thyrsus

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by thyrsus 2y ago
Anecdata: I work from home and spend about a quarter of my time helping colleagues.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
At one point, U.S. welfare programs directed at single mothers appeared to cause an increase in single mothers. Fathers either actually left or had to hide their participation in the family lest the mother become ineligible for assistance.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
And then you have no legal standing, so you get paid far below market depressing everyone's wages, and in any dispute you get deported. The best thing for workers would be for there to be no such thing as an "illegal alien"
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Odd: when I think of "learning AI" I think I'd be constructing an LLM that has added value over what's currently available - such as removing hallucinations within a limited scope.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Alburquerque: #7 in the country for police shootings in 2020. https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/10/05/cities-where... More recent data here: https://github.com/washingtonpost&#x2F
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by thyrsus 2y ago
This is how I perceived the difference: >SCIENCE< [a] create a hypothesis [b] collect all the data [c] check the hypothesis and publish; >ENGINEERING< [a] create a hypothesis [b] collect some data [c] refine the hypothesis [d] i
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Not to mention the innocent folks who calculate that their lives will be least damaged by a plea bargain.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Thanks for the article; it's an important checklist. I would think you'd want at most one certificate authority per customer rather than per database. Why am I wrong?
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Not this time. Use paper, pen, and a non-electronic cash box.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
I was given to understand that Crowdstrike provided some protection from unvetted export of data. I'm not sure that data would be useful without the rare domain expertise to use it, but I wasn't shown the risk analysis. And then
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by thyrsus 2y ago
I recommend using a well respected browser based password manager, protected by a strong password, and having it generate strong passwords that you never think of memorizing. Web sites that disable that with JavaScript on the password fiel
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Wise IT admins >know< they are ignorant and design for that. Before an application gets deployed, its requirements need to be learned - and the users rarely know what those requirements are, so cycles of information gathering and spe
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Anecdata: log files with failed login attempts became far smaller after leaving port 22.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Yes, that's the point: it is limited, but the Supreme Court just declared it to be insufficiently limited.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
The executive is supposed to represent the public interest, opposed to the interests wealthy enough to bring a lawsuit. We seem to have given up on that.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
It's in the law already; for instance, for the Clean Air Act, see USC 42 section 7422 where the EPA is authorized to reclassify previously unregulated substances. That the court chose to ignore the plain reading and intent of Congress
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Tell that to Merrick Garland and Mitch McConnell.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
You may have encountered leo [ https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ ]. I use it to pull in or write code and break it up into comprehensible pieces. It works, but it feels overcomplex. I'm open to something
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Is this the unison you mean? https://www.unison-lang.org/ Unrelated: what has your experience been using igneous-linearizer to help understand other people's code?
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by thyrsus 2y ago
This is why the erlang OTP is so effective: it pushes you toward error (flake) recovery and idempotency.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
There was a trope five years ago that small town papers had become economically infeasible, e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/decline-of-newspapers-leaves-ma... My own town (60,000+) lost its paper more than ten years
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by thyrsus 2y ago
For most U.S. taxpayers selling a home, the capital gains exclusion on one's primary residence ($500,000 filing jointly) obviates such bookkeeping.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Where do I find that data? By contrast, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Evolution is slow or fast depending on the reproductive cycle of the species. Redwoods: many millenia. Viruses: measured in months - which Covid variant are we on?
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by thyrsus 2y ago
I doubt most cannot be articulated, but I think it quite likely there is valuable knowledge that is expensive to articulate, sometimes to the point of complete impracticality, and in that sense "can't". Instances of actual i
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by thyrsus 2y ago
> Land ISN'T FUNGIBLE Agreed. I expect to live to grieve the loss of New Orleans, and I'm not young.
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Unlike Dr. Friedman, I believe that reaching judgements based on evidence and explicit values is orthogonal to libertarianism: I grew up in a similar intellectual environment, but where the economic political leaning was european style demo
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Why contribute to an IRA if civilization will have ceased to function? Why make any investment in society at large if it's inevitably doomed?
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by thyrsus 2y ago
I'm having trouble following the algorithm for the month number. From the article: The Month-Item. — If it begins or ends with a vowel, subtract the number, denoting its place in the year, from 10. This, plus its number of days, gives
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Once we learn that one of the investigating officers, Reiss, was convicted of possession of child pornography, it becomes understandable - enraging, but understandable.

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