Arubis

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by Arubis 3d ago
A bunch of spherical bastards, the lot of 'em.
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by Arubis 3d ago
I've been working on building hyper-local services, sort of as a love letter to my community in Denver, Colorado. Before decent LLM harnesses, these would've been prohibitively expensive in time and resources to build out and woul
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by Arubis 3d ago
You're not wrong. We're talking about different eras--and it sounds like you may have been around a bit longer. The mostly libertarian/individualistic (I would dare say _left libertarian_, who seem now to be pretty much polit
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by Arubis 3d ago
It wouldn’t actually be _that_ surprising. Tech isn’t progressive or countercultural* anymore. And a lot of how people feel about gun rights/gun control stateside really comes down to whether people identify with the population they pe
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by Arubis 6d ago
One of these things was wholesale systemized actual state-run murder. The other is a range that encompasses big companies run by awful people and also a binary blob I can run on a GPU in my basement. Don’t weaken how awful the Holocaust was
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by Arubis 6d ago
I wish we could get past this debate. Different people have different feelings. Bucketing into binary "good" and "not good" based on whether they have the exact same framing as you do is dehumanizing. Stop it. Respect ot
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by Arubis 10d ago
So far, the best way I’ve found to improve code quality from LLMs that you’ve already produced is to read the output, throw it away, and hand-write it from scratch, usually with a totally different structure. This scales about as well as it
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by Arubis 11d ago
I’m not even sure that’s a useful question. It almost points at “what’s the other end of the continuum so we can discuss points on the axis”, which _is_ useful, but I’m not even convinced that “merely” treating those without income as deser
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by Arubis 11d ago
Yes, certainly: the ability to say “no” to abusive labor conditions without risk of irreversibly losing any source of income while living in a society that treats lack of income as deserving of whatever pains and suffering come with it. The
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by Arubis 11d ago
This is the right move. Unionise when things are good enough that labor can take a hit and keep standing, or when they’re so bad that people might actually die. Either way labor has a strong BATNA. Right now a lost of software work is kinda
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NextDNS: fully configurable DNS, accepts money from customers as business model(nextdns.io)
3 points by Arubis 12d ago|1 comments
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by Arubis 14d ago
We have a designated Election Day. It is (as you correctly imply) not a federal holiday. My own perspective is that that is indeed clearly discriminatory, and that some people like it that way.
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by Arubis 16d ago
> Every place in earth has a legal definition of who is human. I actually doubt that! And in places that do I doubt it’s perfection. Citizenship is mostly defined legally. Residency has a legal definition that may or may not track with r
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by Arubis 17d ago
That’s a pragmatic and understandable argument. And for an individual hobbyist site owner, that’s fine. Are we okay with excluding 1 person in 20 from the services of a midsized organization? What if they’re integral to the workplace? Or a
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by Arubis 17d ago
How do you define humanity? How do you ensure it includes every human? How do you ensure it doesn’t include every non-human? I’m not even asking about computation or algorithms. I straight up don’t think you can make a definition that isn’t
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by Arubis 19d ago
Interesting -- I stand at least in part corrected. It _is_ the case that there's regulations intended specifically to address this. It seems they're not 100% effective, though. What gets me about your linked cases is that, with on
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by Arubis 19d ago
A periodic reminder that you can buy a TV that's not smart. It won't be the fancy Samsung wall-art one and it won't be the absolute shiniest display tech out there, but it will be good enough, it'll be dirt cheap, and it
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by Arubis 19d ago
At this point what keeps me on Firefox is less the browser engine diversity than [tridactyl]( https://tridactyl.xyz/ ), without which I feel almost helpless in a browser.
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by Arubis 19d ago
Firing USDA inspectors etc. is definitely directionally stupid. But yeah, this issue is preexisting. A huge portion of USGov’s rules and regulations were written in response to the social push when stuff like The Jungle was hitting the publ
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by Arubis 20d ago
Judge rules horse must return to barn.
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by Arubis 22d ago
Taxes.
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by Arubis 22d ago
Indeed. I’d only reengaged with any Xitter content when I realized I could get it through xcancel. Without a door like this, it’s invisible to me.
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by Arubis 23d ago
The winning move is not to play (in a capitalistic sense). My best guess at a survive-and-thrive strategy for a subculture is to stay as far away as possible from any centralizing influences or infrastructure. Money is one of those. The mil
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by Arubis 23d ago
> EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS STAYS HAPPENED. > “What kind of philosophy is that?” > THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS. — Thief of Time (Pratchett)
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by Arubis 23d ago
The future of ~2000 belonged to the weird, too. We commodified all that. Anything briefly and seemingly "quirky" is fodder for branding. Or you can go a little further than quirky, and someone like RFK will want to put you on a li
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by Arubis 23d ago
This is good advice. And if you don’t want to spend too much time reading about EA, imagine for yourself the inner dialogue of someone struggling with the tension between wanting to get really, really rich at any cost, and also really, real
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by Arubis 25d ago
Kind of an aside, but I’m genuinely surprised Moxie is still on Xitter. Feels misaligned.
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by Arubis 26d ago
I probably put !expert in half my searches and rely on Kagi for most of my research that isn't just agent context gathering (and a fair amount of what _is_ just context gathering). It's excellent and cites good sources.
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by Arubis 29d ago
Raising kids is fabulous experience for management. If you can convince a five-year-old that greens are tasty, you can motivate almost anyone.
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by Arubis 29d ago
I have had to very deliberately and repeatedly let myself off the hook for ambitions while parenting. There is SO MUCH that I am hungry to do, and none of it is as important as being fully present with my kids. Will there come a time when t

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