snakeyjake

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by snakeyjake 2y ago
There is no freedom freer than a techbro spitting out a venomous "freedom you're not gonna take my freedom just do what I fucking say and don't criticize me" between gritted teeth. edit: said while writing a massive chec
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
1 makes sense, somewhat. 2 sounds like a bunch of bullshit. WHICH more restrictive licensing rules? WHERE were the rules made, everywhere? There are no new rules where I live. HOW did these mythical rules impact things? WHAT the fuck is thi
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I care deeply about this because I almost fell into the loneliness chasm. I was lucky, though, because ~25 years ago I took a college course for an easy A that covered the negative health effects of loneliness. And I remembered it. There is
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
It's probably the same mechanism that relegated the sock hop to a rare anachronism. I don't have a subscription to ft.com. Is it "tastes change" or a sexier and clickbaitier mound of bullshit?
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Board games and puzzles aren’t AGI. AGI is, among many many other things, inventing games based on random objects around you when no board games exist. If you execute MuZero with no game to play will it, absent any direction, invent a game
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I have not seen a ChatGPT summary of a topic that is even remotely comparable to the first paragraph of any Wikipedia entry on a topic.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Is there some form of machine learning that doesn't produce horrifically bad slop that everyone who isn't me is using? Because there are quite a few people who appear, externally, to be somewhat intelligent who think that AGI is r
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
It's fantastic. Searching through my photo library in plain text is one of the few useful features of machine learning I've ever encountered. "But I don't want them to do it." With all due respect, quit your bitchin
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>If no one ever cared about airline quality, there would be no first-class or even economy plus class. And yet basically every airline has them. I consider 95% of all people in a population to be the "close enough please shut the fu
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
"I disagree with this decision" -literally every critic of this decision "This sounds the same as a movement where millions were forcibly relocated to be worked to death while zealots chanted slogans and firebombed political
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>It just means that, in that specific market, the pain of a lower quality product is not enough to affect their purchasing decisions much. That, what you just wrote, your own words, not my, but your, assertion, literally and explicitly m
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
If the article was wrong, those reviews wouldn't even exist because people would never assume that the HOODOOVOODOO-brand product that's 1/4th the price of something that's not named by a passphrase generator is any good
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
There was no support for images in the two pre-1.0 versions of HTTP. The two versions written by one man as experiments and used by (by reasonable interpretation) absolutely nobody. HTTP 1.0, the first "real" HTTP did indeed inclu
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
They still exist. Everywhere. Give me a zip code and I will find an independent pharmacist near it. Here's one in downtown Manhattan: https://www.elmdrugs.com/ Here's one in Fairbanks, Alaska: https://a
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Wikipedia doesn’t stop there; here’s their take on the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET): This stood out to me because I have contributed quite a bit to the Wikipedia entry for MOSFET. This illustration does not
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Projects like this convince people that all drugs are actually really easy to make, when in reality this project has carefully selected the most simple examples to make that misleading point. For the last thirty or so years ccc has main
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
When it comes to international crime, nations may only have a fraction the resources for their justice systems and will explicitly defer to the US because not only will the US often prosecute more aggressively, the Department of Justice has
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Are these Dells? Some Dells have a "feature" where something, somewhere, in their mess of a UEFI/iDRAC stack will get corrupted and will stay wrong through power cycles until you physically unplug the servers from power and h
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I have three adult daughters. None of them have children. I do not blame any of them. They are all educated professionals with stable careers, and they all pay more in rent than I do for my mortgage. If decades ago I lived in the socioecono
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>"If you going out trying to find a friend, friends are scarce. If you go out trying to be a friend, friends are everywhere." My brain solidified late, in my late 30s, but it did eventually solidify and when it did something li
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The best exhibit at the National Cryptologic Museum is the WWII-era ENIGMA (3-rotor, but still!) machine that is on display. In the open. With instructions on how to encode/decode messages using it. And little slips of paper and tiny g
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The author is an anti-"woke", Austrian-school libertarian cultist, social media stoic who thinks that women only exist to be semen receptacles. Based on his online footprint it appears as though he is obsessed with women's fe
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
They just don't understand the arrogance they exude. "We are on the path to ruin. I have foreseen it. You are all blind sheep." Bitch, humanity is fine. Get over yourself.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
> It's impossible to design a nuclear waste store that lasts 10000 years Please help me understand. Society isn't going to "forget" nuclear chemistry. It is perfectly possible to design a container that will remain in
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I wish the people romanticizing or fetishizing Kowloon Walled City could have been forced to live there. They remind me of the urban planners of the 50s and 60s who designed dense barren concrete monstrosities for the proles to live in as p
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I was an infantryman in the US Army from 1998-2008. I used the GI Bill and Army College Fund to pay for my bachelors. I deployed to "tHe KiLl ZoNe" twice with C Co 1/503rd infantry and A Co 1/23rd infantry.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I used to build fantastic little things the likes of which no human being had ever seen before that have killed many, many, people including (if reports from that side of the company are right, and they are) thousands and thousands of Russi
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
How many years of experience? I fall almost exactly on the low end of this range: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/senior-aerospace-engineer... With 15 years of experience. I'm at the low end of my peers. Like I
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The linux kernel is dual-use.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
My employer cannot hire H-1Bs. You must be a US citizen to work for my company. No "US Persons" (visa holders) or foreigners allowed. You have to be eligible for a Secret security clearance. You don't have to get one if you d

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