water-data-dude

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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
Agreed. For a long time Jack Welch was lauded as "The Greatest CEO in History" for burning GE to the ground in a way that made a lot of money (while destroying a company that took 100 years to build and employed 400,000 people). B
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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
Maybe this is what happens when you fill roles based on loyalty to one person rather than competence
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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
The problem is that a private company holds onto the data forever. Then the government can ask the private company for that data without a warrant. With the number of Flock cameras (I'm upset at how many have popped up near me), it&#x2
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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
Is this administration really interested in enforcing regulations? The FCC might make noises, but only until Trump gets another kickback.
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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
Why aren't grads more pumped about an exciting career as an organ donor?
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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
As a gay dude I'd agree, lol Christianity has some good stuff (love thy neighbor, etc), but I'd rather we not lean too heavily on it for public policy, for obvious reasons
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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
Prediction markets seemed neat when I first heard about them, but they've proved to have "theory meets the real world" externalities I wouldn't have ever considered. Insiders betting on (and possibly influencing) militar
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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
"O’Leary said the extra electricity demand won’t raise residents’ energy bills as new gas-fired generation will power the facility." I really, really doubt this.
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by water-data-dude 5mo ago
I refer you to: https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by water-data-dude 7mo ago
Gait recognition is also easier to defeat. All you need is to put something like a few pebbles or coins in one of your shoes
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by water-data-dude 7mo ago
I wanted to go RGB free when I built my desktop, but ran into the exact issue you describe. I kinda just shrugged and accepted it, but maybe I should have looked more deeply into their configurability. Off or all white would be a much bette
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by water-data-dude 7mo ago
I like "plonk file", it has a very good mouth feel. I not-googled it and was delighted to discover that it's Usenet slang! Also low quality wine[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(wine)
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by water-data-dude 7mo ago
It's been a while since I read the actual text of the Declaration of Independence. It definitely hits different nowadays.
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by water-data-dude 7mo ago
So what? I honestly don't get the issue. It's pretend. When sex is taboo our brains will often associate the two things and we end up enjoying the taboo-ness. Incest is a big taboo, so it's sex with extra taboo slathered on i
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by water-data-dude 7mo ago
Everyone else is throwing in there 2¢, so here's my pet proposal. Here's the undeniable fact: everyone (ok, almost everyone, but it's a rounding error) hates the switchover in spring, when you have to get up an hour earlier.
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by water-data-dude 8mo ago
That's the setting for The Electric Church, by Jeff Somers. There's a very small capital class who own all the automated manufacturing plants, etc., and they live in obscene grandeur. Then there's the rest of the world which
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by water-data-dude 8mo ago
Benj Edwards, one of the authors, accepted responsibility in a bluesky post[0]. He lists some extenuating circumstances[1], but takes full responsibility. Time will tell if it's a one-off thing or not I guess. [0] https://bs
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by water-data-dude 8mo ago
My immediately thought when I read the description of the book was that I have some internet friends who are into ABDL (adult baby diaper lover) stuff, and it sounds like the book's somewhat like that. I haven't GRILLED them about
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by water-data-dude 8mo ago
You really think the giant ad company would put ads into their product after saying they won't? You should strive to be less cynical.
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
I don't think it's valid to deflect by saying "well, due process isn't perfect" - no one ever said it was. But due process is there to protect you from arbitrary persecution, and it's much better to have it tha
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
But you're wrong. The memo says they can use an administrative warrant - which is to say, a warrant signed by an immigration official, part of the executive branch - to enter a house and arrest someone. The executive branch is authoriz
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
Yeah, basically - plus there's some groundwater modeling stuff that's a PITA to run on Linux
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
The only reason I use Windows is probably the same reason a lot of people use Windows: the company I work for requires it. It's a small company and they don't want IT to have to support more than one OS, so I _get_ why, but man do
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
Oh boy, lemme tell you: water management is one of those things that's More Difficult Than It Seems. I'm going to recommend Cadillac Desert, which is by far the most entertaining and readable book on water. It goes into the histor
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
The mobile operating system developed by the enormous ad tech company doesn't try to prevent fingerprinting?! :O
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
Water policy isn't as simple as you might think. Dams aren't a magical fix, they cause a lot of issues (like crashing the salmon populations, etc.). They're expensive to build and maintain, and the water you store in a big re
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
I never interpreted the Cow Tools strip as saying "cows are too dumb to use tools", but more along the lines of "if cows could create tools could we even fathom their use?" - kinda like the Borges story, Celestial Empori
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
The people of Greenland overwhelmingly don't want this to happen: https://www.reuters.com/world/poll-shows-85-greenlanders-do-...
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
Oh! I honestly didn't think about that, but that's a very good point!
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by water-data-dude 9mo ago
It'd be difficult to prove that you hadn't leaked information to the model. The big gotcha of LLMs is that you train them on BIG corpuses of data, which means it's hard to say "X isn't in this corpus", or &quot

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