ranger207

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by ranger207 6d ago
As others noted, Silicon Valley was formed by the MIC. But there was a period there for a while where defense contracting was uncool so no VCs funded it. Then in the wake of Trump winning in 2016 all of the politically conservative VCs (who
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by ranger207 8d ago
> humans couldn't. There's allegations right now that the model essentially read the work of a human mathematician using AI to work on the problem and OpenAI is presenting his work as that of their model
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by ranger207 8d ago
Yes, it needs to not be shoved everywhere and try to rewrite your workflows constantly and that would be enough
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by ranger207 9d ago
Where are people getting DRM free epubs for theirs? I have a bunch that I've gotten through various Humble Bundles that I'm working through now, but I'm wondering where I should go if I want to look for something specific
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by ranger207 10d ago
The tapestry is really neat as a piece of... propaganda, for lack of a better term. I don't mean that negatively, but just that that's the closest term that I can think of for it. I saw it in Bayeux a couple years ago and was stru
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by ranger207 23d ago
I'd like to have a $3000 watch for half price too, but it turns out there's reasons I can't
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by ranger207 1mo ago
Yeah I'm using 5 for its technical abilities, but I much preferred 4.6's personality. 5 loved to double check everything, including the double-checks, and I have to stop it and tell it "this is irrelevant" or "this
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by ranger207 1mo ago
The intellectual arrogance of the AI labs is just the next from of intellectual arrogance from Silicon Valley. I've seen the exact same arrogance from everything in SV for the past 15 years; it's probably been going on longer, but
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by ranger207 1mo ago
tracking cookies are so obviously beneficial to e-commerce that they passed an entire law to disclose them because people... liked them so much?
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by ranger207 1mo ago
You're not liable for using company devices to access company data, regardless of if it's insecure or not. Don't use personal devices for work
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by ranger207 2mo ago
yep
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by ranger207 2mo ago
The website for my HSA required me to set up a passkey last time I logged in. I set it up on my work laptop and my work password manager, which means I can now no longer access my account from my personal computer. This is fantastic, just w
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by ranger207 2mo ago
About the only thing that regularly wears out is spinning drives, and those have SMART data to give you an idea of when they'll die, but generally yif you're actually committing to high uptime you'll have redundant hardware s
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by ranger207 2mo ago
If you're using a USB adapter on a Pi 4 you can use raspi-config to enable booting from an external drive and not worry about SD cards at all
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by ranger207 2mo ago
Hey, I have a script for updating my background too! I'm not archiving the old images though, but I've thought about it to make some cool animations
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by ranger207 2mo ago
Hey, good luck! I've had some depressive episodes where I couldn't do work or even good off for a good week or so, but I'm privileged to have not been chronically depressed and need medication (I have others issues and workin
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by ranger207 2mo ago
Nah that's just the way defense essays have sounded for the past 20 years or so
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by ranger207 3mo ago
COD/Battlefield and Arma are two different genres. Squad is somewhat in Arma's genre. I can't stand Arma's movement anymore. The closest thing I've found to the unique parts of Arma is Hell Let Loose
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by ranger207 3mo ago
Generally it doesn't make sense, but in this particular case the servers are going ti be so overloaded with people trying to download it that it might be worth it to preloaded the game. Now of course they're probably going to have
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by ranger207 3mo ago
If you can't see the human effects scalping has on the market, then, well, you might be a microeconomist
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by ranger207 3mo ago
What kind of stuff do you make sewing? About the only think I've ever wanted to sew was a new pocket on a jacket
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by ranger207 3mo ago
It says it was inspired by Ethernet, and while modern Ethernet might have some significant differences of course, what were the differences between Chaosnet and the Ethernet of the time?
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by ranger207 3mo ago
nerds built companies largely as a byproduct of their own interests. they made a lot of money because their technologies were great, but it was always about the tech, not the person. then vcs came in and convinced themselves that actually i
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by ranger207 3mo ago
This charger: https://www.startech.com/en-us/computer-parts/424dna-usb-c-c...
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by ranger207 3mo ago
I have a couple like that in my mini rack. The problem is the power supply: these take 65W, so I figured I could get a quality 140W charger and power them both, but it turns out that things like "unplugging something else" would k
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by ranger207 3mo ago
what you should put in a frame is "put in a ticket"
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by ranger207 3mo ago
temporarily deployed yonder
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by ranger207 3mo ago
I want my net worth to be dependent on my skills, not the pile of money I happen to have laying around
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by ranger207 3mo ago
There's a lot of people talking about the technical aspects of AI, but I think the (for a lack of a better term) marketing of AI is just as important. Insisting that anyone who is anti-AI is on the wrong side of history does not tend t
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by ranger207 3mo ago
Fundamentally the point of DNS versus Ansible updating /etc/hosts is the same: get a mapping from DNS named to IPs to the client. As such, Ansible will have all the same issues. Plus, it'll introduce its own issues, like the

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