sirmarksalot

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by sirmarksalot 8mo ago
Yeah, the the characters kind of feel like Doonesbury characters, where they just slot in wherever they're needed at a particular moment in history. Each season's story by itself feels authentic, but when you watch their character
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by sirmarksalot 9mo ago
At the end of the day the viewer should get to see what they want to see. But in my case I usually want to see what the author had in mind, and I want my TV to respect that preference.
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by sirmarksalot 9mo ago
I wanted to like The Hobbit in 48, but it really didn't work for me. It made everything look fake, from the effects to the acting. I lost suspension of disbelief. If we want high frame rate to be a thing, then filmmakers need to figure
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by sirmarksalot 9mo ago
Not sure if it's the same thing, but nearly all cinemas are digital nowadays, and panning artifacts are absolutely still there
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by sirmarksalot 9mo ago
I keep all that stuff off my LG TV by keeping the ethernet cable unplugged and let Apple TV handle all the streaming stuff. I still somewhat resent that I need to wait for the software to boot up just to change inputs, but at least I don&#x
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by sirmarksalot 10mo ago
I tried this for a little while but quickly stopped as a critical mass of websites broke when I tried using it to sign in. Special characters in your email address is an edge case that produces inconsistent results even within a single prod
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by sirmarksalot 2y ago
Consistency is often helpful, but you also need to be wary of cargo culting. For example, you see a server back end that uses an ORM model and you figure you'll implement your new feature using the same patterns you see there. Then a m
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by sirmarksalot 2y ago
As with any of these LLM workflow automation tools, it raises a few questions about each potential use case, and the likely long-term outcomes. 1. Is this working around friction due to a lack of interoperability between tools? For example,
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by sirmarksalot 2y ago
Unless we want all those ISPs to be digging up all the streets all the time, that means we need strict regulations on sharing of physical infrastructure then, which brings us back to the CLEC/ILEC wars of the late 90s. Having each comp
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by sirmarksalot 3y ago
I sympathize with your situation, and I appreciate that you're trying to be a cool parent who accepts your daughter unconditionally for who she is, but I wonder if it's even possible to know where the limits are on that, or how mu
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by sirmarksalot 3y ago
I saw that demonstrated at the Toyota Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya. One of the tradeoffs with that is that you can't use cotton because it won't interact cleanly with the water, so it only works for synthetic fibers
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by sirmarksalot 3y ago
The cadence and format of this video actually makes it look AI-generated. The content is padded and repeats itself quite a lot, the video is pretty much all stock footage, and the audio lacks any kind of variation in style like you'd e
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by sirmarksalot 3y ago
My guess is that startup costs represent the bulk of the cost of a show. Just filming one episode probably costs somewhere on the same order of magnitude as an entire season.
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by sirmarksalot 3y ago
I think this is a straw man. I don't think any politician would ever suggest such a thing at face value unless couched in some other argument. For example, after 9/11 a politician would have said, "I respect your need for pri
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by sirmarksalot 3y ago
It's hard to say without actually knowing the internal workings of the police departments, but one thing that's happened in Seattle is that although the police budget did go up, the SPD is having a really hard time hiring, and a l
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by sirmarksalot 3y ago
I thought the issue was that "broken windows" was used as a metaphor for all low-level infractions, and not literally interpreted as "fix the windows and clean up the graffiti" as the studies recommended. This then got i
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I think that's a bit reductive. Part of what's missing here is personality, or what I would call unique mediocrity. People who have no idea what they're doing just deciding to paint a wall yellow because they feel like it. Th
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
The bigger issue is that because of the market power of these digital storefronts, it doesn't matter what your mental model of the transaction is, you don't have a choice in the matter. Yes, online stores with better terms exist,
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I take any equity language guides with a grain of salt, but how people respond to them speaks volumes about who they are. Obviously there are problems with it. It's largely performative, it can distract from bigger advocacy work, and i
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
As an end user, I would prefer to live in a world where I don't have to wait for software to respond. If forced to, I would also continue to use software where I do have to wait. Your argument that economics will dictate the best solut
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
People see something like this and say "wow, <basic human emotion/instinct> isn't doing anything for me, how can I get rid of it?" and it becomes a sort of self-gaslighting. You're worrying about the future be
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
It all depends on where their wage is on the cost/value curve. It's true that if the company is paying their employees close to their contributed value, increasing the minimum wage will put them out of a job, there often isn'
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I guess this is a distinction between intent and results. Typescript is intended to be a strict superset of Javascript. In practice, there are edge cases like these.
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
This is technically correct, but I suspect it's pretty rare that you would choose "unknown" over a generic parameter. Even if you're writing an algorithm that doesn't care about the data type, it's still probab
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Because Typescript is designed to accept any valid Javascript program, the set of valid statements in a Typescript program is a superset of the set of valid statements in a Javascript program. Typescript contains all the rules of Javascript
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
The thing is every project has mistakes. Things that aren't where they're supposed to be, that somebody means to tidy up sometime later, but just hasn't gotten around to yet. Every project has at least a little bit of a mess
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
You're arguing two separate points as if they're the same thing. Point 1: the TSA in particular is not at fault for the modern state of airport security Point 2: airport security is better than it has been since the 60s You spent
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I'm also reluctant to tell managers about my ADHD because even if they're supportive, they often have a very shallow understanding of how it works. That means they'll suggest strategies that make sense for solving the problem
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
Unions can run on autopilot for a long time, though, and their management can coast to victory if the membership is sufficiently disengaged. Old unions in particular can have a silent majority problem, where most of their members are just t
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
A union is a power structure like any other, and unions get corrupted just like anything else. They need to be maintained by their members, otherwise they will prioritize the needs of their administration over the needs of their members. It

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