frithsun

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by frithsun 1y ago
I'm all about hating on the psychiatry profession, but I believe what may be missing here is that these diagnoses are always optional. If you like your grief, you can keep your grief. But if you need help, the criteria need to be there
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by frithsun 1y ago
It's not the size of the landmass that counts, anyway. It's how you use it.
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by frithsun 1y ago
I believe this is a "good" bubble in the sense that the 19th century railroad bubble and original dot com bubble both ended up invested in infrastructure that created immense value. That said, all of these LLMs are interchangeable
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by frithsun 1y ago
This is leftist propaganda masquerading as objective research, entirely ignoring the significant amount of "hate speech" censorship that goes on, as well. Whatever your opinion about what books should or shouldn't be banned,
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by frithsun 1y ago
Let's make us American workers even less attractive in the most globalized and exportable industry of all by playing Wagner Act games.
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by frithsun 2y ago
It's inevitable that social media will split up into separate and distinct networks of people who can no longer stand or even undertand the other sociopolitical tribes. All of us sharing a singular global network was an exceptional and
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by frithsun 2y ago
They're just encrypted IQ tests, working around the Duke Power supreme court ban on IQ testing employees. You're being tested on your general intelligence, not because anybody cares about binary trees or reversing linked lists or
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by frithsun 2y ago
I'm in my forties and have been doing ironic retro window managers since I was a teen rocking olvwm on my slackware 486 box in the mid-nineties. Months fade into years, which have faded into decades. My hair is graying and thinning, an
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by frithsun 2y ago
Gonna stick with my gummies, thanks.
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by frithsun 2y ago
Try to avoid the bespoke features of psql in favor of generic SQL unless cornered by circumstances into doing so, methinks. If there's one complaint I have about pg, it's that it has too many features that encourage finding cute,
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by frithsun 2y ago
Yup. With nothing but love for sqlite.
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by frithsun 2y ago
Garbage data analysis, reporting the statistical rebound from a statistically anomalous period (covid) as if it's some kind of trend. To the article's credit, they make no effort to hide their political motives behind misinforming
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by frithsun 2y ago
I'm big on digital minimalism and have relied on Chromebooks for everything for well over a decade now. I have Gimp, Inkscape, and the other flagship Linux apps I need. I have ssh and my tmux/shell/vim development environment
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by frithsun 2y ago
Immigration and assimilation policies in the west have been too rapid, faster than even those who think they're open minded can adapt to new people. The result is a pervasive societal siege mentality with everybody retreating into thei
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by frithsun 2y ago
We lack the moral courage to be honest about why real world community disintegrated and are therefore doomed to suffer these pedantic lectures that miss the point and point in random directions.
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by frithsun 2y ago
Hopefully they double check, as I would hate for him to be buried alive in a box.
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by frithsun 2y ago
AI is enabling a new generation of exploits and hacks that will force tech to get a lot simpler, more human readable, and more privacy oriented. Everything is going to need to be refactored for a world where bad actors have truly unlimited
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by frithsun 2y ago
Holding my first child for the first time decades later approached the sense of otherworldly bliss and joy that I experienced when, as a young teen in the mid nineties, I got X to work on my 486.
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by frithsun 2y ago
A swing and a miss. The future of materials is going back to plant fiber; wood, hemp, etc. There will be plenty of fancy composite materials for specialty applications; but our world has been made out of plastic for generations now and upda
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by frithsun 2y ago
Programmers would be better served by learning nothing except SQL instead of their current strategy of trying to learn everything except SQL.
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by frithsun 2y ago
I am emotionally invested in having been born in "the twentieth century" instead of "the 1900s."
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by frithsun 2y ago
Google is evil and all, but they're on the right side of this fight.
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by frithsun 2y ago
Maybe the question is there to filter out crusty cynics who aren't up for the very basic bullshitting it takes to get along in a team setting.
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by frithsun 2y ago
Thanks, but I would rather go with the imperfect setup that I understand than an allegedly perfect setup with dozens of third party dependencies that I don't understand. Doubly the case now that env is natively supported by node now.
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by frithsun 2y ago
Unix Power Tools The Linux kernel doesn't matter. What matters is understanding the history, philosophy, and purpose of the unix environment. You needn't become a religious zealot committed to the unix philosophy, but if you don&#
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by frithsun 2y ago
I'm not trying to sell anybody on it, but it was certainly the right choice for me. Maybe it's just that I'm, burned out, in my forties, and I would rather make widgets all day than learn another framework.
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by frithsun 2y ago
After decades in the software industry, I decided to just get a factory job within bicycling distance of my house and only do programming as a hobby. I can't take the hype cycle anymore. First it was big data this and big data that, no
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by frithsun 2y ago
McDonald's has screwed up my order less than any other restaurant, provided better, warmer food than any other restaurant, is cheaper for the quality than any other restaurant, and their Ronald McDonald House charity rescued my family
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by frithsun 2y ago
That's great, and they're probably on to a cool learning technique. But it's really just another case of smart parents with a smart kid thinking they reinvented education because the kid is smart.
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by frithsun 2y ago
What's interesting to me is that AI hype accidentally got non technical people thinking and talking more about their privacy and security concerns relating to software. There's nothing sinister about LLMs relative to the kind of d

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