ethicalsmacker

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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Fair enough. It's hard to imagine a worse DMV, but anything is possible!
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Well, it couldn't make the DMV any worse.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
insert cocaine joke
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
This kind of activity is exactly what I hate about Github and the new and unimproved "open source community". No one cares you updated your vimrc file. Nobody wants to see another "awesome list" in a code repository. Nob
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Odd to me, I have always been the "fun parent" the kids wants to play with constantly. My wife probably feels like he does, but she basks in it because it's finally time for her to be alone and recharge.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
I thought "minimal job board" was like, minimal UI, simple and clean. I didn't know it meant very few jobs.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
The thing that pushed me over the edge was browsing personal sites I found via http://wiby.me/ I was reading fairly old gamedev, emulation and other blogs. The content and spirit of them made me realize how things have come
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Neither require sharing publicly (ie, blog). Other than for the vanity/upvotes/etc.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
The data isn't always accurate. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it's not happening often. Your perception isn't always correct. Anecdote, I spent some time wandering around east palo alto (at the
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
One of my last memories in SF was around 4th and King where I watched a man steal from Walgreens, grab a person's handbag and run past a police officer and down the street. The officer didn't do anything and shrugged when the Walg
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
I used to blog and quit (pulled all of my content from the web). I still have a landing page, which serves as a general "This is who I am, I'm a real person" because I have a business and people Google my name. I couldn'
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
There are some good thoughts in there, but it fails to answer the actual question. Why publish a blog? Sure, writing has benefits. You don't need a blog to write. You don't need a blog to make your own content linkable. The only n
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Kind of upset they didn't leverage a corny phrase like "the buck stops here".
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Music with no vocals (classical, chiptune, etc) can work pretty well as long as you don't go down the rabbit hole of "finding music to listen to" every 15 minutes.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Dang that's a lot of karma!
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
The simplest guide to NNs I have ever read is this one: http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/evolved/nnt1.html It's an old site and guide, but probably still the easiest to understand if you're coming from a pro
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
I built my own "music streamer" for this. Basically takes any folder as an argument and recursively goes down and sucks up all music files and serves them via a web interface with the standard player controls and UI you would expe
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Opposite for me-- music causes daydreaming and other issues. I'm much better off with ear plugs and silence. No more looking for music to listen to, watching random videos or day dreaming.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Ear plugs to drown out sound. Don't use headphones. Stay as unconnected as you can from the machine (no Youtube/music/etc).
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
I didn't enjoy stepping over human feces when walking down the street every day, carefully dodging used needles on the sidewalks or watching homeless people piss or shit in front of Starbucks at ~11AM but to each their own.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Even then it's not worth it. When I was commuting to and from the city for work there would be 1-2 suicide attempts (or successes) every month and train delays for hours. I don't imagine that got any better after Covid...
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Sounds like SF to me. It has never been "nice". I was commuting to and from work there for over a year back in ~2015 and it was hell then. I interviewed around 2017 in SF and it was so bad I didn't dare walk back to the stati
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
No one is saying the behavior is acceptable. I'm thinking if I were a company, I'd be pretty keen on replacing humans with AI as soon as possible.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
I thought this was going to be about TempleOS. I got excited for a minute!
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
The timing of this post is a bit uncanny. I left Github last week (removed all of my repositories) and made contributions private. I went further and removed all public mirrors on my personal site (along with all writing and projects on my
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
This is interesting. You can exchange or even purchase stolen or breached data to confirm its authenticity or access your own data (see haveibeenpwned). You can also leverage the data to find its origins, leaker, etc. You cant handle other
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
5 million files is a lot of files. You could back up windows several times over and that’s saying a lot. What normal user has millions of typical data laying around? Not many, if any.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
You got me, node modules would. But who puts node modules in google drive? I wish google ill but even I wouldn’t wish that on them.
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by ethicalsmacker 3y ago
Because even a zero byte file consumes space and if you give people the option someone will create several petabytes of zero byte files.

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