lazystar

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by lazystar 13d ago
> The users are, presumably, both sober heh... the Ballmer Peak is still going strong, even with AI.
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by lazystar 21d ago
> but the safety of driving cars is far worse than that and most of us do that daily. this "whattabout"ism is brought up during every safety discussion. can we please accept that 1/ everyone knows about the car issue, and
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by lazystar 1mo ago
on a similar note... what statistics show the accident rate of each model of car? or rather, a single driver's accident rate in various types of cars?
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by lazystar 2mo ago
a high rate of mutations would be an advantage in a new environment, though.
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by lazystar 2mo ago
in the 1800's, were the vast majority of horses produced through state owned companies? that process was upended by human ingenuity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz begging governments to solve the proble
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by lazystar 2mo ago
acceptance; the problems identified. efforts now should focus on innovative solutions that dont rely on nation state investment.
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by lazystar 2mo ago
from OP: >setting off commercial grade fireworks bursting hundreds of feet in the air. The house was shaking, I'm in Bellevue, WA, and experienced house-shaking fireworks for the first time this year. I was inside with my cats - th
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by lazystar 3mo ago
you pay for upvotes from a third party upvote service.
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by lazystar 3mo ago
the biggest issue with reddit/digg/hackernews style comments is how top comments can be gamed for profit. old forums had the problem of "first" and "bump" comments, but steering the conversation was harder.
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by lazystar 3mo ago
ironically, you wont get a reply from the author...
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by lazystar 3mo ago
nice. i guess AWS still had nothing to fear from GCP/Azure. ty for this
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by lazystar 3mo ago
> ELIF: You trick the CPU to display screen data at a different starting point than as designed by the hardware. This is tricky and need to be executed cycle exact. heh, is there a new meaning for ELIF? im not sure that there are many 5
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by lazystar 3mo ago
> I mean it's possible that I just haven't found the secret sauce its possible that no one cracks it during the window of time where the product is useful and would pose a risk if cracked, but never forget that the first rule o
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by lazystar 3mo ago
well... just because you know how to ssh into the prod DNS host and manually update the prod zone files in vim to remove orphan A records + duplicate CNAME records, in order to fix an ip address exhaustion issue that is blocking new VM&#x27
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by lazystar 3mo ago
or more likely, like we the public do not have the full context of whats going on behind the scenes.
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by lazystar 4mo ago
every time this comes up I feel it's worth reminding people that this already happened before in American history - 1890's and the robber baron industrialists that monopolized everything.
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by lazystar 4mo ago
tc less than 190k. in this year's salary meeting thing in april, i asked my manager if they were trying to get rid of me lol.
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by lazystar 4mo ago
been here 6 years, making less than that first top left number, 190k. idk what to do about it. every manager just gets a cheshire cat grin whenever i complain about it. i know i should boomerang but ugh.
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by lazystar 4mo ago
same here. gas is $6 in seattle; every business uses gas, explains the extreme cost of living. i'm going broke working for AWS.
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by lazystar 4mo ago
> Because if you tell me directly that you have asked Claude, next time I will probably ask Claude directly as I don’t need you. and what if i tell you i asked stack overflow?
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by lazystar 4mo ago
well, once they do, kohberger and who knows how many others will be let loose on the public. sets up a hell of a bargaining chip for the feds to prevent it going to the supreme court. also makes you wonder if any of this would happen if th
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by lazystar 4mo ago
the counterpoint is that allowing unlimited discourse places an enourmous amount pf power in the hands of the chatbot owner, who has access to all logs and input from each user. this prevents one chatbot owner from advertising "you ca
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by lazystar 4mo ago
> Earlier in October, an Amazon Web Services incident resulted in Canvas and Piazza outages that lasted around 12 hours. ...what does that DDB DNS issue have to do with anything?
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by lazystar 5mo ago
> doesn't generate any for later. "any" is quite an assumption.
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by lazystar 6mo ago
I don't see the point in comparing photos of snow coverage in feb 2026 to the same area in march 2026. March is a spring month, of course snow coverage will be worse. Itd be more shocking if the snow coverage increased. they should
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by lazystar 6mo ago
aye, fair assessment. funny story, figured out the root cause behind 3 years of brain fog just a few hours after i left this comment. it wasnt long covid; turns out my eyes were so swollen from screentime, that they were cutting off blood f
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by lazystar 6mo ago
aye, totally correct. funny story, figured out the root cause behind 3 years of brain fog just a few hours after i left this comment. it wasnt long covid; turns out my eyes were so swollen from screentime, that they were cutting off blood
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by lazystar 6mo ago
my team is anti-AI. my code review requests are ignored, or are treated more strictly than others. it feels coordinated - i will have to push back the launch date of my project as a result. another teammate added a length check to an input
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by lazystar 6mo ago
games are global - NFL is solely american.
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by lazystar 6mo ago
> Or, do you tell it the basic functionality you want, test it out, then add feature after feature that you want, sometimes dropping them and sometimes adding new ones that you thought of as your worked the problem with this is long term

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