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by wcarss 1y ago
TOPEKA, WA - Elderly man considering strongly worded letter to editor about armed intruder ransacking his home "optimistic" about potential for public response. "I think it could really get an important discussion started,&
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by wcarss 1y ago
this "further analysis" is comically biased, misinformed, misapplied mush. It's honestly like a gish gallop to quote this shit. Well, I read it, so I'm going to take the time. > produce a negative financial benefit ov
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by wcarss 1y ago
My local city runs a water heater rental company. It provides water heaters more or less at cost to residents because we have exceptionally hard water here and they need to be replaced every ten years or so. It's a well run, valuable p
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by wcarss 1y ago
It's also (approximately) Lawrence of Arabia; at least the same principle. Lawrence puts out a match with his fingers as a showy trick. Someone else tries it, and cries out that it hurts, then asks what the trick is. He replies, "
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by wcarss 1y ago
The link should probably be: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/what-llms-kno...
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by wcarss 1y ago
That may just be regulatory inertia keeping you safe. Most people aren't building insanely stupid and dangerous homes because in most places they legally can't, and very few work specifically just in your county, so they just do w
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by wcarss 1y ago
As a Canadian I read that as "rOATer" for a moment, because the word row rhyming with ow is quite uncommon here -- the row I know is in a boating or a data context.
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by wcarss 1y ago
Google has killed so many amazing businesses -- entire industries, even, by giving people something expensive for free until the competition dies, and then they enshittify hard. It's cool to have access to it, but please be careful not
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by wcarss 1y ago
If you have any links or book recommendations to share on that history, I for one would love to know them. I find the history of the interactions of SF authors strangely compelling -- e.g. the book "Hell's Cartographers" is a
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by wcarss 2y ago
You guys are all talking about a national average number of unhealthy fine particulate pollution days like it's a) the only metric of pollution and b) driven directly and deterministically by just US federal policy. You're also al
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by wcarss 2y ago
> personally determines that the alien's admission would compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest. What, exactly, about Rumeysa Ozturk's student newspaper contributions[1] could possibly justify the notion
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by wcarss 2y ago
> the gaben strategy this was a reference to Gabe Newell and Valve
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by wcarss 2y ago
...do you mean per capita? because all of latin america has north of 600 million people, versus (at the time of the famine) ireland's ~7 million, so "more" would in strict terms be very unsurprising. Like it would basically b
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by wcarss 2y ago
> He said that it could come to American shores - the bite, the cyberwar, the nukes - not necessarily only the army. > You think Russia is going to nuke America if Ukraine loses the war? jump right to the most extreme possible claim t
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by wcarss 2y ago
keep those goalposts moving; the soul of a good faith argument here
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by wcarss 2y ago
> moderately strenuous exercise like riding a bicycle destroys my sleep quality for several days. this is surprising! Not that this would be easy to just do, but have you ever leaned into it for a while (like a month) and seen if that pe
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by wcarss 2y ago
There's also Genie 2: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-2-a-large-scale-... this one's entirely about world understanding with physical concepts etc. and less about photorealism, but it's
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by wcarss 2y ago
I agree with you that changing the behaviour of the networks would be better, but what actions does a state like Australia really have here? If they just say, "change", it must be backed up by a threat -- "we will fine you&qu
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by wcarss 2y ago
the people who want to play old videogames for free
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by wcarss 2y ago
> But it's not like there was an ad-powered version of cable that you paid to get out of. The entire point of premium is to not see ads, why would anyone still pay for premium if it had ads? that was the point of cable. Regular TV
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by wcarss 2y ago
> The maintenance workers are union and can’t get fired, so they work at a leisurely pace. The admin are union and can’t get fired so their office is a mess and they respond slowly. The story you linked has little to do with unions. Are
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by wcarss 2y ago
Why not, um... stop using it? Mastodon has a lot of great people, and a lot less of all this stuff.
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by wcarss 2y ago
I think answers in response to your post will differ depending on whether or not you've read many of the Culture books -- to me it kind of sounds like you have, but it also kind of sounds like you haven't. If you haven't, I w
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by wcarss 2y ago
did you retype this? Assuming not, I just noticed they made the "if" -> "fi" typo twice and in two different ways -- interesting that what amounts to boilerplate can have that stuff get through.
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by wcarss 2y ago
I like to keep it pretty simple for git aliases, all defined in my shell alias set: ``` s="git status" d="git diff" c="git diff --cached" ``` I have one other, `rb`, which uses a lot of
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by wcarss 2y ago
evocative imagery gets clicks
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by wcarss 2y ago
I used vim. Using console vim and doing regular search and replaces forced me to learn and remember. Later, grepping logs was a pretty similar application that needed and extended those skills.
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by wcarss 2y ago
> is it some kinds of fallacy to believe that simplicity has a rather obvious form There definitely aren't enough people deliberately obfuscating to make it a generally visible cause of complexity; your quote here rings far more tru
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by wcarss 2y ago
Here's a link (I think?) to patio11's thoughts, since I went looking for it out of curiosity because of your comment: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/content-m... I also really like da
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by wcarss 2y ago
I got very close to a win, but then: web/glue/src/log.rs:34 panicked at win32/src/winapi/user32/message.rs:206:5: assertion `left == right` failed left: 512 right: 0 I'm playin

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