LevGoldstein

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by LevGoldstein 6d ago
Consider that the people who have never have never had to be on-call for a product that results in losses for the company in the event of an outage, and/or have never had to attend an RCA meeting have just as much of a voice in this di
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by LevGoldstein 22d ago
They profited so thoroughly from building the addiction machine that they sought to lobby for legislation that imposed restrictions on internet usage that will actively and permanently add friction to computing and make the internet as a wh
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by LevGoldstein 23d ago
It's a grovel-for-investor-dollars site that we've long pretended is for serious technical discussion. Comments should always be filtered through that lens.
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by LevGoldstein 4mo ago
Not OP, but here's a link from one of the previous times this was discussed. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/almonds-nuts... Almond farming uses massive amounts of water, which has caused
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by LevGoldstein 6mo ago
I'm very curious what their workaround plan for something like U&I MetaSynth would be.
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by LevGoldstein 7mo ago
My least favorite of that eras Gerald Genta designs. The original Royal Oak is comparatively far more attractive. Both are outdone by the 222 (different designer though), but it's all subjective.
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by LevGoldstein 7mo ago
> M$ has now introduced web-latency into the desktop along with their adoption of web-tech into the OS. So we're back to the woes of Active Desktop on Windows 98. Everything old is new again.
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by LevGoldstein 8mo ago
This only lasts until dark patterns can be inserted that disrupt the ease of use that agents are currently providing. If I can't force the end user to watch unskippable ads or trick them into spending money on a service they don't
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by LevGoldstein 8mo ago
I recall stuff like the Intel icc compiler being expensive and desirable, and things like client access licenses, hardware licenses (to allow using non-trivial amounts of RAM and multi-processing) and support plans for proprietary OSes bein
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by LevGoldstein 8mo ago
Which is why you take the time to put usage docs in the repo README, make sure the script is packaged and deployed via the same methods that the rest of the company uses, and ensure that it logs success/failure conditions. That's
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by LevGoldstein 10mo ago
People have been sounding the alarm about excessive water diverted to almond farming for many years though, so that doesn't really help the counter-argument. Example article from a decade ago: https://www.motherjones.com&#x2
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by LevGoldstein 1y ago
> Armed civilians with their puny little guns and little organization are right out as soon as any part of the military joins a fight, that's why I only mentioned the latter to begin with. We have several recent real-world examples
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by LevGoldstein 1y ago
Having encountered this spread across our orgs greenfield codebases which made heavy use of AI in the last 90 days: Restating the same information in slightly different formats, with slightly different levels of detail in several places, in
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by LevGoldstein 1y ago
It's been around for over a decade at this point, so I'd say it's as likely to disappear as Ableton Live at this point. Bitwig was made by ex-Ableton engineers and outside of some of the more niche features, they're simi
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by LevGoldstein 1y ago
...and we're back to trying to convince a penny-wise pound-foolish company to buy twice the computing hardware for every developer.
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by LevGoldstein 1y ago
Is it imminent? Reading the article, the only thing that's actually changed is that the CEO has stopped hand-picking AI hires and has placed that responsibility on Alexandr Wang instead. The rest is just fluff to turn it into an articl
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by LevGoldstein 2y ago
How long before a handful of entities, having already ingested the available content into their proprietary systems, bankroll assaults on Wikipedia and the Internet Archive.
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by LevGoldstein 2y ago
Depends on what you mean by alternatives. Some gear focused forums (ModWiggler, Lines, Elektronauts, etc) necessarily cover some of the same ground. The Dogs On Acid forum is also still around, though it's changed hands over the years.
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by LevGoldstein 2y ago
You say that as though this is a brand new problem and not something that's been an issue for many, many decades regardless of what party has majority control at the federal level.
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by LevGoldstein 3y ago
Perhaps they are a self-employed mobile pharmacist.
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by LevGoldstein 3y ago
> people in their cars pretended to ignore me, and one couple leaving theirs just walked away, as I asked if they could move so we could unload my dead car I wonder if they would have started responding if you motioned the tow truck driv
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by LevGoldstein 4y ago
> leapt through the eighth story dorm window to his death while tripping on magic mushrooms So if keeping them illegal apparently utterly failed to prevent people from having ready access to them as your anecdote suggests, what was the b
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by LevGoldstein 5y ago
Or more likely, there were probably some legitimate alerts that would have gone out at the same time as per normal operations, and they do not want to conflate these with the ones sent in error.
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by LevGoldstein 5y ago
>Is it really a terrible idea to restrict your software from being used to control weaponry? Seems reasonable until you do something unrelated to offend the licensor and they decide to leverage a very loose definition of weaponry/mu
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by LevGoldstein 5y ago
HBO also aired videos periodically between movies, prior to MTV's existence.
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by LevGoldstein 5y ago
I'm sure he's open to hearing your ethical, compassionate, and politically viable alternate proposal. Go ahead and post it.
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by LevGoldstein 5y ago
The US also has considerably higher wealth inequality than the other countries you've listed, and hence higher motivation for violent crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in... That sai
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by LevGoldstein 5y ago
I've worked in several in larger/Fortune 500 companies, including one where the desk setups were handled by a labor union, any changes required multiple approvals, and DIYing anything (using personal equipment or even adjusting th
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by LevGoldstein 6y ago
He continues to believe that it is undervalued, as per his witness testimony to the congressional committee: https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?Event... https://docs.house.gov/m
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by LevGoldstein 6y ago
That would be pretty easily proven as defamation/libel, and thus not legal.

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