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by shafoshaf 4mo ago
The problem I have with good faith debate is that it often falls into a fallacy of "fair-time" meaning we think we have to give the other side equal time. This because obvious with things like the Holocaust. Or when you have a leg
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by shafoshaf 4mo ago
>At some point you have to hold adult Republicans accountable for their actions. They were warned repeatedly; they chose to ignore the warnings. The challenge is that with a 2-party system it was take a chance Trump wouldn't be wors
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by shafoshaf 5mo ago
The physical keys, like Yubico, help with that. However, I have not been convinced that a password manager with unique, strong passwords on all my accounts shouldn't suffice. I don't know why I have to be penalized because other u
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by shafoshaf 5mo ago
I don't know if that is sarcasm, but a chair I buy is mine to do whatever I want with it. Same goes for clothes, a mattress, paint, or any other non-software enabled physical item. Why does having software/hardware make a differen
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by shafoshaf 5mo ago
I think this is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory fallacy. There is a correlation to Cook and the performance, but the idea that this was all because of one single guy at the top is survivor bias. For ex
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by shafoshaf 5mo ago
Relational Databases Aren’t Dinosaurs, They’re Sharks. https://www.simplethread.com/relational-databases-arent-dino... The very small bonus you get on small apps is hardly worth the time you spend redeveloping the wheel.
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by shafoshaf 5mo ago
It is not illegal to ask a user's age in the US online. Can you let us know what your source is?
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by shafoshaf 6mo ago
I don't think the point is that the transition isn't difficult. It is that there is an overall benefit that outweighs the challenges of the transition. The sad part is that industrializing societies have not been very good at reco
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
I can refuse a very specific email configuration, but there are so many simple variations, it isn't all that effective. Tons of cold email providers have you first buy 100 domain names, warm up the IP's with bots, and then send th
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
The motivation to advertise, track, remarket, and exploit is always there. If I started getting all my news via Bluesky, I would have to allow various businesses to reach out to me. Sure, I can have a separate account for that, but that jus
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
If you are trying to stop monopolization, then having a large organization/government swarm the protocol gives them an effective monopoly. Being able to put a drop of clean water into an ocean of corruption is not really a working syst
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
Macy's has Santa clause since 1947 because that is when Miracle on 24th Street came out. And he even knows when you are sleeping.
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
I was extending into the future a little bit. Think of it as playing with a cheat code that let's you have more health or power rather than God mode. But God mode is on the way. ChatGPT mysteriously went from not understanding SAP ByDe
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
I suppose I could just tell you what I'm feeling, not the op. The fun was bringing down the fire. That is INCREDIBLY fun! That feels valuable. That feels like you are helping others. Now, the mountain is gone. All the skills I learned
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
Yeah, but I used to be a wizard with arcane knowledge making computers do things others didn't even understand. I was casting fireballs, and now everyone has Find Greater Familiar right out of the gate who does all the heavy lifting. :
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
[55yo] My sense is that those problems we worked on in the 80s and 90s were like the perfectly balanced MMORPG. The challenges were tough, but with grit, could be overcome and you felt like you could build something amazing and unique. My v
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by shafoshaf 7mo ago
I don't know that people are really looking for things to justify their ageism, just like I don't feel that racists are actually trying to justify their view. As a seasoned citizen myself (55), what I've experienced is that a
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by shafoshaf 8mo ago
"it’s very important to be patient." I was a tow pilot in the Rockies for a ski season and got a whopping 3.5 hours of glider time. The spinning in circles to gain altitude was enough for me to stick with powered flight (patience
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by shafoshaf 8mo ago
I think the point being made is that the challenge is when it comes to medicine, lay people can't even begin to understand the research and can't form their own opinion. So for those of us without MD's, we HAVE to trust someo
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by shafoshaf 9mo ago
My takeaway is that jfindper is saying that seatbelt laws had a justification that does not have a parallel with this action regarding social media. IDK if this is how they would say it, but I think argument for seatbelts is that there is m
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by shafoshaf 10mo ago
It's interesting how drawing a clock is one of the primary signals for dementia. https://www.verywellhealth.com/the-clock-drawing-test-98619
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by shafoshaf 11mo ago
Not flawed, but very, very complicated. The theory of free markets holds a lot of very well reasoned and tested lessons that can be instructive, depending to which principles you are referring. Newtonian principles does a really good job fo
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by shafoshaf 1y ago
It reminds my of this scene from ST:TNG [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=22&v=VddS5IWxHd8&feature=you... ]
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by shafoshaf 1y ago
I basically still only use :), :(, and :P. I also have to "undo" it when they switch my chars to an actual emoji. The only one I wish were easier to show is ¯\\(ツ)/¯
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by shafoshaf 1y ago
To be fair, China has been widely abusing the <$800 rule for a number of years. And it really wasn't not helping either economy. Temu routinely employs forced labor and worse to give those super low prices that US companies can&#x27
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by shafoshaf 1y ago
This is a great podcast on philosophy in general, but this episode on Technofeudalism https://open.spotify.com/episode/5SjdkYzdSp6tHTdD2o1OAe?si=8... talks directly about the state of Big Tech taking over the capitalis
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by shafoshaf 1y ago
They can mimic well documented behavior. Applying an LLM to a novel task is where the model breaks down. This obviously has huge implications for automation. For example, most business do not have unique ways of handling accounting transa
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by shafoshaf 1y ago
All with a reference to the Rockwell Turbo Encabulator! Awesome.
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
Not to mention that A LOT of millenials are about to inherit a ton of money from the Baby Boomers. The Boomers are just lasting longer because of advances in health care, all of whom are on Medicare which is government funded health insuran
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by shafoshaf 2y ago
>>>>large emergency fund (zero stress about paying mortgage or losing job). I don't know about the EU, but in the UK I know their mortgages are usually fixed for only like 5 years. In the US they are typically 30 year fixed

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