Root_Denied

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by Root_Denied 11d ago
> The purpose of a system is what it does. I'm a fan of a slightly different version of this that I heard years ago: "Just because something isn't working as advertised, doesn't mean it's not working as intended.
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by Root_Denied 12d ago
I'm seeing this happen in the security space right now. Someone on my team I was helping train and bring along is all of sudden regressing in their understanding of the issues we're working on, and instead focusing on AI tool outp
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by Root_Denied 2mo ago
The problem I see with this approach is threefold. First, from a technical standpoint the required context window would be massive if you're looking at a person's career/life holistically. Probably solvable, but definitely so
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by Root_Denied 2mo ago
One issue that I see with this type of system is that it doesn't allow for parental/guardian oversight of what kids are doing or discussing. Ever gone down the auto-suggestion rabbit hole on YouTube Kids? You start getting into we
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by Root_Denied 2mo ago
China has spent the last couple of decades making inroads into Africa to secure raw materials, not because they want to annex anything on the continent.
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by Root_Denied 2mo ago
So no one working on railroads before 1907 was a "real" professional? That's more than 100 years after the railroad was invented and took off. The Bar exam in the US didn't start until the 1780's, so lawyers before
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by Root_Denied 2mo ago
New unicorn founder 10x success signal just dropped
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by Root_Denied 3mo ago
>my engineering licence would be revoked and I would be kicked out of the industry. This isn't because you're a "real" engineer, it's because of regulation and industry licensing around specific engineering disci
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by Root_Denied 3mo ago
Unregulated capitalism breaks things for sure. That regulation can stem from government intervention or private ownership (or both). Regulation can also break things if done incorrectly/poorly/inefficiently/corruptly.
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by Root_Denied 3mo ago
Is that 2.5x number the average of the whole of the US compared to Switzerland? Because NYC probably has higher density than Switzerland, but Oklahoma probably has much lower than even that 2.5x number, and it doesn't make sense to put
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by Root_Denied 3mo ago
> To trigger building inspections in my county it can only be forced if there is compensation or commercial intent for building or use of the house, but you have to use a special process to record this with the county affirming you'
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by Root_Denied 3mo ago
Velocity of Money is the term to look into. Governments also like it because as money circulates it generates tax revenue through sales tax/VAT.
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by Root_Denied 3mo ago
Yeah, people who talk about how "fiddly" it is to game on Linux must not have tried recently, or have a very low tolerance for doing anything other than clicking play. I occasionally have to right click a game and enable the compa
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by Root_Denied 3mo ago
Competent underlings just means that delegation works to make him look better, it doesn't make him or his actions any smarter or more effective.
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
A lot of those VPS instructions these days recommend a reverse proxy like Caddy or Traefik for that exact reason. I think it's also a valid argument to say that anyone playing around on a VPS without knowing what they're doing is
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
Again, if your router or perimeter devices are appropriately managing your network then it's a non-issue. By default most home routers have IPv6 disabled, and if you're setting up an enterprise environment with a VLAN you're
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
Tossing in my two cents here to agree with you. I worked remotely on and off from about 2014 onward until post-COVID RTO brought me into an office for 18 months before I became remote again. During that time (and across a bunch of companies
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
My understanding is that docker will expose the ports to the host machine's network interfaces, which is a crucial difference. For my home server running docker that means exposed to the LAN, but not the WAN unless I add in a port forw
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
>The current SpaceX is in a far better financial and operational position than 10 years ago. By an order of magnitude. 90% of all payload to orbit right now is SpaceX alone. Starlink is profitable all on it's own. Right now. I don&#
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
Their leverage is a result of having the time to be involved in politics, which is itself a result of working for decades to build up to the point that they could retire. They're an end result of the system, not an exception to it.
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
This seems a bit like a corollary to "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". On the timescales that matter to an individual it won't matter if the eventual conclusion is that AI can't ful
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
I wouldn't call it a honeypot, but it's probably compromised by the feds. It was shown a few years back that if you control enough of the exit nodes (more than some specific % that I don't remember off the top of my head) the
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by Root_Denied 4mo ago
Less a gentleman's agreement and more of a question of economic incentives going away. Companies aren't paying out bounties at the rates they used to (possibly because they've realized there's little financial incentive
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by Root_Denied 5mo ago
Sometimes called the "cold controller" effect as well, and not necessarily requiring sleep but rather just a break from the game.
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by Root_Denied 5mo ago
There's not enough nuclear to go around, and the approval/permitting process for new nuclear power plants is nothing to sneeze at, both in terms of time and cost. That's also ignoring that nuclear power plants also consume
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by Root_Denied 5mo ago
The reality is that unless and until the PR hit from failures like this impact their stock price or their bottom line, companies won't care to fix the processes that created them.
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by Root_Denied 6mo ago
The ideal system as far as I'm concerned is one that regulates Roblox out of existence for a variety of sins. At this point I'm just waiting for someone to dig up a name associated with Roblox in the Epstein files, because that&#x
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by Root_Denied 6mo ago
In this day and age Prism launcher [0] will handle Minecraft and any modpacks you want to use. The only caveat is pointing it at your download folder so it can open the tabs for any mods that need a manual download and it will import them,
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by Root_Denied 6mo ago
I'm in the process of moving all my backups to Immich - honestly it's best in class software. I'm able to set it up so that my SO and I can view all the pictures taken by the other (mostly cute photos of our dog and kid, but
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by Root_Denied 7mo ago
Why do you think you have a 5 day work week? Because collective action fought for it. Same goes for the Civil Rights movement in the US and strong union protections for the Boomers that helped them build out a healthy middle class (that the

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