dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
Extremely absurdly niche genres/mediums that you can't train an AI on because there's no prior art is my guess of where to look.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
Thankfully the pedo rings don't in fact exist. Hopefully Rightists will grow more comfortable in saying so. Epstein conspiracism is not only wrong on the facts, it's a pointless political dead-end.
I don't think you can conclude this.
It's a pointless political dead-end because it can't ever be adjudicated. At best you can say the epistemic commons are so poisoned on the issue that Epstein Files is now 9/11 Conspiracy is now JFK Conspiracy. No majority will believe any explanation, no matter how bipartisan the committee and how much evidence gets dumped.
In sumo, can steroids give you an edge? Does anyone do steroids? Any scandals?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1mo ago
Arguably the most luddite guy here busts out a PR to fix a minor site annoyance in a matter of hours. Incredible.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
voluptuous
I don't really know anything about her but I finally watched some of these ads. Goddamn. This is spot on. She's not like, supermodel hot but she does come across as extremely approachable and fun to be around which makes it 10/10.
My favorite one is this ASMR(!) version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g3jeFzrFllM?si=0H7zCswwtKLSLfPT
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
Since we talk about tattoos here from time to time I thought it would be amusing to link to the story about this man who has face tattoos is unable to pass the photo verification checks.
It's also implied that they didn't copy the data files from the DVR, but rather played them on their terminal and used a screen recorder app to create the video file that they ultimately used in what they distributed. Why? Probably they couldn't figure out how to access the raw data file.
So probably they began playing the first day, started recording, then it reached the end and they didn't notice for a few minutes so they just had black screen or desktop background at the end, which they had to trim off.
For the second day they could start and hit record it at the same time and could stop recording when they felt they had enough boring part after the commotion of finding his dead body was over.
This is consistent with my beliefs about how normies working in government would struggle with computers.
After I confronted her with the emails and transactions she agreed to go to a crisis counseling service. She now agreed to engage with a therapist / psychiatrist. She goes back tomorrow. She says she knew it was a scam but sent the money anyway because they were nice to her. I don't understand.
Forgive me for using a crude term but "pig butchering" is what this class of scam is called in the industry, if that helps you with your research. It's based on a Chinese term.
The scammers invest a lot of effort into making the victim feel good. They're often romantic in nature. For a lot of the victims the story that they're talking to a celebrity is just a foil for having an online friend. They know, on some level, that it's not really that celebrity they're talking to.
A lot of victims have some degree of mental illness but sometimes the victims are just lonely and engaging in some twisted variant of OnlyFans, paying for some kind of friendship.
The scammers can still be pretty ruthless though, switching to blackmail once the victim tries to end things. So she may be desperate not to lose contact with them.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
My father-in-law was a creative director on Madison Avenue. One of the Mad Men.
We were watching a vintage Axe commercial together, slow-mo shots of a model tossing her hair over a sleek sports car, music pulsing.
I asked him, “Why can't we run campaigns like this today?"
I'll never forget his answer. He closed his eyes, took a slow drag on a cigarette (even though he didn’t smoke), and whispered: "We can’t. We don’t know how to do it.”
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
I doubt anyone knows what the fuck they're talking about either way.
Raw footage doesn't need editing but they probably thought they needed to load it into Adobe Videoshop Pro to glob the recording from the 9th and the recording from the 10th together into a single file.
Afghanistan is not Gaza though. The entire population was relatively indifferent to us. They're also on the other side of the planet, not next door neighbors constantly threatening our security. The Taliban also offered to surrender OBL almost immediately after we invaded and they didn't take a bunch of US civilians as hostages.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
Somewhat tangentially, I can't find any evidence that anyone involved in prisons has ever been fired or disciplined for recording issues alone.
On the other hand, major Wall Street firms are routinely disciplined for record keeping failures even if there's no case of fraud or other misconduct being examined.
To me that means shitty record keeping in prisons is actually the norm while on Wall Street it's something firms are constantly anxious about fucking up.
My bias goes the other way I guess. I've seen so much shit fail at its one fucking job I'm hardly surprised anymore.
Thanks for the insight. I'm still cynical enough to believe this is what's advertised on the tin and not stuff that means any of it works well, especially when administered by the human capital involved in prisons.
The fact that it slams at the one minute around midnight is a strong Bayesian update towards system error.
Was there a specific use-case for the highly strict clock synchronization?
High frequency trading. A single trade goes through many computers. And the even stream can be a fire hose at times. It's helpful for corroboration if the logs all agree on the exact time. Helps you be less embarrassed when regulators ask questions.
Computer timekeeping has always been a personal nemesis (NTP sync errors, RTCs failing, random clock drift, time being an hour off randomly due to strange bugs, Windows and Linux not playing nicely on a dual-boot system even when I beg windows to use UTC, there are so many problems) so it’s interesting to read about how complex it is to keep clocks in sync.
It's pretty awful. For awhile a lot of computers had broken clocks too that weren't even possible to discipline. And you can have substantial drift if your computers use different time sources. And maybe your computers will keep your rigorous time but networked appliances won't give a shit.
Every big tech company tends to have a shared internal doc outlining The Way they've handled time that's usually a fascinating archeological adventure.
Now the one camera that was working has footage released from it only for it to be likely edited video that doesn't even provide a meaningful perspective even if it wasn't edited (so why is it changed and had parts removed? Was something incidentally caught on one of the cameras they didn't shut down?) and a full minute missing along with the other smaller possible cuts, a cut that was completely unmentioned in the inspector general's report but suddenly shows up now. With an excuse that the "missing minute" is a standard reset and the recordings aren't operating at that time yet it now appears to exist according to government leakers.
I don't have a dog in this fight but this doesn't unsettle me at all.
So. I had a job once that required keeping clocks in sync between all of the computers in a company. For servers we decided clocks could drift only one millisecond, but for desktops we allowed up to 100ms. This required modifications to Windows because Microsoft only imposed one minute clock discipline at the time (only improving on this policy after 2016, which is probably not early enough for whatever piece of shit the jail installed). That means Microsoft allowed Windows computers to be up to one minute off of the real time, which in practice meant any two computers could be almost two minutes apart in their timestamping (e,g, one was a minute slow and one was a minute fast).
You may think computers should be able to keep time without trouble, but nothing can be further from the truth. They suck at it, due to interesting physical properties[1]. They can be slow or fast, and it can vary over the course of the day. Sometimes the drift adds up to tens of minutes a day. Without any correction they drift and drift and could be days or weeks off from the actual current time. It's ugly. The way they correct for this is by coming up with a clever protocol that pings well known atomic clocks over the internet. Though modern solutions can also recruit GPS.[2]
Anyway, watching the time jump forward by a minute on a recording system doesn't strike me as that odd. Especially when it's around midnight, which is when people schedule automated tasks, like "stop writing to 2019-08-09.mov and start writing 2019-08-10.mov", to me this is not at all suspicious.
I don't know for a fact that this is what happened, of course. And I certainly don't know how jailhouse surveillance systems work. But I have had to explain in legal matters why recordings in networked computer systems can have such variation in timestamps. People crinkle their eyebrows when one networked system says this thing precedes this other thing, even though the event with the later timestamp caused the event with the earlier timestamp, use but it's generally the sad truth.
Anyway, I'm open to believing he was murdered. But you're going to have to wake me up when the missing minute is revealed and it shows masked people holding stun guns hopping over the railing. A one-ish minute forward jump in a recording at midnight just doesn't phase this systems engineer at all.
(I'm not going to evaluate the claim that the missing minute exists because anonymous sources may as well be epistemic status: complete fabrication at this point. But also I'd rather not try to imagine how incredibly stupid a jailhouse surveillance system could be)
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Basically, computers are made of metal and metal expands and contracts as it heats and cools. Since temperatures around computers and inside of them vary all of the time (especially based on workload) this causes its own internal timekeeping to drift from real time as the distance electricity has to travel varies based on temperature. This varies the number of cycles that happen per second.
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It's also not as easy as just check the atomic clock time and set your computer's time to that one. If you find your computer's time is too fast (minutes ahead of real time), you can't fix it by just slamming the clock backwards in time. That fucks a lot of applications up. So they come up with this thing called "slewing", which basically is an adjustment to the computer to count perceived ticks of a clock as less than whole ticks so it catches up. Some time keeping policies will also slew speedup adjustments if the clock is behind, but it's less destructive to application logic to make the clock jump forward, so you see that from time to time in logs as well. E.g. a one minute jump forward is safe, though it makes people crinkle eyebrows if it's in a timestamped video.
I read someone here talk about deepening capital the other week and it created this mantra in my head: regard females, deepen capital.
The regard females part isn't very actionable since I think I've maxed that out, but the deepen capital part is.
So I've been on this rampage of cleaning my property and fixing stuff and thinking of renovations to do. Maybe even considering getting a mortgage to buy another house and seeing if I can exploit some tax advantages and maybe landlord maxx my current place.
It's borderline obsessing. Just gonna try scaling back to cleaning and doing maintenance until this little bout of entrepreneurial(?) zeal passes.
I'm rather astonished how many incentives the government gives you. Subsidized mortgages, deductible interest, depreciation of rental properties even if they're actually appreciating in the market, no capital gains taxes on flipping your primary. What in the world. Kind of silly not to be in this game with at least one property.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
Yes this is indeed actually more plausible.
I still prefer my version because it's clear to me I would even be willing to annihilate very white Canadians if they supported something like a 10/07 on America.
The fact that Palestinians are full of jihadis makes them repulsive to me but the basis of my indifference is game theory.
Whenever I try to figure out how mad I should be about this I do my best to translate it to a local Western frame.
If Canadian native peoples crossed the border, raped and murdered a bunch of US civilians at Burning Man, dragged hostages back to Vancouver and the Canadian government was like "lol get fukt America u r settler colonialists" I would absolutely support blowing the shit out of them until every native was dead or captured and every hostage was returned. If every Canadian starves to death as a result, well that sucks but they should consider revolting against their own government if they have a problem with that.
We're responsible for our people and I will be furious if we fuck around at all with bringing them home.
Looking at it this way makes me sympathize with Israel so much more.
hahaha welcome to imposter syndrome sucker!
but no really, overindexing on all of the ways you think you suck and how crazy your brain is is generally a sign of intelligence and competence
not that you'll believe any of this
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
when @JTarrou writes
But IQ is a very limited test, and it predicts only one thing. The capacity for academic achievement. It does not predict talent, ambition, honesty, decency, morality, high income or high achievement in general. In fact, the true IQ test can only be given to small children, because it's a relative predictor of how they might do in school in the future, nothing else. Higher IQ scores mean essentially "learns academic stuff faster".
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So if black people have lower average IQ scores, and IQ scores college aptitude, and we're discriminating based on college degrees........I think we can locate rather precisely where the systemic racism is happening.
I think he's saying college degrees are not a signal for merit. The fact that our society reorganized itself to require a college degree, and that black people have a harder time getting college degrees is a sign of real systemic racism at work and leftists are to blame because they eat college degree credentialism shit up.
It's a provocative claim because it's both embracing race-IQ but also dismissing IQ as not that solid a predictor. Therefore I'm asking if he'd be okay with actually just giving degrees out with participation trophy energy.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
the way I parse JTarrou's argument, the degree is already not good for anything that useful
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
Tangentially, addressing your argument, absent doing away with gatekeeping good careers behind college degrees entirely, shouldn't a more moral society water down college degrees so that black people can get them just as easily as anyone else?
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2mo ago
My take is that competent people still exist, and there may be more of them than ever, but they've been pulled into niche industries where they can make much bigger salaries, leaving the dum dums to fill jobs in government and more mundane industries.
You should learn how to buy the freeze-dried peptides directly from gray market sources and constitute them yourself in vials with bacteriostatic water and use an insulin syringe to inject it. There are Telegram groups where people get together and test the gray market sources, usually organized by the gray market source itself.
Most cost-effective: this comes to about $60/month if you buy a one year supply of the drug and related materials.
Most practical: because you can just get everything delivered and don't need to manage a prescription via a doctor, though it takes a bit of research. It's not as idiot-proof though so you could mis-dose yourself, but if you're sane and can do basic math and trust a friend to double-check your work you should be 100% fine.
If you don't have a diabetes diagnosis but can convince your doctor to write you a prescription for it anyway (since it is approved for weight loss as "Wegovy"), you can expect to pay about $350-500/month by buying it ("Zepbound") from Eli Lily direct. You still have to fill and inject yourself with syringes though.
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