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by rtpg 2y ago
Is that "obviously" true? Like if they had ad targetting and also let buyers of ads see aggregate results of impressions or something, that might already fall into user data being sold, right? At what point does user data stop bei
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by rtpg 2y ago
I feel like there _is_ some daylight between what people hear when someone says "Firefox is selling your data" and, for example, Firefox using your IP address to put you in a rough country-level geoblock to determine whether to sh
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by rtpg 2y ago
This is not as true as it used to be. I don't even know how true it used to be!
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by rtpg 2y ago
While for a conservative it might look like the cultural elite is opposed to these ideas, for someone who is more to the left, the "big tent" on economic issues between the 'cultural elite' and more conservative elements
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by rtpg 2y ago
the comment is, I believe, not about importance but about the relative strength of those ideas in American society. How much ink needs to be spilled defending ideas that have huge amount of backing, even among people who theoretically are i
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by rtpg 2y ago
Do you know if there's a good rule of thumb for how different that ratio might be? I do like having some quantitative ballpark to go along with the qualitative texture
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by rtpg 2y ago
My SO is basically like "fruits _are_ filled with sugar" and they're not wrong. It feels pretty hard to make strong qualitative judgements on this stuff. Feels better than a snickers bar, surely? The only real thing that feel
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by rtpg 2y ago
Fruits are kind of amazing. A tasty apple cut up into slices is more delicious than more or less any concoction Mars & co. can come up with. Even more "gnarly" stuff like figs, eating them just generates such a positive reacti
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by rtpg 2y ago
do internal recommendations not end up in the same pipeline (+/- one step)? Or is it that with internal recommendations you at least have someone on the inside following up?
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by rtpg 2y ago
If you lean into more 1:1 mappings (not that a model can't hold FKs to submodels), then everything gets stupid easy. Not that what you're saying is hard... just if you lean into 1:1 it's _very easy_. At least for Django that&
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by rtpg 2y ago
I do feel like it's ... a good thing if we can move away from "stuff is stored on servers and downloaded over and over and over to other servers in an arbitrary region". I know that places like Circle already do a lot of stuf
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by rtpg 2y ago
Similar to computer clubs, I really liked doing coding days in various small communities in Tokyo (in Japanese they're called moku moku kai). The Python minihackathon[0] group model was particularly great. You show up, write a line or
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by rtpg 2y ago
Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate your priors and how you determine which kind of politician to support. This isn't a direct endorsement of alternatives, but if you considered your material conditions I think you would likely not l
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by rtpg 2y ago
I've seen the alphagrip, but is it an easy thing to get used to? Like does it kind of map similar fingers to similar buttons?
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by rtpg 2y ago
Regarding the comment about using the laptop in a hammock… I really wish I could have some sort of keyboard that was “good for typing” but that I could just hold onto in my hands. Many times I would like to type something up, but don’t want
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by rtpg 2y ago
> things will tend to become more disordered over time, because there are just more ways to be disordered than ordered. Isn't this a bit underspecified? Like a marble in a bowl has plenty of positions it can be in, but it tends to e
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by rtpg 2y ago
Fair enough. I think it’s possible to do a lot of things at once but if you have a “fixed” budget you really should just order by effectiveness. Fungibility is pretty context dependent
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by rtpg 2y ago
If you're doing the book-keeping on that stuff, though, comparing to the status quo.. that charcoal that is on the crops used to be some fertilizer that also was being transported, right? You have to be careful not to double-count prog
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by rtpg 2y ago
Maybe I'm just stupid but if all the planes in the world used biofuels, wouldn't that mean that flying is net-zero carbon (at least as it comes to fuel consumption)? Like you do your flying, release CO2, but that CO2 gets captured
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by rtpg 2y ago
cool talk, respect him making the point in 20 minutes. There's a lot of levels of applying this when programming, not just with LLM usage.
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by rtpg 2y ago
Over and over again I have witnessed people just drive themselves in circles downstream of a refusal to just step out of the “make the LLM fix the issue for me” loop. At one point the syntax and the specifics matter! * and + have different
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by rtpg 2y ago
There are plenty of criciticisms about the means by which he was prosecuted but "others get a pass but he doesn't" is not a great way of thinking about this. If the government decides to get more serious about this stuff, the
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by rtpg 2y ago
jj makes it super easy to "fix up" your commit tree to what you want it to look like. "Oh I forgot to make a change in this commit and I'm 4 commits in..." -> "I can go change that commit and everything else
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by rtpg 2y ago
Are talented Japanese researchers emigrating to China? Not that I don't think there's good work going on there, but my impression from the outside is it's extremely competitive. I definitely knew a lot of people who end up he
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by rtpg 2y ago
Unfortunately my merging experience has been mixed. I find the idiosyncratic merge markers to be overtly futzy (why are you indenting everything by a single character?), and the conflict resolution still is quite hand-hold-y. It's neve
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by rtpg 2y ago
I have been finding the workflow I described to be quite helpful, because it also provides me a scratchpad that I associate to the branch. And since the tip is never the git head so when I have to fallback to git I'm "sure" I
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by rtpg 2y ago
Workflow-wise I was struggling a bit to figure out how to work with the bookmarks in jj not moving along. I now have a bit of a new strategy: - When starting up a branch, right up the "final commit message", along with a bunch of
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by rtpg 2y ago
Trash fires are definitely a rare occurrence in Tokyo, the bigger chaos generation is some bird poking at a trash bag and causing stuff to fly all over. Though apparently there are about 50 trash truck fires a year? Mostly from batteries in
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by rtpg 2y ago
I mean you can just go to the streets in Shibuya at night, loads of people leave their cans wherever. Or if you head out to random small towns in Saitama and see residential spots with plenty of garbage. And you can get into the pathologica
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by rtpg 2y ago
Near my building it was the building manager. Most shops it's just a shop member that cleans up the stuff by the shop. At the McDonalds there's a staff member _constantly_ roving around cleaning tables up and picking up trash peop

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