JamesLeonis

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by JamesLeonis 4mo ago
Dig deep enough and you'll find the lobbyist. > The University of Washington today announced that it is part of a multi-pronged grantmaking strategy from Ballmer Group aimed at drawing more people into careers in early childhood edu
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by JamesLeonis 4mo ago
We are in the "Bust" phase of the STEM Crisis Myth[0] > [Anxiety over the STEM Crisis] has tended to run in cycles that he calls "alarm, boom, and bust." He says the cycle usually starts when "someone or some gro
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by JamesLeonis 4mo ago
I wouldn't worry about hardware. I've run the latest local models over the last year, including the recent Qwen 3.6 30B A3B, on a 9yo GTX 1080 and 32G RAM I have lying around[0]. If I can do that I don't think hardware will b
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by JamesLeonis 5mo ago
I want to come at this from another angle: We are about to tell the entire world wide web where all the kids are. The more these laws are enforced, the more we hand over this information to any unscrupulous website operator, app developer,
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
I'm not saying Japan was good, and this isn't a callout to you. I'm arguing that the erasure of US brutality in China and the Philippines, as well as Gunboat Diplomacy on Japan itself, is why we can see ourselves as the Good
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
Ignorance is a Weapon. Much of the US media is captured, so virtually nothing is fed back to us Americans. This also builds on top of US gunboat diplomacy going all the way back to the Monroe Doctrine. Keeping Americans ignorant allows our
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
The elephant in the room is 'unverified' users will overwhelmingly be underage kids, and that absence will be tracked across the internet. This whole thing inadvertently exposes who are the kids vs the adults programmatically. Sec
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
I guess I'm earning my grey hairs in my beard, because everything old is new again. Today AI/outsourcing is Offshoring 2.0. In the post-2000 bubble crash companies rushed to outsource their IT for cheap. From about 2001 to 2004, s
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
I'm also using Synctrayzor on my Windows 10 machine. I'm on Android using the official Syncthing app there as well as on Linux. It sometimes takes a while for them to discover each other, and it of course works better when all the
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
I sync the database to my phone, and a couple of other devices too with syncthing. I need it on my phone anyway to log into accounts while I'm out and about.
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
Not the parent, but a heavy user of Keepass. When you unlock your database, you can re-key it with several options for encryption algorithm, key derivation, and the transform rounds. I also have it set up with my Yubikeys as a kinda-sorta t
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, and Dark Forces are my triumvirate of that era. Of all of them, Duke Nukem felt the most interactive. There are times I would clear a level of enemies, then play with all the gizmos the level designers put inside like t
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by JamesLeonis 7mo ago
I agree. I find it a bit ironic that this site regularly talks about banning whole countries and IP ranges on our servers, then acts shocked when users do the same. The fact that somebody went to the effort to create and share this shows ho
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by JamesLeonis 11mo ago
I visited Munich back in 2013 and recorded several surfers on the wave [0]. For reference I was standing on the bridge just above the platform in the article's second photo. It was pretty neat, and I'm sad that it might be lost. [
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by JamesLeonis 11mo ago
I have a use case just for this. Sometimes my internet goes down while I'm working on my desktop computer. I'll put my work in a branch and push it to my laptop, then go to a coffee shop to continue my work.
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by JamesLeonis 1y ago
The Drake Equation is filled with assumptions, like life must appear on a planet in the Goldilocks zone of a star. The whole equation has only one datapoint to extrapolate from. Tweak the equation's parameters and it will predict unive
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by JamesLeonis 1y ago
10 years ago μTorrent tried to package a crypto miner as an install path offer instead of a toolbar and faced incredible backlash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent#Ads_and_malware
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by JamesLeonis 1y ago
> The company, Zuckerberg said, has lately been involved in “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on.” This under-recognized shift away from interpersonal communication has been meas
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by JamesLeonis 1y ago
I can confirm my FreeBSD, Debian, and NixOS boxes don't have it installed by default. It's also not installed on my TrueNAS box.
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by JamesLeonis 1y ago
This is not correct. The copyright office itself doesn't recognize any transfer of works-for-hire [0] unless there's (#3) a written document of the transfer, (#4) signed by the recipient, (#5) signed by the copyright holder, and f
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by JamesLeonis 1y ago
The artist still owns the copyright. Payment by itself does not transfer copyright. To do that the artist needs to explicitly sign away those rights. This happens in employment all the time. Part of the paperwork you sign is about transferr
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
In many ways it's the same as it ever was. If you have a lot of gray hairs, you probably remember The Dot-Com era. Before the bust it attracted a lot of bad talent from programmers all the way up to founders and investors. The joke of
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
You might consider mirroring the (legal) BitTorrent releases of your favorite Linux ISOs or something to that effect. I personally mirror several OCRemix BitTorrent releases [0] including the big 4K archive. [0]: https://bt.ocrem
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
The group behind AI Dungeon released the Wayfarer model in 12B and 70B variants. The former is small enough to run on local hardware. 10/10 would get eaten by a giant sloth again. [12B]: https://huggingface.co/LatitudeG
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I like this idea quite a bit. It's lightweight and read-only, which makes it far easier to host. I'm in the process of publishing some of my own repositories so I'm going to give this a try.
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Totally fair. Unfortunately this dog is a 4 years old black lab and we don't have the capacity to train him out of it. We manage it by keeping him indoors when we let the chickens free range in the yard.
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
My mom has a dozen backyard chickens and I agree with all of these. I'll tack on two bits from my own experience: Good: Fresh unwashed eggs don't need to be refrigerated. They are perfectly safe at room temperature on the shelf
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I went through school specializing in game development. Here are some thoughts: Game development is all about project management, including managing external teams. The CS is just one part that goes into the whole business. You instead will
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
My Windows rule-of-thumb is "Upgrade every other release." It served me well in the past when avoiding several weird Microsoft fads/features they love to cram into those 'cursed' releases. 98 -> XP, skip ME (to
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Choose a 'startupy' sounding name. - Tumblr removed a letter - Optimizely added a suffix - del.icio.us is still the best domain name ever created - a lot of domains have 'the' or 'try' as a prefix. The standa

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