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  • I was influenced greatly by Robert Axelrod's short essay about the Prisoner's Dilemma titled "The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation" (link PDF warning)

    tl;dr The essay explores an iterative game of Prisoner's Dilemma, and demonstrates how cooperation can emerge from a group of self interested participants. It has implications for the statistical emergence of morality, and even remarks on politics.

  • All of the wine being discussed in this thread comes from the blue counties just north of San Francisco.

    Harris won Sonoma county 72% to 25% Trump

    Harris won Napa county 64% to 33% Trump

    Source

    California as a whole voted for Harris 58% to 38% Trump. The wine producing counties actually voted more blue than the average in a DEEP blue state.

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  • Luddites.

    AI might not be producing the best content, and it will change the nature of how humans work (or don't), in good and (many) bad ways. But every culture which has resisted the inexorable march of technology has lost in convincing fashion.

    I may not like it, but the current gen of AI is one tiny fraction of a step in a direction which cannot be stopped. Instead of fearing the machines we need to figure out how to best use them.

    Reduce the natural resource consumption, and put the thinking rocks to work so humans can focus on what's valuable and important to us. If people are freaking out that their memes aren't drawn by hand, they'd probably be better served by not wasting their time on memes at all.

  • This is being coordinated and cheered on by users on enormous online platforms. If there was one or two fires in a single city or even state then I'd agree the FBI probably wouldn't even take a look.

    However given the very public and national nature of these targeted events, they're going to have a plausible excuse to investigate this as domestic terrorism.

    I'm not endorsing the FBI, or calling this terrorism, just stating how it's being handled by law enforcement.

    That said, folks should know that even a small platform like Lemmy is crawling with glowies, be careful.

  • Morning: Work out, shower, coffee, protein shake, make breakfast for my wife, hop on the laptop.

    Night: Cook dinner, kiss my wife when she gets home. Hit a few golf balls on the simulator. Watch an episode from an anime series if there's something new. Maybe have a cocktail with the neighbor.

    Shower, scroll for about 30 minutes, sleep.

    I feel very lucky, and try not to take each day for granted.

  • it is the unluckiest day of the year

    Today is the day that my local area shut down for COVID in 2020. I live near the ocean, the beach was closed, the golf courses were closed, the stores had cops out front stopping looting. It was wild.

  • The third one is definitely rooted in coastal Southern California, but has tinges of other accents. As you pointed out, this accent could be from anywhere in the US as the sound has propogated via popular media.

    As a native Los Angelino it sounds to me like a guy in Northern California or maybe PNW who spent a lot of time on the east coast.

    It's different enough from the beachy LA or Orange County sound for me to pick out that there's some other influence there.

  • I'm following for responses here, great questions!

    I don't know much about the security of running those services relative to each other, but I have some practical experience.

    I ran sshd for decades, and pushed a local socks tunnel through it to emulate VPN. I initially chose this route because it worked on all desktop OS and Android without needing to figure out all of the client VPN software, and I already had SSH everywhere.

    In the last couple of years Wireguard became natively available on my network equipment (UniFi Ubiquiti) so I moved all of my client devices over and closed down the external SSH port. I connect to it using IP, but use Syncthing to keep my host IP updated in case it changes, which has happened exactly once in the last 7 years (I used this mechanism when I was running ssh as well). I've been very happy.

    Performance relative to socks over SSH is better. Client resource usage is lower (mainly looking at battery life), so much so that all my client devices (even mobile phones) run Wireguard always turned on. Fewer networks block Wireguard than SSH (I used to have to run ssh over DNS ports with other trickery to get around hotel and airplane wifi restrictions).

    I now carry a small wifi router in my travel kit that bridges/clones connections to public wifi and runs Wireguard natively so every device I care about can just jump on that while I'm traveling. I only have to connect it to public wifi and no longer have to mess with the rest of my devices. I can even run Chromecast and stream media from my home while connected to a hotel TV. It's all very seamless.

  • Thank you, I'm one of these people, as are most of the folks I know. I'll eat maybe a couple of teaspoons of honey per year, tops. And I cook 3 meals a day at home, from scratch, every day.

    Honey is great, I love bees, but I don't actually eat much honey.

  • All you have to do is look at what happened to the conservative community. There was a post asking whether it was meant for trolling conservatives or for actual discussion, and the resounding answer was that no conversation was possible with conservatives or anyone who holds right of center views.

    There were a few lemmings who posted in support of allowing conservatives to have a place to chime in, and they were downvoted into oblivion.

    That's being bullied off of Lemmy, which is fine, communities are self organized and managed, and chasing away wrongthink is apparently what the vast majority of this platform wants.

    Again, all of that is fine, but we shouldn't pretend chasing those people off wasn't the intended outcome, or that this isn't an echo chamber.

  • I agree, but most Lemmings seem to be completely intolerant of right of center views. I've never seen any content in that community that's right of center without being downvoted into oblivion.

    If Lemmings just don't want other views here, that's fine, it just kind of sucks when all I get is an echo chamber.

  • Hard disagree. Try making a sauce which requires high heat, then very low heat. Turning the electric burner down doesn't immediately reduce heat, it cools off relatively slowly. I guess you could switch to another burner that was preheated to a low temp, assuming you have a free burner while cooking.

    I've worked for years in several professional kitchens and cook 3 meals a day, 7 days a week from scratch at home. I know how to use the tools in a kitchen, and non-induction electric burners are absolute garbage.