elijahwright

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by elijahwright 1mo ago
Specificity of communication is very important. Words - and shades of meaning - matter. Can you explain what it is that should reasonably be built? Do you know how to recognize a bullshit decision with negative benefits, and specify the
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by elijahwright 2mo ago
What, hire another person to do that work so they can fire them just like the last one who didn’t agree with them about what they’re doing??
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by elijahwright 2mo ago
Mmhmm. A talented cataloger in a research library understands where the 'fuzz' in these systems is - where the margins intersect - and they have a process for helping systematize those classifications in a way that they can socia
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by elijahwright 2mo ago
Start with the library of congress classification system. It'll get you 90 percent of the way there for 10% of the effort. (Classification systems are very much an information science topic... and they're pretty damn important.
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by elijahwright 3mo ago
Porn link.
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by elijahwright 3mo ago
I guess we aren’t gonna get a link today…
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by elijahwright 3mo ago
Maybe, but why? Got a link?
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by elijahwright 5mo ago
And so Vannevar Bush’s legacy slips away from us all…
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by elijahwright 5mo ago
Can Spamassassin do this? I can’t remeber anymore. I think I used primal with it last, but I bet you could vibe code up a harness…. Also I think it’s not an LLM in any way, but markov.
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by elijahwright 6mo ago
Aaaand unfortunately, you don't seem to have linked it.
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by elijahwright 7mo ago
This looks great, thanks!
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by elijahwright 7mo ago
This looks like an interesting tool… if it had helm charts for all of the components I think it would be easier to deploy…
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by elijahwright 10mo ago
The guy if you care about systems performance, in a detailed way, for sure! Someone ask him how many OS kernel bugs he’s found now? He finds the weirdest things… a tally would be “interesting”.
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by elijahwright 11mo ago
Is there a github repo for this? Free to use isn't the same as source-freely-available...
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by elijahwright 1y ago
(And now I’m off to search for Backpacker on board game geek…)
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by elijahwright 1y ago
This actually amused me for a few minutes - I played Carmen Sandiego last in the very early 90s and I got a nice nostalgia hit from this. OIDC logins and a backend where you can store progress and achievements would be a nice addition. He
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by elijahwright 1y ago
My favorite places as a kid were libraries - they provided the opportunity for exposure and enrichment that I would have otherwise lacked. They are so much oh-holy-shit important, especially if you want to advance beyond the means of whate
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by elijahwright 1y ago
Conflation is probably wrong. But librarianship is one of the most hacker-adjacent places I’ve ever worked. I fought pretty damn hard to keep UNIX tooling very directly in the information science curriculum at Indiana - circa 2005 or so.
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by elijahwright 2y ago
You think people understand corruption? If they did, would they find anything remotely wrong with it? Folks are pretty dishonest about their motivations, overall. I don’t even think it’s a partisan issue anymore.
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by elijahwright 2y ago
My local bbs scene had a ton of qmodem fans; mostly older guys who had been around a while. It was the late 286 and early 386 days for us, and I was in late middle school and early high school.
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by elijahwright 2y ago
Heh, I bet this is actually what killed my dad - glyphosate is what’s in agent orange. He had alzheimers-like symptoms at the end of his life… from what he told me, the air base at da nang was practically bathed in the stuff. It was just
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by elijahwright 2y ago
We should nationalize OpenAI as punishment for the flagrant copyright violation they've taken part in. Either give every aggrieved author points in the company, or fine them for something like the GDP of the entire planet (round up -
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by elijahwright 2y ago
Where is Max Bruning these days?
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by elijahwright 2y ago
Sometimes you can get farther with something like a summary statistics table of the different motifs that show up in a dataset. Hairballs are not interesting, but the shapes that show up in a graph once you make a few cuts can be fascinatin
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by elijahwright 2y ago
Indirect cost, how I loathe thee…
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by elijahwright 2y ago
It's very useful - I'm using it to send notifications of google form submissions to discord - but the 'free' plan is fairly limited.
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by elijahwright 2y ago
Massive overreach - these are companies that dont deserve to continue to exist. Make some new stuff that we want to pay you for, guys… it’ll look a lot more like a fair trade.
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by elijahwright 2y ago
Adjunct mostly just means "collaborating with us", it's not a term of derision. If he got a fancier title they'd probably have to commit to more interaction, and heavier obligations, as would he. (And not a single soul
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by elijahwright 3y ago
I reported this scam to them this afternoon- I’m sure others did too.
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by elijahwright 3y ago
I loved spotting the .joyent directory on one of the screenshots. Some things live on!

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