sonofhans

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by sonofhans 4mo ago
I’ll repeat my point that a good bodyguard stops shit rather than starting it. That idiot meatsack shouldn’t have been let anywhere near a bodyguard job. He failed at every aspect of the role, including getting his ass kicked. Your continue
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Ok, I watched the video, and it’s not at all as you describe. Some guy walks closely by the bodyguard, and the bodyguard responds by shoving them through a display stand of products and onto the ground. The bodyguard was clearly the instiga
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
I mean, really, what’s funnier than a monkey flinging poop?
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Yes! I remember reading that, as you say, a long time ago. This is the first time I’ve seen someone else reference it. I love that story.
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
”We get training data.” E.g., photos of your children, an inventory of your books, the contents of your medicine cabinet. They may not have plans to sell this stuff, but whoever acquires them certainly will.
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Right, it’s a hairball. And all to enable a remote-first, VC-backed business model. Most people would rather see doctors in person.
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Government-issued IDs work and human verification of them is largely successful. This is not about correct verification, it’s about cheap machine-based verification. The dehumanization of it is part of how they plan to make money. So yes ve
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
> Dayton is not the first city to cover its Flock cameras with trash bags because they can’t figure out how to immediately terminate the use of the cameras. Late last year, the city of Evanston, Illinois also covered its cameras with tra
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
> teachers are lazy Teachers don’t make those decisions, school boards do. School boards are elected or appointed political entities. Teachers are humans just like you, and like or dislike work for the same reasons you do, including your
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Ferrari clearly aren’t doing it to save costs. I don’t think they’re doing it for principled driver-centered reasons, either, but more because the market expects it. Cars are appliances, and appliances are generally built to be sold (i.e.,
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Yes, preach it! But … I think in fact it does make a huge difference economically. I don’t know what the bill of materials is, but imagine the difference between wiring into place (a) a touch screen, or (b) 40 physical controls. I believe a
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
My kid, way into cars, says it looks like a cheap Camaro from the future.
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
I can easily list in my head many people I’ve worked with who’ve expressed dissatisfaction at the lack of regular contact with their coworkers. I’ve seen this universally across engineers, designers, sales people … and yes, managers and rec
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Yes, this post is one half of “Maker’s schedule, manager’s schedule” — https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html “In all that time, I’ve never met a single person who sincerely wanted more dailies, syncs, and meetings.” Oh
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Oh, I have typed that acronym thousands of times. Thousands. And I’d be surprised if I got it right 90% of the time. I have just enough dyslexia, I think, to make it very hard to be perfect. So perhaps OP is similar.
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Yes, exactly, the rules are intentionally broad and vague. You can wave paper at most of them and technically succeed. And then when you release accidentally PHI for the first time and your bullshit comes to light, your chickens will come h
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Thank you, that was new to me. I always felt a connection between those three books — We, Brave New World, 1984 — but this review really is the missing piece. He opens the review by describing the similarities between We and Brave New World
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
No, I checked, all look like old accounts run by humans. It’s telling, the common opinion, isn’t it?
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
I’d like to subscribe to stick™ pro! I tried a piece of string and it waved around in the wind and didn’t work, so I think I may need a paid service for this.
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Yes, I agree, the skills are orthogonal. Digital typesetting is vastly quicker than manually putting down metal type, and since you’re exposed to more type you have the opportunity to learn faster. But getting good at typography with digita
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
“More sustainable” than burning hydrocarbons to produce chatbot tokens. Humanity could sustain itself on those resources much longer if we were more careful with them. The very definition of sustainability.
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Kagi is better. Kagi is damn good, as much a revelation as the Google of old. Not free, though.
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by sonofhans 4mo ago
Valve is what our culture deserves from all corporations. The fact that it seems like such an outlier is an indictment.
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by sonofhans 5mo ago
Yes, my thoughts exactly. Productivity by definition creates things, hopefully valuable things. Is all the extra burn on chatbots worth the cost? Has Uber somehow gotten dramatically more efficient and effective due to this massive budget o
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by sonofhans 5mo ago
That sounds like a hack from late-game Factorio: pollute enough that you can just pull iron filings right out of the air. Everyone wins! Except the meatbags who need to breathe the air …
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by sonofhans 5mo ago
The cool thing about critical reasoning is how easy it is to uncover bias or agenda in an article like this. I suspect that as you rely more on a robot for this your own skills will atrophy.
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by sonofhans 5mo ago
Years ago I had my blood pressure taken by a nurse; this was when they did it manually, squeezing the pressure cuff bulb by hand and listening with a stethoscope. The doctor came in later, saw the numbers and frowned, and took my pressure a
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by sonofhans 5mo ago
It is happening, just as planned and predicted. Last I checked every so-called AI company is swimming in cash, and so are their founders and leaders. You didn’t think the economic surplus would be evenly distributed, did you?
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by sonofhans 5mo ago
I’ve been in tech and medicine too. Consider that any “HUGE” effect in this context is likely exaggerated, especially for something as prosaic as a note-taking assistant. As a patient sitting with a doctor, I don’t care how standardized the
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by sonofhans 5mo ago
A decade seems good to you? We’re still just talking about heat and pressure, well-understood problems. There’s no excuse for a machine like this not to outlive the original owner. Anything else is planned obsolescence or a manufacturing de

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