tenacious_tuna

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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> safe in the knowledge that I am not inadvertently communicating with a minor. Why is that so bad? As a kid I really appreciated participating in mixed-age discussions on many topics. I view that as part of what it means to grow into a
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I would rather we have a system that is too generous and gets taken advantage of than one that is too parsimonious where people die for want of food and shelter that we could provide for them. We exist in a world where people can be unable
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
...or by sports. My HS spent millions on a completely new athletics complex. our math and reading scores were in the dirt, classrooms had 70s era carpet growing crap I don't want think about, the band had 30 year old uniforms...but we
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I've run into some performance issues routing everything over a local wireguard link. I have a 10gig connection between my desktop and my NAS, though I only get ~1.1gbps over the wireguard link to the NAS. Without wireguard I can satur
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
In the case of unhelpful human support, I can leverage my experience in communicating with another human to tell if I'm being understood or not. An LLM is much more trial-and-error: I can't model the theory-of-mind behind it'
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
People with ADHD don't experience the task-completion-reward-loop like others; i.e., it's vastly diminished. This makes building habits more difficult because it looks more like a task that takes energy rather than continuing an e
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> Neurodivergence is an internet-nurtured buzzword No, it's a well-defined term from an expert in the space and a member of the community [1], coined to describe an underserved group of people who didn't have existing terminolo
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
re: 2, the issue is that e.g. airport gates are a(n artificially) limited resource that require airlines to perform behaviors that don't benefit customers and have externalized costs (e.g., wasting fuel) in order to maintain access to
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
This is part of the Canadian border control in my experience; i.e. - Arrive in Pearson - go to passport control, scan passport at kiosk, kiosk spits out receipt - you flash receipt to a border officer at the stairs out of passport control -
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I used to live in downtown Chicago, where the worst violators where high end sports cars, though we did get the occasional quartet of motorcycles ripping down the roat at 3am. Illinois doesn't require vehicle inspections, so there&#x27
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
Also, doesn't that break the network if the pihole is offline? Before I'd just override DNS on my workstation, but that iptables config would block any "unsanctioned" DNS traffic
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> Working and educating yourself is decent and dignified, no? I think that depends radically on the nature of the work. I hold a BS in Computer Science but am at an organization that requires me to use LLMs as part of my performance eval
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I think it's more than incompetence or accountability sinks; The DMV (and similar offices; Service {Canada, Ontario}, etc) are also the points at which the bureaucratic system of government interfaces with actual people as well. Bounda
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> firebombing and vandalizing teslas that have nothing at all to do with elon Can you elaborate on this? AFAIK it's entirely to do with Elon & his politics.
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> This seems to pretty much ignore AI and robots which will be able to do all/most of the work way before 2060 Just like self-driving has revolutionized trucking, even before 2020! /s
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I hadn't thought of sheet music in this context before; that's a helpful counter-example, thanks. Broadly I agree; the semantic density of domain-specific language is often required to operate well in that domain. I disagree some
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> why pretend that such a low bar could prevent anyone from understanding? I don't know why this is a startling take. If you encode your ideas in an unfamilar symbology, of course that's going to make it more difficult for some
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
I think this is a very limited take for a hacker forum. We talk about how useful accurate names for variables are all the time, or generally how working to encode more natural/context-related semantics to code helps anyone reading it u
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> How can you have been neutral on Trump until just now and then wrote that? This both-sides-ism looks a bit ludicrous. Devil's advocate, I think it's easy if you don't directly feel impact from his policies. I've bee
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what would your rubicon[1] be in the current circumstance? I've found it useful to draw specific internal lines instead of trying to pull apart tit-for-tat reactions between two belligerents. [1]: https://w
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> The problem of american politics, over the last decade or two, has been the complete cultural maginalisation of the right (from centres of civil power). Something had to give. The universities, the corporate culture, the internet mass
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
it's been a couple decades since I've read it, but I'd buy it again as an adult. Like the peer comment says, "Engineering in Plain Sight" purports to be similar and I bought my dad a copy last christmas. Planning to
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
This reminds me aesthetically of The Way Things Work [1] which was one of my favorite books as a kid. Having a similar wordly reference as an adult has been a goal for a while. [1] https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-way-th
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by tenacious_tuna 1y ago
> I'd guess bad-to-good ratio is at least 10 to 1. Should we fix that? Should we fix... what? Your unsubstantiated claim? You didn't even bother to do napkin math about it, you just asked a bunch of leading questions and then c
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by tenacious_tuna 2y ago
:( well that's disappointing. it seemed like such an obvious extension to me the first time I saw it.
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by tenacious_tuna 2y ago
Thanks
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by tenacious_tuna 2y ago
I am not a lawyer, though I am a US citizen. First, it's the fourth amendment that protects against unreasonable search. Fifth amendment is protection against self-incrimination. My understanding is that fourth amendment protections ef
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by tenacious_tuna 2y ago
Sweden and Germany have phantograph-powered semi-electric trucks [1] that would make this less of a factor. The trucks do the bulk of their driving off grid power with batteries for exits/lastmile components of the drive. [1]: https:&
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by tenacious_tuna 2y ago
A lot of the replies to this comment seem to assume that the "5 marriages" component is meant to cast Foreman's christianity as hypocritical, when I think it's more a commentary on how christian values affect relationshi
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by tenacious_tuna 2y ago
I'm one of these; I'm loathe to put anything between me and making a commit and most of our linters take several dozen seconds to run. That's unacceptable UX to me; I can disable with `--no-check`, but it's always annoyi

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