rcoveson

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by rcoveson 3y ago
> Interesting opportunity to potentially improve things. ...you mean by changing commercial software to collect telemetry more like FOSS tools do, i.e. usually not at all, right?
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> Solitary confinement is used in quarantine... This is just abuse of the phrase "solitary confinement". Yes, people in quarantine may be confined in solitude, but "solitary confinement" as a phrase has a particular c
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by rcoveson 3y ago
So there are people out there, not in this thread, who are wrong when they say things that are incorrect?
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by rcoveson 3y ago
If it happens to you: 1. Remain calm 2. Tweet at your 66k followers 3. Briefly wait while the dozens of those that work at GitHub trip over each other getting your account reactivated
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Solitary confinement is commonly accepted to be a form of torture, and that usually involves rudimentary sanitation and nourishment. A confined, solitary, starving child living in its own excrement is being tortured, and I defy anybody to a
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by rcoveson 3y ago
In terms of hours invested, I don't think going to the movies ever got close to the 50's rate of television consumption. I can find stats as high as 90 million tickets/week, which (if we assume 100% double features) may have
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by rcoveson 3y ago
In the original the kid was subjected to brutal, unending torture. Is your complaint just that this one is unnecessarily graphic?
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I'm really confused. Did we read the same thing? This is just a "sequel" to the original Omelas that, if anything, suffers from the fact that it doesn't really add anything new. It's harsher on the city's arran
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Under what conditions would you call this behavior "desire"? Would we need to demonstrate the impossible, that insects have a sense of self and free will? Do insects desire food, or does the intensity of certain smells simply comp
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Stay on track: Cloud storage. Not a buffet. Cloud storage. Lots of business need gigabytes. Lots of business need terabytes. That's a 1000x difference. That ratio is not very buffet-like! People who need terabytes of cloud storage are
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> Extreme usage threatens the business model. Right, and not all commodities have workable "unlimited" business models. The fact that somebody wants it to be a business model doesn't mean it should be one. It's poss
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by rcoveson 3y ago
My point is that it is easy to tell in the restaurant, and it is not easy to tell in a cloud storage context. We're not disagreeing about the former. I actually have cloud storage customers at my company. If you asked me what an un
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by rcoveson 3y ago
The implication your analogy is sneaking in is that there is a common-sense amount of cloud storage a user might use, in the same way that there is a common-sense amount for somebody to eat. It's a poor analogy. There are cloud storage
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by rcoveson 3y ago
What's subtle about it? In the dog whistle analogy, who are they who cannot hear the whistle? To me this is more like yelling "ROVER! COME HERE BOY!" at the top of your lungs.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
If the prompt wasn't somewhat sexual, divisive, or offensive it would be wide open to the chorus of "still not as good as midjourney/dall-e/imagen". Freedom from restriction is one of the main selling points.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
It's not a big deal, but it's not a trivially small deal either. It's sufficiently annoying that there had better be a good reason. In the case of "slave", there's at least a good argument. "Master" i
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Yeah, there probably won't be any second-order effects. - John Riccitiello
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by rcoveson 3y ago
If your baby's needs don't allow for a monitor that might fail, then don't put your baby to sleep in a different room.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
This is my baby monitor setup. It uses a GoPro (already owned) and a BeagleBoard. If you have a webcam lying around this is a lot cheaper than any baby monitor out there. If you have a webcam and a raspberry pi or something lying around, it
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Windows 9 was the only one worth using.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
This is ridiculous. Of course Windows 12 won't require a subscription. It will only be required if you want to disable the native data collection and advertising.
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by rcoveson 3y ago
It's not financing. You'll never own those panels. You now have a permanent, physical relationship with the stupid solar company. Business models like that normalize two things: 1. Everything should be absurdly, suspiciously cheap
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by rcoveson 3y ago
Don't worry, your neighbors next door and across the street will participate for you because they "don't see the problem with it".
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by rcoveson 3y ago
If all you do is browse (default) home or all, then sure, it's just a stupid echo chamber obsessed with hating the things its cool to hate. That's not where the value is on reddit, and it's not what people are referring to wh
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by rcoveson 3y ago
> imagine the cost of Probe getting increased from 50 minerals to 60 Yes, please. - T, Z
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I don't think the fact that our 90th percentile capabilities have been known to decrease at times in history refutes the idea that the broader trend is dramatically upward, in such a way that any absolute measure of skill is very lik
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by rcoveson 3y ago
I think you'll find that if you set an absolute bar on most skills you'll end up with zero people above the bar in the past and a growing percentage of people above it in the future. The first person to run a four-minute mile was
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by rcoveson 3y ago
"First rank" is the phrase from OP's link, not "first-rate", but in both cases it is not obvious to me that it is wrong for there to be mathematicians with that descriptor in every age. They sound like relative ad
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by rcoveson 3y ago
This is art. Think about writing a book, directing a TV show, or putting on a play. What should happen? There should probably be intrigue, emotion, and excitement. Very likely violence and evil. We should explore a broad spectrum of emotion
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by rcoveson 3y ago
If she wanted to see people acting beautifully, she would have performed it at a soup kitchen, or a temple. Or even just in a little cul-de-sac in an average neighborhood where people know each other and kids are present. Everyday places fu

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