rablackburn

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by rablackburn 10mo ago
> the rich's strategy of owning nothing I think you may be coming into this conversation with a different definition of "rich" than most people.
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by rablackburn 10mo ago
I'm curious why you seemingly discount school as a "tight community structure". In many communities it's one of the only options left. I daresay the label of the community is irrelevant, what matters is some other aspect
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by rablackburn 11mo ago
That was not an appeal to the authority of academic papers so much as the OP trying to give context for the information that has informed their position. Your responses have been an appeal to tradition (“every generation thinks that”), and
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by rablackburn 11mo ago
> We are at the point in the technology curve with AI where every day someone figures out something new to do with them, meaning users will take any chip they can get, and use it productively. Sure, that's an assertion. But (with ju
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by rablackburn 11mo ago
> It would be willfully ignorant to pretend that there's not an explosion of a novel and specific kind of stupidity I 100% know what you mean, and largely agree, but you should check out the guidelines, specifically: > Don't
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by rablackburn 1y ago
At least microplastics don't make you angry and violent that we can tell. On the other hand, it's going to be around (relative to pre-emission levels) for a lot longer than the lead (paint gets chipped off and disposed of, we stop
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by rablackburn 1y ago
I did read the post, but allow me to also recommend rambling when you’re remote. As in, take time in your day to wander and roam. (I would go for a ~1hr hike in the mornings as my “commute”) It gives you a sense of distinction from being ho
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by rablackburn 1y ago
> I have found that the old-fashioned “measure twice, cut once” approach is highly destructive. It was how I was trained, so walking away from it was scary. To be fair it’s great advice when you’re dealing with atoms. Mutable patterns of
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by rablackburn 1y ago
>> ...if it's the sole feature its users would care about? The tag-line covers it pretty well I thought? "git-bug is a standalone, distributed, offline-first issue management tool that embeds issues, comments, and more as ob
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by rablackburn 1y ago
I took it as capital-L Life is moving from high to low. As evolution continues Life seems to evolve ever higher -> lower/more-ordered organisms (as more complex organisms depend on the systems created by simpler organisms prior to t
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by rablackburn 1y ago
>> I would love a good issue tracking system that is done entirely inside git You might like git-bug: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
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by rablackburn 1y ago
Do you have any recommendations for where we could read more about the soviet originals/western derivatives? I’ve never heard that before (born after the collapse) and that sounds like a fascinating story.
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by rablackburn 2y ago
> It's a bit like how vacuum cleaner specialists never use Dysons despite them having the most mindshare and overwhelming marketing budget. Regardless of vacuum cleaner specialists also just being normal people. Yes, but Dyson still
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by rablackburn 2y ago
Crazier things have happened.
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by rablackburn 2y ago
Nice. SRS integration is my ultimate yak-shave when learning something new. > I wish educators and educational institutions would make an attempt to incorporate SRS into classes. I think it would help a lot of students, especially for cu
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by rablackburn 2y ago
Oh neat, I do exactly this and thought it was just another instance of neurodivergent self-soothing behaviour. Turns out I’m just practicing my yoga ;)
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by rablackburn 2y ago
I’m curious to know what your experience of changing to Warp has been like? Sounds like terminal was working fine for you - was the switch worth the time? I signed up for the waitlist ages ago and finally got the announcement of Linux suppo
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by rablackburn 2y ago
> Why do I suspect the offence will always be ahead of the defence in these areas? because destroying is easier than creating/entropy increases over time? The only solution I can see is working on turning bad actors into good actors
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by rablackburn 2y ago
> Of whom? The person who made Quacker News? Yes. The “AI” didn’t do anything by itself, it was tasked to produce this. The author then made the decision to publish its output. The fun-house mirror analogy breaks down because those being
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by rablackburn 2y ago
It seems a bit mean-spirited as it picks specific commenters from threads to mock. Satire is one of those things where if you're not punching up it's just bullying.
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by rablackburn 3y ago
> (...) and even Mario Cool Japan would like a word with you ;)
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by rablackburn 3y ago
And to quote the article itself: >> (…) it’s a rare case of a kernel memory access check bug that had no security implications. My favourite type of kernel bug.
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by rablackburn 3y ago
This is one of the best job ads I’ve ever seen. Seamless segue into culture and “btw we’re hiring” at the end :) This is truly a fantastic post-mortem: even an application-level developer like myself could follow it. Though I am in the midd
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by rablackburn 3y ago
>> You've been able to do exactly what you describe (i.e. putting "hello" squarely in the middle of a 600x600 yellow box) with CSS since its first incarnation, with e.g. the `valign` HTML attribute corresponding to the
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by rablackburn 3y ago
They mention this in the article, and of course, the scientific method means we _want_ to have more than one suggestive meta-analysis before we declare any kind of "discovery" at all. > Proteins (for example Glial Fibrillary ac
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by rablackburn 3y ago
> I just can't imagine the scenario where you need to explain to someone who doesn't know how to modify their path why they need to add something to it. Sounds like someone hasn’t had to train fresh graduate engineers for awhil
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by rablackburn 3y ago
> All security is by definition obscurity. Can you expound on this? For example, if I add a 30 second lockout after failed authentication attempts I don’t see how that comes under any non-tortured definition of “obscurity”.
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by rablackburn 3y ago
> On-device AI excites me far more than relying on yet another cloud-based API. Agreed. The huge leap-forward in capability already boggles my mind, the fact that I can run it _on my desktop cpu_ and have an interactive, natural-language
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by rablackburn 3y ago
Which explains why it's a playful name - the old Internet culture still shows up. And let's be honest, it's a great name when the lowest free options are 419 or 420. Some may roll their eyes at it, but it would certainly be a
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by rablackburn 3y ago
> And yes, that would be way more useful. ...that sounds like an example use case for the proposed status code. 420: Requester Impaired - Infinite loop It would allow you to signal to the requester that while their individual responses a

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