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rPlayer6554··on What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
I’d pay for GoatLM
rPlayer6554··on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
Spot the developer who never had to setup anything for his mom.
rPlayer6554··on Nearly a million more deaths than births in Japan last year
Hit the nail on the head, this is one of the best explanations I’ve for this phenomenon . People keep regurgitating lines about costs when it’s so much more complicated than that.
rPlayer6554··on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
For a long time 2fa apps (other than Bitwarden and maybe some others) would lock you into the app and not let you export it. Websites don’t usually expose the text version of the code, just the QR.
rPlayer6554··on Palantir is extending its reach even further into government
Source?
rPlayer6554··on Ferrari Status
Part of that is because they get an extra bonus just by being Ferrari

https://www.sportspro.com/decision-makers/politics-and-gover...

rPlayer6554··on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
> In a combative speech at the Munich Security Conference in February, Vance argued that free speech and democracy were threatened by European elites.

> Trump has also been critical of the UK stance on encryption. The US president has likened the UK’s order to Apple to “something... that you hear about with China,” saying in February that he had told Starmer: “You can’t do this.”

> US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.

I think that’s exactly why I want encryption.

rPlayer6554··on New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation
Why not pay someone specifically as a guard if that’s the aim? That way they can focus on security instead of having to operate the doors too. And they can handle unsafe situations.

Also NYC door operators are in their own cabin so they cannot really see the people anyways. They don’t have the training to do anything about an incident

rPlayer6554··on '123456' password exposed chats for 64M McDonald's job applicants
Chill out man, it’s a common ironic expression
rPlayer6554··on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
> I also found Trump's signalling in the whole issue odd. His base and his cabinet is full of the most hard-line pro-israel figures imaginable, but then he goes forward and quotes Jeffrey Sachs and ostensibly pressures Netanyahu into accepting the ceasefire.

Because you weren't listening to Trump. Throughout all of his campaigns he's been pretty clear he doesn't want to be paying for other country's defense/military spending.

rPlayer6554··on Tech titans are falling over themselves to help Trump
These articles are exactly what's getting trump elected. Yes Elon probably doesn't like many things about trump. But he realized things like "calling any speech you don't like facist" (like this article does) is way more harmful than someone being a little mean sometimes. Not that Trump's behavior is great, but this country is great because we have a culture of open discussion. And some people are trying to hijack and destroy that culture to protect people's feelings. "To think is to offend" and it's important we promote free thought.

Yes tech companies want to protect their businesses. They are businesses. That's why they put their liberal programs in, and that's why they are loosing them as the culture moves past them. They exist to make money, not to be moral entities.

rPlayer6554··on It's called a dance floor
I was a house dancer in NYC before COVID. The shuffle dancing scene was still alive. After covid I'm not sure - it's definitely less so. I've moved to other dances since then. Outside of the specific groups no one is interested in dancing. Clubs are just packed with high and drunk people who look like they barely care about life.
rPlayer6554··on Wasp Flamethrower Drone Attachment
Could this be used for controlled burns in forests?
rPlayer6554··on Post World War II Food
If you like stories about historical food, check out tasting history! [0] His recent two episodes on the Titanic survivors are gut wrenching. [1]. He also does WWII content. [2]

[0] https://m.youtube.com/@TastingHistory [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ED7kGq4Ieak [2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ROieDwLBw

rPlayer6554··on Tailscale HTTPS Certificate on Synology NAS
I do this for my parents, but it's a pain in the butt how often it expires. Every few months I get a call and I have to manually ssh in and fix. There is no auto renewal. I guess I could setup a script, but I wish talescale itself could do it.
rPlayer6554··on The best $4 ever spent
I still remember the good times I had with my dad just taking train trips to random locations in my state. I think its part of a kid's desire to explore!
rPlayer6554··on Bionicle – my actual part in its origins (2015)
What a throwback to my childhood! I loved Bionicle! My siblings and I had the pieces, books, games, etc. I never knew it was a competitor to Pokemon - but my parents tried to steer us away from video games to more creative toys. So that's why we were a huge LEGO household in general.
rPlayer6554··on Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022)
I'm glad they opened this for others to use. When I worked at FB the VScode plugin was so neat and easy to use!
rPlayer6554··on The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside
> I’m also proud of the work I did while recognizing that my biggest contributions to Valve’s business went largely unnoticed and unrecognized within the industry. Part of that was due to the bro culture of the software business, part of it was that I receded to support my husband in a partnership where he was effectively the lesser partner, and part of it was that women, especially in tech, often seem to disappear when the story gets told.

Nope the second and last sentence are pretty clear.

rPlayer6554··on The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside
That's a pretty lame response. If I hadn't read the article, how would I know she wasn't always a full time employee but became one. (If I hadn't, I wouldn't have said her husband was always a full time employee) It's buried halfway through that she did switch eventually. Maybe respond to the content of my argument.

In fact the article was a fascinating look at the inside of how Valve started, but the conclusion did not fit with her own story of what happened.

rPlayer6554··on The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside
The author has the conclusion that she was wiped from the history books because she's a woman. But her husband worked almost the exact same amount (if not more - because he was always a full time employee.) and he got equally erased from the history books. Competitive environments can be cutthroat and she and her husband let Gabe become the face of the company because they left.
rPlayer6554··on Mother's gut microbiome during pregnancy shapes baby's brain development
Yes please post it.
rPlayer6554··on Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown
Sometimes companies are so big the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Maybe the legal department is overeager but the PR team would never had let this happen, given the chance.
rPlayer6554··on Low salary likely to cause exodus of European tech talent
May I ask what you're basing this on? Obviously cost of living in the US varies a lot per region.
rPlayer6554··on Emergency rooms are not okay
That's where urgent cares come in. I did the same thing to my finger and they stitched it up no problem. They even took X-rays with a remote doctor checking the imagines. 50$ in and out. No clogging up emergency rooms.
rPlayer6554··on Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates
That's the plot of Brave New World right?
rPlayer6554··on Parable of the Sofa
How is "modern capitalism" to blame? Modern capitalism allowed a small business to sell you the higher quality option, and you were able to direct your purchasing power to the product you wanted. If you convince more consumers to do the same (like you are) big brands will loose money and change. That's capitalism.

The best term I can come up with to describe the phenomenon you dislike is _modern consumerism_ (although not perfectly accurate). Many people now want more new stuff cheaper. That's what drives companies to produce things more cheaply.

rPlayer6554··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
As much as on paper they aren't the board's boss, based on how events turned out they effectively were. They had leverage over the board to get what they want.
rPlayer6554··on To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)
I do have a narrator in my head although it's usually a summary or description of Whats going on. Not a literal word for word read. I also have visualizations.
rPlayer6554··on We're ending our Samsung collaboration
Thank you for standing up to Samsung. I was extremely disappointed that A. Ifixit didn't have even charging ports in stock B. If they did they would be basically the same price as having someone replace it. C. All official and licensed repair spots must replace _all_ components if they even replace one. I have a cracked screen and don't care, but it would have driven the price up to 1/3 or 1/2 the cost of the device. I would have just bought a new one.

I ended up having to get it repaired at some sketch mall shop.

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