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by sterlind 2y ago
> AFAIK the 1st Amendment is about whether the government can prevent you from speaking, not there are 0 consequences to all speech. 1A prevents the government from punishing or compelling speech. it's not absolute - slander and d
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by sterlind 2y ago
install teams on your phone? you'll need to cave a bit and allow VPN access from the phone to the Teams server, though.
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by sterlind 2y ago
Comfortably wealthy US citizens aren't personally affected by these extrajudicial disappearances. It's just a headline to them. The stock market, on the other hand...
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by sterlind 2y ago
> Maybe gets you fired from your job" is someone's entire livelihood you're trivializing. People are being shipped to a Salvadorean mega-prison for having autism awareness tattoos. Law-abiding students who write peaceful
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by sterlind 2y ago
It's not so surprising to me. It's like how Markov chains get better at passing for human the more N-grams they memorize. larger models will continue getting marginally better at predicting the distribution (human language.) but t
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by sterlind 2y ago
MS is starting to use Rust pretty extensively internally. That's a lot of developers outside the "bubble."
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by sterlind 2y ago
(Opinions are my own, I have no inside knowledge.) I vaguely remember hearing that P2P Skype was the bane of sysadmins' existence. Skype would elect clients on high-bandwidth networks as supernodes. This tended to be business customers
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by sterlind 2y ago
Low-level supply chain attacks. Like if the Supermicro story had panned out, or if the Intel RDRAND conspiracy theory were true, or you implanted some evil in an HSM.
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by sterlind 2y ago
Yes. It makes me lazy, and I take longer because I keep prompting the machine to fix its mistakes rather than understanding how its code works and why it's stuck. So I use it for brainstorming, and as a temporary crutch for working wit
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by sterlind 2y ago
"test error" or "misprediction" aren't very applicable terms for RL, though. is it a "test error" if the LLM suggests a bad chess move? is it a "misprediction" if the LLM can't find a mating
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by sterlind 2y ago
I'm a little surprised that encrypted voice fits through PSTN. like, logically voice can fit, and encryption shouldn't change message size, but plaintext (plainspeech?) voice over PSTN is/was analog, while the ciphertext is d
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by sterlind 2y ago
stock iPhones run 100% Apple software, afaik. from drivers to the shell it's one company. the hardware is one series of models by one company. each Android vendor has a completely random fork of AOSP with who knows what kernel patches,
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by sterlind 2y ago
Metaphor has always been how tech concepts get named. You have "folders" on your "desk top," which you click with a "mouse." You can send "messages" through "pipes." Heck, your computer even
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by sterlind 2y ago
vote him out? he's not supposed to be able to run again in 2028. there are term limits.
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by sterlind 2y ago
I wanted fully-automated luxury communism, but I got fully-automated neo-feudalism instead. It feels bad.
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by sterlind 2y ago
but is it a mechanical keyboard? or type-by-wire?
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by sterlind 2y ago
if a post-op trans woman is arrested, she's denied access to HRT and sent to a men's prison, where she will be given to violent male inmates to pacify them. this is known as v-coding. even having a vagina doesn't exempt you f
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by sterlind 2y ago
I remember when the ACM ICPC had to be moved from Egypt to the US during the Arab Spring. It's got to be a logistics nightmare to move a conference, but it's best to bite the bullet at the first sign of trouble.
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by sterlind 2y ago
oh I don't know, grueling rehab and moderate health consequences in exchange for getting to spend nine months in space seems like it'd be a deal many would take.
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by sterlind 2y ago
if only more companies virtue signaled like this!
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by sterlind 2y ago
hey, there are dozens of us F# users! dozens! I do love F#, but its compiler is a rusty set of monkey bars. It's somehow single pass, meaning the type checker will struggle if you don't reorder certain expressions - but also dog
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by sterlind 2y ago
Editorial freedom like this was actually quite commonplace at US newspapers. Op-Eds criticising the paper's owner signals viewpoint independence to readers, which boosts sales. In fact, it's usually easier to criticize the owner
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by sterlind 2y ago
What, I'm an extremist for not wanting the US to conquer our allies? For opposing indefinite detainment of immigrants in concentration camps? For opposing the purge of trans people? If that's extreme I'm happy to be an extrem
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by sterlind 2y ago
"Withdrawing" to 1990 borders? You mean expelling the states that joined after 1990? I'm not sure that would go over well with the Baltics, Romania, Sweden and Finland. Withdrawal from NATO is voluntary and cannot be compelle
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by sterlind 2y ago
Pour one out for Midori, which would have replaced Windows with a capability-based OS completely written from kernel to shell in a C# dialect. Async/await, spans, and immutable support came from it, along with an (opt-in) Rust-like bor
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by sterlind 2y ago
why was it not banned in the US?!
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by sterlind 2y ago
I think you're right. I've seen so many conservatives online relish in hatred as illegal immigrants are shipped to Guantamo, as trans people are purged from government and the military and stripped of HRT, as Trump called Zelensky
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by sterlind 2y ago
PubMed is sporadically down, by the way, along with the rest of https://nlm.nih.gov . I'm not sure if DOGE decided to pull the plug on it, or if there's an outage. I wonder if there's any SREs left to respond to th
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by sterlind 2y ago
the Take Care clause of Article II would like to have a word with you. The President has a positive duty to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress. if Congress passes a law funding something, the President must faithfully make it so
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by sterlind 2y ago
What a dogshit poll. There were three options given: 1. Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war. 2. Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible. 3. Don't know/Refused. "Ukraine sho

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