sethammons

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by sethammons 3mo ago
The other day, i was fed up with my mac webcam software. I just needed to fix being washed out. Every piece of software I found cost money, several were a monthly subscription. Over lunch, Claude made a minimal toolbar app that lets me adju
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Is this a pro-bribery comment?
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Instead of making mice seek out cats, this one encourages poor public health policies in people.
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Probably all of the behaviors. Life is resource management of inputs and outputs, and every niche has unique constraints. Pure sexual selection can lead to interesting solutions, but are still grounded in constraints.
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by sethammons 3mo ago
There is a missing word. "Make" is too loose and people disagree that it applies because they disagree on the base meaning of the word. "Commission" is much closer to what is happening, but I am not sure it is it. "
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by sethammons 3mo ago
> sorry, wont make it. Appointment. Ok > sorry, wont make it. Stupid appointment. Banned!
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by sethammons 3mo ago
So no discussion happened and they were left uninformed? I talk through things with my family and share different takes and sources. Some are unhinged and called out. But usually there is lots of common ground. And sometimes changed options
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by sethammons 3mo ago
I think this is wildly wrongheaded. The socially polite "no politics" is a critical insulator allowing normally non-socially acceptable behavior to grow. I am convinced it is those in power not wanting an informed populace. We are
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by sethammons 3mo ago
I immediately took it to be a slick 2001 reference. Devs tell computers what to do. Computers tell Daves "I can't do that."
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by sethammons 3mo ago
The doctor from Idiocracy: it says your shit's fucked up.
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by sethammons 3mo ago
We are getting ai responses from cloud providers. From both aws and google, my teams have received obviously ai generated and non-applicable advice. The latest was that we need to write in object pooling in their client code, an option that
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by sethammons 3mo ago
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Item one: find and complete abandoned check lists. Item two: forget this checklist exists I mostly kid. My life is ruled by checklist, alarms, and calendars. I have a single notebook with a carry forward pressing items style checklist. Two
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Everyone I know who says they want government ran more like a business are actually saying "if a business was that inefficient, it would cease to exist." They are quoting $500 hammers and tossing around tax money like, well, tossi
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Glacier park had 150 glaciers in the mid 1800s. Today it has 26. No crisis to see: we still have nearly 20% of what we once had /s
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by sethammons 3mo ago
That doesn't track. As a recipient, checking one location for updates (my inbox) is easier than polling N websites for updates. If I had to recall all the various websites for everything I need updates for, I'd quickly miss update
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by sethammons 3mo ago
When working in Elixir, everything is about the shape of things. I have now taken that word usage from that ecosystem because I find it useful.
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by sethammons 3mo ago
In all the cases you mentioned, the banks have risk. Normal lending falls into normal economic rules. We've (effectively) removed the risk for banks with education loan. Wanting "all their money" is a translation of "acc
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Spherical cows. You are applying economic theory in a vacuum. Sure, we joked at the time we could just declare bankruptcy and keep the degree. However, show me sources showing that this was a real problem. It wasn't. Simply, people wer
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Which is it? Greed by banks. They were functionally fine up through the late nineties. The rules changed because banks wanted all their money instead of nearly all their money. This is not market economics. This is regulatory capture. Marke
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Technically true is the best kind of true. Fact: they were dischargeable. Fact: there was no crisis else rates would have already factored in. Else the argument is they were losing money overall. They wouldn't do that for literal decad
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by sethammons 3mo ago
> Everyone would do it. No, they wouldn't. Source: go back a couple decades, and student loans had low interest rates and were dischargeable in bankruptcy. It was an option. And, in fact, practically nobody did that.
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Why would it be better to not allow the debt discharged ever? That is the current situation. 7 years as a limit is better policy than "you owe this forever no matter what"
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by sethammons 3mo ago
> The full reason is that preventing bankruptcy is the only way to keep interest rates low and make the loans widely available "They are eating the dogs and cats." It simply isn't true. I got my student loans a quarter cen
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by sethammons 3mo ago
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/trump-iran-oil-insider-trad... Lmgtfy: there are many articles and plenty of analysis available. Trades are happening on prediction markets minutes before Trump announces mark
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by sethammons 3mo ago
I was experiencing daily crashes of ghostty on mac with no crash report, always during claude sessions, and after the crash, I'd lose my session. Though, now we can cmd+f to search ghostty output as of the most recent version.
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by sethammons 3mo ago
Le sigh. Fine, the punishment was you forfeit your chickens to your neighbor. Should those chickens be inedible by the new legal owner? What if they have to return them later if new evidence comes to light?
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by sethammons 3mo ago
> there shouldn’t be irreversible punishment I am not convinced. "You can no longer hold office" is a permanent punishment. Why should that not be allowed? > Also there should be equity which means everyone that does the sam
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I tie knots at the ends of my drawstrings to prevent them (mostly) from retracting
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by sethammons 3mo ago
I don't have a twitter or x account. I clicked the link, a log in modal popped up, I dismissed it, then was able to play the video. Firefox on iPhone if it matters.

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