wallacoloo

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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> What are going doing holding so much $ and costs for nothing? Everyone who realizes this also cant rush out to sell. There's already loads of empty buildings and who is buying? Nobody, you'll get wrecked. 1) how many companie
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> What do you mean? Did you interrupt the reboot process (eg. repetitive ^C)? Otherwise the OS should flush everything properly. here’s my best guess: in my setup i have a host running a qemu vm and most of the interesting stuff happens
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
use VMs. qemu/kvm. the Tor-based Whonix OS takes the approach of one VM running a Tor proxy and another VM running your application software. the latter VM only has access to that proxy, and no other network interface. it’s effectively
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i started self-hosting a bunch of stuff last month: Pleroma (like Mastodon/Twitter), Matrix (chat), Gitea (like Github) and Jellyfin (like Plex, a media server). AFTER i set up the hardware/OS, these each took about 1-2 hours to s
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Even if that was 100% true, and it was obvious to everyone, there would still be envy and resentment to contend with. we had open levels at the previous company i worked for (70-ish engineers). if you asked certain seniors at the compa
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Why are you hiring a $150k candidate to work on X if a $100k candidate can work on X? That's a waste of $50k. i think that’s the point. X takes an engineer who’s worth $100k. if an engineer worth more than that comes along, you wa
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Don't use mixers and tumblers, use Monero and/or Monero atomic swaps. Monero doesn’t make your transactions anonymous , it makes them ambiguous . your wallet might default to using an n=6 ring signature, meaning it picks 5
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
live offline. as long as you’re not completely socially incompetent you can be largely yourself in most situations, find people you jive with, and then be completely yourself with them. unless your threat level is “my phone’s recording ever
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Experts largely agree that current forms of AI are not conscious, in any sense of the word. While there have been many studies on “computational consciousness,” or how something that might be considered conscious can be realized with c
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Discussions of “Consciousness” in the context of ML or AI research always seem to devolve into navel-gazing futurist pseudointellectualism. it’s a hard problem. it’s been the realm of philosophy for a good deal of time; neuroscience so
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> we can still clearly state that, say, a coffee maker is not conscious, even if it has rudimentary processing capability a coffee maker might include a temperature sensor (thermistor) and a heating element. does it predict the future? y
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
this is describing a tendency to shift the burden of trust from those immediately connected to you (e.g. your parents) to those more distanced from you (govt authorities). there’s economic efficiency arguments for this sort of thing: parent
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
oh, shoot. i assumed i was trying to guess an island nation since it wasn't rendered with any surroundings. but it renders all states this way — just the border, as if it had no neighbors?
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
from your source: > Approximately 60-80% of the large displacement motorcycles operating on our public roadways at any given time in the United States have been illegally modified you’re missing an important qualifier in your own text (“
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
my thoughts too, based on limited understanding of GPT. but the more pressure you apply towards compressing the neural network during training, the more circuitry these paths are likely to share. it would be interesting to see just how much
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
it could be interesting to gauge how entwined the “how did you arrive at that answer” process is with the answering itself. i.e. which paths do they share? even at this early a stage: is there some structure which is used to determine the o
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
step 0: if you’re single and think you NEED to work 60 hrs/wk to survive, quit BS’ing yourself. get a roommate and split the rent. step 1: gather some savings and take an honest (3mo+) break from work. step 2: take note of which of you
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i wonder if it’s a city vs suburbs thing. when i lived in the ‘burbs, doing highway driving, i got super accustomed to spotting the next red light and then coasting to a lower speed, hoping it’d turn green before i got there so that my aver
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> I empathize with those who have been misled by a bunch of loony, grifting parasites who would have been laughed out of polite society 30 years ago. “laughed out of polite society”? think that one over a bit. sounds pretty impolite to
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
it’s a blog about async, and especially cancelation. parse presumably doesn’t do any I/O. read/send are the interesting bits because they hit the network, where latency is practically unbounded . a first approach at cancelation m
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
oh there’s a pretty sophisticated network for buying arcade cabinets in the US, Sega cabs included. Wired did a writeup on this a couple weeks ago [1]. they really aren’t cheap though. there are a few reasons for the big players to not want
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
regarding the apparently competing values of reliability and velocity, try propagating these goals through different mediums. code quality can absolutely be ingrained into the culture. things like TDD, when/what to integration test, an
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Right now we have a huge society-wide problem that requires some sort of societal cohesion and consensus to defeat, but we lack that, and I don't think any of us have the energy to fight this battle at the individual level. walk m
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
an arcade is an entertainment venue. entertainment venues (along with bars, restaurants) are required to check vax cards (i believe that’s a WA requirement, as opposed to a local requirement). i was being approximate when i said “a year”: m
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> The anti-vaxxers think the vaccines will kill them or make them sterile, or something...it is really hard to keep track of what their current theory is. Again, it's a free shot you can get at the pharmacy, the only rational reason
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> I have little empathy for them, however: I want this pandemic to be over, and they are getting in the way of that. funny, because most everyone i know wants this too, and it’s always “the other side” which prevents the pandemic from “b
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i love this viewpoint because your behavior is so similar to what i see among 90% of my friends, it seems logically consistent, and you seem to have arrived at it from your own reasoning/volition. and then we have the mandates. presuma
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> It just represents a general fatigue that a lot of people have with the anti vaxxers. That we have hard numbers that vaccines actually work seems to be irrelevant to them, so why maybe they would be convinced by snark and sarcasm inste
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> I don’t understand why people in the West are so anti-mask. "anti-mask" has an implicit spin where it sounds like you're claiming a person is against the idea of anyone wearing a mask, but then often apply the label to a
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> From this standpoint, I could see [..] there are so many different standpoints you could take from the HN population. - "HN focuses on tech; novel tech tends to be anti-regulation => HN must be anti-mandate." - "HN

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