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  I'm going to be so mad if what finally kills the whiteboard coding interviews are LLMs.

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  I have had measles. Measles is terrible. You do not want measles. You do not want your kids to have measles. You do not want "natural immunity" from measles. Vaccinate your kids.

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  I'm generally of the view with "qualified immunity" that it needs to be outright abolished. But if you wanted a middle-ground option, you could make it an affirmative defense. What I mean is this: Require that, in front of a jury, the officer provides either a preponderance of evidence or clear and convincing evidence that it was within their discretionary authority, that they had reasonable fear, or whatever (enumerated) set of things. Define it in written law. Narrowly. Make t...

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  "Do not use argument X to attack/defend Y, it is a falsehood that falls into the trap of being 'short, quippy, and wrong'" "How dare you defend/attack Y." Do people not listen to themselves or do they just lack reading comprehension.

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  I often find that: Those that say "antifascist" in their bio will quickly bend to authoritarianism that agrees with them. Those that say "protect trans kids" in their bio will be virulently transmisogynistic when talking to trans women. Those that say "general strike now" in their bio won't have ever organized a bakesale (and often be anti-union on top of that). Not always, but often.

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  The idea behind this AP-like system I'm working on is that it is _multitenanted_ (technically multi-single tenant, but multitenanted for all external purposes). The idea is that you can have multiple groups operating on a single server. The server _may_ have an address of its own, but the individual tenants could have their own entirely separate domains. so: `social.example.com` could be a different tenant from `example.social` but both hosted on the same backend **server** and have...

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  The "born this way" identity framing had its plusses, but it also did irrevocable harm. In this essay I will…

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  Really this persistent need by dentists to frame it as "dental anxiety" or "dental phobia" annoys me. Because in a lot of cases it isn't "dental phobia," because a phobia is an irrational fear.

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  I had to tap out of #CityCouncilOfDarkness a while back on #Dimension20. I don't need things to be super serious or to be "teh grimdark" but I do need things to have some sort of internal logic, and the show just struggled to keep its own players in check. This was especially evident in Ally, who if a bit didn't work would just… keep trying the bit or a variation until it succeeded, and made their character "all bits, all the time." Like sur...

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  This remains one of my least favorite features of #ActivityPub. 1. It violates fundamental type safety principles. 2. "without authentication" means that it needs to be accessible to random people on the internet if read literally, and evidently changing this (along with "we should all require transport layer security") are controversial opinions in fediverse development. 3. Literally everything about that Note makes me die inside. 4. Yet another example of...

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  So it turned out that switching my LDN dose to the morning basically solved my problems with it.

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  For those who don't have a background in VtM, what happened in #CityCouncilOfDarkness's finale was a bit like if a D&D party that started at level 3, after 8 short sessions and maybe 2 levels, killed Vanathor with a fire bolt. Or maybe, for something more people would recognize but a little less 1:1, Vecna with a magic missile. That's the kind of inanity we're talking about. #Dimension20

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  Let's talk for a moment about what an actual actor model could look like in a protocol _like_ #ActivityPub. I've done variations on this thought experiment before, but I find it useful to revisit. alice@servera wants to send a message to bob@serverb. So Alice (A) accesses her profile and pulls a reference to an outbox actor (Ref{O}). She send the message (M) to this outbox: A -M-> O With me so far? The Outbox actor does Something™, it doesn't matter what, but...

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  Picked up a new gaming laptop. Went to play ONI. Realized I had stellaris and kind of had an itch to play it again. I'm doomed, aren't I.

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  Gods this AI written code is going to take me as long to clean up as it would have to just write it in the first place.

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  Describing Perlesvaus as the "least canonical" of the Arthurian stories is kind of laughable given how _none_ of Arthuriana is canon.

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  It's always fun to talk to a new dentist about my PTSD from offices. "Oh, and I had several cavities drilled without any numbing" Dentist: O_O Dentist: "None at all?" Me: "Yep. I've also had several more where it wore off before they were finished."

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  Example of a ship of theseus argument: "Why are you [defending] a [pedophile]" [Defending] = "[enjoying] the [work] of" [enjoying] = "not having an extremely negative opinion of" [work] = "one piece of media" [pedophile] = "[groomer]" [groomer] = "[person who was accused of being a groomer]" [person who was accused of being a groomer] = "person who was accused of being a groomer by someone who later retracted the [accusation...

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  Woman: "AI cannot save you from upper division math classes. It just stops working." A bizarre chorus of men online: "BUT BUT BUT" "NUH HUH THERE'S AN ADVANCED MATH BENCHMARK" (okay?) "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND LLMs" (I do, try me) "IT SOLVED THE ERDOS PROBLEMS" (I know what you are referring to and you have basically demonstrated that you never heard of what problem was solved before the AI solution, but that aside…) "I HAVE A (no...

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  RE: https://kolektiva.social/@julieofthespirits/116417142194964733 I need you to understand how different the response has been from every man I've seen talk about this versus every woman.

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/116551872476539781 I love my hardware security key _at work_. Why? Because all of the failure modes are things where my job has decided the tradeoffs are worth it, so if I lose my key or if it breaks I call and get another one by either the end of the day or the next day. They also issue me two, one of which can live in my laptop and is bound to that device, and if I ever don't have both of them but need to log in I have myriad options that involve t...

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  I have questions about this "primary language" list on a medical intake form.

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  A trend that happened in industry around ten-ish years ago is extremely instructive for what we see again and again is the rise of NoSQL and Shadow IT. See, at a lot of companies it got to the point where databases were Hard™. There were a lot of rules around them, schemas were difficult to manage, and specialists were required to make sure your performance was not terrible. What wasn't controlled by these factors got ruled by magical thinking, a kind of mythology where "when...

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  #RegretRate for various surgeries: * Knee surgery: 22% total regret, 2.9% even without complications http://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-3041-y * Back surgery: 21% in older adults http://doi.org/10.1097/BRS.0000000000004287 * Regret of having children: varies by study, but usually in the 10-20% range http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254163 * Breast reconstruction after a mastectomy: 19.5% moderate to strong regret http://doi.org/10.1080/14768320601124899 * #GenderAffirmationSurgery: &amp...

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  Your irregular reminder that in the Arthurian stories _men_ are the ones who are "too emotional," while women are considered the "cold and rational" ones.

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  Me: "Do X" AI: "Okay! Here's my plan for doing X" Me: "LGTM" AI: "Okay! Done!" Me: <perusing the code> Me, to myself: Okay, skeleton is okay. Just a few things that I need to yell at it about. Okay that's weird who DOES that? Fixed. Hrm. This would be easier if knew the language it was doing this in… Me: … Me to AI: "There's a TODO to do all of the actual logic for what I...

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  There's a phenomenon I've seen that is peculiar to leftists. Thinking that ICE is the same as the military. I rarely see this conflation among non-leftists. But a lot of leftists can't seem to figure out the difference. These are very, very different entities. They have different rules of engagement, they have different histories, they have different policies. You can be against both. That's fine. You can think the way we are using both is bad. That's...

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  Really the Ada language should get more love.

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  The ProPublica guild is asking for a boycott, so boycott away! https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gj8gnP/ #UnionStrong #CWAstrong

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  "There's no evidence to support the use of [Experimental Treatment] on [Poorly Understood Illness]" Key question: Has it _been_ studied, or is this "no one has bothered looking?" This is one of those things that drives me nuts. It's one of the core problems with a lot of doctors, who prioritize Nonmaleficence over the other three pillars of bioethics (Beneficence, Autonomy, Justice).