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by postpawl 5y ago
The issue is that AI is going to make it even more economical to bombard your target with coherent information through an extremely effective means of influence (writing). Have you seen some of the posts recently about AIs getting better at
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You don’t think AI is a “threat to democracy”? I think the threat isn’t just AI being used by governments to control citizens. Advertising companies want to influence behavior too, and their customers are mostly private corporations. They a
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In the context of this article - opentelemetry is for performance tracing on the backend. The call to the endpoint would already end up in access logs, and this would just give more detailed performance metrics on queries and function calls
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18 shark bites Not sure percentages are really helpful here.
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The spike in wood prices is likely due to high demand from new building and housing renovations + a number of reasons for a supply shortage: https://www.vox.com/22410713/lumber-prices-shortage
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You looked into using gevent workers? Sometimes you need to make tweaks to C-based dependencies to make them not block the event loop, but it should work fine for doing a lot of concurrency without a bunch of rewriting. Usually your bottlen
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The first smart refrigerator came out in 2000. The first smart tv came out later in 2007-2008. I think smart appliances just aren’t as popular as their dumb appliance counterparts. But yeah, maybe someday they will be.
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If I go to “shop all” in the refrigerators section of Home Depot’s site and look at the count next to the filter for “smart” features - Only 97 out of 798 refrigerators they sell have smart features.
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by postpawl 6y ago
Just “misrepresenting things”? Amazon did everything they could to crush the effort. “The retail workers union said Amazon was trying to surveil employees in Bessemer and even changed a traffic signal to prevent organizers from approaching
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Amazon even got the city to change the traffic light timing for the road in front of their warehouse to keep people from organizing: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287191/amazon-alabama-w...
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That’s also a symptom of a different problem. The focus on real estate as an investment has caused a lack of incentive to build affordable housing.
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“death of entire industries” What industry? Maybe we need to open a gigantic can of worms that “runs counter to globalization” if we’re talking about sending those jobs to countries with unethical working conditions.
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There’s a lot of submodule haters out there. I think the majority of haters are people who tried to actually do work within submodules. That’s a recipe for conflicts. It’s probably best to go into the submodule directory, checkout a specifi
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by postpawl 6y ago
The author says he’s in the ROK (republic of Korea) army: https://tyler.kim/army-review
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Ah, his next post talks about how he got done with his service: https://tyler.kim/army-review Wasn’t sure if it was a career based on the context.
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“Five more on-call shifts will age me by two years.” “By dawn, I can feel my internal organs are rotting.” “Just gotta rinse and repeat till I’m out.” Is the point of this entire post to invoke an existential crisis in readers? Why would yo
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by postpawl 6y ago
It has been interesting seeing how effective that has been with the lawsuit between Smartmatic and Newsmax. The clip I saw had one of the anchors reading what seemed like a court mandated statement saying there was no evidence of their gues
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To save time for others who need to look it up - it’s in Italy.
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“workers do the same. Employers pay more” Seems too cynical to me. The only bargaining power most individual employees have is to vote with their own feet and leave. Unions allow workers to get a seat at the table with upper management when
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by postpawl 6y ago
Open secrets still shows quite a bit more spending on gun rights overall: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/issues/guns Is that really even a surprise? Gun rights has an entire industry behind it.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935511
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So mainly a little more SRAM (320K -> 512K) and faster machine learning workloads?
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The parent comment seems to be speaking about cancel culture more generally though: “Cancel culture doesn’t accept any arguments - that’s the whole point of the cancel culture” I’d argue that’s not the point of cancel culture. I think cance
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I thought cancel culture was also not buying stuff from companies you think are not acting ethically. You might agree it’s good to “cancel” facebook by not using their product?
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I really liked the whole Wind of Change podcast: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/ It’s about how the CIA might have written the Wind of Change song sung by the Scorpions in the 80s, but it has a
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by postpawl 6y ago
>Because most companies employee engineers with unexceptional results. You don't think that maybe exceptional engineers are a big part of spacex's exceptional results?
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Parent comment isn't talking about just the people mopping the floors. Why are you resisting giving engineers some credit for spacex's success?
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All you really need to know is whether you’re keeping the pace up with your current resistance settings. The cadence sensor shows you that. A speed sensor wouldn’t be accurate unless you could also figure out resistance (requires a $500 pow
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I’ve got the belt drive one with the leather pad for resistance (SF-B1002) and haven’t had any issues. I’ve been impressed that it feels like an average spin bike you’d find at a gym (for $400!). Did you have the magnetic version?
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“To rise to the level of China, India will need to offer equally attractive manufacturing policy and conditions on the ground.” Sounds like a value judgement to me.

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