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by twodave 2y ago
The amount of comparisons I see between some theoretical AGI and something more akin to a science fiction like Jane from the Ender saga or the talking head from That Hideous Strength is I guess not surprising. But in both of those cases the
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by twodave 2y ago
Reminds me of the BitBucket “spooning” video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wUOUmeulNs
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by twodave 2y ago
A better thesis might be that copilot is making programmers _that_ are worse at programming, which is to say new developers or those who otherwise aren’t very good are able to use it to pass as more competent than they are. Copilot saves me
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by twodave 2y ago
I knew the Taco Bell by me had raised their prices. I didn't realize my city (and state, in general) has THE most expensive BYO cravings boxes (among other things) in the US. What the hell, Florida?
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by twodave 2y ago
Am I understanding correctly that the main impediment to weaponizing this gene drive idea is the difficulty of spreading the treatment to a broad population? How are these things applied to a live subject, anyway? I had always assumed an in
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by twodave 2y ago
Another nice thing about Mermaid for those of us working in a .NET ecosystem is that Azure Devops supports it[0]. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/project/wiki/...
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by twodave 2y ago
Grocery stores, notaries, etc. all manage to verify identity in person and even remotely. I’m not sure why we need to go from a public 9-digit number straight to drawing blood.
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by twodave 2y ago
I would argue that since authenticating a person’s identity requires one to prove or show that they are genuinely that person, and since providing an SSN does prove I am a particular person, providing an SSN is not a means of authenticating
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by twodave 2y ago
Yes, indeed. The real issue isn’t that businesses use SSN to authenticate. It’s that they don’t authenticate at all.
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by twodave 2y ago
I would probably sooner point out that by far the most money Apple makes off of their platform (and you don’t even have to look this up or have inside knowledge to know it is true) is from a TON of addicts gambling on gacha boxes in pointle
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by twodave 2y ago
TL;DR because they already ran everything in containers. Having performed a migration where this wasn’t the case, the path from non-containerized to containerized is way more effort than going from containerized non-k8s to k8s.
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Ask HN: Minimal Phone with Email but no Web Browser?
4 points by twodave 2y ago|5 comments
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by twodave 2y ago
I’m not suggesting that you do anything. I’m just pointing out that, for example, people sue insurance companies every day, for free and win.
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by twodave 2y ago
Depending on the lawyer’s anticipated likelihood of winning it can be free.
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by twodave 2y ago
Ha, good catch
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by twodave 2y ago
Huh. I share a surname with the original owner (Sheldon) and once researched Henry XIII for a people fair. I think that means I’m the rightful owner…
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by twodave 2y ago
If you have damages that are worth more, then you can excuse yourself from the class and sue them individually.
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by twodave 2y ago
To me this is like complaining about humidity causing slip and falls while there’s a hose on inside. Anyone who has lived in Florida as long as I have (39 years, so far) knows that it’s never really gotten that cold here in the winter to be
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by twodave 2y ago
As a Floridian, my understanding is that disease is a much worse problem than climate. For example, nobody yet knows how to effectively control the bacteria that causes citrus greening. It is transmitted via insects, grafting, etc. and very
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by twodave 2y ago
My main use of system restore was to return to a “clean” install + just the bare minimum installs I needed back when windows was more likely to atrophy over time. I agree it is mostly useless today.
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by twodave 2y ago
It wasn’t ever really about age IMO. It is hard to have a serious conversation about this because of personal lines and dislikes, so I’ll leave it at that.
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by twodave 2y ago
This makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks for the insightful comment.
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by twodave 2y ago
That isn’t the point. The point is that primaries were held (or in some cases, not held) based on a belief that the man would be fit for office, and the fact that he isn’t was being hidden from the voters participating in those primaries. I
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by twodave 2y ago
I believe you, and the more I read the more I am seeing this same sentiment. It’s just wild to me.
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by twodave 2y ago
You aren’t upset that an entire party conspired to keep Biden on the ticket until he bombed a debate? What if he hadn’t bombed it but instead done “barely enough”? Isn’t this basically what Trump was just convicted of some felonies for rece
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by twodave 2y ago
On 2 I think the suggestion is more that this whole chain of events has resulted from persistent and willful dishonesty by Democratic leadership (including Harris) about the President’s health. So the argument is that if the public was not
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by twodave 2y ago
As a registered Republican who voted IND in 2016 and then for Trump in 2020 (which probably puts me in about a 0.1% minority on a site like this), I feel upset that the democratic process for choosing a nominee for the Democratic Party is a
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by twodave 2y ago
What a gut-wrenching story. Except for you it isn’t just a story. My heart goes out to you! I know what it is like to not know how I’m going to survive the immediate future. Those kinds of moments test you as a human and reveal who you real
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by twodave 2y ago
There's definitely some truth to this. It's a bit harder to build trust with someone who is very far a way, and paying foreign workers can be more or less problematic depending on the size of company and the type of industry. For
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by twodave 2y ago
I think the best insight you can get into a potential hire is by asking deep questions about their experience. This takes IMO a really smart interviewer. I try to think about their past projects as if I had to take them on myself and ask th

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