scottLobster

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by scottLobster 8mo ago
Well it's all more than worth it, at least for us. But that doesn't make some of the excess judgement tedious to deal with. Kids are great at forcing you to prioritize. All of a sudden pre-ground coffee is worth it.
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
As a father of 3, one thing the wife and I had to learn over the course of the first two is that the modern world holds parents to impossible standards and a "fuck off" attitude is required for much of it. We've had pediatric
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
Yes and no. Email was designed before the internet had a constant background radiation of SPAM and bullshit, and the network has evolved accordingly. If you want to deal with the background radiation firsthand that's your prerogative,
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
Keep in mind that many secure no-cell-phone zones, even those that host classified data are still relatively physically open. The personnel allowed inside them are strictly vetted and trained to be self-policing, but it's only the thr
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
They get Social Security and Medicare, which while insufficient for many these days is a lot more than they would have gotten 100 years ago. No one is going to argue that the system is perfect or can't be improved. Good people get scr
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
I find there's an advantage to writing if I'm trying to memorize something. But if that isn't going to happen because I only did this configuration once and then never needed to reference it again for two years and now I nee
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
It was magical for about 2 years, then USB drives came along and made it look quaint.
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
I engaged just fine. If you aren't a bot you're just a troll, and a bad one
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
You either don't know how to have a conversation or are unwilling to. Enjoy hearing yourself speak
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
Are you a bot? Your name is contrarian1234 and you lack sophisticated interpretations of statements.
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
It isn't "my scenario". These are real cases. https://www.aclu-mn.org/press-releases/victory-judge-dismiss... "In his decision, Judge Cajacob asserts that the purpose and intent of Minnesota’s chil
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
Sure, but I'm not sure how AI would solve any of that. Any claims of objectivity would be challenged based on how it was trained. Public opinion would confirm its priors as it already does (see accusations of corruption or activism wi
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
Yeah, I'm reminded of the various child porn cases where the "perpetrator" is a stupid teenager who took nude pics of themselves and sent them to their boy/girlfriend. Many of those cases have been struck down by judges
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
They can do that by looking at the cars in my driveway/garage and or just watching the windows for any period of time. Plus my phone. If <insert 3 letter agency> agents are sitting outside of your house, they aren't going
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
Cool spooky concept, but seems like this could be easily foiled by shoving some aluminum foil into one's pockets or wearing thermal clothing in the winter. Or moving furniture around. My cheapo Amazon desk is steel framed, and the mon
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
That's called renting. And even renters have rights per whatever lease they signed and local laws. It's a simple formula. If you want me to be personally invested in my work and go above and beyond, then I need the motivation to
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by scottLobster 8mo ago
The irony is "ownership" is a common management talking point, but when you actually try to take ownership you inevitably run into walls of access, a lack of information, and generally a "why are you here?" mentality. Gr
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
So you'd turn your back on the knife wielding drunk guy and turn on Netflix because he hasn't managed to stab you yet? FUD stands for fear, uncertainty and doubt. If you didn't feel any of that in the previous year you haven
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
You're accusing people of moving the goalposts on the tariff conversation, the goal posts were doing backflips and jazzercise from the day they were announced. So yeah, the tariffs are still a net negative on the economy, but have been
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
If you're a contractor, it's often preferable to keep qualified people on staff even if they have nothing to do because it makes bidding for future contracts easier. You can say "I have X people qualified in Y ready to go&qu
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
Yeah, if that culture is actually widespread I imagine their deadweight is more the variety that's figured out how to game the system or has connections, rather than the "I'm going to do literally no work and watch youtube al
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
Of course it's biased. I'm just saying I find it quite believable that some program was funded 5 years ago under different financial conditions and has remained funded until now despite no longer being viable. People generally do
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
To be fair I've never worked at Amazon, but at this point they have 1.6 million employees worldwide. I don't care what their hiring brochures say, if you think they don't suffer the same ailments as every corporation that si
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
AI investment/datacenter construction was roughly 1% of US GDP in 2025 all by itself. That and people were expecting the tariffs to be consistently applied as stated, instead we got... this: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
You underestimate how sclerotic large corporations can be. I've seen people do zero work, quite visibly, at fortune 500s and not be fired for over a year.
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
Yeah I remember a few projects attempting "grid computing", where the idea was distributing application threads across CPUs over freaking ethernet. Have to say that would be a fun puzzle to try and optimize for, but network laten
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
Not to be that guy, but if the majority of sightings coming from nations capable of producing advanced military aircraft... well perhaps the aliens thought the F-15 was badass and wanted a closer look?
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
Same here, you either move past it or go crazy, if the UFO subreddits are any indication. Given the population was already obsessed with blurry clumps of pixels in short video clips, AI is going to send a lot of those people into trailers
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
Yeah, unless there's some automatic backup/snapshot implemented before any actions are taken, hard pass on this. Or at least I won't be using it on anything I'm not willing to 100% lose. Maybe give it read-only access
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by scottLobster 9mo ago
Yeah I'm less shocked that it got picked up and more how quickly it spread to literally every platform we use, even those that wouldn't have much if any hint that it was happening. There's clearly quite the active market for

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