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by sterlind 1y ago
what's the meaning of the one you said is rather clear?
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by sterlind 1y ago
I still don't get billionaire populism. like just fundamentally, I do not understand how Musk and Trump built this image that they're men of the people. there are weak spots, though. Luigi Mangione became a folk hero for murdering
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by sterlind 1y ago
my experience using LLM-powered tools (e.g. copilot in agent mode) has been underwhelming. like, shockingly so. like not cd-ing to the wrong dir where a script is located, and getting lost, disregarding my instructions to run ./tests.
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by sterlind 1y ago
(not Peter.) she can only be denaturalized if: 1. she lied or concealed any past convictions (or maybe other information) on her visa/GC/citizenship application. in the past they only went after serious omissions like felonies, bu
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by sterlind 1y ago
> Obviously we do not need to litigate undocumented immigrants before deporting them. why not just shoot them? seems less cruel than deporting them to an active war zone in Libya or South Sudan, or incarcerating them for life in CECOT
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by sterlind 1y ago
the Constitution entitles all persons in the US to have due process, including aliens: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-5/r... reversing that case law would be a bit much even for Alito, I
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by sterlind 1y ago
that was in May? Jesus, every fucking month has felt like a year.
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by sterlind 1y ago
Brian Thompson was uniquely unsympathetic. he wasn't well-known, his wife had separated from him, and nearly everyone has a personal experience of some family member being fucked over by health insurance, with UnitedHealth being especi
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by sterlind 1y ago
blue states ought to defy the Federal government. the closest we've gotten so far this term was California threatening to withold income tax. the less power the states have to determine their own destiny in the country, the less respec
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by sterlind 1y ago
the IR-6 centrifuges are each the size of scuba tanks, and they double as little storage tanks. you can stuff several centrifuges full of 60% heu in a shed. Iran will have squirreled some away in dozens of sites. to resume enrichment they c
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by sterlind 1y ago
that was the premise of Mary Lou Jepsen's startup, OpenWater. I was fascinated by it but I'm not sure what became of it.
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by sterlind 1y ago
we really need immigration reform. companies prefer H1B workers because they can treat them like indentured servants: they're bound to the company that sponsored their visa, and have only 60 days to find a new job if fired or they&#x27
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by sterlind 1y ago
having three is interesting because it gives a way to break ties. how do they handle candidates with mixed ethnicity, though? or the Serbians and Croatians converging, while the Bosnians move farther apart from both?
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by sterlind 1y ago
what a wonderful work of whimsy! well wrought. I'd love to have a library of these, so I could pipe text into `penny`, `brainrot`, `pony`, `newspeak`, `corporate`, `scp`, `trek` etc. have you published the training notebook somewhere?
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by sterlind 1y ago
the problem I had with Dafny was the automated prover abruptly driving off a complexity cliff. the strategy is to build "tactic" functions that don't run at runtime but discharge a proof obligation at compile time. I'd b
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by sterlind 1y ago
this is the first time I've heard of Christadelphianism. I looked it up, expecting it to have cult-like beliefs, but it really seems pretty unobjectionable to me. I would feel more at ease around you and your Brethren than with Presbyt
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by sterlind 1y ago
thousands of theologians over hundreds of years probably passed it around until the '90s, when a few learned HTML and put it online. I doubt the website's authors were the first.
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by sterlind 1y ago
stripping away the rope leaves a thread, and stripping away a man's riches leaves him poor. give it away, in other words.
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by sterlind 1y ago
if you don't have a RAT you need the APU for emergency power if your engines fail in flight.
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by sterlind 1y ago
I don't see any traces of Putler on the silkscreen.
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by sterlind 1y ago
I read that the FCC really started cracking down on EM interference because early microcomputers were serious offenders. I'm guessing that's why there's a humongous RF shield inside my Amiga 1200.
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by sterlind 1y ago
Plus my Kayfabe system [0], which was partly inspired by Ron Pressler's article on trace validation: 0. https://conf.tlapl.us/2020/11-Star_Dorminey-Kayfabe_Model_ba...
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by sterlind 1y ago
Atrus? is that you?
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by sterlind 1y ago
nope. they're not giving the remainder of terminated grants to other institutions. they're also blatantly impounding Congressionally authorized funding, in violation of the Impoundment Control Act (e.g. with all the USAID grants.)
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by sterlind 1y ago
this thread's premise assumes AI will make "developers" obsolete. jotjotzzz's comment assumes that AI will create new jobs to replace the old ones. assuming the premise of the thread, that some hypothetical AI replaces
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by sterlind 1y ago
if robotics hasn't been solved yet, I'll become a robotics researcher. if robotics is solved, I'll research autonomous research. if automated research and robotics are solved, there are no more jobs. in any industry. at leas
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by sterlind 1y ago
Why can't AI do the new jobs it just created?
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by sterlind 1y ago
prestige journals are good for careers, but are they good for science? I don't think I've ever read a CS or math paper in Nature or Science that's blown me away. all the classics are on arxiv.
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by sterlind 1y ago
platforms in general seem to be a pathological edge case for capitalism. capitalism is healthy when companies have to compete and innovate, rather than sitting on their assets like feudal lords. academic publishers and social media sites ar
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by sterlind 1y ago
if your company itself modified the GPL software, you can't demand the modified source code from your boss. if your company purchased modified GPL software from a third party vendor , your company's legal department could force

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