arthur_pryor

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by arthur_pryor 6y ago
yeah, while i personally suspect that a high enough fidelity simulation would be comparably conscious, and i think we should certainly err on the side assuming that's the case from an ethical perspective, i do fully agree it's sti
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by arthur_pryor 6y ago
> It's kind of a stupid idea for anti-racists to even keep using the term, given that the group has no identity outside of defunct 20th century pseudoscience notions of race and preserving and promoting the idea of it as any kind of
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by arthur_pryor 6y ago
it's a hard thing to keep in mind and execute on, even if you know it consciously. i think people in general can often have too much of a move fast and break things attitude, and i tend to be the opposite, but my default tendency towar
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by arthur_pryor 6y ago
> The Game Cartridge yeah, i was slightly surprised that jerry lawson (inventor of the game cartridge) wasn't mentioned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawson_(engineer)
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Stanford archive to highlight Black histories of Silicon Valley(news.stanford.edu)
17 points by arthur_pryor 6y ago|18 comments
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by arthur_pryor 6y ago
> "Orthogonal" suggests no connection but what I see above is a list of package managers that don't have namespacing. correlation does not equal causation. how is it not apparent that typosquatting is possible regardless o
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Amazon fires at least 3 employees who criticized workplace conditions(arstechnica.com)
1 points by arthur_pryor 6y ago|0 comments
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
> if most people are searching for the truth wouldn't it be better to give them both sides of the issue and have them decide for themselves? i think the wording of this is insufficiently nuanced. consider that many issues involve m
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
> Frankly, if you're waiting my table and I need more water, you should bring me more water. is the logic here that as a software developer, your quality of life should certainly be better than that of the people waiting on you? th
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
indeed
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
like... i get that this is technically true, but you see how the addition of an infrared camera to the mix makes things much more cumbersome? or rather, do you see how obviating the need for an infrared camera makes discovering the passwor
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
> but look around next time you go out there are cameras _everywhere_ > You may not think those cameras matter, but let's be honest, many people have access to the data feed through those cameras. From the near-minimum-wage &quot
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
> The state of developing and maintaining accessible web applications feels like a sad joke given the industry's mantra to make the world a better, more connected place. this also feels true of most of the industry's business m
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
a few things: * you're trying to focus on being data-driven, but then you posit that i should watch a bunch of anecdotes collected in a non-scientific way to get perspective? would it be valid for me to ask you to talk to everyone who
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
two things: >> Before the vaccine, measles infected more than 3 million Americans and killed more than 400 of them each year. One in four people who get measles are likely to be hospitalized and one or two in 1,000 are likely to die &
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
hearsay from my car enthusiast friends and this cursory internet search contradict that claim. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=modify+ECU&t=ffab&ia=web
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
that is one point of view. another point of view is that freedom to tinker and repair shouldn't be limited to the super-rich, and that what you're describing isn't practical for the vast majority of the population. i have exa
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
presumably they have to do some refurbishing and rehab when they get it back anyway. why not re-flash all the software then? or, somewhat more draconian, add in explicit penalties for people who tamper with leased vehicles, with a contrac
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
> If we passed a law outlawing targeted advertisement driven by behavior tracking, and Facebook ignored that law, a $20B fine would be reasonable to me. And I'd be OK with that law! i think i would really like that law.
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
reproducibility should be something that's baked into an experiment's design. so, if their experiment was designed such that reproduction is inherently difficult, they should have designed it in a better way, and they should'
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
also, take a page from our transit providers: "if you see something, say something." and be proactive about it. don't wait till it's too late. if we're all whistleblowers, people high up the chain will fear havin
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
sandboxing may not be perfect, but it provides an important layer of protection. it takes effort to break out of a sandbox. if the protections that sandboxing offered were so flimsy as to be a false sense of security, that would be an argu
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
if you like something or think it's important, and you want the internet to preserve it for posterity, force it to be crawled by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org (usually stuff i want to save has already been cr
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
sneakernet is still a useful thing for large transfers (even in literal walking distance, sometimes). like if i'm sending a large file to a person in the same office or house, i might prefer to just put it on a thumb drive and hand it
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
ah, yeah, well, sorry. maybe don't chase that rabbit like that next time? also i find the "rabbit hole" metaphor and a username beginning with "dbased" to be pretty "on the nose" in the context of this th
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
(note: not trying to say the medical diagnosis scenario you describe is less important than your contribution to getting the world off SMS, just spitballing how we can work towards timely updates in our current world and wean off SMS) in
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
fwiw, after reading this post, i searched "boop snoots" (with quotes) on both duckduckgo and google, and came up with nothing disturbing in the first page of results for either search. nothing that even indicated a connection to
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
and... targeted advertising doesn't use these attack vectors? really?
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by arthur_pryor 7y ago
sometimes it is right to treat scenarios that are fundamentally similar as different beasts in practice when those scenarios are actually happening at very different scales. i (and many others) believe that surveillance is like this. the e
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by arthur_pryor 8y ago
> I kinda suspect it is the kind of job that is just inherently unhealthy that doesn't mean you can't try to mitigate the worst aspects of it. here are some suggestions to start: * saner hours * better pay, so that you ca

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