wcarss

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by wcarss 2mo ago
It's difficult to recommend things without knowing a reader's taste, but I blanket recommend The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars_My_Destination
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by wcarss 3mo ago
- at a minimum, your id will be stored on random servers where it can be stolen - at a medium, you will have annoying and intrusive identity checks required to use many common websites - at a high medium, you will not be able to use a non t
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by wcarss 3mo ago
Attestation of age should suffice; no one in a building somewhere needs to verify my age. If I tell you to treat me like a minor, you do it. Operating systems and browsers can work together to send this as a header. If you're a concern
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by wcarss 3mo ago
yeah, I have to admit I was commenting on possibilities here without having gone into the article yet -- having now looked for real, I agree that the disruptions don't seem very useful for actual jamming and repeatedly like this for ye
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by wcarss 3mo ago
Or actual jamming mistargeted for some reason, or used because it was deemed necessary.
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by wcarss 4mo ago
I don't disagree with you, but your example of nails and their cost reductions made me wonder whether we reached a meaningful limit in say, some fundamental material terms, or whether we just reached a limit in terms of return on inves
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by wcarss 5mo ago
Just answering with a possibility here, but they could be seeking freedom from liability for failure to moderate content or ensuring their service is "not harmful". If it's only for consenting adults, and every adult can be p
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by wcarss 5mo ago
I agree with what you're saying about writing something twice or even three times to really understand it but I think you might have misunderstood the WET idea: as I understand it, it's meant in opposition to DRY, in the sense of
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by wcarss 6mo ago
I don't think this diminishes your point, but, for a thing like memory, your father may be maintaining it by insisting on relying on it. It may diminish regardless, but its diminishment may slow down. At work, we are in a certain kind
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by wcarss 6mo ago
> Jevons paradox isn't relevant to cognitive surplus Could you elaborate on this? Is it just a claim, or is there some consensus out there based on something that it doesn't/shouldn't apply?
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by wcarss 6mo ago
This is the take, very well said. I've been trying to use analogies with cars and cabinet making, but building a house is just right for the scale and complexity of the efforts enabled, and the ownership idea threads into it well. Goin
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by wcarss 6mo ago
This is not true. When you spend Canadian dollars at a business owned by a Canadian, you're sending that owner and the Canadian government your money, in exchange for their goods or services, normally at a surplus of value for them. Yo
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by wcarss 7mo ago
lol, uh, I'm pretty sure they actually can't. You or a business with legal owners can have a bank account, and you can give access to that account to an agent, but real banks work in the real world, and "know your custo
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by wcarss 8mo ago
For anyone else who briefly got very lost at PFC, probably "prefrontal cortex".
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by wcarss 8mo ago
https://www.courtlistener.com/ is run by freelaw.
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by wcarss 8mo ago
All fair points, I think I agree with your take overall but we might each be focusing on situations involving different levels of capital, time, and skill: I'm imagining situations where AI use brought the barrier down substantially fo
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by wcarss 9mo ago
That might be true, but it doesn't have to be immediately true. It's an arbitrage problem: seeing a gap, knowing you can apply this new tool to make a new entrant, making an offering at a price that works for you, and hoping other
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by wcarss 9mo ago
I experienced the exact same thing: I needed a web tool, and as far as I could tell from recent reviews, the offerings in the chrome extension store seemed either a little suspicious or broken, so I made my own extension in a little under a
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by wcarss 9mo ago
Singing copyrighted Billy Joel to make your footage unusable for reality television; thanks 30 Rock for an early view into this dystopian strategy
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by wcarss 9mo ago
Yeah, getting into the car with the guy holding the gun doesn't become okay because you have a great argument you're waiting to use down the road. He's already got the gun out. We should have started arguing when he just said
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by wcarss 10mo ago
Neat! Yeah, that's a pretty complex context and I completely see what you mean about the new hardware being part of the rollout and necessarily meaning that you can't just run both systems. My comment is more of a strategy for jus
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by wcarss 10mo ago
Absolutely, I agree that it's a useful pattern. I've personally typed 4111 1111 1111 1111 into a stripe form more times than I want to even think about. My point above was that it's not necessarily easy to convince the operat
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by wcarss 10mo ago
> So, no. There is no development configuration in production, or mirroring of a point of sales terminal to another system that's running development code. This is a misreading of the suggestion, I think. My reading of the suggestio
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by wcarss 10mo ago
Lead: "We have six weeks to ship. Questions?" Dev: "Could we pull an export of relevant historical data and get some time to write code to safely anonymize that, and stand up a parallel production system using just the anonym
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by wcarss 10mo ago
There's some fair points here but this is much less than half the picture. What I gather from your message: "if it is built like a human and it says it is conscious we have to assume it is", and, ok. That's a pretty obvi
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by wcarss 11mo ago
The opinions of their principals may not align with published findings, for many reasons.
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by wcarss 11mo ago
That cop was later my landlord -- he was also the art director of the film, and a wonderful storyteller.
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by wcarss 1y ago
Also, the purpose or end of a country is not to produce some widget at high efficiency for a client, or to rapidly respond to the whims of a despot. It is just a structure around the essential activity of humans simply living their lives.
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by wcarss 1y ago
not a recruiter: I have never felt that recruiters pay attention to linkedin references specifically. You can also make one, add people, and then ask for a few references. "I just finally made a linkedin in 2025 on a lark" is a pe
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by wcarss 1y ago
well, another way to recount it is that google tried and it worked okay but they decided it wasn't moving the needle, so they stopped trying.

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