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by tbrownaw 2y ago
That's a hazard of apocalyptic rhetoric. If you're constantly comparing people to some group, you can't talk about that group without being suspected of dogwhistles. Which forecloses discussions that otherwise could have been
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Please state explicitly for the record why it's timely, in order that anyone who cares can compare that reason against the posting guidelines to decide how seriously to take it. . A bit wordier, but hopefully harder to denounce on the
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> In the year 2030, no one will remember Kubernetes. That's 5 years from now. Which is a pretty good time frame for getting enterprisey things on to kubernetes. And maybe a bit short for getting vendors to add a new sandboxed VM
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Perhaps the different approaches are suited to different levels of trust / trustworthiness between levels in the organization?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Carbon was officially removed with 10.15 Catalina in 2019 Um, Catalina is a part of the Tomcat Java application server. Not sure what that has to do with Apple stuff.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I will occasionally still try to use the zip code for my old work address (from about a year before covid) when what I want is my home address.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The singularity stuff was mostly coming out of the lesswrong/miri/etc crowd. Maybe they've moved on, or maybe they've lost influence. The AI safety stuff seemed like half an extension of that, and half early movers (eg o
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The problem with MBTI is that reduces a continuum to a binary for each of the letters. IIRC, the basis for what each pair of letters means isn't any worse than any other personality test. Astrology isn't about stars. It's abo
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The problem comes when the niche something fills happens to line up with "this one small pond where someone wants to put an infrastructure project".
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> I'm surprised none of the upstream developers have sued them for violating the license. Sounds like that implies that they probably actually aren't.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
You have the preferred form for making modifications, and the relevant permissions to now get in trouble for it. If you actually go look at the open source or few software definitions, that's what they're about - being able to mak
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
That really does sound like a useful rule. /s
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The simulation hypothesis says we're all bots.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
... So the population of commuters that were displaced from being car users and had to become subway users, did not bring additional criminals to the subway with them?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> The USSC recently decided that if you are merely silent that means you waive your right to remain silent. No. Based on the opinion linked in one of the other comments, there are these possibilities: - explicitly say you are invoking
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The only secure computer is one that's been sealed in concrete without ever being powered on?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
From your link: Four Pillars of Social Mobility: To rank each state, we measured a series of indicators related to social mobility across four pillars: Entrepreneurship and Growth, Institutions and the Rule of Law, Education and Skills Dev
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I don't recall AA coming with affinity groups and explicit celebration and centering of differences.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Some people certainly have been pied in the face, so how could you deny that "pie attack culture" exists? By not being obtuse enough to conflate "this has happened at least once" with "this appears to be wide
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> “Cancel culture” as a distinct novel thing doesn't exist Remember that something being a culture is about pervasiveness and normalization. It's not a mob harassing your employer because you posted photos with the wrong bran
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Shouldn't ublock origin be stopping you from getting any ads?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> He's not sure why the company has banned external AI. "I think it's a control thing," he says. They involve sending company IP to a third party to do whatever they want with it. Or depending on your industry and j
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I am sorry to hear that, and I hope your insurance covers it. --- Seriously tho, "wysiwyg with natural-language edit commands" seems like the sort of thing that I'd expect to have a sharp cliff, like RAD tools are known for b
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
ed is the standard editor
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I believe Stalin's purges included intellectuals as a group. Mao's hundred flowers thing was a purge of people who dared think they knew better than him. Or for current popular things, the US is far from alone in seeing the electo
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Does it really count if the difference is "be removed from society for a while by being sent to prison" vs "be removed from society indefinitely by being sent to inpatient lockup"?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Trying to reason everything out from first principles can lead to some seriously bizarre conclusions if there's even a little bit you missed or got slightly wrong. It can be a fun exercise if you make sure to constantly look for predic
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> omitting what some might consider a relevant detail This sounds weaselly enough to detract from the rest of the comment, even though you later say why it might be relevant.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
You left out rhetoric.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
It doesn't.

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