MithrilTuxedo

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by MithrilTuxedo 8d ago
>It's not enough to have data, you also have to have societal buy-in. Insurance rates are based on data.
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by MithrilTuxedo 14d ago
NAVAIR 01-1A-23 https://www.robins.af.mil/Portals/59/documents/technicalorde... I was a 2M Mini/Micro repair technician for a few years in the Navy. That book was our school and manual.
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by MithrilTuxedo 16d ago
Dictionaries have been trying to retard linguistic progress since the first edition of one tried to nail down every meaning of a term.
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by MithrilTuxedo 16d ago
What business is it of the USPS except to transmit all mail regardless of purpose? The fact that the USPS would notice elections were being conducted is perverse.
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by MithrilTuxedo 16d ago
Those who are apt to discard responses to what they should have been apt to discard.
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by MithrilTuxedo 16d ago
The fact that reputable sources were not provided to justify the need for fixes has been reputable source enough. Bullshit is produced for the effect saying it will have.
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by MithrilTuxedo 16d ago
Stephen Levy's Artificial Life ended up being my first and only religious experience.
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by MithrilTuxedo 16d ago
That's not Schumpeter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
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by MithrilTuxedo 19d ago
Has anyone considered having Anubis perform more valuable hashing? Like, maybe you can't stop the LLM bots, but you can use them as one-off Bitcoin pool mining pool participants. You have to assume that making them find hash values wit
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by MithrilTuxedo 20d ago
That is the purpose of submitting them for review. Maintainers should be doing that anyway. Whether AI was used to produce the change should be invisible or not apparent to the reviewer.
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by MithrilTuxedo 20d ago
Reputation, or lack thereof. Proof of authority, essentially.
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by MithrilTuxedo 1mo ago
The only thing I think we can do is shield our private spaces from prying signals like we use walls to shield them from prying eyes. We wouldn't have street lights if the Fourth Amendment could prevent the monitoring of people in publi
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by MithrilTuxedo 1mo ago
>Or maybe I'm just too autistic to have a nuanced take. Who is doing the presuming? That sounds like a bad-faith interpretation. It's bad math. You can't expect statistics to be applied at that scale, and I think courts wo
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by MithrilTuxedo 2mo ago
Maybe things have changed since I was an Android dev in 2013, but I buy Pixel devices because I don't expect something to work well on most Android devices if it doesn't work well on a Pixel. I'm willing to switch between Chr
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by MithrilTuxedo 2mo ago
I upped the font size on my Pixel recently and this is one of those sites where (in Firefox) the sidebar takes up more than 50% of the width of the screen and retains tiny text while the article itself wraps on a couple words per line.
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by MithrilTuxedo 2mo ago
I'm not a neurotypical xenial, but I wasn't any good at compartmentalizing, or when I tried maintaining different identities it didn't feel honest, like I was pretending. I didn't like the thought of anyone ever seeing s
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by MithrilTuxedo 2mo ago
That's the claim, and it's a belief that's self-fulfilling prophecy, like saying all politicians are corrupt. If you can convince everyone that everyone is corrupt, it hurts anyone who isn't corrupt. You hear people pref
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by MithrilTuxedo 3mo ago
I don't think it's entirely customers' fault that companies could afford to lower prices when there was an oversupply price crash in 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle https://en.w
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by MithrilTuxedo 3mo ago
That sounds like the Success Oriented approach, as opposed to the Understanding-Oriented approach. Check out Jürgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action (1981).
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by MithrilTuxedo 3mo ago
Are they connecting gas generators to the grid?
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by MithrilTuxedo 4mo ago
>Is there any research out that offers tree-less company structures that might actually work in the real world? Elinor Ostrom's design principles for managing common pool resources (2009 econ Nobel) indicate that nested enterprises
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by MithrilTuxedo 4mo ago
mayo.k12.sc.us was my high school. It seems a shame they're not still using it.
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by MithrilTuxedo 5mo ago
They're meant to replace the bank. Cryptocurrencies allow market participants to communicate value to each other without having to trust other market participants or an institution. Mining verifies transactions and commits them to the
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by MithrilTuxedo 5mo ago
Strudel REPL is a browser-based music programming language based on Tidal Cycles which is based on Super Collider. https://strudel.cc/ Strudel on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571822
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by MithrilTuxedo 5mo ago
Isn't the Free Market already a form of AI that does exactly that? How can you ban tools for measuring the value of things?
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by MithrilTuxedo 5mo ago
Coalition navy ships (US, England, France, Germany, etc.) are supposed to protect commercial vessels transiting through the International Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC). Either this ship left the IRTC or the IRTC isn't being prote
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by MithrilTuxedo 5mo ago
IntelliJ's .idea/ folder has its own .gitignore and Copilot expects to find things committed under a .github/ folder. I used to be a purist about IDE configurations, but if everyone isn't on the same page about formattin
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by MithrilTuxedo 5mo ago
Is there no constraint preventing extra usage billing from being used before regular usage billing has been exhausted?
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by MithrilTuxedo 5mo ago
>They have some tricks on managing file access that others don’t. I thought it was a Windows thing. My Windows work computer is so heavily managed and monitored I assumed that was why Copilot stops being able to get terminal output or fi
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by MithrilTuxedo 5mo ago
Ahhh.... I couldn't figure out why they said that. I forgot the Statue of Liberty had double-helix staircases.

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