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nilamo··on 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
https://youtu.be/nE2132OUc5s
nilamo··on 42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
I don't know what you mean, the DOW is over 50k. /s
nilamo··on Sam Neill has died
His Merlin was always my favorite, though I've never heard anyone else mention it out in the wild.
nilamo··on Sam Neill has died
Can you elaborate for those of us who don't know Warhammer?
nilamo··on Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres?
Wild statement, imo. There is no better open source database, so I'm very curious what you prefer and what your use cases are...
nilamo··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
> Gretchen Whitmer

A sitting politician was nearly kidnapped by a group of people who all wanted to torture her, but let's focus on the one FBI agent.

nilamo··on Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
That's a great point. We should build a network that tracks all cops to make sure they don't get up to no good while off duty.
nilamo··on Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together
If only that group would consider that its the children being watched, maybe they would think of the children then...
nilamo··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
And all of the 3 people using it will rejoice.
nilamo··on ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker
Buying, making, and owning socks are not against the law in the usa, so socks are already compliant with the suggestion.
nilamo··on Never talk to the police
Why would you give ammunition to someone who can shoot you with no negative consequences? They prove over and over that they can't be trusted, so the smart move is to take them at their word, and not trust them.
nilamo··on The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic
This sounds like the HBO Common Side Effects almost to a tee
nilamo··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
"You knew there was a problem, and didn't fix it? You're here because I don't know programming. Fired."

I think we've worked with very different kinds of people...

nilamo··on Democrats Unveil Flood of AI Proposals in Potential Challenge to Tech Giants
I wish politics didn't revolve so heavily around party bias. There's nothing about this that would appeal strictly to democrat politicians or their constituents.

Do people normally see something a voting block does, and just accept/reject that view without even reading anything else?

But maybe that's the result of paywalls. We've trained people not to read anything past the headline...

nilamo··on The Cypherpunk Library
I have no understanding of your viewpoint. I wish I did, it sounds interesting. I do like a Crafting Interpreters or Mythical Man Month...

But I don't understand how those could not only be held to the same level as The Hobbit, but that you seem incapable of even reading Animal Farm.

Do you enjoy any fictional media? TV, movies, plays, interactive murder mystery dinners, tabletop games (d&d, etc)?

nilamo··on Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements
I mostly use redis for pub/sub communication between services. If the app wasn't a collection of knative functions, and instead a monolith, it would be cool to also use redis for event based communication.
nilamo··on A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle
Full agree. It certainly feels like people are afraid of imagined threats, there just is no way there's so much rampant crime that people's living space is broken into so often, that surveiling everything all the time is a valid solution.

Like, I live in Detroit, and we don't have enough crime to justify it.

nilamo··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
I've never heard of that before, is it common behavior?
nilamo··on Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
Yes, nobody ever actually lives in them, they're just 24/7 airbnbs with a cleaning service.
nilamo··on Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
And I don't think any of that documentation or warnings should be applied to covered calls.
nilamo··on Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
I think it comes from decades of fear mongering over how "dangerous" stocks and options are. If you can, instead, explain to an llm what your goals are, it can set up a simple buy-and-hold for you.

Basically what investment agents used to do in the 80s-90s where the only way to make a trade was to call someone at the broker and explain what you want.

Taking a step back, I see this as what llms are actually useful for. Empowering people to do things they might otherwise need to study and research for a few weeks to do. When ultimately, that research is just unnecessary gatekeeping.

nilamo··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
> As an example, what innovative amazing world-changing products have Google or Meta launched in the past decade

Kubernetes is at 11 years ago, and is huge enough to be included there. The Google Pixel was just under 10 years ago. So... not nothing haha

nilamo··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
So if you kidnap them, hold them in a bunker for a month, then release them, it will pay out. That's probably a positive thing for the world somehow, right?
nilamo··on Everything in C is undefined behavior
That's very funny to me.

A) x is always removed.

B) no, it's never removed if volatile.

But neither person can prove what a compiler will actually do, despite claiming they'll always act a certain way given 5 lines of code.

nilamo··on Everything in C is undefined behavior
This looks like a long back and fourth, that can easily be solved by a minute or two on godbolt...
nilamo··on Google changes its search box
If it's wrong 2 out of 5 times, why even waste your time going to it in the first place? That's a massive failure rate.
nilamo··on Google pushes update to Antigravity instead it reinstalls and locks everyone out
Title seems unrelated?
nilamo··on Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude
The idea that someone (the NSA?) is training models on all of our collected info, and using that to predict all of our hidden information, is horrifying.

The best time to start using a password manager was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.

nilamo··on Starship V3
Weird AI photos on this article, too. Like, it's cool. Take pictures of the cool thing you actually have.
nilamo··on Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog
> By the way,

> I tried to say

> CRAZY BIG BOB IS HAVING ANOTHER CRAZY SALE THIS MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!!!

> so don't wait for Dani, come on down and say "I love you" to a pre-owned Nissan!

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