yesco

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by yesco 23d ago
Because they aren't and never have been! This has been scientifically proven from the astrological data according to my sources.
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by yesco 1mo ago
Somewhat tangential, but this reminds me of when I took a certain Microbiology midterm in college. I hadn't put much effort into that class leading up to it, as I had some tough CS classes that consumed my focus that semester (also was
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by yesco 1mo ago
Yeah I walked into this with my pitchfork ready but isn't this stuff pretty... reasonable? McDonalds is just a restaurant, they predict what menu items you like and how likely you will come back, is that really a problem? What is the
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by yesco 2mo ago
I reject your characterization of my comment. I explicitly called myself an outlier and said I didn't want to get too specific, so I'm not sure where you're getting "clever" from. I wasn't claiming credit for m
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by yesco 2mo ago
I purchased a house within commuting distance of Boston in my mid 20s, back in 2022. Didn't need PMI, the mortgage terms weren't unreasonable to me (fixed 5% interest), and the monthly payments for utilities plus the loan are stil
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by yesco 3mo ago
My perspective until now was that the Wikimedia foundation was already supposed to be a union-like organization. Would it make sense for Linux maintainers to form a union within the Linux foundation? The vibes feel similar to me.
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by yesco 3mo ago
Yeah I was expecting some giant text dump based on the complaints in the comments here, yet all I see is a pretty normal README? It's not even that large. If we are splitting hairs some sections could have been left out or broken up
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by yesco 3mo ago
Yes it's truly a shame when the people responsible for critical infrastructure only hire the cheap inexperienced software engineers to build it. Much like how relying on a resident nurse instead of a cardiologist when you are experienc
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by yesco 3mo ago
I see no reason not to be empathetic. The frustration is fair, but it's aimed at the wrong layer. These people were guided into this spot by bootcamps and curricula that start at React and never go down the stack. My experience was the
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by yesco 3mo ago
You can agree or disagree with the consequences, but the voting rights act never had any explicit provisions about districting, this was something conjured entirely by the courts. It was even framed as a temporary measure at the time of the
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by yesco 4mo ago
Friends who give ultimatums like this are usually toxic and worth ditching. Your friend would be better off cutting you off now, regardless of what they decide about the job, than continuing to associate with someone who'd emotionally
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by yesco 5mo ago
I honestly agree with you in many respects, I'm simply spinning in some nuance to a topic I keep seeing. The snake oil salesmen is productive precisely because the actual effects of the snake oil they are selling is unknown to the cons
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by yesco 5mo ago
This is why I believe we should only listen to amateur opinions on everything, experts simply lack historical credibility. For example I've recently purchased a healing crystal (half off) for only $5000 dollars! It cleared up the imbal
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by yesco 6mo ago
Spain had the largest empire in the Western Hemisphere. Extracted silver, enslaved entire populations, and lost it when we kicked their teeth in during 1898. That's imperialism. Paying someone hundreds of millions to let you park plane
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by yesco 6mo ago
"Granted to them for free"? The US has been paying Spain for base access since 1953. Hundreds of millions per renewal cycle in military aid, economic assistance, and direct spending. It was never free and it was never a favor. Spa
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by yesco 6mo ago
Glad we are on the same page, because yes, as you pointed out, it literally says here in plaintext that it was NATO Allies that activated it, not the United States.
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by yesco 6mo ago
The United States has never activated article 5. Get your facts straight before attempting to use an LLM to reply to me. The coalition for Afghanistan was voluntary. This isn't even that, it's just flying our planes over Spain&#
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by yesco 6mo ago
I want to say upfront that I'm absolutely not trying to say Spain should or even needs to join this silly war. But the US not being allowed to use the bases it pays and maintains for Spain makes it questionable why it does so in the fi
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by yesco 6mo ago
This dynamic could also be argued as a cause of the War of 1812.
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by yesco 7mo ago
Ah, I finally understand NFTs now
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by yesco 7mo ago
Salespeople are the easiest to sell to. Con artists are the easiest to swindle. The people who believe they're immune to being tricked are always the ones who get tricked the most.
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by yesco 8mo ago
I get maintainers have their own issues to deal with, and respect that they are trying to keep the project clean. At work I have had many times where I spent more of my day reviewing MRs than actually writing code, and sometimes my cold blu
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by yesco 8mo ago
Agreed on the slacktivism point. Physical presence means something that bots and polls can't fake. My issue isn't with protesting itself, it's that the assumed impact often seems out of proportion with what's actually be
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by yesco 8mo ago
Assuming critics are just reflexively resistant is a convenient way to avoid asking whether the criticism has merit. "They'd get it if they were more curious" is unfalsifiable. Everyone already knows dissent exists. Polls, so
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by yesco 8mo ago
You're describing how protests energize people who already agree. I'm asking how they persuade people who don't. The honks are from your side. The people you need are either tuning out or getting annoyed. Visibility used to e
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by yesco 8mo ago
I was primarily discussing written language in my post, as that's easier to speculate on. That said, if most people turn into hermits and start living in pods around this period, then I think you would be in the right direction.
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by yesco 8mo ago
If we focus only on the impact on linguistics, I predict things will go something like this: As LLM use normalizes for essay writing (email, documentation, social media, etc), a pattern emerges where everyone uses an LLM as an editor. Peopl
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by yesco 8mo ago
That's a strange example. An unauthenticated server on a LAN wouldn't be exposed to the Internet any more than a network using NAT would be. You would need to explicitly configure your routers firewall to expose a local node, the
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by yesco 9mo ago
> You are not bypassing the router, the devices need to get their packets from somewhere, and it is only like a forever-open port if the router/firewall decides it is. This trips up a lot of people, and I think it's because NAT
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by yesco 9mo ago
I have no idea what book you're talking about, and I never claimed water "disappears" or made any argument about consumption statistics. Why would you assume I think water vanishes from existence? That's absurd. My point

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