Random_BSD_Geek

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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
The sensible thing is to abandon these bills. AB1043 is short; you can read it for yourself: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3273385 ``` (b) (1) A developer shall request a signal with respect to
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
You are arguing with something I did not say. Yes, it would be nice to know with certainty who is behind these bills. It sucks how much opaque money influences American politics. Josh Gottheimer's press release[1] on HR8250 mentions th
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
o_O > Firstly, you keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means. I posted that word exactly once in this thread, and I was quoting someone else. But I like the Princess Bride too. No idea what you're talking
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
I'm confused by how my point got so lost. I think Facebook is behind these bills. I think that from personal experience working at Facebook. That an LLM may have arrived at the same conclusion is unrelated. LLMs are garbage. Don't
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
No. I think LLMs are garbage. Separately, and unrelated: I think Facebook is behind these bills. The LLM may be garbage and still sometimes produce a correct result.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
Thank you for the laugh in these dreadful times. :D
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
> abolishing anonymity on the Internet. This is what Facebook wants.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
Is that an option? Tell me more. Yes, I am looking to sue to stop this insanity. If you're a lawyer reading this, please reach out.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
I share your wariness of the LLM garbage, but I believe the conclusions are correct. This has Facebook's stink all over it. I worked there and know of what I speak.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
I can understand the "baby mode" desire, but as the other reply pointed out, this does not need to be legislated. The big OS companies can easily offer this feature for those that want it. I'm curious though about all this po
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
This. If your child needs a helmet to use the internet, as the politicians announcing HR8250 seem to think[1], Apple or whomever is free to offer that as a feature. There is no need for this to be legislated, especially when the legislation
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5mo ago
Like the authors of these bills, you appear not to understand the technology. Consider AB1043. It mandates that applications check the age of the user each time the application is launched. Think about what that means when you run `make` in
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by Random_BSD_Geek 2y ago
Polar opposite of my experience. To achieve the technical equivalent of changing a lightbulb, spend the entire day wrangling a dozen tools which are broken in different ways, maintained by teams that no longer exist or have completely rolle
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by Random_BSD_Geek 3y ago
The point is that some arbitrary number of weeks of vacation isn't the business-destroying choice this founder makes it out to be. Use your PTO. You earned it.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 3y ago
This is unbelievable nonsense. Your employees accrue PTO. If you can't handle them using their PTO, maybe you shouldn't have employees. If three consecutive weeks is a lot to ask, what would you do when that same employee gets hit
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by Random_BSD_Geek 3y ago
What convention? Your manager is a bad manager. Sincerely, A Former Manager
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by Random_BSD_Geek 3y ago
> We're giving billions to Ukraine with zero strategic interest to the United States. This is a bewilderingly head-in-the-sand assertion.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 3y ago
> What other similar books would you recommend? "Close to the Machine" by Ellen Ullman and "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland occupy roughly the same space in my memory.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 3y ago
My pet theory is that Bitcoin was created by a Five Eyes intelligence service.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 3y ago
Sad this was downvoted; it was the first response I related to. When you're strange, faces come out of the rain.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 4y ago
I forgot the question.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 4y ago
> Living on a Torus I can't help but hear this in Bon Jovi's voice.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 4y ago
This was an uncannily accurate characterization of my time at one of these companies.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 4y ago
You absolutely can host your own email. I do and have since before Google existed. Antispam hurdles do exist but clearing them is just a process. For most people it isn't worth the effort. Sometimes I wonder why I still bother, but it
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by Random_BSD_Geek 4y ago
Genuinely not sure if you're trolling or not, but.... > Ok, then I want to hear the reasoning behind those rulings/awards. ... > Edit: why disagree with this? You're asking internet randos to explain something to you th
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by Random_BSD_Geek 4y ago
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 5y ago
"Or not." --Hamlet
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by Random_BSD_Geek 6y ago
I misread "Minecraft" as "Minesweeper" and was briefly bewildered by the idea of Minesweeper VR. Kinda want to play that now.
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by Random_BSD_Geek 7y ago
It sounds like you're buying their DSL service. DSL is delivered over the telephone network's copper. A copper pair is necessary to deliver DSL. In the 90s, legislation was passed that forced the ILECs to open up their copper netw
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by Random_BSD_Geek 8y ago
I don't particularly care what someone who murders a bunch of people "thinks they're doing." Perhaps that makes me intolerant.

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