rdiddly

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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Thanks for reminding me of the word plinth. I agree with the author that the job is less fun now, less interesting. I'm doing and accomplishing more, and it matters less. And unfortunately, having other ways of defining your identity d
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
You're confused, and as evidence I cite your feigned interest in that guy's achievements, which are irrelevant. You want to argue on the internet.
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people!
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Would be gratified to see a male, David Lee Roth, added to the whistle register examples! (Edit: or James Brown)
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Eyes on the prize, friend, and don't capitulate prematurely.
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
4th Amendment, unreasonable search. And of course the 2nd, but the former is more worrying. Also if printing is speech, then you can add the 1st to the list as well.
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Reminds me of people who think penultimate is just super-duper-ultimate.
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
You almost have to do this, or buy a used one at a markup, as nobody seems to make them anymore (except circular ones).
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Following a post on HN a few weeks ago, I bought a used one to use in the kitchen for scaling recipes. It has to be a linear one for that, not circular, so you can set it and read it without touching it again. I also have one in my "ap
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Are we supposed to ignore announcements of documented compromises then? Or are you saying compromised software is the safest of all?
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Probably true, but to get the job in the first place you probably need some sort of showy, impressive credentials.
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
It's an awkward headline that, when read a certain way, says the opposite of what it means.
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Thanks, I hate it
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
They're not complaining on the bus...
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
+1 for SyncThing. No cloud, thanks. And unlike OneDrive, it actually works. OneDrive screwed me when I tried it, so I completely uninstalled it. Still on Windows 10 too. Not regretting it so far.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
You presumably read the piece. There was no remedy. In fact the lavishly generous appreciation of all those complexities arguably is part of the reason there was no remedy. (Or vice versa, i.e. each person's foregone conclusion that th
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Yeah, and to be blunt, beige and not dynamic is how I would describe most student writing done entirely by the human. I just don't see how a model, trained on a vast corpus of such writing, could ever be successfully and reliably disti
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
I can't figure out if I'm at the tail end of adoption, or the leading edge of disillusionment. I guess being able to say where you are in relation to the herd, depends on knowing where the herd is and which way it's headed. W
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
I wish this wasn't so doomed. Coming soon to Comic Con: 1) AI art sufficiently "human-looking" to pass. 2) Human artists falsely accused of using AI. Would there be grounds for a lawsuit in the latter case?
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
LOL currently 93% "no."
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
I can't even see what's the end game for this. Nobody is going "Oh okay, we thought your regime was illegitimate before, but now we love it!" It just hardens the resistance. Unless maybe they're thinking they can ki
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
"e.g." IS correct because uv is an example or instance of a dev tool.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Slop is just the pejorative, and pejoratives always seize upon the biggest or most obvious weakness, which in the case of these models, IS in fact the quality of the results. But I agree that even if the quality somehow turns out great, the
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Welp I'm going through my folder of notes on publishing type stuff - site generators, hosting providers, headless CMSs, all-in-one platforms, etc. First time seeing it all at the same time and being able to compare features/workfl
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
More like among the things you could stumble on at random, a greater proportion of them are things you're not interested in. You incur more of a burden of intentionality/effort. Less like discovering, where something happens to yo
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
That's fine until, for example and by analogy, you go to the store to buy beer, and you don't particularly care for IPA, but IPAs have crowded out half the beers that used to be there including the one you used to sit back and enj
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
There are two reasons to doubt that. One is that people's opinions change after they have voted. The other is that there is enough evidence of 2024 election "anomalies" to consider the vote itself suspect.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
"Doing too much" such that they move faster is called opposing them and losing, and really still consists of not doing enough. Doing enough to stop them (i.e. opposing them and winning) is doing enough.
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
You're saying anyone using force to enforce the Constitution (yes, the current one, thanks for specifying) is automatically acting illegitimately. The Constitution isn't a nonviolence treatise; nowhere in it does it forbid the use
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by rdiddly 9mo ago
Look up the word allegory. You're not a character in the allegory.

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