pphysch

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by pphysch 8mo ago
Thiel is one of the more public faces of what is now known as the "Epstein class" of societal predators. But one of many and certainly not the epicenter.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Are Iranians supposed to believe that after Israel destroyed every hospital and university in Gaza? Insulting. The IRGC is under every brick and pebble.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Great points. Do metal detectors provide imaging capabilities? Would want to confidently move beyond belt buckle false positives...
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by pphysch 8mo ago
I'm guessing this doesn't cut the other way? Like US doesn't have to give back all its foreign-born scientists and engineers (and some athletes).
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Can't you have one or more x-ray tunnels or other scanners? They don't even need to be actively monitored, just treated like CCTV.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Even if it does, there will probably be a prolonged economic period where robots are doing dangerous/messy stuff like welding, plumbing but there is a human master guiding them from a few yards away, via prompts, controllers, etc. More
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Recall it was the same lawnmower^W Ellison-owned CBS that last minute pulled a 60 Minutes report on CECOT. They didn't blame that one on the government. Given that, I believe the higher ups at CBS wanted this to happen, but are collud
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Leet code interviews are in the spirit of filtering out charlatans who misrepresent having even basic programming fundamentals. Many interviewers take it too far, but the original motivation is essential to saving time in the hiring process
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Why/how do you grep selectors? Seems overly optimistic to be able to guess the particular rule pattern that is applying a style. Browser tools are much more reliable.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
It's a 12 column grid system built with CSS Grid. 12 column grids are a common design pattern. What would you propose instead?
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by pphysch 8mo ago
There's plenty of "high effort" market information manipulation going on, even before LLMs. Spread (justified, researched) FUD about a company your fund is shorting.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Then firewall traffic that doesn't come from your local ISP blocks or authenticated users.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
And it only costs $30K per year for a single terabyte of usable (NVMe?) storage. The value! $1 GiB/month x 3 minimum replicas x 1024 GiB x 12 months And according to the status page they only have CDNs in us-east and eu-central.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
And ChatGPT hallucinated a misleading answer that you are confidently regurgitating.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
What? Telegram and Weibo are developed by US-Americans?
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by pphysch 8mo ago
And apps, and software dependencies in general.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Those are two sides of the same coin. The "sky is falling" narratives and invasive advertising are both employed by the same elite to control your behavior through fear and suggestion. Noam Chomsky is one of the loudest doomsayers
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by pphysch 8mo ago
> 20 people in a row will take advantage of your buffer to slow you down again and again and again, which makes you get to your destination later... 30 seconds later, so what?
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Most of the mentioned narratives are largely products of Radio Free Asia and the broader Western government propaganda complex. There's not much daylight between London and Washington when it comes to China.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Yes, and we should exercise skepticism when criminals accuse others, to deflect and manipulate.
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by pphysch 8mo ago
But the blowback is still there. The Epstein saga has and will continue to fragment and discipline the elite. Most people probably do genuinely regret associating with him. Noam Chomsky's credibility and legacy is permanently marred, f
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by pphysch 8mo ago
Automatically solving software application bugs is one thing, recovering stateful business process disasters and data corruption is entirely another thing. Customer A is in an totally unknown database state due to a vibe-coded bug. Great,
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by pphysch 8mo ago
> Everyone's going to talk about how cool their custom vibe-coded CRM is until they get stuck in a failed migration. Failed/partial/expensive migrations is the name of the game with SaaS as well. Lock-in is the bottom line
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Privilege escalation (superuser capabilities) and RBAC ought to be viewed differently, IMO. There's a place for true superusers, such as auditing, where no stone should be too heavy. But mostly for securing systems, we want RBAC, and s
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by pphysch 9mo ago
War crimes are extremely violent crimes, and it's not "poor people" giving the orders.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
PSA for anyone reading this, you should probably use polkit instead of sudo if you just want to grant systemd-related permissions, like restarting a service, to an unprivileged user. It's roughly the same complexity (one drop-in file
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by pphysch 9mo ago
China is probably the among the best countries in the world to handle so-called "demographic collapse". Elders are relatively healthy and multigenerational households more common. Leader in robotics. News flash: you don't nee
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by pphysch 9mo ago
I assure you generating PDFs is not something that Microsoft has a moat around.
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by pphysch 9mo ago
Those same elevated controls are used to steal PII and sell to data brokers. Again, it's the companies that are trying to force apps on their users. If it were genuinely a much better UX, they wouldn't have to do that.

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