Really thought provoking piece. There is a tendency in tech forward culture to glorify altered states as something worth finding and trying. To know something new is to gain. Huffing, particularly gasoline huffing, is an area I only know through humerus Always Sunny bits, never really contemplating the very real addiction and psychotic damage it causes. Im blessed to be insulated and unaware of what sounds like a painful problem in parts of the world. I think what hit me the most is the impact of reading a single book in highschool. On the early internet I hunted for and read any esoterica I could find. Secrets hidden in secrets, a gnostic cult of my own creation. It was fun, thrilling, to find a new blog to read about experiences I only could hope were truthful. Erowid filled that treasure for me in real ways. I don't know what to make of the negative impact a book and the right conditons made on the author. As my children get older I hope I can balance their desire to learn and self discover with safety. I learned more about what I don't know or understand in reading this. Powerful piece and a great share.
There was a time that Eclipse was my preferred editor. It was free and it gave cool sexy features that all the cool kids who could afford Visual Studio had, and it worked on Linux!
Nowadays I'm basically a Neovim purist, but I have positive memories of it. I'm kind of afraid to revisit it at this point, though, since everyone hates on it and I suspect I wouldn't like it as much.
Did you consider IntelliJ, even just the community edition?
If not you really should. IntelliJ with Java is one of the best dev experiences I've ever had. I'm a VSCode fan for most other things but for Java I wouldn't even remotely consider using it over IntelliJ if I had the option :-)
The most maddening part about this experience is the helplessness. Its inconvenient, sure. Ive been late because of traffic, etc. Being carried along well beyond my will without a breakglass: Fine, I'll just walk! option makes my skin crawl.
Events like this seem to only be explained by accountability sink[0]. Naming it gives me some brief sense of sanity.
I appreciate that there is a safety concern; where's the humanity in large systems, especially as we trend towards more automation?
from an adversarial / defensive position: the model weights and training data were groomed and known; therefore, the output is potentially predictable. this could be an advantage to the nationstate above the corpo
And for any US model from an US perspective. Why is assumed that states are aligned with them self like some sort of CivIII player being coherent and self contained...
Sprint was a technological wrong turn. They invested in the next generation platform on multiple occasions. Billions $ into WiMAX left them with a nonpractical and expensive footprint and no mid term speed benefits to really show. Then, after wanting to keep original CDMA infrastructure, they went LTE/GSM anyway. This period meant multiple modems and lower battery life. It was over with no great options.
I think in this regard the government could have basically reallocated spectrum to be roughly equal among the big four and financially it would be a bankruptcy situation.
For Mullvad you can buy gift cards as well. Even if you pay for those with a credit card, there's no link between the payment and the contents of the gift card.
I dislike the phrasing here. The proper design of a warrant canary is to actively publish new messages on some time period. No one should have actively pulled the canary, they just didn't publish a new message.
This distinction, from my understanding, is important for legal reasons.
