president_zippy

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by president_zippy 1y ago
"In your lifetime, there will be more dead kids from bad AI/police combinations than <some cause of death we all think is too high>." Maybe, but that won't stop the kind of people that watch cable news from sayin
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by president_zippy 1y ago
That's one of the factors I analyzed in my dinky little post-bacc night school undergrad assignment. The answer I came to is "insufficient data" because none of the longitudinal studies bother with people over 65, which is th
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by president_zippy 1y ago
It's funny you just mentioned this because we just learned a few weeks ago in physiology about Henneman's Size Principle: that the somatic nervous system recruits smaller skeletal muscle motor units (1) followed by larger motor un
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by president_zippy 1y ago
When you put it that way, I think whether culture is upstream of business or vice versa and whether people have free will or are merely conduits for things their senses receive are unanswerable questions. All I know is this: "If you tr
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I think I get what you're implying. As long as the router itself with its firewall + DNS + NAT, is secure from attacks by actors over there internet, the access point I will connect to it only needs to be secure against people within 1
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Other than DCS, Skyrim, and that one Star Wars game at Dave and Buster's where you duel Darth Vader, I don't see a lot that sings to me just yet. Granted, I could easily get 2,000 hours out of DCS over the span of a decade just fl
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by president_zippy 1y ago
It was definitely useful and appreciated on the "New" Nintendo 3DS XL, which also used a camera to track your eye movements and adjust the divergence accordingly. I hate the fact that Nintendo abandoned this technology because exp
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by president_zippy 1y ago
But was the eulogy written in Perl poetry? I see it everywhere, but I don't know who this JAPH guy is. It's a strange way of spelling Jeff, and it's odd that he types his name in all caps, but he has published a remarkable qu
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I just had a flashback to the heyday of MySpace. Now that I think about it though, Neocities has the "social networking" of being able to discover other people's pages and give each other likes and comments. Hmmm...
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Are there any better sources we should read for how and why sodium-ion batteries are better than lithium-ion batteries? All I know is that the charge to mass ratio of an Na+ ion is less than that of an Li+ ion, and that elemental Na and Li
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I saw the follow-up responses complaining about you soliciting, but I've got no problem with you offering to solve a problem and being remunerated for it. However, my lab is a brokedick operation with barely enough cash reserves to pay
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Do you have receipts you would like to share, or have I just been unwittingly hosting an NPR vent line this whole time?
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by president_zippy 1y ago
If I had a nickel for every time my OpenBSD buddies told me "your ASUS router is not secure, just configure an OpenBSD machine as your router", I'd have a lot of nickels. The part they never tell me is what hardware they reco
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I don't thing we fundamentally disagree on anything, I'm just saying every product advertisement tries to convince you the product will make you happier, and sometimes it not a bad thing- like Japanese McDonald's (where they
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by president_zippy 1y ago
You did a lot of cool things, mister. How do I send you pizza (from one of the good places)? Glad to see how many high-value changes OpenBSD is receiving. You just inspired me to get Chicago95 up and running on an old MacBook I have lying a
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Illinois and Massachusetts are definitely not slashing public school spending. Deep-red Florida is also increasing its educational budget, and so is deep-red Texas. It's not like I have family or friends with kids going to public schoo
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I'm impressed that they still maintain PA-RISC support even though HP discontinued that architecture in 2008. They maintain all these architectures in such a small, consolidated codebase with such minimal (if any) bloat. Their built-in
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by president_zippy 1y ago
When you can't make a point, just resort to name calling and tone policing. I'm definitely on point that most teachers in blue states have worker protections, job security, and lax hours that no software engineer has despite compa
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I don't think that kind of advertising is directly advertising happiness. Luxury car ads advertise status more than anything. They're more subtle about it than Equinox gym marketing with its weird, sexualized elf people, but the p
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by president_zippy 1y ago
My first instinct is that the Google interviewers were just so full of themselves that they think they're doing you a favor and would do it to anybody, regardless of gender. If I were turned down for a job that involved writing FreeBSD
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I'm surprised FIRE hasn't killed the luxury car and McMansion market yet. Hmm... What do I wanna do more? Keep up with the Joneses, or flip the bird to my boss? Hmm...
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I don't think you understand the fundamental difference in motivation between you and most of us here. Most people here would rather be the CEO of a garage with a couple computers than an SVP at Amazon. Nobody needs Amazon to have a do
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Yeah, but I didn't have to work at Amazon to do it. No micromanagement, no verbal abuse, no work calls at 3am, no PIPs, no door desks, no cult indoctrination. More importantly, the time I spent managing my portfolio taught me how to be
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Evidently, I'm just imagining all the times my teachers went on strike in Illinois in the 2000s. There have not been any "right to work" laws in Illinois passed affecting teachers or firefighters since then. Evidently, it&#x2
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by president_zippy 1y ago
Where in all of this discussion did I say anything about California?
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I'll give you the principled answer and the cop-out answer. Here's the principled answer: That was just the catchy title, similar to peer-reviewed literature reviews published on nih.gov: not necessarily the creme-de-la-creme, jus
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by president_zippy 1y ago
The one that really blows me away is how KazeEmmanuar explained the software-controlled cache. Using it well would involve either manually making calls to load/invalidate it or writing a compiler backend that replaces loading data from
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by president_zippy 1y ago
What about just accepting the job, faking a medical problem that requires extended time away from work not to keep the paycheck, but just to officially remain on staff for the purposes of future background checks, and meanwhile apply to oth
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by president_zippy 1y ago
If you wanna really see this at work on a whole other extreme, try compiling code for an N64 game. It's no surprise that optimizations for modern-day x86_64 and Arm64 processors with a lot of cache would not generalize well to a MIPS C
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by president_zippy 1y ago
I guess I just assumed teachers have the same protections in deep blue Washington state that they have in Illinois and Minnesota. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. However, there's a fix for that: move to a state where the job prospec

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