1% of anything? 1% is not even that high a bar. While I haven't yet framed it this way using your language, I'll share the belief that complexity scienc
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by patcon 4y ago
You sound like the sort of tech peer who I don't get along with, nor want to work with, and so I'll take my leave
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by patcon 4y ago
It might be helpful if you share information on where your perspective is coming from. Your comments here confuse me, as someone peering in from the outside. (disclaimer: I co-organize within an IRL 5000 member community revolving around ci
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by patcon 4y ago
I feel you're missing the point. This person is saying that one should communicate first. If you perceive communication exclusively as "activism" or "apology" seeking (or cancellation?), then I understand why you mi
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by patcon 4y ago
Funny, I think that's great. It's considerate of an applicants time by saving them the hassle about price conversation up front. That's for your benefit, not theirs (they lose the "grip" they might otherwise have at
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by patcon 4y ago
Not sure laundering it the right term. Laundering private things through the commons feels not as shady as laundering in private networks. The commons benefits too. It's more like open source that money laundering
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by patcon 4y ago
While it's only a small part of the larger vTaiwan process, a few fans of Polis made a video to try to share what feels valuable about it: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSL_F7Lwul2dlI9J6-Nzz9_... Also, a paper o
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by patcon 4y ago
Been working with and around Polis software for a few years, and have had the chance to visit Taiwan to participate in vTaiwan for a few months. Definitely seconding it as massively interesting. > they are voting paradigms that focus eit
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by patcon 4y ago
> you can test a neural network a million time [...] You can't do that with a human, you got to take a chance. Funny, as a biochemist, I always took it that minds had essentially been through unfathomable numbers and levels of ite
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by patcon 4y ago
Disclaimer: runs free events, where organizers are volunteers, in which we're still trying to find sponsorship money for small speaker honorariums. While I'm grateful to ccc organizers and understand that things are sometimes clea
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by patcon 4y ago
I've worked tech jobs, bio lab jobs, warehouse jobs, call centre jobs, and been unemployable for long stretches while depressed. Working manual labour jobs is deeply humbling and in my opinion actually builds solidarity with the workin
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by patcon 4y ago
There's a tool called Anonymouth, written by folks at Drexel's PSAL lab, which is intended to help writers with anti-stylometry analysis. If anyone is looking for an impactful project, Tails OS maintainers and it's author aca
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by patcon 4y ago
https://archive.ph/rdwsy
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by patcon 4y ago
> I realized React is trying to tame Facebook level of problems and hence their design decision steams from those data points. Strong agreement! There's a saying in community organizing and activist circles that goes something lik
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by patcon 4y ago
https://archive.ph/HHFC2
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by patcon 4y ago
> discovered it had gone subscription-only as well, meaning my entire photo library would now be trapped on my old laptop unless I paid a monthly fee forever. I empathize, but isn't all this the reason they would fork out so much fo
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by patcon 4y ago
i like you. that is all
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by patcon 4y ago
Not OP, but was glad they piped up :) My vague concern is that overly emphasizing "climate change" means all these brains are thinking on just one small bit of surface of this larger project. We talk a ton about carbon because it&

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