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JeremyBanks

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JeremyBanks··on Never Give Money to Charity
This is like SBF and co, right?
JeremyBanks··on I think faster than light travel is possible [video]
Is it clickbait? It’s slightly provocative but the content seems to live up to it.

She’s deconstructing absolutist nonsense into something less absolutist. It’s almost anti-clickbait.

JeremyBanks··on We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
Yes, that’s clearly been their entire business MO from day one.
JeremyBanks··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
It’s an encoded bitmask indicating which fields to include from the API. The specific layout is an opaque implementation detail; the value is typically generated by the api playground Ui
JeremyBanks··on Visual ChatGPT
No, Loab was an extreme value in parameter space which certain inputs could converge too.
JeremyBanks··on Gang members hold positions at ‘highest levels’ of LA Sheriff’s department
There’s a reason that songs like “fuck the police” came out of the LA area.

Decades later, and it’s only worse. This is where the “abolition” language comes from. How do you fix this? Unclear. Wholesale replacement seems tempting in the face of any direct path to reform.

LA police organizations are rotten from fruit to root. Incrementalism won’t work.

JeremyBanks··on <3 Deno
That seems like a very bad interview question
JeremyBanks··on Tesla tells investors it’s being investigated by the Justice Department
Do you have the foggiest idea what “cruise control” systems are capable of these days?
JeremyBanks··on BBC Modi Documentary Removal
You’re conflating two things. The BBC is indeed taking it down for copyright reasons. The Indian government is censoring it for political reasons. This post was about the former.
JeremyBanks··on Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings
From the inside, he has an ego like Elon and focus like Dorsey. Several of his executives are very good at managing him, but he lives in and broadcasts from a white void detached from reality.
JeremyBanks··on Boston housing price dataset was removed from scikit-learn 1.2
My Rights to be included as example data in a tool distribution
JeremyBanks··on Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (2009)
"Necro" or "zombie" threads aren't actually bad
JeremyBanks··on This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
Not quite the same, but maybe of interest: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyp...
JeremyBanks··on Tinyprinter.club
I prefer it over the old days, where it was "don't join our mailing list".
JeremyBanks··on Developers, your manager is likely clueless
Aye. The folks I've worked with who most insisted that managers were useless were the ones who most badly needed supervision.
JeremyBanks··on Duck says ‘You bloody fool’ and can imitate other sound, scientists fascinated
Let me introduce you to this thing called rhetoric....
JeremyBanks··on Intermediate Algebra
A problem is that lots of lower-education math instructors don't understand these concepts deeply themselves. I think it could be okay if these things were clearly framed as "true for the problems we're looking at, but not universal", but they were typically presented as universal by teachers who themselves don't know any better, and that really caught me up too.
JeremyBanks··on Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (2005)
Google Video was decent. But it lacked the social element.
JeremyBanks··on Socialist Publication Current Affairs Fires Staff for Doing Socialism
No
JeremyBanks··on What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed?
You're misreading. They're not being ordered to destroy crops in order to support the medical marijuana price. They're destroying crops because there was a bubble and they've created way too much supply.

Cannabis stocks were a fad for a while, and I know lots of people who invested in them blindly. The number of legal cannabis retailers is exploding. I live in a mid sized town and there are three more opening this month, and the ones I see always have customers.

The system's hardly failing, some speculators just played themselves.

JeremyBanks··on Show HN: Till – Unblock and scale your web scrapers, with minimal code changes
> Till was architected to follow best practices that DataHen has accumulated over the years of scraping at a massive scale.

The best practice is not to build a business that's built on evading the security of the people you're depending on.

Just get into crime if you want to do that.

JeremyBanks··on Water transformed into shiny, golden metal
It sounds like your description of those feminists came from his videos. You should try watching them so you have a more accurate take. Anita isn't nearly as much of a radical as she's painted.
JeremyBanks··on Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion
This sounds like a much better sport.
JeremyBanks··on Dogecoin Co-Founder Calls Cryptocurrency a Scam to Help the Rich Get Richer
When everybody jumps in this thread to tear him apart, please disclose your crypto holdings while you're at it.

So many formerly-good people have been corrupted by crypto greed.

JeremyBanks··on 1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play
It was ahead of its time.
JeremyBanks··on Brave Search beta
Is that legal?
JeremyBanks··on PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey
Indeed.

Windows Subsystem for Linus sure has been a game changer!

JeremyBanks··on Amazon S3 quietly deprecates BitTorrent support
I evaluated it for possible use ~5 years ago, and found it too unreliable. Their trackers would shut down after some period of inactivity and didn't often seem to come back online for later peers. AWS neglected this feature.
JeremyBanks··on Untapped potential in Rust's type system
Take a look at the code: https://github.com/Metaswitch/assert-type-eq-rs/blob/master/...

I'd rather not write that myself.

JeremyBanks··on Netanyahu is out as new Israeli government survives confidence vote
Even if his policies were identical, a corrupt leader can't be allowed to remain and solidify his corruption even further. He's already been there far too long and done far too much institutional damage.
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