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by rjbwork 2y ago
> I don't understand why a new party has not formed to leave the batshit crazies behind. Because when hyperspaces of political positions are projected onto a one dimensional binary, to choose to form a new party guarantees that one
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by rjbwork 2y ago
>Do you dare help the police, when you never know if they consider you friend or foe. No, never. Give the minimum required information and try to exit the interaction as soon as possible. You are always considered foe, and likewise, sh
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by rjbwork 2y ago
It gives control to the node operator. You join a node on the basis that you like the operator and trust them to federate responsibly. The end user is along for the ride with the node operator.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
While true, a lot of the time the problem is organization. Complexity exists and our job as engineers is to wrestle with it and organize it into a grokkable whole. Something being messy and needing a rewrite or significant refactor is oft
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Sure, but that's not going to happen. Americans are extremely divided culturally and we are atomized and alienated socially and economically. There is no widespread class consciousness and until the comfortable middle class starts mi
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by rjbwork 2y ago
My point is that there's no legitimate solution outside of what I've stated. Either guardrails like courts and some level of bureaucracy will hold and they'll spend 4 years thrashing against those guardrails, still doing a t
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by rjbwork 2y ago
It's too late for anyone but congressional Republicans to step up and impeach him and remove him from office. I wouldn't hold my breath. Buckle up.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
> Why did we not end up with something like ... Because that's anti-thetical to control. The biggest sin in a technology business is allowing your customers to stop using your product with no negative consequences for them.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
>Somehow, the only technology which technically allows direct 1-many relationships between a small group of builders and a vast number of users, managed to create an industry which actively prevents and disincentives such relationships.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
So if a presidential promises to execute all of his opposition in the legislature and execute the judges that disagree with him and execute anyone in the bureaucracy that fails to obey his orders, and then he gets elected, and then he does
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by rjbwork 2y ago
I've always loved this bit from SlateStarCodex (go to section VI): https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/30/legal-systems-very-dif...
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Lehto's Law did a video on this recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zewe9DWLEG8
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Indeed. I have a brain tumor (not cancerous and controlled by medication) and for a few years after diagnosis I had to get MRI's every few months for the first year, then one every year for a few years. It was a bit nerve wracking th
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Am I the only one that had the immediate thought of "this seems intentional" when they read that they're offering the credit for a newer pixel?
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by rjbwork 2y ago
>On that note, since I was participating in the hiring, I will say that we had a shocking amount of low effort and AI-written responses to the posting. Also put an entry up on the monthly hiring thread a few years ago. Even though we ex
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by rjbwork 2y ago
And has less cultural cachet.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Not really. You'll just be given a minimum passing grade, socially promoted, and ultimately pushed out of the education system having "graduated". Functionally illiterate, scientifically ignorant, and innumerate.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
For providers with a history of high quality PA requests and high approval rates, there is something similar. See https://www.uhc.com/news-articles/newsroom/gold-card Other insurers have similar programs.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Unfortunately we're in a global prisoner's dilemma. Nobody wants the future we're all desperately racing towards building.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
>For the purpose of AGI, LLM are starting to look like a local maximum. I've been saying it since they started popping off last year and everyone was getting euphoric about them. I'm basically a layman - a pretty good programm
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Obviously there's a method called LoadBooks. The implementation of LoadBooks is what I'm talking about.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Turns out humans are not soulless automatons and like to do favours for the people they work with and are friendly with from time to time.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
I'm mostly just being playful with a fun conspiracy theory. But, McDonald's and Middleby (current parent company of Taylor), are both publicly traded. Previous parent companies of Taylor were also publicly traded. It's not
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by rjbwork 2y ago
I thought it was intentional because the people that control McDonalds corporate also have shares in the ice cream machine vendor and use it as an additional vector to squeeze franchisees for their own enrichment?
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by rjbwork 2y ago
>1 This is one of my pet peeves. I had an engineer recently wrap Dapper up in a bunch of functions. Like, the whole point of dapper to me is that it gets out of your way and lets you write very simple, declarative SQL database interact
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Yeah it was intended to be easy to learn to people familiar with SQL. LINQ2SQL and Entity Framework are basically a way to query your database by constructing an abstract representation of your query using strongly typed bindings in your a
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Moderation is censorship, because moderation is an editorial choice. The fallacy is that all censorship is bad, not that moderation is censorship. Not all content needs to be given consideration in all contexts. In fact, if that were som
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by rjbwork 2y ago
I tend to agree that change is possible and you can learn to steer, but that too is no choice.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
>Thoughts came out of nowhere, I had no control over them; often the constant, unceasing flow of thought was distressing and uncomfortable. I want to touch on this. "You" never have any control of your thoughts, because "
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by rjbwork 2y ago
It's for 4k. The lower res settings are far less. If you want a premium experience in a premium resolution you should have premium gear. Makes sense to me.

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