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Consider pair work (a generalization of pair programming): Spin up a VM for you and the candidate to SSH into. Start a shared screen/tmux session. Work on some sysadmin task(s) tog…

Good post. I've definitely experienced this, though a sub-form of it, namely my non-conformance to a sterotype of an ideology I am associated with. The example in TFA doesn't appea…

This sounds like a quasi-Gnosticism: the human body is lower and human rationality is higher; the lower as inhibiting the higher; the best for humans is to transcend their bodies b…

Apparent source code, though last update is January 1, 2025: https://fossil.turtleware.eu/wecl/timeline

> All photographs or videos you have seen have been placed there for you to see them. For those reading the above, wondering about this phenomenon, read Baudrilliard's The Gulf War…

Baudrilliard didn't assert that reality/facts never existed; he in fact asserted that prior to the 20th century, there was plenty of correlation between symbols and facts/reality. …

The other commenter mentioned "narrative", which is very relevant, because that is an important part of simulation (and your username) Baudrilliard was careful to point out that si…

The word "decentralized" has become synonymous with "cryptocurrency", especially those cryptocurrencies which promise they will decentralize things unrelated to money production (e…

The actual title of the acticle is "Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court". Contrary to the current title here on HN, Lander was not arrested for a…

Everytime news like this comes up, I'm never affected. I'm using uBlock Origin. Is there something unique about uBlock Origin? Are other adblockers easily noticed by YouTube? TFA m…

Roko's Basilisk has been replaced by Altman's Basilisk. Where once we feared a computer torturing a digital copy of us (Roko's Basilisk), we now fear a computer eliminating all our…

> The end result of that was that we had to significantly rearchitect the project for us to essentially inject manually crafted code into arbitrary places in the generated code. Th…

The semi-colon symbol is the single-line comment symbol in Lisp, but the percent symbol means nothing special in Lisp. SET-MACRO-CHARACTER is used to modify what happens when certa…

It would seem that iMessage is an endless treasure trove of exploits. Is there any technical reason for this? Are iPhones simply more common among the wealther/powerful/influential…

This seems spot on to me. It shows how some performers of popular music can be in an echo chamber. There are worlds beyond Rihanna, the Beatles, and Rascal Flats; there is more tha…

A lot of the cost per calorie is in preparation; if you can cook your own meals, you can reduce your cost per calorie signficantly. The problem is a lot of people don't have the ti…

It appears to not have been enabled by default on my instance of uBlock; it seems a specific filter list is used to implement this [0]; that filter was un-checked; I have no idea w…

The title should say "government-employed scientists", because this order has nothing to do with scientists employed by universities or by corporations. The order is concerning, bu…

I've asserted elsewhere that LLMs are glorified chatbots. One of the comments in TFA mentions the classic chatbot, ELIZA, so it's nice to see someone else come to a similar conclus…

It would probably depend on the Scheme/Lisp implementation and how it was secured. If it used a Scheme implementation like in Halo:CE, then people would have justifiably hated it. …

How exactly would China wage war with the US (besides nukes)? They don't have the means to send a meaningful amount of troops to US soil, and that's without the US Navy intervening…

Abuses like this will not be ended, because it is far too useful to both sides of the political spectrum. The Right gets to police abortion nation-wide, while the Left can use it t…

As governments frequently say: if you have nothing to hide (e.g. intent to commit a crime), then you have no need for privacy; and no need means no right. But they also say that th…

It looks pretty convincing; it renders wrinkles, hair, and shadows well; I think it could prove useful as a tool for CGI in movies/TV/YouTube; or actors can license their likeness …

> doing this without pay No, you got paid in vibes. Never. Accept. Vibes. Vibes are for losers. Refuse to be treated like a loser. Reject vibes; demand money. It is always a mistak…