jiscariot

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by jiscariot 20d ago
Minnesota attorney Keith Ellison was suing car manufacturers (Kia and Hyundai) because lots of "young people" were stealing them. Instead of, you know, just making crimes auto-theft, crime again.
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by jiscariot 23d ago
And people with means, move from common to private spaces. Others will not have the same choice and things become more stratified, because a subset of society decided to cede public spaces.
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by jiscariot 1mo ago
Wonder if we'll ever see optimizations for pelican riding a bicycle svg, make it in to model training runs.
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by jiscariot 1mo ago
At some point, I'd think labs would start "teaching the test" and start adding bike riding pelican's in the fine-tuning.
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by jiscariot 3mo ago
In the US, every time I file my taxes, I wonder what % of people don't meet the cognitive barrier to successfully file. I suspect a large portion of people offload tax filing to a service or accountant for numerous reasons, which is ba
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by jiscariot 4mo ago
I spent countless hours as a kid trying to figure out the games secrets. Only, 20-years later, did I read that you were supposed to be collecting specific items and putting them in the trophy case to "win".
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by jiscariot 4mo ago
Not FANG, but I work at a company that operates some infrastructure at scale. What I've seen is after we've rotated through a number of different tools, in different pilot groups, eventually converging on tool X (a custom, interna
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by jiscariot 4mo ago
Still, they didn’t give up because that wallet contained 5 BTC; this may not sound much, but it has a value of almost $400,000. They are really underestimating their audiance here.
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by jiscariot 9mo ago
Additionally, the author seems to be placing value judgments on agreeableness and neroticism. That's fine they if want to change their personality, but I would be very hesitant to argue that turning up the agreeableness and down the s
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by jiscariot 9mo ago
I've read this one before, but this time it really hit home in how unlike most of the modern AI-emoji-filled-cringy-heading-20-page blog slop, it is. Very refreshing.
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by jiscariot 9mo ago
I like when people explore deep interests and share them. Especially, someone who has been doing it for 15 years, consistently. A pre-AI window of humanity. This stuff is more important now, than it ever was. Thank you for sharing with us h
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by jiscariot 9mo ago
I agree - there is a baseline amount of effort that should be expected. I was once dealing with a co-worker who was treating me like an llm. I had to encourage him that our job isn't about knowing things, but figuring things out. There
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by jiscariot 9mo ago
Will this help other services like Netflix, Spotify? Or am I misreading things. My understanding, at least several years ago, that Netflix was paying as much to Apple in subscription fees, as they did for their AWS hosting. I also noticed w
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by jiscariot 10mo ago
Just think about what they could accomplish if they had more engineers than lawyers.
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by jiscariot 1y ago
I wonder what effect the US's heavy reliance on HB1 visas (and off-shoring more broadly) has had on the size of the cohorts graduating with CS degrees. All I have is anecdotal conversations of people avoiding tech under the assumption
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by jiscariot 1y ago
Using the author's loose criteria, one could say a criminal record is a social credit system. These are the emergent fruits of living in a complex society, where one cannot realistically track reputation of everyone they encounter acro
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by jiscariot 1y ago
The emergent trait of AI laceing every other sentence/comment with emojis is a pretty good signal for when you want to ignore AI slop. I almost wish it was codified in to the models.
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by jiscariot 1y ago
Where I live, the ability for the "Kia Boys" to easily steal cars, really boosts their effectiveness at robbing people at gunpoint. Sprees of 20 people being robbed by the same group. It's not poor kids who lack school transp
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by jiscariot 1y ago
Agreed 100%. I will enjoy the creative financial engineering that likely comes with this policy, as we attempt to classify more and more things as gratuity, to escape the reach of the IRS.
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by jiscariot 1y ago
I'd love to find a way to encourage more dragonfly's to come hang out in my yard (middle of forest). I think of them as little organic mosquito-eating drones.
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by jiscariot 1y ago
The skilcraft US government pen, was spec'd to write 5k in -40F to 160F and is also manufactured by the blind. I've got a box of them spread out anywhere I need a pen. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
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by jiscariot 1y ago
I re-read Gatsby about 30 years after high-school and came away thinking that it was one of the most well written books I'd ever read. FSF's command of the English language is truely amazing in the book. When originally forced to
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by jiscariot 1y ago
Target basically decided to stop "over-delivering" on DEI. e.g. stuff like $2 billion to black-owned businesses, increase black workforce by 20%, etc. Even with the rollbacks, they are probably doing on average more DEI for the se
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by jiscariot 1y ago
> "Every pub conversation winding up talking about it." Is this a SV thing? Conversations about IT with anyone other than co-workers are a once-a-year thing for me. It is actually refreshing, because a lot of the stuff I work o
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by jiscariot 2y ago
The fact that the elephant in the room, the Jones Act, is never mentioned in the parent article, is pretty telling.
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by jiscariot 2y ago
Google translate says vim = 'I came' in portuguese, so I guess that explains Brazil.
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by jiscariot 2y ago
There is a lot in this piece, but one of the things mentioned was public spaces. While it likely doesn't play a huge role, it can't be ignored that the last ten or so years in the US, public spaces have generally deteriorated due
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by jiscariot 2y ago
My issue is the metrics constantly parroted to show inequality wouldn't (shouldn't) stand muster to an Econ 101 student. - Household income disparities between groups, without controlling for household makeup. There are vast diffe
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by jiscariot 2y ago
I'm always running in tmux panes so often iterm and those settings seem to conflict. It would be great to go a step further and include a background color change--will have to give it another shot. Thanks for the tip.
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by jiscariot 2y ago
For me, what is more common is the likelihood of doing something in the wrong environment (e.g. lab, dev, stage, prod). To help make things a bit more clear, our images now override the PS1 with a `(environment)` at the beginning, which is

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