cryzinger

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by cryzinger 14d ago
I like this one, too: https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea...
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by cryzinger 15d ago
On the off chance Dan sees this: one of the footnotes ("Some Zitron predictions" > July 2024) is broken. Right now it's showing a little 0 that doesn't actually link to anything if you click it :(
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by cryzinger 18d ago
I'm biased, being a software technical writer and not a dev, but at least from my side of the fence I think LLMs are no better at generating docs than they are at generating code, and might actually be way worse :) My devs keep throw
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by cryzinger 18d ago
> But, and maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I kind of wonder why we write articles like this. Like if a culture is bad, is it likely a CEO is going to be looking for random blog posts for constructive criticism? I think the odds of
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by cryzinger 20d ago
> The present understanding is that the tale's moral supports team effort and recognition of the vital part that all members play in it. In more authoritarian times, however, the fable was taken to affirm direction from the centre.
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by cryzinger 21d ago
IIRC that's what happened with the Boar's Head listeria outbreak. Inspectors had repeatedly documented that the facilities were nasty, but BH was allowed to continue operating for years because <reasons>. Things only came to
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by cryzinger 26d ago
The way I like to describe it is that it feels slippery , like it's been polished down to oblivion and my eyes slide right off of it. There's no place to find a mental foothold, and if you zoom in there aren't any details. B
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by cryzinger 26d ago
The bust (if you even can call it that...) pictured in the article is terrifying!
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by cryzinger 28d ago
To this day we have no idea why or how, but years ago someone at a chain of walk-in clinics once put a note in my wife's file indicating that she was a habitual cocaine user. She had no idea until she went in one time and they were lik
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by cryzinger 29d ago
> I am a little puzzled though by where these things are being built. Phoenix? Other than cheap solar power I can't tell why you'd want a data center there given the energy needed for cooling. Not Phoenix, but I learned an inte
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by cryzinger 29d ago
In my experience, there's not a ton of overlap between people who say this and people who use AI for everything they do... but most people who say this do use social media, cloud storage, on-demand video streaming, and plenty of othe
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by cryzinger 1mo ago
Interestingly, I have Google Assistant more or less disabled on my Android phone, but it still works when I have Android Auto enabled (which is fine by me since that's the one time that I ever want to use it).
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by cryzinger 1mo ago
I've never owned a copy of Roget's, and now I'm curious/tempted to get one, but my go-to digital word picking assistant has always been OneLook Thesaurus: https://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/
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by cryzinger 1mo ago
> If youre referring to whether or not Meta "cares" of you click and ad or not, then fair play. I'd argue that's more or less semantics, but ok, they do care and there is indeed an entire industry built on them caring
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by cryzinger 1mo ago
Fair enough to all of that; even though I did read TFA, I guess the (original, crappy) headline threw me off because it seemed like it was implying that Taco Bell should have received more than 2.5% of the affected lettuce, and I was like
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by cryzinger 1mo ago
Does this actually raise questions? I was under the impression that Taco Bell wasn't uniquely responsible for putting contaminated lettuce in the mouths of innocents, they were just more transparent about their supply chain than anyone
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
I don't think this is a defense of digital-only sales so much as a reality check that even physical game sales have been consumer-hostile for a long time.
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
You really don't want fraudulent clicks ("invalid traffic", per industry lingo) coming from your home network, because any publishers (apps and websites, per normal-people lingo) who use tools designed to block invalid traffi
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
The "radical tolerance" thing is also a little ironic, since the biggest controversy with the party that the founder donated to is that the party isn't tolerant of people from different backgrounds or nationalities... [inse
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
But the culprit likely would've been identified and mitigated sooner?
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
You can also use Emoji Kitchen to generate the images if you use a non-Gboard keyboard! https://emojikitchen.dev/
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
I don't think she was a full corgi (you almost never see all-white corgis, and not quite the right head/body shape) but she definitely had some corgi in there, or a similar herding breed. There's no way Strelka was a full cor
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
Ha, not to say too much, but I've been reading a bunch of network history stuff lately as research for a speculative fiction setting where there's no unified TCP/IP spec like we have today. (Although I'm far from an expe
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
Ah, I understand :)
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
I'm curious about the "if traffic was billed, it wouldn't have happened" part... are you saying that if traffic had been billed per [unit]byte, there would've been no incentive to build fiber networks?
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
I for sure agree about encouraging people to dig deeper and wider, and that absolutely none of this is new or is occurring in a vacuum, but (and I don't say this to single you out, this is just a long-held feeling I've had) I do a
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
It's interesting (by which I mostly mean "fucked") how some proponents are acknowledging the consequences after the fact, even for selfish reasons--like Musk "believ[ing] he’s going to be held accountable by history&quot
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
Dogs were the #1 way for humans to catch rabies for most of human history, which I didn't realize until I read Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus .
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
You won't OD from sulfates in shampoo, but there are serious pros and cons to using them at all : Sulfate-containing shampoos give you a deeper clean, but can dry out your scalp and make the color in color-treated hair fade. They&#x27
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by cryzinger 2mo ago
Agreed, although one thing I'll grant is that these days it seems like extremely large families in the US are almost always evangelicals, who obviously skew conservative, and there's not really a counterpart to that on the left. S

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