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by roxolotl 2y ago
The theory here is democrats on average are more educated, wealthier, and in more of a position to prove they are citizens. Don’t have an opinion on that. But it’s something I know many democrats around me have said.
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by roxolotl 2y ago
In addition to all of the other comments a good analogy I'd heard in the past is related to plumbing. If 80% of the way into building a house you realize you want to swap the bathroom and the living room you'd be laughed at. The p
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by roxolotl 2y ago
It doesn’t even have to necessarily be intentional lying. It is a strongly held belief that regulations are unfair and close businesses. Even many of those in favor of them think of them more as a bitter pill than as something that’s a genu
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by roxolotl 2y ago
Absolutely agree that merit is real and exists. I think DEI/AA though is actually trying to make society more meritocratic along the lines of performance. It is a thumb on the scale. But not of what is considered instead of who is cons
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by roxolotl 2y ago
It is a statement on where we are today that this was flagged today but not 2019
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by roxolotl 2y ago
I think it’s pretty clear that the strawman is, at least, the actual loudest opinion. Maybe it’s not the majority but if you look at the backlash against DEI you very clearly see that those claiming DEI is to blame for the current ills of s
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by roxolotl 2y ago
I’m so curious how the current administration views the position of the USD. From the outside it seems like they don’t really understand it. And it’s totally possible that’s just true. But I find it hard to believe at least a few don’t unde
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by roxolotl 2y ago
Yea I’d love to know the answer to this. Of course you can just download petabytes of data but I imagine there’s gotta be more to it than just rclone. Or maybe it is that simple.
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by roxolotl 2y ago
There is no such thing as benign scientific work. Questioning the nature of reality at its core is a radical act. As we’re seeing with tons of biology research there are right and wrong questions. It is only time till that spreads.
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by roxolotl 2y ago
I’ve been struggling with this. I’ve recently started using a new handle as a way to distance myself a bit. I wouldn’t expect it to hold up under scrutiny though. And then I wonder about the moral obligation to say what is right. So is it w
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by roxolotl 2y ago
The US government doesn’t run in the way they are acting like it does. The executive branch exists to execute laws as written by congress; it’s in the name. If congress passed no laws the president would have nothing to do besides negotiate
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by roxolotl 2y ago
It never fails to amaze me how little we learn from the past. I wish I knew if it was unique to software development or all industries suffer from this level of hubris. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06&#x2
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by roxolotl 2y ago
I'm actively watching it for the first time and this part: "a system you asked for, to keep you safe." I don't recognize. Looked into it a bit and it started out and only the last season has all of what you quoted. It&#x
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by roxolotl 2y ago
One of the things that’s hard about these discussions is that behind them is an obscene amount of money and hype. She’s not responding to realists like you. She’s responding to the bulls. The people saying these tools will be able to run th
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by roxolotl 2y ago
Good interviews are the antidote to this. Outside of certain fields ability to do leet code puzzles does not correlate with job performance. An interview where you do some realistic work is the direction we should be moving. Build some smal
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by roxolotl 2y ago
I wonder how much help probably having tons of guides in its training material is. This really does feel like the sort of test that’s actually interesting for evaluating how general these AI can be especially compared to the existing tests.
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by roxolotl 2y ago
To add to all the anecdotes I enjoy barefoot running to this day. I was never able to run with shoes very well and without them I run 10-15 miles a week at a 8:30 pace. Totally get it might not be for everyone but it helps me enjoy somethin
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by roxolotl 2y ago
But why must it be free? Immense amounts of money are being thrown around and at the first suggestion that maybe the thing that underpins their work should be paid for they say it’s infeasible. If you listen to Altman the future is going to
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by roxolotl 2y ago
> But this is technology, in my opinion, has the risk of eventually triggering a form of social stratification. The focus should be on keeping the technology ubiquitous, accessible, and unrestricted. But this is exactly what proposals li
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by roxolotl 2y ago
Oh yea absolutely. But like you’re saying in your edit it might take a long time to get there. I think also in order to get there we have to acknowledge where we are.
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by roxolotl 2y ago
The secret is that looking to work as a way to fulfill that desire to build and create is not a good idea. The existence of industrial farming takes no joy from my backyard garden. My usage of Gen AI doesn’t diminish the wonder I feel build
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by roxolotl 2y ago
Right but you would expect an administration of the party which likes to yell about free speech to come out and try to reduce the concerns about free speech restrictions. As a self labeled free speech crusader Musk should be absolutely dist
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by roxolotl 2y ago
So I preface this by saying there’s 0 evidence that chronic wasting disease can target humans. The one thing you can’t kill by cooking are prions. I’ve had a good deal of venison from regions where chronic wasting disease is now prevalent a
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by roxolotl 2y ago
Is this really that surprising? It used to, still is?, be considered a bad idea to follow those install suggestion where it’s `/bin/bash -c $(curl example.com/install.sh)`. These tools are basically that but even more risky
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by roxolotl 2y ago
Both you and this post can be correct. It is the case that being a software dev is a position of relative privilege. It is also the case that many people feel burnt out, the system doesn't support them, and labor solidarity is importan
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Plex price increases for 2025, remote streaming of personal media no longer free(appleinsider.com)
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by roxolotl 2y ago
Don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to say we shouldn’t attempt to mitigate fraud. I’m saying that when presented with a problem it is important to apply a cost benefit analysis to the solution. This problem is relatively small. The proposed
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by roxolotl 2y ago
This is a cool idea but the execution is very clearly a way to make money off of conspiracy theorists. I asked who killed jfk and got nonsense about a conspiracy and no mention of Oswald. When I asked why it didn’t say Oswald it said the fo
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by roxolotl 2y ago
I mean… $100M of fraud is kind of a joke. Taking this statement at face value we’d be talking about a fraud rate of less than .01%. The US spent 1.3T on social security last year. A .01% loss rate would be absolutely remarkable and an incre
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by roxolotl 2y ago
In addition to the other commenters points occupying and renaming Hamilton Hall is something of a tradition at Columbia. These students were already facing criminal/civil charges where appropriate.

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