therealjumbo

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by therealjumbo 9mo ago
My hot take on a better excel: the two things excel sucks at: version control and syncing. On the backend, separate the data and the logic in the spreadsheet and put each into version control. Then use something like syncthing to share docu
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by therealjumbo 3y ago
Here's his central point: >This event is significant because it is major demonstration of someone giving a LLM a set of instructions and the results being totally not at all what they predicted. Replace LLM with computer in that sen
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by therealjumbo 3y ago
The original reason for banning sales of wild game meat in NA is because species were being driven extinct or extirpated due to hunting. https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/big-game-hunting/should-yo... Unfortunately all
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
Democracy is orthogonal too authoritarian.
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
When I went skydiving, they took me up to 12.5k feet. Good weather was necessary, and they offered to only go to 9k feet if I was a little "scared". Not sure why jumping out of a plane at 9k feet is any more reassuring... A wave t
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
I remember reading about the Delta incident a ways back, here they claim it cost them ~$150 million. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/09/08/delt... That's not the article I hoped to
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
The black bear population in CA has quadrupled since the state banned black bear hunting with dogs a long time ago. Nonetheless, the humane society sponsors bills: https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/policy-and-le
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
I think they are simply pointing out that you must kill other animals in order to live. There's no way around it. If your interested in killing the least amount of animals, why not go hunting and fishing, that almost assuredly kills fe
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
This should be fixed with a shebang and shellcheck. If your shebang is #!/bin/sh, shellcheck will complain loudly about bash-isms. If production is sh and doesn't have bash, there's quite a few other bash-ism you want to
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
This is laughable. So poking fun at a projects cost overruns and failures is actually the reason for the failure in the first place? I guess then Jon Stewart is responsible for the failures of the Bush administration then? Why did your proj
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
Democrats have a super majority in SF, have a majority in the CA state government, and PG&E is essentially a state (as in CA) controlled corporation. The democrats have had majorities at both the municipal level and the state level for
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
Do you have inside knowledge of how the recalls are done? It's a lot more complicated than that: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-engineers-... Even to the point where an actual hor
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
Yes they have, just not very often and not without a long political fight and not without strong political leaders to push it forward. Say what you want about the "system" and the two parties and so on, but we the people send our
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
A state could be a leader and enact that type of provision into their state law or state constitution. Good leadership is hard to find.
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
They also banned youth clay sporting leagues: https://thereload.com/california-youth-shooting-sports-leagu... edit: spelling
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
His argument was that a lot of people being armed leads to regular standoffs. CCW being very common and leading to almost no standoffs over stupid arguments absolutely does address it. I'm ignoring comparing individuals to nation state
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by therealjumbo 4y ago
CCW is very common in the US now, CCW holders are less likely to commit crimes than police officers. In general CCW or constitutional carry states don't see big wild west shoutouts at grocery stores so no. People are generally good and
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
The incentive to lie and manipulate is greater now than in the past. New information technology (nowadays social media....) increases the benefits of lying, and decreases the costs of doing so effectively. So I would expect there to be more
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
COINTELPRO was a thing, yes, but now almost all news is manipulated. Then stuff related to those stories was, big difference. >The media has always had to kowtow to some degree to local authority, Yes, that's what I mean, to what de
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
Biased and manipulated news is a spectrum like security. You can find instances of anything in the past of you look hard enough. We are currently in a time of more bias and manipulation than the 60s/70s. Additionally, pointing out that
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
The equivalent comparison with init scripts would be all the documentation and complexity of every program invoked by the init scripts, not just by sysvinit or rc's documentation and complexity directly. systemd just has most of that b
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
Some day when I'm rich and bored, I hope to help a distro move in this direction. It'd be really really cool to have a fully, very easily, debuggable and then fixable system where you could debug any running code on the system, an
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
And probably https://github.com/pradyunsg/installer https://pypi.org/project/installer/ too, but that one isn't under the pypa org yet, given the author, it probably will be. All that be
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
Shouldn't https://github.com/pypa/build help? I don't think it has enough features yet but I was under the impression that was the distro solution.
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
I've come to the conclusion that it's a good skill to have since it's (or logging which is basically the same) the only debugging method that's always guaranteed to be available. For example there's lots of build an
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
The maintainers of X decided they didn't want to keep maintaining X since it has too much baggage. So they designed/implemented a replacement, Wayland, and have given notice that development on X is going to come to a halt. Unless
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
That isn't just a problem of misaligned incentives, it's more fundamental than that. It's also a problem with how software "construction" tools work at a very basic level. Look around at open source projects, they d
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
Reported by the same NPR that published this: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med... https://taibbi.substack.com/p/npr-trashes-free-speech-a-brie... Unfortunatel
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
You might want to reconsider holding your breath for that. No they aren't doing E2E encryption, if/when they will, they will announce it. Until they announce something everything else is pure speculation.
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by therealjumbo 5y ago
>I think you have misunderstood the system. On a technical level I think you're correct. As a holistic approach to the problem, I still disagree. This is too cute for its own good. The PR misunderstanding is a symptom of that. >T

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