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by 13of40 2y ago
You sound successful relative to where you could have ended up.
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by 13of40 2y ago
I was in Jutland, in Northwest Denmark recently, and the backstory of that place is that a thousand years ago it was covered in thick pine forest. Medieval people cut the trees down for firewood and agriculture, which led to an ecological
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by 13of40 2y ago
Not sure I'm totally understanding here, but it sounds like LinkedIn turned on (probably AI-based) porn scanning on messages, there was a false positive, and the guy wasn't able to escalate to support. Is there an implication tha
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by 13of40 2y ago
I apologize, but I'm trying to parse what you're saying and I can't seem to find the meat. I understand you're trying to insult me or whatever, but are you trying to say anything relevant to the topic?
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by 13of40 2y ago
I don't think I actually asserted anything, but let me give a shot at explaining: The model is that higher values of G/B are better, where G is good years per capita and B is bad years per capita, so the ethical thing to do is max
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by 13of40 2y ago
Do you have another model that changes the answers?
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by 13of40 2y ago
I'm on the fence about whether I agree with this. The way I see it, if you look at beavers, ants, or trees, they change the landscape but they do it based on behaviors that are encoded in their genes. That means a beaver can create a
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by 13of40 2y ago
> The entire system has been acting as if GenAI was right around the corner. To be clear, I think it is. It's just not going to be a hologram of a wizard in a room you can ask a question to for a quarter, which is what these chat b
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by 13of40 2y ago
There was a movie that came out in 2001 called "Artificial Intelligence", at a time when we were still figuring out how things like search engines and the online economy were going to work. It had a scene where the main character
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by 13of40 2y ago
I've heard people say that, but the SSA's FAQ says otherwise: "Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies? A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder's death.&quot
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by 13of40 2y ago
I googled that recently, and it sounds like: They don't get reused. There are about 70 years left. The government is punting the problem to future people and there's no solution yet.
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by 13of40 2y ago
That's good to know - thanks! My astigmatism one is definitely special, because it takes an extra two or three weeks to get it from Costco, but I didn't know there was an orientation mark on it. I'll take a look.
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by 13of40 2y ago
I wear soft contacts and one of my eyes has astigmatism. I've never understood how a symmetrical lens can correct an asymmetrical eyeball. Another strange thing I've seen is that after having put these things in my eyes about 20
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by 13of40 2y ago
If you ever get a chance to play with a magnet fishing magnet, it's fun to see how many straight-up magnetic rocks there are lying around, too. Probably not meteorites of course...
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by 13of40 2y ago
I think the answer is that much like an ad for a car or a mattress, the cold call isn't meant to take someone from zero to full interest, it's to find that one person in a hundred who's already thinking about it and just need
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by 13of40 2y ago
It's minimalist because if the system is unstable you don't want to have to do anything fancy like open a window or look up a bunch of localized resources, as those could run into the same corruption that led to the initial proble
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by 13of40 2y ago
The crabs analogy isn't a good one, because they evolve independently to play well in a common environment. GNU/Linux is a rewrite of Unix that avoids the licensing and hardware baggage that kept Unix out of reach of non-enterpri
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by 13of40 2y ago
Part of the gap that still exists is cost. A cloud service that isn't constrained by your local resources can do more as far as password cracking or applying AI to the password protected document/container problem, but we're
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by 13of40 2y ago
Writing your own simple programs and debugging/disassembling them is a solid option. Windbg and Ida are good tools to start with. Reading a disassembly is a lot easier than coding in assembly, and once you know what things like funct
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by 13of40 2y ago
When notepad hits an unhandled exception and the OS decides it's in an unpredictable state, the OS shuts down notepad's process. When there's an unhandled exception in kernel mode, the OS shuts down the entire computer. Tha
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by 13of40 2y ago
That one's kind of come full circle, though, since a "photo shop" was a place you could go to get photos printed, altered, etc. since the late 1800s.
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by 13of40 2y ago
Go back a couple of years and the BBS scene was that times ten. Imagine if everyone in this thread lived within 20 minutes drive of each other, knew each other's real names, and might even recognize each other if they passed on the st
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by 13of40 2y ago
IMO, the thing that went wrong with Lync->SFB transition was they bought Skype based on the idea that they could do something to merge the code with Lync, but over a year or two found out that that the only value was in the Skype brandin
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by 13of40 2y ago
> A highlight of the sale is a computer which Allen helped restore and on which he worked, a DEC PDP-10: KI-10. Built in 1971, it’s the first computer that both Allen and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ever used prior to founding Micros
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by 13of40 2y ago
Before the internet everything happened in periods of seven years. All the cells in your body would be replaced, your luck would recover from a broken mirror, the bankers would discharge your debt, and missing people would finally be decla
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by 13of40 2y ago
Interesting that the words acute and obtuse seem to follow the same pattern. Etymology says they come from ancient words for needle and club. Which also follow the same pattern.
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by 13of40 2y ago
Getting rid of the external gears also allows you to use a fixed chain guard. Less pants with a hole chewed in one leg = profit.
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by 13of40 2y ago
I once had the romantic idea of making beer from a 200 year old recipe. Didn't get too far with it, but I recall one of the pieces of advice being not to let your horse stop walking while it's stomping the grain from the chaff, b
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by 13of40 2y ago
Obviously a far younger city, but when I moved to seattle, satellite view on maps was just starting to be a thing, and you could spot all of the areas that were interesting to go to versus residential neighborhoods by the way the light refl
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by 13of40 2y ago
I agree - I've travelled enough on my own dime and the corporate one to know that you definitely don't want to get the cheapest room on Expedia, but satisfaction doesn't scale linearly with the amount you spend. Filet mignon

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