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by rpdillon 8mo ago
An armed populace creates a huge risk for a federal paramilitary force descending on a municipality with the intent to terrorize the citizens. They're not rolling in with tomahawks and tanks, they're coming in with assault rifles
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Footlong Spicy Italian at Subway ($10 sandwich) is 1320 cals. EDIT: the trend holds pretty well at the footlong size (which is a big sandwich). 18/26 sandwiches they offer are >1000 calories.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Yeah, I mean the first thing we all do when we get one giant unified inbox is write a bunch of rules to break it back out to a set of folders so that we can triage it appropriately. Slack channels just do this from the get go.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
The problem is that I spend hours explaining the actual technical nature of what we're doing to the legal team and I feel that there's often some kind of breakdown in communication because they don't understand the underlying
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Right, and then the legal teams tell me they don't care, and we should put up the cookie banner anyway. I feel like you didn't read my original comment.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Agreed! Many sites don't actually comply with the GDPR because they don't provide simple tools to control the cookies and instead force you through a flow. Part of my gripe with the law is the way those violations are not being sy
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
It's a site where they log in and we store a cookie.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Laws should be evaluated on the effect they actually have on society, rather than the effect that we wish they had on society. I am very critical of laws that fail this test, and I think they should be updated to improve their performance.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Having worked at multiple companies and talked to multiple legal teams about this, they tend to be very conservative. So the guidance I've gotten is that if we store any information at all on the person's computer, even to know wh
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Everyone is keying on forced free labor, but that's not really the proposed solution when an open-source project ends. The fact that it ends is a given, the question then is what to do about all the users. Providing an offramp (migrat
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
I'm noticing this argument a lot these days, and I think it stems from something I can't define - "soft" vs. "hard" or maybe "high-trust" vs "low-trust". I always warned people that if they
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
The director intended to make a satire, but critics (and mrob) assert that he failed to do so.
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Yeah, I just looked at the tags for the genre on IMDB, and confirmed "Satire" wasn't there for Starship Troopers, but is there for other satires. Thanks for the language lesson. You're of course correct, but "refute
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by rpdillon 8mo ago
Just some examples. If you watch the hearings from two days ago, you'll see that DOJ refuses to interview or speak to the victims to gather more info, and ignored a report from DJT's limo driver that he spoke with a (now deceased)
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
For fellow HN'ers reading this epically long back and forth: sig appears to be taking the more mainstream stance that Starship Troopers is satire. This is reinforced my popular interpretations from, say, Wikipedia, but refuted by other
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
It seems there are 2000 positions and 8000 applicants. The program cost $74M, but more than paid for itself: > It also recouped more than the trial's net cost of 72 million euros ($86 million) through increases in arts-related expen
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
The lockdown has been slow and steady. Slow enough that at every juncture, apologists point out that it is still possible to run software you choose. I think we enjoy freedom that people do not appreciate because they never had to earn it
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I really wish people would stop trying to innovate with user interfaces. In a comment below you criticize this UI because it doesn't have delimited interface elements. I agree that non-delimited user interface is really bad, but I attr
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Well, I don't know what you've tried, but apparently it all has microtransactions and DLCs. Try Blue Prince.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I've been gaming for twice as long as you. You're picking the wrong games.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
What did you think after you got into room 46 of Blue Prince?
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
This exact scenario happened with my dad 50 years ago when a little girl ran out to the street from between some parked cars. It's an extremely difficult scenario to avoid an accident in.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I've probably deleted 15 apps from my phone in the past year as I steadily move over to the web for everything. My chat agent, file transfer tool, Grubhub, Amazon, YouTube, news, weather are all deleted in favor of a set of armored bro
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Just to ground the discussion in Apple's criminal behavior a bit, here's some excerpts from a 2025 ruling about Apple's behavior in this regard: > Apple’s response to the Injunction strains credulity. After two sets of evi
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Let's not put everybody in a cage because we can't stop dumb people from walking off cliffs.
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
The 90th percentile of factory workers makes $45,000. The 90th percentile of software engineers makes $230,000. Hiring in tech is insanely expensive; I'm not familiar with hiring in factories, but it can't possibly have the supply
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
Are you worried that you're going to become subject to attestation via systemd?
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
I think it's going to be important to track. It's going to change things. I agree on your specific points about what you prefer, and that's fine. But as I said 15 years ago to some recent Berkeley grads I was working with: &q
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
To your last statement: not at all. I think releasing all the chats publicly would show that basically no one is using ChatGPT to circumvent paywalls because the model was trained on that material. As to your Ars article, I'm familiar
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by rpdillon 9mo ago
This is such an important point. As a father of two, children are turning out to be a very large investment...larger than anything else I ever will pour money into, probably by an order of magnitude (though not quite, since I have a house)

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