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I adjust my speech patterns based on the audience. I've done it since I was a kid. Different groups of friends speak differently and convergence ensured I wouldn't stick out as weird. It wasn't an entirely conscious decision but I've always been fully aware of it. This seems similar although more pronounced and I didn't use accents.

This.

I have written a number of documents recently that are AI assisted but definitely my own work. I use the LLM to help me cross reference topics, clean up some of the language, improve the flow and prepare for the potential follow-up discussions but the arguments and recommendations are still mine. Is this AI or not?

Side note: I just prepared a recommendation for an org change and had the AI argue against it, as well as provide responses. Some were good and some were weak but it was extremely useful and quite fun.

Hold on there bud, please don't speak for all of us. I'm quite confident that I and most people, even some other men, do not share your risk profile. I prefer to just be a decent person.

Very well stated. It's not that we have to or need to conduct ourselves like we're being watched, we should just be decent human beings because we should be. I don't have to worry about the sexist or racist or bigoted emails or jokes I've sent coming back to me for one simple reason: I'm not a sexist, a racist or a bigot. That shouldn't be a hard box for most people to check. At least, it shouldn't be.

I have a "greenfield" scenario I ask SRE candidates. I give them unlimited time, resources and money to build whatever systems they want to ensure that code is production ready before it goes to prod. The only constraint is that they will be the only person who ever has a pager, 24x7x365. Tell me how you make that work with high confidence that your life won't be ruined. It's not verbatim but that's the gist. So many paths to explore and I think it does a great job of leveling people.

Thank you. This was a great morning lul

How does it compare to Trufflehog?

While I wouldn't pay for YT either, they do have serious infrastructure costs so it's not quite as you describe.

General usability. DataDog is intuitive and easy. Grafana is rough and requires a solid understanding of statistics and data analytics. The bar for using it is pretty high, so most engineers I know push it to someone else, which means there's one team doing the toil and working on creating simpler abstractions to hide the complexity.

Technically suicide is a crime and shooting yourself with a gun is a violent act, so... Seems about right

What you're saying, in the specific and the broad sense (beyond the scope of this conversation) is controversial. You're making a very bold claim. Can you share the data? Collective mental health across a single geography would be a fascinating read.

Again, let's pretend you're right. How do you bar someone from buying a gun because of mental health issues that are undiagnosed? Do we do a psych eval as part of purchasing a firearm? There's no part of common sense that allowed your local community to strip guns from you because then you'd be breaking a law by trying to steal from somebody and you'd probably get shot. We are talking about people with mental health issues that, in this scenario, have violent tendencies. I honestly see any way that declaring a mental health state of emergency can actually do anything to stop mass shootings unless it's also paired with stopping fun sales, strict red flag laws and legal confiscation of existing weapons.

Happy to hear an implementation plan that isn't just thoughts and prayers. Abbot (R, TX) says he's all in on mental health now, so let's see what that piece of sh comes up with.

Sorry, I thought we were talking about mass shootings.

I'm confident it's white men with a history of misogyny and access to guns. The data supports that too. We love screaming about the one offs but that's smoke and mirrors.

Don't forget to view the trend lines. Don't go any place where they're headed up.

Checks data... that means... No to America.

It may not be common but it is becoming more regular. You like those odds?

I wouldn't immigrate here, especially if I wasn't white.

At some point we'll be saturated enough for that "Polite Society" we've been promised by being an "Armed Society" will kick in and we're all gonna feel pretty dumb. Any day now. Any day.

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Do you have evidence for that because psychologists disagree with you.

But let's pretend they don't. I'm all for universal mental health care. How does that help? What can we do to curtail gun violence, if we take the stance that it's a mental health issue? Evaluate everyone before letting them buy guns? Sold! Hell, I'll give mine back (after I've damaged them beyond use so no one can have them in the future).

We can play "Is it mental health?" all day but even if it is and we're going through a period of collective psychosis, I don't see how addressing mental health could ever really help here.

You didn't say if you have kids or not but as a parent, those worries are multiplied. There are lots of things we won't do because of the additional risk. The terrorists (white nationalists, red pills, etc) are winning.

Is that right?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gun-violen...

Sorry, clarifying questions: Are you saying Texas has more criminals? And would that apply to red states in general, as they have the most mass shootings?

I do a lot of negotiating on products like this. The most I've ever gotten was a shirt and some stickers for my kid. Definitely not enough to move the needle on $250k/year deals. I feel like I'm missing out!

I love how good DataDog is. It's a great product. Too expensive though. I love most of the people I've worked with at Grafana Cloud but it's a painful product. The price makes up for it though, so we use Grafana Cloud.

We may end up with something like signoz, when we have the cycles but the ROI is bad when I already have twice as much work as people and that barely more than KTLO.

You're making some pretty fun suppositions about my lifestyle choices. I do feel somewhat culpable for any acts of consumerism that I participate in, that harm others. I actively try and do the least harm. It's inescapable without living in a cave but I do what I can. I'm doing so, I spend my money in ways that encourage ethical sourcing and treatment of workers. I pay more for this because I think people deserve to be treated like people. So yes, there is some blame that we can all share in but without people like me, people who are willing to spend more to support ethical practices, there'd be more of it. I can only assume that you're basing your arguments on your own lifestyle and maybe you should feel some blame but that's up to you.

Now let's be honest, these things are not the same. By buying your apple devices and whatever clothing brands you opt into, are you doing it for the explicit purpose of harm? If so, you're a monster and you should probably be incarcerated. That's what child pornography is: explicitly supporting abuse of children. There's no ethical way to source child pornography. It's all criminal and consuming criminal material supports criminal activity. This is similar to how you and the dealer would be charged for things like dealing drugs (I'm not passing judgement, just statement of fact) or illegal weapons or trafficking in people. There's innocence to be had by any party and they're maybe equally guilty.

That is a false equivalence, unless you're saying that professional athletes are there under duress and that they are not choosing any long term side effects.

We're talking about paying for violence and abuse. By consuming the material, you are supporting the activity in a material way, thus creating an incentive for it to continue.

I don't have to research sentencing to feel that 4.5 years is out of line with the amount of victimization being discussed. What would you think was justified for someone who abused children for profit? Someone who forced kids to do lewd things, so they could sell photos of it? Is possessing the material different? Or do think causing lifelong harm to children, in general, is only worth a handful of years to the abuser? Is 1/25 of a life really the just outcome for an entire life in therapy? A lifetime of trust issues? What if one of those kids committed suicide because they couldn't cope? So 4.5 years, huh?

The US has plenty of examples of light sentencing. Rapists who get "time served" is common. Victim blaming is part of what we do. Serious crimes deserve serious punishment or the ROI on crime becomes worth it.

4.5 years for child abuse feels like a very short period of time. Multiply that by the volume and it feels laughable. Child pornography is not a victimless crime. These children were abused and the people who possess this material are party to it. How is 4.5 years "serious," considering the extent of the crime?

Privacy works by purchasing blocks of prepaid cards and issuing them on demand. So while your bank is linked to the card, the issues cards are not linked to your identity. With privacy, you can use any name and address you like and it will be validated. They use the card number, the CVV and the expiration as the only means of validation.

So this means I can say my name is Fake Customer and I live at 404 Main St, 95111 and it will validate just fine.

This is the same as if you purchased a prepaid visa gift card.

Hard to do with one time use cards that don't link back to a real name or address.

Most of them do though. You are much more likely to be murdered or raped (no need for the qualifier, by definition it's all forced) by a man you know.

How do we calculate the carbon emissions generated by all the discarded carbon emissions fields?

Might I propose a new header? Total-Emissions-from-Virtue-Signal-Headers

Surely that'll fix it!

I'm all for awareness but I cannot see this being anything other than pointless.

As a human driver who has navigated both Boston and SF, they're both equally terrible. Once you're in the middle of downtown for either city, you should abandon your car, your plans and hope. Just walk.