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by quasse 2y ago
> Not the op but I guess the idea is that questions of life and death should not primarily be economical questions. Sure, but as an American life and death is already an economical question *above all else*. The quality of medical care
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by quasse 2y ago
OTOH, it's interesting that you and the parent comment are basically saying "We, as a country, are failing our pensioners so badly that death has become the more appealing option for many of them. Therefore, we must trap them here
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by quasse 2y ago
> At some point that net loss must overrule the individual's autonomy. I'm curious why you think of this as such a concrete fact. It is hard to understand that you would consider it your right to override such a core component
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by quasse 2y ago
Did you test your course on any elderly people as you were developing it? What did you learn from that, if so? Did it require changes that were surprising?
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by quasse 2y ago
> A lot of what comes from China might be low quality This is also Western boomer mentality and it's alarming that people haven't realized it. I work in manufacturing in NA and America is rapidly falling behind China on the abi
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by quasse 2y ago
> It's still pretty good at making cutting-edge software, but that's about it Chinese software engineering seems to be catching up extremely fast in this regard too. I'm surprised how often I find an interesting new open s
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by quasse 2y ago
> Perhaps conservatives began rejecting science and driving scientists away There isn't even a "perhaps" about this. My parents (both physicists at a research university) voted Republican my whole childhood. The last 15 ye
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by quasse 2y ago
Yes, and we can (somewhat humorously) reference Wikipedia's own page on the "argument from authority" page to dig in to the fallacy. [1] Quoting Wikipedia: "scientific knowledge is best established by evidence and experi
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by quasse 2y ago
Kagi is not a panacea unfortunately. I pay for it and daily drive it to support a Google alternative, but I still have real trouble with my results being full of AI garbage (both image and text search). As mentioned, product comparisons are
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by quasse 2y ago
> We also see the same cultural issues that we saw with American shipbuilding more broadly. There seems to be a lack of motivation to take maritime issues seriously or treat them as important. This is the meat of the article in my mind.
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by quasse 2y ago
I don't think this is an unfair perspective. When I started programming professionally (post dotcom crash mid-2000s) you could really achieve results that were considered game-changing for businesses as a solo contributor writing all y
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by quasse 2y ago
ReCAPTCHA absolutely hammers Firefox compared to Chrome for me. On sites that use it for login I rarely just get the "check the box" challenge anymore, and am instead being asked to train their CV algorithms by picking 5+ images o
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by quasse 2y ago
Sector67 - run by Chris Meyer. They used to rent a building on the east side off Winnebago street (now demolished). They purchased an old warehouse off Corry St. in 2017 and did a really extensive renovation (almost entirely performed by me
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by quasse 2y ago
I work in a different industry (but still manufacturing) and it's mind boggling how much brain power and employee time is devoted to "correctly" interacting with the customs and importing system. I wouldn't be surprised
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by quasse 2y ago
As another very insightful HN commenter said [1]: "In a way, meeting those people was liberating. I will never be a world champion at anything, so I might as well play for the love of the sport." It stuck with me and has become mo
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by quasse 2y ago
Oh nice, the access to a professional quality sewing machine is a cool feature. I do some hobby upholstery and using my homegamer Singer is a real limiting factor.
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by quasse 2y ago
Yeah, the cost of facilities is real. The best makerspace in Madison was run by a really forward-thinking guy who worked for like 10 years to get enough grants to buy a industrial space instead of rent one. Unfortunately that would be prett
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by quasse 2y ago
Looks like covid to me, the meetings just stopped being scheduled and never came back afterwards.
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by quasse 2y ago
I made that exact move two years ago and I've gotta say, I actually miss the Madison tech scene. Seattle is basically a great place to work for a satellite office of one of the tech behemoths, but the actual hacker / enthusiast sc
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by quasse 2y ago
My high school had several years worth of programming courses available, and that was in the 2000s. Now days American high schools are becoming much more focused on teaching technical skills again (thankfully). There's a renewed focus
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by quasse 2y ago
> it's clearance, strong tyres and suspension travel that’s more important. > A Subaru has none of the above. Maybe you and I take different meanings from the phrase "none of the above". My intended meaning was that a S
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by quasse 2y ago
I still don't think you're following what I'm saying. When you go to the grocery store, what is the DEFAULT option available to you? Is there a corral of hundreds of wheelchairs with one waiting for every shopper? Just becaus
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by quasse 2y ago
I say this as a Jeep owner; it's ridiculous to claim that Subarus are not appropriate for punting along fire trails. The average obstacle on fire trails in the PNW is mud or large potholes, both of which a Subaru is perfectly appropria
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by quasse 2y ago
I'm actually boggled that it's not illegal in things like food containers and eating utensils. I'm generally not a "trust the government to get things done" type of person but this seemed like such an obvious and ea
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by quasse 2y ago
I'm not an anti-straw crusader but I think this is a bit of a bad faith argument. People with various disabilities or age related also frequently require lots of other assistive devices but that doesn't imply that they need to be
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by quasse 2y ago
> This perplexes me as “the government” already has scans of your face. So these devices aren’t used to collect data. Citation extremely needed. Why would the government have a preexisting scan of my face?
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by quasse 2y ago
I'm just a lowly outsider to the AI space, but calling these open source models seems kind of like calling a compiled binary open source. If you don't have a way to replicate what they did to create the model, it seems more like f
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by quasse 2y ago
> In this case even dockerized environments would allow you to redeploy with ease. Not if the CIO mandated that your bare-metal OS hosting Docker has to run a rootkit developed by bozos.
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by quasse 2y ago
> "Designed & Built a Redis Replacement" Huge red flag right there as someone that has done hiring.
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by quasse 2y ago
> At least now I no longer have to argue with ‘inflation is good for us’ people. Who has been arguing this?

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