ipsento606

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by ipsento606 1mo ago
Are you speaking in the abstract, or would you, personally, like that when reading a blog? Speaking for myself, I have absolutely no interest in reading anything written by an LLM that I didn't prompt myself, under really any circumsta
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by ipsento606 2mo ago
the idea of the owners of a small, regional US news website being arrested while traveling in Europe because that site does not have a GDPR compliant cookie policy seems utterly detached from reality I would be more worried about being stru
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by ipsento606 2mo ago
replying with LLM generated text without clearly labelling it as LLM generated text is inherently dishonest I'm a pretty civil person, but I won't go out of my way to be extra polite to someone who is being actively being dishones
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by ipsento606 3mo ago
What is an "encephalitis stab"?
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by ipsento606 3mo ago
I'm also not trying to get into an argument, but totally disagree, and honestly believe that your attitude leads to an untenable breakdown of the social contract. I don't agree with use of the tongue-in-cheek term "riff raff&
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by ipsento606 3mo ago
> All surfaces should be comfortably above the dew point to prevent mold. I agree that this should be the case, but actually achieving this in the UK (where heating is very expensive and housing is poorly insulated) is prohibitively expe
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by ipsento606 3mo ago
> Maybe some of my difficultly understanding is being American In the UK, in winter, ambient exterior air is both fairly cold (let's say 40F) and extremely humid, often around 80% relative humidity. Houses are both poorly insulated
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by ipsento606 3mo ago
After finishing the article, I am left with a much deeper suspicion of the felony murder rule, and of plea deals in general, than I am of giving minors the same sentences as adults. That's not to say that I agree with giving minors adu
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by ipsento606 3mo ago
In the US this always seems to be called "overdraft protection", as in "do you want overdraft protection on your account?" I can never remember if overdraft protection means "we won't let your account overdraft
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by ipsento606 3mo ago
Source for the claim that nicotine use "ruins" gut health? My understanding is that the relationship between nicotine and gut health (indeed, overall health) is much more complex and nuanced than that. I know that nicotine has a p
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
This is sometimes because a rule somewhere is written in the form “employees must do x minutes of training per year” or similar
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
> like it's a huge inconvenience to just bring a personal phone to work It's not inconvenient to bring a phone, but it is very inconvenient to have to conduct personal business on a phone rather than on a laptop. Nonetheless, I
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
> It isn't reasonable to expect a non lawyer to understand it A closing argument - the specific example the parent comment used - is made to the jury. It is intended to persuade the jury. If the jury can't understand it, someth
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
diagnostic does not mean "not covered", it just means it moves out of the "zero cost even if you haven't met your deductible yet" categroy defined by the ACA, and into the regular category where you pay your deducti
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
> I believe that in the US, there is a certain age, after which, they're covered. There is a lot of confusion over this point, even among support agents for health insurance companies. i) The Affordable Care Act specifies that all M
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
> does anyone else have their entire day sidelined by a 10-minute call? is that common? It's extremely common for me. It really comes down to the point made in the article. If you have five or six calls already, the marginal cost of
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
>It's much more difficult to detect or correct misunderstandings over text. I really couldn't disagree more strongly. I think it's much easier to correct misunderstandings over text. In a spoken discussion, there is a high
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
> You can just spin up a raw VPS on EC2 or Lightsail, give it a public IP, and call it a day You could do this, but for the life of me I can't imagine why you do this over using a platform like DO, vultr, hetzner or any one of a hun
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
> This is a surprisingly common pattern in technology and software. Some things are definitively the “standard” It is also a surprisingly common pattern to adopt very complicated solutions for applications that are never going to need th
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
> US HUD says it's ~16% of homeless people, other sources give different numbers, but it's certainly not a majority "Homeless people" is a broad category that includes people temporarily living in vehicles, bouncing
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by ipsento606 4mo ago
Increasingly, my reaction to AI-generated content of basically all types is simply a deep, resonant sadness. The growth of AI feels a little like losing a limb - there is an initial shock of sadness, an initial dose of loss, an initial sens
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by ipsento606 5mo ago
I can't help but wonder about the relationship between fathers (and, in fact, all parents) spending more time with their children, and people choosing to have fewer children, and later. I think it's unquestionably true that father
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by ipsento606 5mo ago
> living paycheck to paycheck. This phrase is used so often, but I don't know how meaningful it is supposed to be A family might make $300,000 a year and be living "paycheck-to-paycheck" while also maxing out 401k contribu
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by ipsento606 5mo ago
I deploy prod by running a shell script I wrote that rsyncs the latest version of the codebase to my server, then sshs into the server and restarts the relevant services how could k8s improve my deployment process?
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by ipsento606 5mo ago
I'm trying to estimate how much better than git a new system would have to be to convince me to abandon git and learn the new system I don't know the answer, but I think it could easily be three times as good and I would still sti
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by ipsento606 5mo ago
certbot and ssh keys are things you set up once I haven't rebooted my DO droplets in something like 5 years. I don't monitor anything. None of them have been "retired".
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by ipsento606 5mo ago
>Swap to diff and start reading through the changes this forces the reviewer to view the entire diff at once, which can greatly increase the cognitive load vs. being able to view diffs of logical units of work for tiny PRs it may not mat
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by ipsento606 6mo ago
Developing for Android is also a much worse developer experience than developing for iOS, because there are thousands of devices to support, and much greater stratification of operating system customizations and older versions. https:&#x2F
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by ipsento606 6mo ago
> ACA enshrined the worst parts of the American healthcare system for years to come before the ACA, insurers could deny coverage for pre-existing conditions people have forgotten how bad things used to be
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by ipsento606 6mo ago
> Instead use an inside source, an employee you know at the company you are interested in I have been reading this advice for a decade, and I have been working as a software engineer as a decade, and I don't know anyone who got a jo

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