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by robbedpeter 4y ago
The best next step is canceling all the services and subscriptions except VPN and internet, then hoisting the jolly roger. I'm done pretending the studios and content creators are good faith operators. I've paid over 6 figures in
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Corporations are not people. They're autonomous entities that behave algorithmically based on the laws, policies, and rules imposed on them by shareholders, regulators, and customers. For example, Comcast is unable to deal with custom
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
It's a stereotypically analytic language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language >>For example, Mandarin Chinese has many compound words, giving it a moderately high ratio of morphemes per word, but
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Maybe SpaceX can send a few probes. I'm sure Elon would be thrilled just for the meme potential, and they could treat it as product development for navigation and reconnaissance. If it became a regular thing, they could start sending s
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Well done! Beautiful image quality, and under 11GB vram is excellent. https://github.com/EleutherAI/vqgan-clip/tree/main/notebooks I feel better about humanity when you guys roll things out. Kudos to you
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Networking and other IT fields are pretty open. Degree requirements are lazy gatekeeping by organizations too big to hire people that actually care.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Probably - I think asteroid mining will give us the best picture of what's valuable in an interstellar context. If we figure out warp drive or wormholes for effectively ftl travel, the notion of value changes significantly. Wouldn&#x27
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Filk- like folk, but for IT people.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
On the one hand, I think it's sensible to assume we'll find something better or more suitable, but in the other hand, we're dealing with fundamental physics, not consumer preference or any sort of abstraction away from functi
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Signal protocol is used between whatsapp server and endpoint, not from endpoint to endpoint. Once your message is on their server, it's decrypted, archived, inspected, and then passed to its intended recipient.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
I'm not speaking from ignorance, but a place of brutal pragmatism. I understand that mobility comes with risks and disruption and is not always a good move. It is, however, far more possible and feasible than many make it out to be, an
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
I think you might be conflating significant discomfort with financial inability. People used to uproot their families and migrate while scavenging, or dad would move to a place with better prospects while sending money back home until they&
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Whatsapp does not have e2e encryption. They encrypt message traffic in transit between endpoints and their servers, but they have visibility to the data. They can and have retrieved messages for law enforcement. End to end encryption is som
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
More likely it means most people were sleeping when it posted. The information in the comic is well documented at this point. Telemetry of any sort needs to be consensual, regulated, and enforced with an iron hand such that even Google wou
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
14 or 15, often. 18 year old adults is a recent liberal human rights innovation. There's not a whole lot of difference between humans now and humans 100,000 years ago. We have better tools and culture and knowledge, but we're phy
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Modern foods actually makes variety simpler, since you can lump them all into one food category - modern food is often slight seasoning and proportion variations on the same processed ingredients, so you don't want to eat it frequently
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
I think this is way more significant than many people think. Twitter scale information distribution is a hard problem, and tying the platform to a blockchain makes the engineering side of this impossible. You'd want your blockchain to
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Can't edit. >>following a fad diet Just sets you up for disappointment. It's better to research nutrition generally and experiment methodically, building up knowledge about how you personally react to foods, and planning w
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
If the advice comes with a story about how such and such was similar to the diets of ancestors, it's probably unscientific to the point of parody. A wide variety in your diet prevents potential harms from chronic exposure - if you eat
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
I have to use my VPN to get any sort of performance. My isp throttles the shit out of everything, but they're usually a couple months behind my VPN provider, and when they catch up I switch. I just want the fucking service I pay for wi
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Ironically resulting in many of the modern religions which eschew the use of substances.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
This topic is fun. There are lots of rabbit holes, but https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ is a glimpse into a valiant effort to figure out a path from minimal resources.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Embracing the full range of experience available to you, and using tools to achieve those states is intrinsically human. There's nothing superior or desirable about not using chemical tools to alter your state, and it's silly to t
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Melamine is cheap as hell. The lab apparatus they used is expensive but this process is really scalable. A stack of alternating graphene and layers of this material would be interesting - we're starting to get into mass produced molecu
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Or maybe just let people find whatever mental state they prefer, and if their work output is sufficient to justify their salary, fuck right off with telling other adults that they must remain sober at all times. Set rational expectations. T
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
It's also counterintuitive in that learning a new skill will not override your learned muscle memory. Your brain is awesome at incorporating context, so you won't lose any proficiency with regular keyboards. You might actually get
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
And public domain content, and content licensed for free distribution, and abandoned software. The good stuff is there too, but the legit free stuff isn't all bad.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
And even in the case of billion parameter models, explainability isn't as opaque or mysterious as it's made out to be. You can step through inferences and identify the semantics of individual neurons and clusters and layers. It to
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Crime statistics only work if they're recorded honestly. Lots of crimes are seriously underreported in Japan, but it's been getting better over the last decade or so. Humans are humans are humans. Get any large enough group of the
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Japanese culture is weird to a westerner in some ways. Their people are just as shitty and willing as any other humans to exploit for personal gain, but it's never admitted or discussed in "polite" company. If someone ripped

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