1. vippy Apr 21, 2025 parent

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this right here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2. vippy Jan 17, 2025 parent

   ok but where are the vods?
3. vippy Apr 5, 2024 parent

   Dude's English is solid for a shut-in. Wonder if he studies online. Fun game idea, though. Basically Home Alone.
4. vippy Oct 20, 2023 parent

   As a civic technologist currently contracting, I feel like more Americans should know that procurement rules all but prevent federal offices from doing their own software development and that most of it is, as you wrote, subsubsubcontracted.
5. vippy Sep 21, 2023 parent

   CNLabelContactRelationAbsolutelyNothingWhichIsWhatYouAreAboutToBecome
6. vippy Sep 8, 2023 parent

   re: the Nahuatl origin of chocolate, my money is obviously on xocolatl.
7. vippy Sep 4, 2023 parent

   Then don't
8. vippy Aug 19, 2023 parent

   Whoa, nearly 70% on my first try! https://imgur.com/a/6ZmDqXU
9. vippy Jul 27, 2023 parent

   It took me a while to grok monads, and the IO monad, and longer still to figure out how to compose them in safe ways, and manipulate execution order, etc. But: now I can write typesafe applications, and I produce fewer bugs when I work in non-FP languages (I get paid to write Java.) Lisp is a starting point. Haskell is where it's at. I recommend learning the style, even if you never produce production code in it.
10. vippy Jul 12, 2023 parent

    That is, indeed, an observed phenomenon. I work in human behavior in Washington, D.C., in a position where I am paid to think about the causes of harassment, discrimination, and violence, and how we, if we believe it is valuable or necessary to reduce these behaviors, how they come into existence, arrange human affairs such that their costs are minimized. I am not some random left-wing hack for whom fascism is anything to the right of Stalin. Musk is definitely on the fascist spectrum.
11. vippy Jul 12, 2023 parent

    Слава Україні, орк.
12. vippy Jul 12, 2023 parent

    The 10 kids while repping on his $44 billion dollar Titanic transphobes, homophobes, etc. I'm not talking about fascism as in "kill all of the people of a certain ethnic group," but there are, if you're in the study of ideology, politics, moral epistemology, etc., smaller, lower-case fascisms before people start calling you "Fuhrer." There is something in Elon's behavior and signaled preferences that very much comes across as a bio-Darwinistic, egoistic, self-maximizing project, e.g. a fascism.
13. vippy Jul 12, 2023 parent

    Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near this. Musk had the world beating a path to his door, until he outed himself as a petulant man-child and a fascist.
14. vippy Jun 7, 2023 parent

    I don't expect anything but anti-government propaganda from Reason.
15. vippy May 25, 2023 parent

    Define "fix." Twitter is a tool used by extremists to reach massive audiences. Some of those extremists have socially destructive and violent objectives. Responding to harassment and hate speech involves understanding the psychology of harassers and racists so that incentives can be designed not to reward those behaviors. IMO, "fixing" Twitter isn't just about fail whales and 500 errors.
16. vippy May 25, 2023 parent

    That wasn't precisely by choice though, IIRC.
17. vippy May 25, 2023 parent

    This is the George Hotz MO: I trust him to create a lot less than I trust him to optimize, and I trust him with optimization only in a very narrow technical sense. "Optimizing" Twitter by reducing headcount to 50, regardless of the social or revenue consequences, is actually stupid. Optimizing a whole mess of software that exists between your tensor and the hardware is a decent idea.
18. vippy May 25, 2023 parent

    The math isn't super difficult. Some books will try to throw a mess of differential equations at you, but some simple calculus is all you need for backpropagation.
19. vippy May 25, 2023 parent

    George Hotz is a talented engineer but he absolutely does not have the social science background to "fix" Twitter.
20. vippy May 19, 2023 parent

    It is painfully clear that Musk isn't the brains of the operation, but the showman.
21. vippy May 16, 2023 parent

    The government isn't helping yet. Nor should it.
22. vippy May 16, 2023 parent

    I think that's the point.
23. vippy May 11, 2023 parent

    Came to say this. The point seems not to be give an "all sides showing" but specifically to remove language that's designed to trigger our subcortical response systems.
24. vippy Apr 15, 2023 parent

    What's up with all of these 18 feudal builds?? And to Hell with the Portuguese fast castle, organ gun OP on arena.
25. vippy Apr 15, 2023 parent

    ok, but who but TheViper or DauT has this issue? ಠ_ಠ (As a Japanese main, nerf Aztecs.)
26. vippy Mar 6, 2023 parent

    To the degree these "solutions" (in all their varying degrees of effectiveness) did not solve the problem they intended and caused new harms, then yeah, those values and mechanisms of social control are bad.
27. vippy Feb 27, 2023 parent

    TTS at GSA: https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov (Yes, we got Vim listed on a government website: https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov/tools/text-editors/)
28. vippy Feb 9, 2023 parent

    Ok, hi! My name is Boxxy...

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