jiscariot

Google translate says vim = 'I came' in portuguese, so I guess that explains Brazil.

There is a lot in this piece, but one of the things mentioned was public spaces.

While it likely doesn't play a huge role, it can't be ignored that the last ten or so years in the US, public spaces have generally deteriorated due to the lack of enforcement of quality-of-life laws, and general absence of social norms. If your government decides to allow tent cities (everything that comes with that) in your local park, people of means will take their kids to SkyZone. When public transportation becomes unsafe, people of means will opt to rideshare. It points to a failure in leadership of many large US cities. Hopefully that changes.

My issue is the metrics constantly parroted to show inequality wouldn't (shouldn't) stand muster to an Econ 101 student.

- Household income disparities between groups, without controlling for household makeup. There are vast differences between racial groups in regard to one vs. two parent households (+/-30% between white/black). It should not be controversial, that two income earners, create larger household incomes (or reduce need for expensive childcare).

- Income disparities, without controlling for age or time in workforce. White populations in US average about 14yrs older than non-white. It should not be controversial, that people tend to make more money the longer they have been in the workforce (via raises, promotions, etc).

- 74 cents on the dollar between sexes. Hopefully this one doesn't need an explanation in 2025.

- Achievement gaps. High achievers throw these numbers off (vs. US average), hence, the killing of many advanced placement programs. The other one I see where I live, is more ironic than bad data--people bemoan the growth of the achievement gap yet don't see the connection to the consistent yearly refuge resettlements of thousands of ESL Somalis in the same schools.

Many of these missteps are so blatant, I can't take anyone using them seriously and throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I'm always running in tmux panes so often iterm and those settings seem to conflict. It would be great to go a step further and include a background color change--will have to give it another shot. Thanks for the tip.

For me, what is more common is the likelihood of doing something in the wrong environment (e.g. lab, dev, stage, prod). To help make things a bit more clear, our images now override the PS1 with a `(environment)` at the beginning, which is a different color, lab=green, dev=purple, prod=red. If it saves me once, it was worth it.

I liked Recursion and Dark Matter a lot, but the last two pages of Upgrade really left it on a poor note for me.

> He said, with a smirk, “I am not an extrovert”.

In this likely fabricated scenario, our initial introduction to the introvert has them also coming across as a dick.

New York Times market cap drops 12% based on people now actually being able to cancel their subscriptions. j/k

And the no-go zones were just fox news right-wing propaganda. Well, my Swedish friend drove me through one (daytime) two years ago.

Pretty significant cultural changes, like now in their hometown, there are separate swimming days for the sexes at the public pool. When I started going to Sweden 30 years ago, all the beaches were top-ional.

Things like, I think he called them the "bearded babies", which was a group of thousands of refugees who were obviously up to 30 years old, claiming they were 17, so they didn't need to provide any information and received preferential treatment.

It was enough to lead my die-hard liberal punk rock guitarist friend to start voting SD in last few elections. They were the only ones who would talk about the problems.

Middle-upper management also excels at this method of escaping blame/consequences. Move in, talk big and change a bunch of stuff, then on to the next before the tickets start coming in.

20 year listener here. I now listen until they force identity politics in to the subject at hand, then change the channel. In my experience it's much less than 10m, but could be my market too.

If you've already read 1, you really should read 2/Dark Forest.

Seems like everyone disagrees with the ranking of 3PB books. Probably a good thing. On 2 read-throughs, I vastly prefer 2 then 3, and consider 1 a bit of a slog.

How many popup warnings will I need to bypass/accept in order to use my LLM of choice?

Big thanks to FIRE for picking up the torch dropped by the ACLU. The ACLU, in their stampede to rebrand themselves as a racial justice org, like everyone else did a couple of years ago, has completely lost their way. I cringe everytime they show up as a free speech org in NYT crossword puzzles.

I look at it as signal to noise ratio. If someone communicates a lot but has a very low signal to noise ratio, parsing what might be valid from everything else, becomes a chore and adds cognitive overhead.

The most disingenuous use of stats I see regularly published, are those bemoaning wealth inequality between ethnic and racial groups that don't control for family makeup. There is a 30+% difference between some groups on one vs. two parent households, but I guess that doesn't fit the right narrative an would presume people have some agency in their circumstances.

I tend to agree with this analysis--that a part of the TM business model is extracting additional money for venues, artists and themselves, and taking on 100% of the reputational hit for fees. It's fascinating but have a hard time thinking of similar examples of a similar model, if anyone has some.

When anyone says 'Yes, I believe in free speech, but …,' I stop listening. ~ Salman Rushdie.

A link to gizmodo is the internet equivalent of those direct mailers that go directly to the recycle bin.

This sentence doesn't know if it's in the local paper or at a slam poetry reading:

"Paying at the pump is for chumps - when you can get gas for free - and illegal, but it didn’t stop a Detroit man from stealing almost 800 gallons of gas at the Shell at Eight Mile and Wyoming."

Taxi roulette was not a fun game to play: a) will it show up? b) will someone else take my cab? c) will the driver get angry if I attempt to use a card? d) does the driver know where they are going?

Agreed. We all just need to stand shoulder to shoulder and we'll be fine. Social security and pensions will be well funded with all the new payers.

Norway's done an amazing job of convincing the world how green they are.

That is eerily similar to what happened to us in IBM "Cloud", in a previous gig. An engineer was doing "account cleanup" and somehow our account got on the list and all our resources were blown away. The most interesting conversation was convincing the support person, that those deletion audit events were in fact not us, but rather (according to the engineer's Linked-In page) an SRE at IBM.

My concern isn't copyright law, but that if trained on the NYT, these llms are going to be favorable to starting conflicts in the middle-east.

https://fair.org/home/20-years-later-nyt-still-cant-face-its...

When you own the platform, your ads are a "Personalized digital user experience" and your competitors' are "ad tracking".

From what I've seen recently is the inverse of that. There are scores of developers who have little understanding of OS scaffolding or networking, but are good at writing merge sorts in Python. Most Devops people I know are not the ones pushing "vanguard of a new paradigm" BS, they are just ops who can code and understand performance tradeoffs, networking, subsystems, etc. I guess we can blame Devops for one thing, the paradigm has encouraged the behavior of "real devs" (TM) not understanding anything about the underlying platforms they are writing code for. That was the point, but it's not all gravy.

That stuff with the wolf in The Crossing was as deeply affecting to me as an adult as say, The Never Ending Story's Atrax in the Swamp of Sadness was for me as a kid.

I enjoyed this book as well and remember thinking at the time how it was much more violent than Blood Meridian.