fapjacks

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by fapjacks 5d ago
The worst thing about AI is that it's camouflage for stupid people. And it often gets combined with utter confidence in some position because they're too stupid to know the machine is confidently wrong.
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by fapjacks 1mo ago
Or a huge software company where you only get the end operating system, but none of its source code. Buy the Neiman Marcus cookies and feel entitled to the recipe? Lots of secret sauce in the world.
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by fapjacks 2mo ago
No, I actually like this reply, because it's true in its essentials. You can find someone to tell you what you want to hear, but it's not going to pay the rent. And actual help needs to come from within, and no one has a magic wan
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by fapjacks 2mo ago
Boring old programmer. Honestly I gave up rules-lawyering in D&D some time ago, because it just makes things a slog. Which, while fun for me sometimes (I play Dwarf Fortress), isn't as fun for anyone else.
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by fapjacks 3mo ago
In grade school I kept meticulous, tedious logbooks of ships entering and leaving an imaginary port for tax purposes.
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by fapjacks 4mo ago
Not to sound like a codger, but we even said in the 90s that computers are just very fast idiots.
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by fapjacks 4mo ago
This is smart but also hilarious.
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by fapjacks 4mo ago
Imagine if we did this for countries.
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by fapjacks 4mo ago
I dunno. Is AI less than forty years old?
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by fapjacks 5mo ago
Huge second to zachtronics.
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by fapjacks 6mo ago
I have worked in tech in many different cities and when I worked for a startup in San Diego, we were surrounded by health tech companies of all sizes. I've never worked in Boston, but I would say San Diego is definitely a health tech h
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by fapjacks 8mo ago
That's fair. It would have been a weird reunion anyway.
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by fapjacks 8mo ago
Weird side question, but any chance you use(d) the same name on Playstation Network?
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by fapjacks 1y ago
100% this. Hetzner has no problems completely blowing away whatever you've got running for arbitrary reasons. And their support is incresibly bad.
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by fapjacks 1y ago
Sure, the kinda go-to for this is rtl-sdr.com's device (just search amazon). They have a great and comprehensive site, too: https://www.rtl-sdr.com
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by fapjacks 1y ago
Do not post affliliate links. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HGQXC7C
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by fapjacks 1y ago
Yeah, the ancient stoics made a whole philosophy about it.
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by fapjacks 1y ago
make me a truly flat surface
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by fapjacks 1y ago
I noticed this also, and ever since, I've made it a point to always have memorized my SO's number and my best friend's number.
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by fapjacks 1y ago
No, it is not feasible to run modem signals over VOIP, as the various codecs all compress signals and cut frequencies and all manner of things to reduce bandwidth consumption, which are incompatible with modem signaling. You could get away
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by fapjacks 1y ago
I have no horse in that race but just to see people talking about XML like this a quarter of a century after the first time I saw similar comments is just funny, I don't care who you are.
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by fapjacks 1y ago
I think this is normal for most people, but I've found that one-on-one's are a way more effective tool for revealing these sorts of situations. A good manager, though, is very rare. Maybe there's some surface area here for AI
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by fapjacks 2y ago
I interviewed at DoorDash way back when, could've been about employee #12 or something. But when I sat down to interview with a couple of the cofounders, it seemed to me they were some kind of sociopaths. I have no regrets whatsoever n
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by fapjacks 5y ago
It's interesting to note that stoicism -- in my experience perhaps the most difficult thing I've ever done and still fight hard every day to follow -- could be said at its core to work against these baser motivations.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
That's what I've been using for some years and it's never been a problem for me. You are right that you have to have at least a basic understanding of how a mail server works, and there is some configuration to know about. Bu
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by fapjacks 5y ago
But that is exactly what happens: Human civilization is a generational loop of genocide and treachery. All of these wonderful things we enjoy exist in spite of everything we are.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Once upon a time in Germany, I was put on several special duty assignments to guard documents overnight (with a machine gun!) prior to their destruction by companies like this.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Yeah, and even "good engineers" can take jobs that they don't do well at. It's weird how this works and seems in many cases not related only to the job or type of work, but many factors both on and off the job. I think t
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by fapjacks 5y ago
And where do you imagine Microsoft stores all of this telemetry they steal from the user?
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Hello! Data hoarders [0] like myself use tons of automation for this task. For online videos specifically, I watch them locally so as to avoid as much telemetry as possible, and when I see a video I want to watch, I save it to a playlist. T

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