jgerrish

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by jgerrish 6d ago
> Source: have lived there, everyone I knew had a bike they regularly used. I don't live in Finway or Norway. It would be nice to be in a country that accepted a more pescetarian / fish-based diet. It might help with the able
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by jgerrish 7d ago
> I've been very pleased to see the reaction to Flock in the US. I've been involved in civil liberties for over three decades. I was a member of the EFF and ACLU when I could afford it, and follower of the early cypherpunks.
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by jgerrish 14d ago
> This is unless, of course, you enjoy puzzles and hard work with little application. Wouldn't that be great? If we could teach our kids that learning for the sake of learning is awesome? If only that was all this world was. But y
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by jgerrish 15d ago
> Nothing in your comment makes me want to go learn more theory, and I would argue that it's nonsense to anyone who is not a mathematician. What a coincidence this came up today. I'm not a mathematician. I minored in math, but
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by jgerrish 15d ago
> Nothing in your comment makes me want to go learn more theory, and I would argue that it's nonsense to anyone who is not a mathematician. What a coincidence this came up today. I'm not a mathematician. I minored in math, but
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by jgerrish 22d ago
Because what these models are trained on matters. China is fucking smart. They have technical expertise to know that by feeding the model certain data, they can shape the outcome of questions posed. Yeah, in the end, maybe both US and Chin
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by jgerrish 1mo ago
But for some fields, almost EVERYTHING they touch is sensitive. I've been reviewing PPML for wildlife management purposes, which my brother is involved in and my other brother, a ML expert, may want to be involved in. With wildlife ma
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by jgerrish 1mo ago
Do the credits in a movie stop on a name and shame? Maybe some future one will, just to prove this wrong. But most of them let those millions of unheard of crew members, unknown but still important, point to their name proudly when they&#x
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by jgerrish 1mo ago
I'd like to congratulate Aaron Horwath on publishing this article. As a creative professional, he must feel pride in bringing his ideas to light. Unfortunately, this isn't the movie industry. We don't see a list of credits a
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by jgerrish 2mo ago
No, it's not a joke. When I see an article like this, I first think about the horrible lives lost in all of these wars. Many of them wonderful people who want to live their own lives. But I also think of unofficial channels of informa
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by jgerrish 2mo ago
Especially if medical prescriptions for it aren't necessary. Confounding migraines for weed prescriptions and very real stroke risk and a desire for low THC marijuana isn't going to be a happy show I want to go through watching th
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by jgerrish 3mo ago
I grew up around Carl Sagan. My Dad and his brother were engineers, materials science and aerospace respectively. The Voyager stories and the Golden Record were pivotal artifacts in forming my young mind. This idea of not just a possible n
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by jgerrish 3mo ago
I'm sorry, I said I probably won't work with them. That shouldn't be a probably, it's a won't work with them. I hope they are inspired. I hope others besides me can advocate for UBI which would have lowered the pr
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by jgerrish 3mo ago
> I honestly don’t understand AI naysayers. I use Claude every day both professionally as a Solution Architect and personally in a variety of projects I simply could not have ever approached alone. My brother works in wildlife trapping a
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by jgerrish 6mo ago
In every Smart TV thread there are dozens or hundreds of comments that say people don't put connect their TV to their wireless. I understand. I've been an EFF supporter for decades, at least when I can afford it. I get it. The p
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by jgerrish 7mo ago
Cool tools. Now make it easier for me to say no to some people like I've publically stated. I have people trying to draw me into debates and I'd like to cut them from my life. Thanks.
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by jgerrish 8mo ago
Indian River State College in Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce, Florida is an OCLC member. Their kids section is always busy. They provide more than just books to patrons, one of their projects provides rentable backpacks with food making kit
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by jgerrish 9mo ago
>> 4) the vaccines likely have little effect on anything unless you were vaccinated as a child (and are a biological woman). > This guidance is changing. Vaccinating men protects women. Yeah, it was fucking like pulling teeth getti
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by jgerrish 9mo ago
I haven't explored the BEAM ecosystem much. And this post actually got me motivated enough to try it out. The more programming languages we play with, the better we become as engineers. We learn the different design decisions that go
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by jgerrish 9mo ago
I really appreciate the level of discourse here on Hacker News. Thank you to threads like this and the authors of the comments. I appreciate your argument, and you knowlwdge of economics adds weight to it. I'm wary of putting the bur
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by jgerrish 9mo ago
I didn't mean to imply Germany isn't independent and at the same time we can't trust our allies. It's mostly that the monster game puts risk downstream too. And some have it really bad if you're going for citizens
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by jgerrish 9mo ago
> This feels like a dangerous game they're playing. There are different types of danger in playing the "We are the Monsters" game that Microsoft and the US Intelligence agencies seem to love. There's the danger their
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by jgerrish 9mo ago
This has already been hashed over a hundred thousand times, but there are also developer habits that we all need to defend against. One is pulling in needless crates. Rust encourages that behavior. Sometimes rightly, but it does build a h
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by jgerrish 10mo ago
> I struggle to think of how it would be used to spy on citizens Hacker News has a unique user base. Professional Software Engineers, many of whom are Senior or Principal or Staff in level. Leaders and Managers and Architects. I think,
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by jgerrish 10mo ago
I don't know if I'll use Arduino in a professional project, but the existence of simavr and in-tree QEMU support means I can at least unit-test my code without dedicated test runners hooked up to hardware or licensing for Wokwi. I
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by jgerrish 1y ago
I found a really interesting potential dark pattern on a Smart Samsung washing machine the other day. I had never connected the machine to the Internet since it was purchased. It always defaulted to Heavy Duty for the wash cycle. After co
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by jgerrish 1y ago
I have two groups of things I've put online that I think I'll regret short term but not long-term. They're both about understanding of statistics at their heart. But in vastly different ways. The first is my first set of ama
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by jgerrish 1y ago
The name of this bill, "Block BEARD" is what really gets me. It's a simple thing. Just a casual joke that means nothing to most people. I worry because there are millions of young citizens who are going to have to work harde
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by jgerrish 1y ago
You're probably right. We'll have enforced boot chains and attestation for devices if we want to take part in large parts of our economic system in the future. A ton of important systems like banking, safe and secure sex worker
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by jgerrish 1y ago
These things create very subtle but definite opportunities for conflict. And conflict can be twisted very easily by media organizations. Even if only four researchers out of a hundred or thousand who visit every year complain, if that comp

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