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by ryandvm 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. Twitter and Parler are going to turn into 4chan. Cesspools sure, but not something sane people are interested in participating in.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I like this vibe. I too am at the "nobody knows what they're doing and nothing really matters" stage of life.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Indeed. I posit that as we get closer and closer to simulating how the human brain works in the pursuit of artificial intelligence, we're going to start seeing more and more of the same "bugs" that humans have (logical fallac
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Bingo. You're leaving because you're not being treated fairly. That was the breach of trust.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
WebP and APNG both support looping with far better compression than GIF.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Not to mention that there's something deeply ironic about taxing the stupid to pay for education.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Yeah, I got the Pixel 6 when it was on sale a couple months ago. Amazing camera and buttery OS, but damn that thing was just huge to me. Also the on-screen fingerprint reader was only about 90% accurate which was just frustrating enough to
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by ryandvm 4y ago
The 10,000 hours thing is A) probably more workforce folklore than fact, and B) about becoming an expert, but you don't need to be an expert to switch careers. Hell, you don't even need to be an expert to be highly successful. I&#
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Yup. This is an especially dangerous suggestion when you work for a government contractor. Since a lot of them have their profit margin capped at a specific percentage, the only way for them to increase total profit is by increasing the siz
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by ryandvm 4y ago
We did this at our small dev/design studio for about 5 years. It worked amazingly well. The contractors always had work and the "contract agent" got 10% of the contract in perpetuity. The downside was that we were a fairly sm
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Oof. Been there, done that. In my opinion, a major facet of maturity is figuring out that all the negative shit you think about other people is often just the things you don't like about yourself projected onto other people.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
No, you're not the only one. Whenever I've taken THC for pain it actually makes it, not worse, but more noticeable. I feel like it's a perception thing and it really just heightens my awareness of whatever pain I was dealing
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Bingo. This is something the cryptocurrency extremists just willfully refuse to acknowledge. It turns out that transaction reversibility and the ability (and willingness) of law enforcement to get involved are extremely useful tools in most
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Yeah, reading this article I was amused with the author's writing style and reminded of the "Things I Won't Work With" blog. Lo and behold, it's the same guy.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
We're going to finally crack general AI and we'll have a slew of new problems related to AI mental health care. "Sorry, the presentation isn't ready. My AI had a psychotic break over the weekend."
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Averting the mid-life crisis is overrated. I'm 45. I'm at least halfway through my turn. I'm definitely feeling the mid-life blues. I wonder if I'm wasting my life slinging bits for companies that probably won't exi
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Interesting. It looks basically like what you'd expect if a "reflection" pattern had evolved in nature (e.g. on a butterfly wing). It looks like a reflection, but logically it does not make sense. It just has the right cons
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Well... conservation of energy is just a law within our universe. Everything in here is energy, e=mc^2 and all that. But the creation of our universe definitely involved some process that dumped a shit ton of energy into a very small space
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Yes. Ford and GM are both starting to produce electric crate motors: https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/why-fords-electric-crate...
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I'm generally not a fan of paternalistic license clauses, but I dunno, I think I could get behind an open source license clause that prohibited click-through user agreements. In my opinion, they are a complete nuisance with no upside.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I suppose the next time Musk tries to buy something that costs $44 billion dollars he should do a little more homework. Waiving due diligence, though perfectly in line with his trollish vibe, is something he's going to regret for years
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by ryandvm 4y ago
"TV dinners bad for you" sounds an awful lot like "Walmart shopping liked to early mortality". Entirely believable, but I have my doubts anyone could untangle the confounding sociological factors.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Because the corporations would no longer have a record that a politician actually voted in their favor. They would be donating to campaigns based on rhetoric alone. Therefor the representatives would have no incentive for voting anything
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Getting money out of politics would be a great reform (removing lobbyists, campaign finance reform, etc.). It also strikes me as almost impossible to implement. It's like getting the president of a company to switch to system whereby l
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by ryandvm 4y ago
The UK is culturally isolated, geographically isolated, and politically isolated. They are about as European as Mexico is North American which is to say it's technically true, but practically false.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Came here to say exactly that. No reputation could be stirling enough and no security practices tight enough to convince me that ANY entity should be receiving EVERY SINGLE KEY STROKE that I make in my browser. I would not send all that dat
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by ryandvm 4y ago
One thing that surprises me whenever Discworld comes up is that nobody ever mentions Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. I get that it doesn't really tie into any of the other story arcs, but it is indeed a Discworld book (the 28
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Hmm. We really ARE created in his image - at least I am.
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by ryandvm 4y ago
I've been writing Python forEVER and the one thing I fail to comprehend about it is how the dependency situation on Python only gets worse. It has somehow surpassed pre-nvm Node for being a total dependency clusterfuck. What are we usi
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by ryandvm 4y ago
Ah, the old Looney Tune hole in the floor trick.

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