tenacious_tuna

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by tenacious_tuna 7d ago
> this isn’t that different It's entirely different. One is fingerprinting ambient audio against a corpus of known signatures to identify music, another is basically silently monitoring and summarizing every conversation it hears fo
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by tenacious_tuna 8d ago
> Variety affords us downtime This feels inverted to me: downtime affords us variety. If I have little downtime then I'll strongly prefer known, efficient methods of doing something, rather than experimenting with new ones. > As
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by tenacious_tuna 13d ago
The more I hear about how surveillance-at-scale like this is so common the more I think we need systemic privacy legislation to make that kind of monitoring impossible, but I don't know how you'd get it through the American legisl
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
> if you had trouble in school for example that's a classic ADHD symptom or if you excelled at some topics which you found interesting but did middlingly or poorly at others... I watched the skepticism form then evaporate in my psyc
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
I went through a similar loop around my own diagnosis as well ("great, that'd be one more thing to deal with,") but stimulants have had a significantly positive impact on my life. > But I can't escape the next step wh
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
The number of news articles I start reading that interrupt the flow of the article with 'ads' for other articles I could read is driving me bananas. To say nothing of ads themselves or CTAs or cookie consent banners or... I'd
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
I'd love to self-host a mailing list, or that protonmail or fastmail offered listserv like functionality. It feels fairly intimidating to hoist my own mail server and listserv on top of that. It feels like there's too much domain-
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
yeah, not being able to vector departing planes is also a pain. Kinda makes sense I guess, but still annoying
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
> LLM friendly format Is that not just markdown? is there a specific way of formatting docs that's "friendly" to LLMs now?
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
There was a tornado warning a few towns over a month ago. My spouse's phone for wireless emergency alerts kept going off every five minutes for the other town: no other warnings for our town specifically. She ended up disabling the ale
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
I'm still using a 1080ti in my main PC, though I don't play as many games as I used to. Control is the last title I picked up where I really felt like I was pushing the graphics capability of my rig. I remember when I built my PC
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
i feel that way about most web design principles these days. For a brief window it seemed like every website had automatic handling for dark/light mode based on system preference, or at least a toggle, but I feel like that's gone
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by tenacious_tuna 2mo ago
Drives me nuts whenever I reach the bottom of a scroll window and I can feel the network call happening before stuff starts loading again. It's 8ms from me to the local CDN and I've got gigabit, but it feels like every dang site i
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by tenacious_tuna 3mo ago
My partner and I spent ~$70 CAD at popeyes the other day for two adults. I got a sandwich + fries + slaw, they got tenders, we both got fountain drinks. that's about $50 USD.
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by tenacious_tuna 3mo ago
What's "correct" in this context? From the State's perspective it _is_ harmony, regardless of the restriction on personal freedom. A western-context example of the same phenomenon might be the American notion of freedom.
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by tenacious_tuna 4mo ago
Chad taught me programming when I was a child, and introduced me to a professor I then went on to work for. Sadly I haven't kept up with him, but I second his impact: both big and small, he's a brilliant and caring guy.
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by tenacious_tuna 4mo ago
Number one economy yes, but other measures lag: education, health care outcomes, overall happiness, life expectancy... I suspect that when you bring a competitive attitude into every aspect of life it limits how much you're willing to
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by tenacious_tuna 4mo ago
One of my coworkers points out to me every sports reference that pops up in our internal company communications (e.g. "WINNING", "Going to put together a winning team," etc). It seems like everything in the US is couched
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by tenacious_tuna 4mo ago
Some friends and I read "A People's History of the United States" a while back and were surprised at how true this is. US classroom history textbooks hold civil disobedience up as the One True Way to bring change, but it&#x27
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by tenacious_tuna 5mo ago
> Boom, problem solved Not if your CI depends on github, or if you have specific actions to review things, or if you use SSO because you're an enterprise, or.... Workarounds exist for each of these cases, but they add significant fr
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by tenacious_tuna 5mo ago
I got a ReMarkable a couple years ago. The writing and screen experience were phenomenal, but the ereader UX and file transfer UX turned me off. I returned it within a couple days. I've been disappointed by how other eink tablets I&#x2
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by tenacious_tuna 5mo ago
Agreed, that seems like exactly the thing that would get you pulled aside at the border, and/or give ICE a reason to not trust your American passport.
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by tenacious_tuna 5mo ago
> Writing an extemporaneous essay from start to finish in one draft Every English class I had in high school focused so strongly on how important revision was, or at a minimum having an outline to work from. While AP tests expected us to
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by tenacious_tuna 5mo ago
Your middle point is great and very relatable; I've had the same frustration/argument with myself before: Am I playing this game because I actually want to, or because it's "easier" than anything else I could be doi
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by tenacious_tuna 5mo ago
> It finally hit me how much time I wasted on that game. I don't agree that leisure is inherently wasting time, which I think is a pretty common belief across North America in general and within Tech specifically. I don't know
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by tenacious_tuna 5mo ago
> I'm going to talk to you whether you like it not. If you don't want to talk to people, then maybe don't put yourself in a social setting? You seem to have a strange definition of what's a social situation. Maybe I w
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by tenacious_tuna 5mo ago
> Even if you're just reading an e-book the phone contributes to the perceived loneliness of those around you. This is a wild projection of your own experience onto someone else's actions. > If you really want to read a book
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by tenacious_tuna 6mo ago
people at my org were gleeful when they learned they could hook LLMs into Slack. Even if we had some reliable, well-used signature system, I think people would just let AI use it to send emails on their behalf.
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by tenacious_tuna 6mo ago
what's account creation on an esp32 running micropython? or an arduino? what happens when the law is expanded to require biometric enforcement of what the user reports? Also, I don't want my OS to report my age range to every webs
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by tenacious_tuna 6mo ago
> Shipping “quality only” work for a long time can be stressful for your colleagues and the product teams. I buried the lede a bit, but my frustration has been feeling like _nobody_ on my team prioritizes quality and instead optimizes fo

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