jlarocco

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by jlarocco 8d ago
Number one doesn't necessarily apply in the United States. A lot of our prisons (but not all) are privately run.
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by jlarocco 8d ago
The rest of us fear that and nobody gives a sh*...
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by jlarocco 8d ago
Good luck with that... https://schwartzcohenlaw.com/can-police-lawfully-seize-your-...
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by jlarocco 12d ago
If they cared about the troops, they wouldn't send them on bullshit missions like whatever we're doing in Iran.
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by jlarocco 13d ago
The intelligence is artificial, but the dollars it spends on your behalf are very real.
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by jlarocco 18d ago
I've said the same thing about using Linux. 20 years ago if somebody told you they used Linux it really meant something - they weren't running WSL, they weren't running a VM in EC2, they probably didn't power on and imme
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by jlarocco 26d ago
My favorite is "The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard". It has some of his best sci-fi, and they're all under 50 pages. His longer fiction (Cocaine Nights, Empire of the Sun, etc.) is okay, but IMO short stories are where
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by jlarocco 1mo ago
Yeah, isn't it crazy how that works? There's some open space near my house with a fenced off area saying to stay on trail to protect the ecosystem, but of course oil and gas companies can drive their trucks through to setup fracki
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by jlarocco 1mo ago
> Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state starting to become a bit of a spaghetti mess. So it's on par with humans, then.
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by jlarocco 1mo ago
Is it surprising? Google and Facebook can barely police the content their human users post.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
It's kind of shitty to pirate Capture One. The full, non-subscription price is only $350, which is less than most cameras, and not a bad price for "pro level" software. I agree that it's a lot better than Darktable and
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
It happens at the same probability as anywhere else on earth.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
I would have to laugh if AI's first autonomous achievement was accidentally zero-daying everything and crippling society.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
It's crazy how one lucky break lets somebody spend the rest of their life throwing s*t at the wall to see what sticks to earn them more money.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
Thanks! I don't think I've seen that one.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
On a related note, there's a cross-platform Common Lisp package, "Bike" https://github.com/Lovesan/bike , that lets you use .Net assemblies from Common Lisp. I've used it a tiny bit at work (on Windo
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
It was a tongue in cheek complaint about their terrible apps and the user hostile way they force unwanted "features" on people. I'd pay 2x my subscription price to be able to use a third party client again.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
I wish they'd buy Spotify... Keep one SRE to keep the servers running, one guy to do security updates to the app, and the team that acquires rights to music.
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by jlarocco 2mo ago
I think storing nuclear waste was decided to be a bad idea a long time ago. I'm not a nuclear scientist, but I was under the impression that if something is radioactive enough to be a hazard then it's radioactive enough to genera
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
Nice ad-hominem. Obviously if I think lobbyists are assholes it's because I'm un-educated.
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
There's no reason not to blame lobbyists as well. A lobbyist saying "it's just business," doesn't excuse them for being assholes.
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
"Voting with your Wallet" - the American way.
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
I think Firefox gets hated on more than the others because they advertise putting the user in control but in practice they seem to undermine it at every opportunity. A browser that puts users in control should make features like AI and adve
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by jlarocco 3mo ago
Pay more.
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by jlarocco 4mo ago
I guess I'm old and haven't paid much attention recently, but $375 for 32Gb doesn't sound that bad to me. But then again I remember spending hundreds of dollars as a high school student to upgrade my family's 8Mb desktop
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by jlarocco 4mo ago
I'm surprised you can't believe it. Most companies large enough to have their own IT have monitoring and know what's going through their network. The larger the company, the more likely they're watching. I've pers
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by jlarocco 4mo ago
Other than adding buzzwords to a features list, I don't see AI really moving the needle here. As you've said, it's always been the expectation that employers are watching over their networks. There's already loads of mo
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by jlarocco 4mo ago
>What would be a better way to incorporate AI as a spell checker? You just don't need AI to do spell checking. It's a waste of energy, bandwidth and tokens. It's like Java Enterprise Fizz-Buzz - 1000x more complicated th
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by jlarocco 4mo ago
Annoying, but not surprising. The future is using AI to do everything, and nobody gets funded saying they're taking a small step forward.
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by jlarocco 4mo ago
Could have been something else then, but (in the past, at least) they would definitely reset some of the settings on every major upgrade.

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