macintux

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by macintux 6d ago
This is the part that I feel the “just turn it off” crowd don’t think enough about. The algorithms helped give us the single most dysfunctional and corrupt US administration since the 1800s.
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by macintux 7d ago
> I've now uploaded my drivers licence, a photo of my passport and still apparently that's not good enough for them. After the recent news about >150 million drivers' license photos being stolen from an ID verification
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by macintux 7d ago
I just changed the hours on a business nearby, took ~3 days. Your experience is not universal, but definitely frustrating.
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by macintux 7d ago
My lone claim to fame, now harder to track down because Twitter decided my lack of activity was somehow suspicious and killed my account, was a brief exchange with Phil Schiller about pluralization of Apple devices. > One need never plur
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by macintux 8d ago
Several discussions this week, some merged, these not. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495734
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by macintux 12d ago
I suspect the people who agree to buy Jira & Confluence are not particularly heavy users of them. At least, that's the only explanation I can fathom for their continued sales.
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by macintux 12d ago
Trump has demonstrated repeatedly, emphatically, and publicly that he does not care about the troops, or at least certainly not injured/captured/killed ones. Or minorities. Or non-citizens fighting for the country. Or citizens wit
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by macintux 12d ago
This comment is worrisome: > My Chase bank account was hacked early this year despite having 2 factor authentication, and when I contacted them to ask how, they said because the person used my actual driver’s license to verify their iden
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by macintux 13d ago
Which Copilot? At this point there are so many.
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by macintux 16d ago
Reading through https://www.mass.gov/doc/toxicology-of-the-lithium-ion-batte... , especially seeing the skin impact of a battery combustion in someone's pocket, is enough to make me think I should keep an inventory
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by macintux 17d ago
Naming something “America” is only for geography. He thinks anything man made should be named after him. He’s humble like that.
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by macintux 18d ago
China accepts a dictator. Russia accepts a dictator. India accepts a nationalist demagogue.
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by macintux 18d ago
I suppose we should be grateful he didn’t force his own name at the last minute. I suppose he still has time.
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by macintux 21d ago
I wish, I desperately wish, this "both sides" fallacy would die. There has not been this level of chaos in government decision-making in generations. I have no idea how far back you'd have to go to find a president changing t
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by macintux 21d ago
Predictability flew out the window with the last election. I simply do not understand how any business leaders supported this, but I suppose the ability to bribe their way out of chaos was appealing.
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by macintux 21d ago
This type of outbreak is challenging because the symptoms take weeks to appear. (I don't disagree that an administration focused on widespread carnage can be blamed for making things worse.)
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by macintux 23d ago
> Stopping progress in AI would make people’s lives immeasurably worse I’d really like to hear your reasoning for this. Were it used to make it practical for people to reduce or stop working while maintaining a comparable standard of liv
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by macintux 23d ago
That’s why I’ve lost much of my optimism regarding U.S. politics. It’s fine, and healthy, to disagree on how best to deal with the world as it exists, but if we can’t agree on reality itself, compromise and progress are so much more challen
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by macintux 25d ago
I become (irrationally?) annoyed when I find "cannoli" listed on a menu, especially at an Italian restaurant where they should know better, and it's a single cannolo.
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by macintux 27d ago
Impressive level of detail, impressive work for anyone, much less high school students.
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by macintux 27d ago
Thanks for the reference. For anyone else interested like me, Wikipedia includes a link to an archived copy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation
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by macintux 1mo ago
Hey, only 8 hours from open to close. What's all the complaining about? (I know, I know, no sarcasm here, but sometimes it feels necessary.)
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by macintux 1mo ago
Do not “both sides” this level of corruption and incompetence.
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by macintux 1mo ago
I used ChatGPT as a tour guide when I was traveling last year. It was helpful to identify places I should stop to take a look, explaining local flora, fauna and geology. I'd rather have had a real tour guide, but for the price it was q
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by macintux 1mo ago
And yet it’s (mostly) voluntary. You can leave your smartphone at home, and it’s generally not spying on people around you. Smart glasses obviously change that equation quite a bit. But they can’t come close to the panopticon of video camer
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by macintux 1mo ago
Were all the smartphones in the country constantly recording video to a central location for surveillance purposes, you’d have a point.
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by macintux 1mo ago
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257160
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by macintux 1mo ago
> then put them on UBI You may be too optimistic.
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by macintux 1mo ago
The categorization could use some work. "Comanche" shows up under mythology, for example.
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by macintux 1mo ago
If you really want to attract the hard-core nerds, name it "IEEE 754" instead.

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