mrzimmerman

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by mrzimmerman 6d ago
I may have missed it in the blog post here, and I generally agree the pace of development is being set by financial incentives and not safety or lack of harm, but has anyone in a high position stated _how_ models could cause human extinctio
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by mrzimmerman 2y ago
Can I ask how “top 10” is defined? Is it the most common, or perhaps the most destructive to the individual?
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by mrzimmerman 2y ago
There are still great use cases for using JS to handle animations instead of CSS, such as creating novel, dynamic images or 3D models in a canvas element (particularly when you want it to be interactive in anyway) or to animate SVGs. My und
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
I haven’t had my phone make noise in probably the last two decades. It’s always obtrusive to me and my phone is so often in my pocket anyway I can feel it vibrate or still hear it if it’s set on my desk. I was diagnosed with ADHD recently a
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
For me and my family, we only use AirBnbs when we’re traveling with another family or friends and we all want to stay in the same place so we can hang out and carpool easily. It can be cheaper compared to getting separate hotel rooms and if
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
Definitely. I thought this was going to be a single, semantically correct table that had some fancy use of the display property across the different elements to make them align differently (though that would help with the table headers). I
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
Yeah, my assumption was that something in some layer of their application isn’t well optimized when asked to return posts from a subreddit that has “gone dark” in whatever fashions the mods chose to do that. For example, maybe it causes rea
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
That’s technically true of most domain names. Bing would be more accurately named “bingsearchengine.com”, Apple would be “applecomputers.com”, etc. That said, Native Seed Search is a non-profit here in AZ (Tucson, specifically) that works t
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
That’s definitely true but I don’t think it’s that simple. I love some of the apps that are iOS native and how their preferential treatment makes everything work with security I trust. BUT, I still prefer Google Maps, non-Safari browsers, S
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
I’m guessing it’s a thinly veiled reference to the fictional idea that if you steal less then $1,000 worth of valuables in CA you won’t be prosecuted. It’s constantly brought up by people like Charlie Kirk (who tweeted it as early as three
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
I think the difference there is that you can model a cargo ship to show that it will float, how it will do it, what configurations float and which don’t, etc. With LLMs like GPT we know how they work, but it’s hard to know that when it’s ac
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
And that isn’t being said here. Frustration with a person’s family is one comment, discussions of the cultural problems on the south in another (denial/defiance), but regardless of someone’s tone thousands of miles away the problem is
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
I’m not really sure how this relates to the problem. People may be awful or cruel sometimes, but that doesn’t force civic leaders or individuals into making bad policy/personal decisions. Furthermore, a lot of this is an explicit probl
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
Excellent question and not one I’ve bothered to solve, and you’ve pointed out a gaping hole in my backup plan. If I had to decide now, I’d say setting up a server that pulls my email in with IMAP and saves it to a backup drive. Of course th
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
Are any of those processes user facing or in contact with users doing interviews with users or something similar? Or I guess given your experience: would you say they’re useful internal processes? I was thinking about bureaucracy today and
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
First: Friendly reminder to everyone to back up your data and then back up your backups to a separate location. Second: I’m the person in my family who wakes up in a cold sweat worrying if our photos are backed up properly, or my music coll
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
How was Credit Suisse bailed out? It seems like they were closed and sold, as happens with a bank that fails. Bailouts, by 2008 standards, would have been giving money to Credit Suisse so they could continue operating and avoid the fallout
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by mrzimmerman 3y ago
Honest question, how is (in the case of SVB and Select) making sure depositors don’t lose money while the bank itself is closed and assets sold off, holders of it’s debt (those who lent money to the bank), and those that owned the stock all
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
I also live in a “right to fire for whatever” state, often referred to as “right to work” which really means the right of employers to ignore union agreements and compensate individuals less if the individual agrees to it. It’s already ille
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
I can’t tell if you’re against minimum wage laws or not but I’ll say regardless that minimum wage laws show a boat in worker income and small employment effects: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploa
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
Honest question: how many Norfolk Southern ads have you seen? Even just a ballpark number.
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
This is such a naive perspective of the world. The company should care equal parts about the the needs of the people who consume the product and those who produce it doing actual work. The idea that a company can produce a product without c
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
Sure, some people act and think like that. But at the end of the day executives and the C level have no obligation other than returning as large a profit as possible to investors. Additionally, it’s a straw man argument to say that everyone
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
Couldn’t agree more. Our interests as employees is far different from management and the C-suite. Don’t forget that board members currently have a legal obligation to provide value to investors and no obligation to do the same for their emp
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
It is a fair point (I think your tone is what has set people off, and for the record I didn’t enjoy it either). The real question, in my opinion, is what does humanity do in general with our fellow humans whose labor is displaced by some fo
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
Exclusivity is a two sided coin. Speaking as someone who dealt with the Teamsters Union at a few expos myself, it can be very annoying to not be able to carry your own boxes, or plug in a new power strip. Honestly, it’s maddening. The flip
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
Except fields requiring expert knowledge (and in this case can cause injury or death) it’s very good that there are licensing and regulatory bodies that prevent any old person or group from wandering in and participating. No one dies if a s
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
If the studio has a contract with one of the guilds in Hollywood, the labor is still covered regardless of geographic location. Georgia has a LOT of tax breaks for film production costs which is what makes it attractive for studios.
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
Probably in the same way that companies go about determining it now: programming tests, certifications, diplomas, etc.
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by mrzimmerman 4y ago
Guilds and unions aren’t in place to prevent nepotism, which is difficult to prevent and happens in all industries. Really, that’s just a network effect, albeit a bad one. Labor organizations exist to turn disparate sources of a supply (lab

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