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One of the first ways I learned to meditate/access different states of mind was a technique described as "overload trance" (IIRC). The premise was, listen to a piece of music, focu…

Lmao not remotely. Their security is a joke. Axon's evidence system at least has concepts of security. Flock has had numerous high publicity security failures (see: Benn Jordan's w…

> they respond by refusing to work. That's a ~~problem~~ solution that, at this time, has no ~~solution~~ problem. If a police department reuses to accept accountability, and dig i…

This RFC (the concept behind it) has been in the works in one form or another since 2008 > The HTTP SEARCH method was first formally proposed in November 2008 within RFC 5323. > Be…

I find it really fascinating that you use the metaphor to GA of a senior dev sweeping all the cruft away into a single clean abstraction, is that my read/smell of TFA (as a laypers…

Did you mean hyperthermia? This whole thread sent me down a rabbit hole (I have several close folks afflicted by Lyme) and while at first glance hyperthermia might seem woo-ish, th…

Robot arms can have reproducible movement with error bars measured in double-digit microns. Where they lack is in the force feedback, and even then they have had huge strides.

I'd rather have a pristine repo (no .ds_store/.idea/etc) than a pristine .gitignore file.

I think you misunderstand the functionality. It doesn't ingnore the diff completely. it just replaces the full contents with "`Binary files differ" > Use -diff to completely hide t…

It also directs Github to automatically collapse those files to the "Show Diff" interface by default. I'd still call the contents of things like lockfiles, protobuf output, big JSO…

Super fun, got 70,250. Friends have always lightly ribbed me for having to go home and look up words i've used. Those remaining 100k words must be really obscure. One suggestion wo…

That sure is an interesting take from someone with "anarchist" in their username. IMHO corruption is any time you use power/influence/station in order to skew the normal well-behav…

Psychededics are unpredictable. We know the government looked into their use as thought- and behavior-manipulating tools (MKUltra) but the results proved too chaotic. You might get…

Drifting? I think it's there. basedpyright is awesome and super fast. Our latest services are all CI gated by type checking. Early in my career you'd hit so many dumb errors runnin…

According to Pew, almost 70% of teens report to have used LLMs/chatbots, and 30% use it daily. This is also over 6 months out of date, which feels like an eternity at the current r…

> > As a group, teenagers and young adults hate AI Anecdotally, I've observed a robust correlation between the cost/quality of the model, and attitude towards it. Most of the gener…

I think the analysis-space really needs to be divided into three groups: software, media (audio/video/image) generation/alteration, and everything else. Software - this tech is lud…

Are the datacenters that are being built not directly analogous? Even if the hardware in them is cooked after 5 years, the buildings, power, cooling, and fiber interconnects are st…

> What if the primary goal of the first AGI is to keep itself at the top? What if it's goal is to prevent any other AGI? Scary thought... is basically the premise of https://en.wik…

The younger devs have largely been the ones showing us old farts (eg millennials) how do to the really sophisticated stuff with claude - custom skills, plugins, tooling like opensp…

I think my company is a microcosm of the current state. The non-engineering side (HR, correspondence, marketing) are on the "forced adoption" side, giving out gift cards to folks u…

zionism != judaism

That's literally what OpenSpec does ( https://openspec.dev/ ). It's quite nice. I've only exceptionally rarely seen claude do something wrong based on spec docs when it's fully spe…

I agree with voidfunc. A lot of what police do could be offloaded to other occupations. A lot of needless deaths could be prevented if there were more rungs on the escalation ladde…

You might wanna check out https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Dunno if it's your exact use case but it's been amazing for keeping a polyrepo microservice ecosystem in sync.