dmvdoug

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by dmvdoug 3mo ago
Can’t release data sets if they can’t be sufficiently anonymized so as to avoid Privacy Act/other non-disclosure statutes. Can’t anonymize data sets sufficiently if you’re banned from using the techniques data people use when anonymizi
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by dmvdoug 7mo ago
That’s another reason there just isn't any point in looking at these articles anymore unless they take you on a trip deep in the weeds of some specific problem or example. We need deep case studies (pro and con), not bulleted lists and
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by dmvdoug 7mo ago
See, whatever one may think or conclude about the substance, it’s this kind of thing that might actually help advance the conversation.
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by dmvdoug 7mo ago
Yeah, i’ve gone to the point where I will just stop reading AI posts after a paragraph or two if there are no specifics. The “it works!” / “no it doesn’t” genre is saturated with generality. Show, don’t tell, or I will default to belie
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by dmvdoug 8mo ago
Old Aardwolfers gang, rise up. Loved that game.
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by dmvdoug 11mo ago
Nope, but that wasn’t what I was responding to, either.
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by dmvdoug 11mo ago
I’ll give you an example: the technology in the Instrument Unit on the Saturn V, which was the computer that controlled the Saturn V during launch, was largely derived from System/360. By technology here I mean things like the Unit Log
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by dmvdoug 11mo ago
It’s true of all private launch providers, not just SpaceX.
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by dmvdoug 11mo ago
> * I'm not seeing what makes SpaceX government funded beyond just that it provides services to the government* Take away all of SpaceX‘s government contracts. You imagine SpaceX would still be in business? As you said, every launch
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by dmvdoug 11mo ago
Yes, this. And the reason why congressional appropriations plummeted was that no one saw any need to maintain such high expenditures. There hasn’t been an actually coherent vision of what NASA is supposed to be working towards since the Apo
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by dmvdoug 11mo ago
Nah, that’s false. Miniaturization was already underway before the Space Race. The space program absolutely benefited from it, yes. But NASA wasn’t at the forefront of those developments.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
Dude’s been arguing with people since at least 2012 that systemd is a good thing. It took me less than a minute to figure that out by searching his blog.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
It was very odd to start a “review” of a book from 1992 by criticizing it for lacking all the things you think a book published in 2025 should have. And then searching GitHub for code related to it, like TFA is expecting this to be somethin
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
It’s almost like what really matters when something goes wrong is who responds to the incident. There are individual human beings who genuinely give a shit about customer service, and will move heaven and earth in order to help customers. A
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
No, because the first one isn’t talking about writing documentation. It’s talking about knowledge discovery as a learned skill that eroded when web searching replaced how knowledge used to be sought. They actually say: even in the new-fangl
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
Yes, but it became more than just Linus and Greg’s view that couldn’t be overcome by outside argument, and became more formally Kernel Policy once they became a CVE number assigning authority.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
CVE statistics are also pretty hard to interpret in light of the kernel team’s willingness to assign CVE numbers for most any bugfixes.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
This has to do with their policy on assigning CVE numbers, which is that pretty much any bugfix might be security-related because it’s the kernel, so it doesn’t take much to get a number assigned. See https://docs.kernel.org&#x2F
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
Many other statutory schemes were enacted afterwards that placed additional restrictions on the tariff authority Congress gave the President. You can’t read one section of one statute and just assume it alone applies. Just look at the varie
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
There are lots of stories about Chomsky ranting and wielding his own disciplinary authority to maintain himself as center of the field.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
Thoughts and prayers during your time of mitigation.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
Probably my now 70 hours of being awake, honestly, sorry if I’m being snippy. Deep South gang, rise up!
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
Yes, I was being sloppy. Nevertheless, they can still only request that particular set of documents. And it’s not to assess a particular student’s status but the school’s compliance with the program requirements. (They can of course check i
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
Nah, this one is going to federal court for sure. It’ll all come out. But part of the rules are also that schools must provide the relevant information within 30 days of the start of an alien’s academic term. There’s a whole system set up t
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
You’re wrong about that. It doesn’t say “Congress shall make no law, unless it targets non-citizens.” The First Amendment is a constraint on what governments may do.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
No, we gave the SEVIS revocation letter demanding a handful of categories of information, one of which is “protest activity.” And they are already required under the statute to provide one category of information requested: “any disciplinar
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
The actual statute provides the categories of information schools must provide about their students. It’s not a “whatever we happen to ask for” list. See 8 U.S.C. § 1372. Needless to say, “protest activity” is not included.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
So you don’t have share the values that make America what it is. That’s fine. But let’s not pretend otherwise.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
I’m fascinated that you have yet to consider the fact that what you’re talking about is experimenting with children as the subjects. Or that, maybe that’s why there’s so many guard rails around, you know, experimentation in this space.
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by dmvdoug 1y ago
It’s the same logic. You just have decided that you accepted in some factual circumstances and not others. If you bothered to reflect on that, and had any intellectual humility, you might take pause at that idea.

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