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New comment by i_am_nomad in "Cohere: The world’s most powerful NLP toolkit"

i_am_nomad — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:51:36 +0000

I’ve worked with some truly excellent people who came from Theranos.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Cohere: The world’s most powerful NLP toolkit"

i_am_nomad — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:36:19 +0000

Gebru.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier"

i_am_nomad — Sat, 09 May 2020 21:24:25 +0000

I’ve never read that quotation, that’s amazing. Thanks for sharing it.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects"

i_am_nomad — Sat, 09 May 2020 19:44:01 +0000

I can still remember, on an evening back in the 1980s, newscaster Gerrick Utley commenting on “this particularly slow news day.” Even as a dumb kid, I understood that to be a good thing. But I couldn’t have guessed how much I’d pine for another one like it the way I do now.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security"

i_am_nomad — Thu, 07 May 2020 16:12:10 +0000

Part of the issue here is that the military establishment and its peripheral industries in the US are so enormous, that most people who aren’t in the military are close to someone who is, or who does business with it. We’re all already in the Army, basically.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Xiaomi Recording ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use"

i_am_nomad — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:58:21 +0000

Maybe I should qualify that with, “outside of China.” If you’re using Apple phones in China, you should assume your data are available to the CCP.

Otherwise, I have yet to see any evidence or indication that Apple collects data in a manner similar to what’s described in this article.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Xiaomi Recording ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use"

i_am_nomad — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:40:19 +0000

Many comments here boil down to “if you want privacy, buy an iPhone.” While true, this is another exhibit of privacy now being only for people who can afford it.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Amazon AppFlow"

i_am_nomad — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:26:05 +0000

I’m not so sure about that - Zapier has a number of use cases that are completely unrelated to AWS.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees"

i_am_nomad — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:58:11 +0000

Fundamentally, your retort to the parent’s (poorly expressed and now dead) reply is sound, though I believe they might have been circling the concept of negative vs. positive rights. It’s an interesting topic and one worthy of debate, though sadly that debate has become fraught with emotion and passion, to the point that it’s on a level with abortion - it just can’t be discussed in most circles.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs"

i_am_nomad — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 03:00:09 +0000

Agreed, SSH-based remote development could certainly be smoother. But I love the way PyCharm uses pydev to run a Remote Debugging Server - that works for most remote-development use cases I encounter. Once you get it set up and a run configuration working, it’s a joy.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "You can’t prove I meant X"

i_am_nomad — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:52:55 +0000

So we agree that mean and racist tropes are bad and should be shunned. I’m glad to hear it.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "You can’t prove I meant X"

i_am_nomad — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:42:08 +0000

I perceive the "It's okay to be white" slogan as a very moderate and constructive reaction to the propagation and even normalization of anti-white messages and memes. And I specifically mean anti-white as an ethnic hatred, not as part of an equality and justice argument. For example, see the "Karen" meme, which besides its horrible sexism, specifically focuses on white women.

Middle-class white people have increasingly witnessed a media and a left-wing political coalition that can vilify them with impunity for gain, be that entertainment value or the easy political cohesion that hate can generate. So, I'd argue it's important to make room for and accept the very tepid and nonthreatening "It's okay to be white." Because if we don't, what follows that will be less palatable.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Ticketmaster changes policy, no longer offering refunds on postponed shows"

i_am_nomad — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:57:49 +0000

That’s always going to be a WIP. If artists want to cut out Ticketmaster, they already can, and sometimes do. Ticketmaster exists solely because artists want to charge lots of money but maintain a warm relationship with their fans.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages"

i_am_nomad — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:27:36 +0000

Another suggestion: eat seitan, if you can. It’s basically wheat gluten, made into dough and baked like bread, but it has a meatloaf-like texture. Add in spices and nutritional yeast or grated Parmesan, and it’s delicious.

On top of that, powdered wheat gluten has never been cheaper, probably because it’s now an unwanted by-product of so much gluten-free baked goods and pasta. You can find it online for about $4/pound.

http://vegweb.com/recipes/baked-seitan-best-meaty-texture-ev...

New comment by i_am_nomad in "3D printable necessities for life during a pandemic (Prusa contest)"

i_am_nomad — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 15:59:53 +0000

I nominate this: https://github.com/maduce/fosscad-repo/tree/master/Firearms/...

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve"

i_am_nomad — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:20:02 +0000

Except the company isn’t named anywhere, as far as I can tell. So at the moment it’s not any kind of PR.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Fancy honey might not actually be honey"

i_am_nomad — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 19:03:59 +0000

That the Wal-Mart sample wasn’t adulterated isn’t surprising at all. Wal-Mart is notoriously bossy and intrusive to its suppliers; it’s sometimes said that if you sell to Wal-Mart, they end up knowing your business better than you do.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Twitter – “we are strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home”"

i_am_nomad — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 01:32:48 +0000

Eh, you should meet some of my coworkers.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "Update on grade strike"

i_am_nomad — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 14:44:52 +0000

I don’t think those people had a binary choice between starving and a Ph.D. program.

New comment by i_am_nomad in "The Three Questions: Culture Biosciences"

i_am_nomad — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 04:24:19 +0000

The story of how AWS started is a common misconception. Yes, it began with S3, but it’s just not true that Amazon externalized its internal application hosting technology.