arthurfirst

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by arthurfirst 6d ago
It makes a lot of people dumber -- they doom scroll, gossip, play childrens games, and on the high end post cat memes. But it's a tool like any other and the results depend on the user. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear it is
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by arthurfirst 16d ago
Imagine thinking there is an option but to kiss the ring and still be allowed to play or that there are even two sides. Imaging thinking it even matters what Tim cook or Trump do. Imagine thinking Tim Cook is anything but a stand in book ke
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by arthurfirst 26d ago
Just like MCP is for Desktop users and useless otherwise -- GUIs are a solution to a created problem.. of users not being able to read and write very well because they don't practice. Terminal, coding, and even prompt writing skills ar
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by arthurfirst 1mo ago
If you are using linux and cannot use a console to code...
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by arthurfirst 8mo ago
The original software for the ISS (space station) was stored on a single floppy disk. Not sure about density but one of the engineers told me.
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by arthurfirst 8mo ago
your comment made me smile like a grandpa :) Also lighten up! oh... damn black hole...
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by arthurfirst 8mo ago
it's already a black hole for funding
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by arthurfirst 8mo ago
Windows 98 did the same for me
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by arthurfirst 8mo ago
In Canada the police are pretty lazy and it's mostly due to who they hire, and also a LOT of political garbage as it's a federal police force throughout the country in most cases -- run from Ottawa. Not much real police work happe
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by arthurfirst 8mo ago
Force multiplier and power projector. Requires ammo (tokens) which can be expensive. Requires good aim to hit the target. Requires practice to get good aim. Dangerous in the hands of the unskilled (like most instruments or tools).
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by arthurfirst 9mo ago
Solution looking for a problem is why. No value is why. Breaks NAT privacy and the extensions do not do enough. Top down pushed solution NOBODY WANTS.
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by arthurfirst 9mo ago
I have a claude max subscription and a gemini pro sub and I exclusively use them on the cli. When I run out of claude max each week I switch over to gemini and the results have been pretty impressive -- I did not want to like it but credit
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by arthurfirst 9mo ago
I'll play the devils advocate a bit: IP is a form of thought control... Is that ethical? Who holds who accountable? Is the one doing the holding accountable? Like Stalin said -- it's not the votes that count but who counts the vot
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by arthurfirst 9mo ago
That instance is final... but yes you are not dead! As a craftsman who has failed and started over believe me I have lived it. Ethics course != ethical Corporate ethics ~= slavery with a smile Lawyers will all tell you how ethical they are
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by arthurfirst 9mo ago
I literally filled out TPS reports every week at this place down to the hour, breaking down internal project billing and customer billing. In order get the charge codes from the PM, you need to give them estimates. That was the main driver
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by arthurfirst 9mo ago
30 years ago my boss at a large defense/aviation contractor told me estimating software projects was a very valuable skill, but all estimates were always wrong because they are simplifications and to keep that in mind -- his words. Mai
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by arthurfirst 9mo ago
what a great comment :)
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by arthurfirst 9mo ago
I worded it poorly. Unions should have more of a place... it is the right idea... but they were subverted in critical ways so they don't serve their members quite as they should. Instead they enrich middle men. Seems like the bigger th
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
I am still shocked not to see the opposite order -- but those days are long gone.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
> Sure, and advertising has zero effect on you. Not possible! But you learn over time and if you have the right though process, less and less it affects you. Unions had a place, the idea sounds good, it's the practice people didnt l
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
By all means do include FOX in that list of shame -- my mistake! No better. you are correct. It's a game all empires/sides are playing. In russia we are the boogeyman -- everyone needs one! it helps to stifle dissent. I reacted a
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
> There are people whose job it is day in day out to influence Western opinion CNN/CIA/NBC/ABC/FBI? etc?
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Poison the corpus. 18 years ago I stood up at a super computing symposium as asked the presenter what would happen if I fed his impressive predictive models garbage data on the sly... they still have no answer for that. Make up so much crap
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Bang on. > It's not about persuading you from "russian bot farms." Which I think is a ridiculous and unnecessarily reductive viewpoint. Not an accidental 'viewpoint'. A deliberate framing to exactly exclude what
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Most 'media' is produced content designed to manipulate -- nothing new. The article isn't really AI specific as others have said. Personally my fear based manipulation detection is very well tuned and that is 95% of all the m
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
How do people learn then? Personally I learn best by doing. If I study before I try something the results are poorer compared to the reverse. Make an attempt. Fail. Understand. Then study. It's not an either or proposition, either. Doc
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
> These are people who should not be running systems. I lol'd at that :) I was just trying to be more inclusive! Results have been mixed. I do build images from scratch but I also recognize I am atypical (like many around HN). As i
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Defending? I am simply pointing out the obvious flaws in your logic. If you think Raytheon is the apex evil corporation you are very mistaken. There is hardly any separation between mega corps and state above a certain level. The same peopl
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
Yes of course I know all that. That was the whole point of the overlay first approach. i.e. Build a network that works over the existing network before adding any barriers to entry like specialized hardware requirements.
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by arthurfirst 10mo ago
> it’s in the most-significant place, meaning every new ipv40 IP is in a block that will be a black hole to any old routers, or they just forward it to the (wrong) address that you get from dropping the first octet. Black hole for old ro

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