paulv

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Sysadmin for the Software Freedom Conservancy.

My comments do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.

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Comment · 12 days ago
I am seeing the same thing in the beta app (159.0b4) on an identical device. The sites are blocked correctly in Chrome.
Comment · 1 month ago
It depends what the mural was of? If it was a pro KKK mural I would object. If it was some of the pictures in the article, that would be pretty sweet. If it was some of the other murals I've seen, I would be thrilled.
Comment · 2 months ago
Exactly.

When doctors make mistakes, they can be held accountable -- their malpractice insurance rates go up, their licenses are subject to suspension or revocation, they can go to jail (eg if they are pill mills) or they/the practice get a bad review.

When AI makes mistakes, what happens? How is it held accountable?

Comment · 2 months ago
I think the thought is that if they kill one guy who didn't vote for them, the rest of the guys who didn't vote for them will fall in line. They'd rather waste a bullet than lose institutional knowledge.
Comment · 3 months ago
It has been a known bug class for quite some time.
Comment · 7 months ago
Jurors?
Comment · 7 months ago
I'm saying that words have meanings and that it's important to be clear about what they are.
Comment · 7 months ago
> that a majority voted for

A majority of people who voted. Not a majority of eligible voters and certainly not a majority.

Comment · 11 months ago
I was a happy perl user for a long time, probably until sometime in the early 2010s. I am a sysadmin and perl was a great tool for what I needed to do.

Jim Weirich was a heavy perl user for a long time, and we were both involved in the Cincinnati perl mongers group. He found ruby and fell in love. He thought Ruby would be a good fit for me and we had a long conversation about why he preferred it to perl. It took me a few years, but I eventually took his advice. As usual, Jim was right, and I haven't written any perl since then.

tl;dr: for me, ruby killed perl.

Comment · 1 year ago
> No Effect from Legalization: The rate of drivers who tested positive for THC did not change significantly before or after legalization (42.1% vs. 45.2%), indicating that legal status did not influence the behavior of those who chose to drive after use.

Ohio recently passed a marijuana decriminalization bill.

Comment · 1 year ago
Did you get the data in the db from telcodata.us?
Comment · 1 year ago
> Ask me how I know.

What problems did you have that made you want to roll back the update?

Comment · 1 year ago
The default configuration for tmpfs is to "only" use 50% of physical ram, which still isn't great, but it's something.
Comment · 1 year ago
My experience as a long time Linux user (since 1997, so admittedly stuck with some bad habits from when things were actually hard to get working) has been that things are kind of confusing if you deviate from the golden path, but if you are on the golden path you won't ever notice that it is turned on.

The laptops I have gotten from eg Dell with Linux pre installed have just worked. Machines I have upgraded through many versions of Ubuntu (lts versions of 16-24) were weirdly broken for a while when I first turned secure boot on while I figured it out, but that seemed reasonable for such a pathological case. Machines I have installed Debian on in the last few years have been fine, except for some problems when I was booting from a software raid array, but that is because I was using 2 identical drives and I kept getting them confused in the UEFI boot configuration.

I have not used them on machines with nvidia, vbox, or other out-of kernel-tree modules though.

Comment · 1 year ago
Wow, I thought for sure they would have retired it by now. I remember having a birthday party there when I was a kid (90 or 91?) and thinking that it was the coolest thing ever. It made up for them not moving the planetarium from their old location when they moved the museum to Union Terminal, which I (at 9) recall making me really sad.

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