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by potholereseller 10mo ago
Consider pair work (a generalization of pair programming): Spin up a VM for you and the candidate to SSH into. Start a shared screen/tmux session. Work on some sysadmin task(s) together. Switch between driving/typing and navigatin
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Good post. I've definitely experienced this, though a sub-form of it, namely my non-conformance to a sterotype of an ideology I am associated with. The example in TFA doesn't appear to involve any stereotypes, because Bailey is ta
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by potholereseller 1y ago
This sounds like a quasi-Gnosticism: the human body is lower and human rationality is higher; the lower as inhibiting the higher; the best for humans is to transcend their bodies by some means (albeit un-stated in TFA). It is a tempting vie
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Apparent source code, though last update is January 1, 2025: https://fossil.turtleware.eu/wecl/timeline
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by potholereseller 1y ago
> All photographs or videos you have seen have been placed there for you to see them. For those reading the above, wondering about this phenomenon, read Baudrilliard's The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. Even if you don't agree wi
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Baudrilliard didn't assert that reality/facts never existed; he in fact asserted that prior to the 20th century, there was plenty of correlation between symbols and facts/reality. His vision of the hyper-real is that it is de
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by potholereseller 1y ago
The other commenter mentioned "narrative", which is very relevant, because that is an important part of simulation (and your username) Baudrilliard was careful to point out that simulation isn't a matter of fabrication; to si
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by potholereseller 1y ago
The word "decentralized" has become synonymous with "cryptocurrency", especially those cryptocurrencies which promise they will decentralize things unrelated to money production (e.g. data storage, computation, etc). Suc
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by potholereseller 1y ago
The actual title of the acticle is "Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court". Contrary to the current title here on HN, Lander was not arrested for asking to see a warrant; TFA states the opposite, &
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Everytime news like this comes up, I'm never affected. I'm using uBlock Origin. Is there something unique about uBlock Origin? Are other adblockers easily noticed by YouTube? TFA mentions complaints from users of Brave browser, wh
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Roko's Basilisk has been replaced by Altman's Basilisk. Where once we feared a computer torturing a digital copy of us (Roko's Basilisk), we now fear a computer eliminating all our jobs (Altman's Basilisk). The former ha
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by potholereseller 1y ago
> The end result of that was that we had to significantly rearchitect the project for us to essentially inject manually crafted code into arbitrary places in the generated code. This sounds like putting assembly in C code. What was the i
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by potholereseller 1y ago
The semi-colon symbol is the single-line comment symbol in Lisp, but the percent symbol means nothing special in Lisp. SET-MACRO-CHARACTER is used to modify what happens when certain characters are found while reading code. In this case, SE
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by potholereseller 1y ago
It would seem that iMessage is an endless treasure trove of exploits. Is there any technical reason for this? Are iPhones simply more common among the wealther/powerful/influential? Or is this due to iMessage being present on all
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by potholereseller 1y ago
This seems spot on to me. It shows how some performers of popular music can be in an echo chamber. There are worlds beyond Rihanna, the Beatles, and Rascal Flats; there is more than I–V–vi–IV, 4/4, and verse-chorus; those other worlds
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by potholereseller 1y ago
A lot of the cost per calorie is in preparation; if you can cook your own meals, you can reduce your cost per calorie signficantly. The problem is a lot of people don't have the time (or maybe will-power) to cook every meal; a few of m
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by potholereseller 1y ago
It appears to not have been enabled by default on my instance of uBlock; it seems a specific filter list is used to implement this [0]; that filter was un-checked; I have no idea why. The contents of that filter list are here [1]; notice th
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by potholereseller 1y ago
The title should say "government-employed scientists", because this order has nothing to do with scientists employed by universities or by corporations. The order is concerning, but this is the trade-off when working for any gover
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by potholereseller 1y ago
I've asserted elsewhere that LLMs are glorified chatbots. One of the comments in TFA mentions the classic chatbot, ELIZA, so it's nice to see someone else come to a similar conclusion. Additionally, it is ironic that LLMs are ofte
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by potholereseller 1y ago
It would probably depend on the Scheme/Lisp implementation and how it was secured. If it used a Scheme implementation like in Halo:CE, then people would have justifiably hated it. If it used something more like MIT-Scheme, people might
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by potholereseller 1y ago
How exactly would China wage war with the US (besides nukes)? They don't have the means to send a meaningful amount of troops to US soil, and that's without the US Navy intervening. China might be able to deposit troops on the isl
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Abuses like this will not be ended, because it is far too useful to both sides of the political spectrum. The Right gets to police abortion nation-wide, while the Left can use it to police guns nation-wide. In the latter case, New Jersey co
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by potholereseller 1y ago
As governments frequently say: if you have nothing to hide (e.g. intent to commit a crime), then you have no need for privacy; and no need means no right. But they also say that those with something to hide have no right to privacy. Ergo, n
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by potholereseller 1y ago
It looks pretty convincing; it renders wrinkles, hair, and shadows well; I think it could prove useful as a tool for CGI in movies/TV/YouTube; or actors can license their likeness to be used via Google Veo, in order to increase th
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by potholereseller 1y ago
> doing this without pay No, you got paid in vibes. Never. Accept. Vibes. Vibes are for losers. Refuse to be treated like a loser. Reject vibes; demand money. It is always a mistake to do un-paid work for an organization that wants turn
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by potholereseller 1y ago
The relevant chemicals are Triptolide [2] and VCD [3], which are the principle ingredients of ContraPest, produced by SenesTech [4]. Contrapest requires regular doses to be effective, so this may prove to be a very lucrative contract for Se
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by potholereseller 1y ago
> But the Polyheme trial was one of 15 no-consent studies permitted by the FDA since 1996, when it began allowing researchers to enroll patients in clinical trials without their permission if the treatment showed enough potential to save
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by potholereseller 1y ago
I am only aware of one other chat app that doesn't use public identifiers: < https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/ >. I hope more chat apps adopt this, because it's absolutely necessary to ma
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Unfortunately, the relevant link in the TFA is dead, but IA has it: < https://web.archive.org/web/20111019054900/http://ti.arc.nas... >. Here's some interesting quotes: > during a task’s rele
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by potholereseller 1y ago
>In these scenarios, Anthropic says Claude Opus 4 “will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.” Brother, I wish. The word "often" is load-bearing in that sen

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