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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I was reminded how fucked the modern web is a couple years ago when I encountered a so-fast-it-felt-like-local-static-html website dashboard that could have been a "web app", but wasn't. It was being hosted on another conti
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
40 minutes realizing they need to update Zoom, updating Zoom, then trying to figure out why their mic isn't working.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
It wasn’t some other user posting this. Their own software was generating the responses. That’s not 230.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Altman needed to convince companies these things were on the verge of becoming a machine god, and their companies risked being left permanently behind if they didn’t dive in head-first now . That’s what all the “safety” stuff was and why h
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I like this framing even better. This is similar to my take on things like Facebook apparently not being able to operate without psychologically destroying moderators. If that’s true… seems like they just shouldn’t operate , then. If you’r
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
They have some responsibility because they’re selling and framing these as more than the better-tuned variant on Markov chain generators that they in fucking fact are, while offering access to them to anybody who signs up while knowing th
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Most safety & security dysfunction stories: high level management-tier misaligned incentives, incompetence, and ignorance, overriding the expert advice of mere peons, leading to predictable catastrophes (not to mention, usually, extra c
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I actually think that if we're going to tax-privilege capital gains to a huge degree over wages, it's entirely appropriate for the government to claim some small chunk of non-voting, least-privileged (both to avoid conflicts of in
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I had a Duron chip that, for like two full years in the early '00s, would've required an Intel chip about double the price to beat it. That was wild. I assume the Celeron line in particular only hung on through that period via con
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Dozens of junk emails per day. I don't think it has anything to do with being American. I used to try to manage it with filters and unsubscribing and such, but at some point I realized I go years at a time without receiving emails from
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
> Says who? Uh, labor costs? I guess we could work to lower those, though. Like, a lot lower. Meanwhile if the $2 wholesale-in-China shirt costs $30 on the shelf due to tariffs and the identical-quality US-made one costs $40 because that
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Notably, this was basically never true of the modern, post-Nixon and post-authoritarian-christian-courting Republican voters . They (and a lot of democratic voters!) were always skeptical of things like very-liberal trade policy. The gap b
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Get Out the Vote is where it's at. "True swing" (not self-reported swing, most people lie because they think being a swing voter is more socially desirable, I suppose) is indeed a tiny sliver. It's about convincing your
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Combine a very-high necessary floor of funding for a wasteful Red Queen's Race opened up by Citizens United, and a bad system of elections that guarantees only two stably-viable parties, and you've got a system where money may not
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
This has gotten a lot more complex to accurately track since Citizens United. Campaign spending isn't even close to the actual total spent on a campaign, any more.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
1) This is, amusingly, kind of a shift back to when portraits had to be painted. 2) This seems very similar to me to those weird fuzzy double-exposure, heavily posed portraits that used to be really popular, or in general not that different
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
> Right... but now that is (arguably) cost competitive with American labor and manufacturing. Or at least it's more cost competitive than it otherwise would be. This won't work for clothes. We'd need Wal-mart shoppers to b
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
The real harm of the sunscreen thing is that the FDA being weirdly far behind the rest of the OECD at approving new agents means we're stuck with stuff that's a pain to apply and feels gross to wear. This harms health, because peo
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Approximately all of those kinds of books are ghost-written. People with money who aren't otherwise authors only very rarely write their own books. It takes a lot of time, and business "leader" sorts especially are extremel
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
> However, our current insurance industry based system (colloquially known as the ACA or Obamacare) has caused "health care" to pivot away from providing medical treatment to individual patients, and toward a system of "he
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
> I heard that east-coast mafias had something to do with the over-the-top levels of cronyism involved I'm in a fairly densely-populated part of the east coast and we have lots of options for trash hauling, and none of them are &quo
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
With the really young kids you could lead with One Hundred Years of Solitude . There are lots of times you're not really showing them pictures in the book—or they're too young even for that, really, can't focus their eye
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
That's a dream come true... provided they fix multi-accounts and game visibility/accessibility in the Steam UI. I already have a Steam Deck that I can't let my kids touch, which is stupid. I can't hook something like thi
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
PCs are different for a few reasons, for me. One big part's the library. I can still play Steam games I bought when the Gamecube was current. My Gamecube games do not work on the Switch. My Dreamcast games certainly don't! The lib
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Video drivers & hardware are a plague on both Windows and Linux. Hell, adding a discrete video card to the config was even a way to increase your odds of serious problems with a Mac by a large multiple, back in the Intel Mac days. Any c
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
Part of the trouble is that an Earth with "ruined" habitability (let's throw together both severe climate change and also a nuclear exchange, why not?) is still far better & easier to live on than anywhere else we know ab
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
> We are destined for the stars. The stars suck, though. Even Mars is entirely awful. Like, that's not very different from "we're destined for Hell". Not an inspiring sentiment, right? It's really bad. How awfu
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
They’re proof you learned the topic well enough to coherently write a very-few pages about it. That’s what they’re for. Making them open book + AI would just mean you need “larger” questions to be as effective a test, so you’re adding work
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
K.
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by slipperydippery 1y ago
I think we’re going to be dealing with so many things in ten years that this’ll hardly even register.

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