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by warner25 4y ago
> You you can’t be in love with a particular idea or business. You have to be in love with the idea of running a business. I'm saving this quote. I'm a career Army officer and the application to my world is that newly minted of
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by warner25 4y ago
I believe this is the answer. I'm a career military officer, but without any inside knowledge, and the most troubling "red team" ideas that I've read involve an adversary targeting our troops and families in their ordina
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by warner25 4y ago
I'll admit to being an IT person who didn't understand how they worked for a whole year after I first set them up on my Google account. I seriously thought that they were one-time passwords by themselves. About a year later, I d
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by warner25 4y ago
What seems to be "dying" is more broadly the concept of "social networks" to connect with people you know IRL. Everything has shifted to the concept of "social media" for broadcasting to the masses. I agree w
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by warner25 4y ago
That's what I was thinking too. I have to keep Chrome installed on my Linux machine exclusively to use Teams for voice and video calls, since calls have never been possible in Firefox and the Linux desktop client is so buggy.
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by warner25 4y ago
Interesting. College for me was 2004-2008, and AIM was still the primary means of chatting where I was. I remember people giving their AOL screen names as contact information on semi-official documents. What did start to change was expres
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by warner25 4y ago
I appreciate this comment. I'm 36 and started running at 16, mostly to prepare for the Army's physical fitness test which includes a two-mile run. I'm still going. Point 0 is one that I've had to learn and re-learn sever
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by warner25 4y ago
Ironically, as a CS PhD student I spend an enormous amount of my time on the subject matter listed. There are very few research areas in which PhD students can get away with ignorance of the command line, shell environments, build systems,
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by warner25 4y ago
I think most people do feel that way about Tor, both in terms of assuming that 99% of its users are criminals and that it should be demonized. It's interesting to me because I think most of those people don't feel the same way a
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by warner25 4y ago
This is interesting to me (I'm also a PhD student with research interests related to privacy and anonymity). Yesterday I was thinking something similar about the distinction, in terms of negative mental health effects, between places l
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by warner25 4y ago
This is an interesting thought. It sounds like your childhood was similar to mine. A big turning point in my life was finally realizing or accepting, at 15 or 16 years old, that it was OK to not be popular or be part of a big group of frien
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, I see that side of it too. I'm an Army officer, and there's an interesting phenomenon in our ranks. Officers who attend West Point live under some extreme restrictions, whereas officers who are products of ROTC and OCS tend
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by warner25 4y ago
So this is the part that I've focused on too, and I don't think it's clear that it's worse, but it's clear that there are no good options; we're left with trying to identify the least worst option across a
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by warner25 4y ago
That's exactly how we've positioned ourselves so far, for a variety of reasons that mostly reduce to not feeling like our values fit in well with American society at-large. It's not perfect, but I hope you're right and i
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm still reading it, but this is great so far. As a father to four little girls, though, it makes me feel really defeated. I can already see that social media has eroded my wife's mental health. I just don't know what to do
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm either feeling disappointed with this list, or feeling proud of myself that I can say, "Yes, of course, those things aren't true, and here's why..." I just have an expired CCNA and have taken a couple graduate-l
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, I actually find it really disconcerting. It's one thing when you read mainstream news stories and see that they're inaccurate; like, "OK, sure the writer is a journalist, obviously not a specialist in this area, and the
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by warner25 4y ago
I think this is really smart. It reminds me of something I read within the last few months, but can't find right now, that described the descent from "social networking" (a nearly forgotten term, despite being the term for we
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm assuming it's https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/ As noted in my other comment, I looked for it out of curiosity too, and it's incredibly satisfying to see how fast it loads.
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by warner25 4y ago
Oh my goodness, I just looked through your submission history to find your website, clicked through to a random page, and I was blown away by how fast the page loaded. I love it.
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by warner25 4y ago
I was just thinking that we're about to have people going around claiming to be "experts in AI" because they know how to use ChatGPT, despite the fact that they can't even produce "hello world" in Python (wit
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by warner25 4y ago
Fair point. My car has served me a lot longer than my laundry machines, and it indeed has many more memories connected to it. Now I'm wondering if that's unique to my car or any old object that been close to me for 15 years. I gue
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by warner25 4y ago
I think we can recognize the tremendous utility of something without having an emotional connection like love for it. I agree that I can't imagine not having a car with my four little kids. I also can't imagine not having laundr
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by warner25 4y ago
Excellent post. My car is a Prius, at the lowest trim model, that I bought when I graduated from college 15 years ago. I "love it" in the sense that I love how cheap and reliable it has been. I totally view it as an appliance to g
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by warner25 4y ago
Interesting. I don't think I've ever heard anyone else use the phrase "war against Afghanistan" as opposed to the "war in Afghanistan," mostly describing a civil war that we were trying to stabilize in favo
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by warner25 4y ago
So if we go back to the original objectives, I think they were (1) to destroy Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and (2) replace the Taliban with a government that would never again provide a safe space for Al-Qaeda or any entity like that. On (1), su
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by warner25 4y ago
Yeah, you're not wrong. Being an Army officer is also not a singular "job" since we effectively change jobs within the Army every 1-3 years, and the jobs vary widely. We might go from a job that requires hands-on skill flyi
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by warner25 4y ago
I'm not a strategist, but... I think it's important to remember that the idea wasn't to build up just a military or security force. That was a necessary part of it, so that they could begin providing security for themselves
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I was already surprised to see them flying some Black Hawks in their parade marking the anniversary of their return to power a few months ago. Just starting the engines and getting off the ground is non-trivial. But they still have under th
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by warner25 4y ago
Speaking as a career American military officer, one of the biggest (of many, many) problems that led to our failure in Afghanistan was getting the Afghan National Army to some degree of self-sufficiency as we tried to build them up in our o

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