hughesjj (u/hughesjj)

hughesjj commented on Let me pay for Firefox discourse.mozilla.org/t/l... · Posted by u/csmantle

Diti · 7 months ago

We all cannot afford job instability, with mortgages to pay.

hughesjj · 7 months ago

Also a lot of value add comes from corporations which produce things of complexity greater than the sum of their constituent parts.

If you already have a platform in use by the entire world, that matter of scale makes it much easier to find value adds more than a sole proprietor could ever dream of.

It's for these reasons I'm wary of talking about "value add" only being from the developers directly implementing a feature. Without support, IT, security, Product, HR, etc, I could not deliver that value add.

hughesjj commented on Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07... · Posted by u/zdw

notaustinpowers · 7 months ago

The current administration has already removed the requirement for federal police forces to wear body cameras. As well as made statements (but little action so far) to federalize the police force to be under the jurisdiction of the DOJ. Everything being recorded may not be the case very soon. Sorry, I’d get sources but I just woke up, I’ll edit this later with them.

hughesjj · 7 months ago

I mean, already at the local cop level "forgetting" to turn the body cam on or only releasing the video (at least, quickly) if it puts the officer in a positive light seems to be the norm

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/officers-body-camera-wen...

* https://www.nbcmiami.com/investigations/body-cameras-turned-...

* UK but it's the same discussion https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66809642

* https://www.wbrc.com/2025/07/12/coroner-completes-report-jab...

* https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/release-of-police-bodycam-...

hughesjj commented on Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07... · Posted by u/zdw

Aurornis · 7 months ago

> I dont want to worry about a white van pulling up in front of my house because I said something sarcastic online.

I find it fascinating that people will genuinely worry about this happening to them, despite it not happening, and then openly prefer a place they describe as “a lil dangerous” and “a degree of lawlessness”

This is the kind of thinking that happens when you build your entire worldview around exaggerated headlines and online fear mongering. When you go somewhere that isn’t in the headlines all of the time, you have to build your worldview around what you see and the vibes you sense instead of the fear mongering headlines. When a place described with words like dangerous and lawless starts to sound like the safer alternative than a country that is demonstrably safer, you’re probably getting too much of your information from internet sources designed to trigger your senses of fear and rage for engagement.

Every time there’s an anecdote with cognitive dissonance like this (describing the lawless, “lil dangerous” place as feeling safer) it comes down to getting perceptions of one community through vibes and the other community through news headlines. In this case, the description of the US as a technocratic police state where people get thrown into a white van for sarcastic online comments versus seeing some cops at a local bar one time.

hughesjj · 7 months ago

> I find it fascinating that people will genuinely worry about this happening to them, despite it not happening

I mean, the "white van pulling up in front of a house" is happening on the daily now [1], the current administration has claimed they can suspend habeus corpus [2], they pick up US citizens and legal immigrants in these things [3], and they allegedly deny entry because of political reasons the administration doesn't like [4] (+allegedly [5]).

I don't think the fear of getting disappeared by an administration is unfounded, nor do I think we need to see documented evidence of exactly that particular circumstance happening before we're allowed to worry about it.

I also think the "lil dangerous" part is ironic, given most of these "other" places aren't particularly dangerous, nor is the US particularly safe as-is. "lil dangerous" and "degree of lawlessness" are apt descriptions of the United States, and has been for my entire lifetime.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=masked+ice+raids&udm=2 [2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-is-habeas-corpus-... [3] https://abc7chicago.com/post/george-retes-disabled-vet-us-ci... [4] https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detainees-students-oz... [5] https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/18/australian-deported-o...

hughesjj commented on Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads timsh.org/tracking-myself... · Posted by u/apokryptein

qingcharles · a year ago

One big privacy issue is that there is no sane way to protect your contact details from being sold, regardless of what you do.

As soon as your cousin clicks "Yes, I would like to share the entire contents of my contacts with you" when they launch TikTok your name, phone number, email etc are all in the crowd.

And I buy this stuff. Every time I need customer service and I'm getting stonewalled I just go onto a marketplace, find an exec and buy their details for pennies and call them up on their cellphone. (this is usually successful, but can backfire badly -- CashApp terminated my account for this shenanigans)

hughesjj · a year ago

> CashApp terminated my account for this shenanigans

Did you call to complain about the termination?

hughesjj commented on Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor scimex.org/newsfeed/being... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

swatcoder · a year ago

> harmful

It's hard to conceive of anyone meaningfully "harmed" by being a BMI outlier.

The only real occassion it comes up is when some lean and uncommonly athletic person gets miscategorized as obese and get warned of increased risks to their wellness if they don't lose weight. A warning which they generally laugh at because they know their own situation.

That's hardly "harm" -- "mild social nuisance" is more apt.

hughesjj · a year ago

Potentially for health insurance but I get the actuarial argument, especially since higher than typical weight regardless of fat composition puts higher than typical strain on your cardiovascular (and other) systems

hughesjj commented on Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor scimex.org/newsfeed/being... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

hluska · a year ago

That’s too bad, but I replied to something that claimed there is no criticism of IQ. IQ is criticized and used. Those are not exclusive states.

hughesjj · a year ago

Yup. Polygraphs are still used in the intelligence community and court too.

I'm seeing the tide turn (imo), but by no means am I claiming it's no longer used (regardless of merit). I acknowledge I'm starting a personal anecdote which is subject to my own biases such as cohort affects.

hughesjj commented on Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor scimex.org/newsfeed/being... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

hirvi74 · a year ago

> Even in popsci/social media I've seen more and more awareness that it's "bunk" science.

Devil's Advocate: Then why is it so heavily used still? (Then again, I guess back to my initial point -- the same could be said for BMI.)

hughesjj · a year ago

Do you mean "why is it still used in popsci"? I'd wager because it makes people feel a similar way to other pseudo scientific categorizations, but that's mostly speculation on my part. Add in a bit of inertia and the simplicity of it ("let's reduce the cognitive ability of people across the world to a single number!") and, to me, I can see the appeal for others.

hughesjj commented on Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going xenaproject.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/verbify

j16sdiz · a year ago

She is more like complaining some (most?) RPF "bros" act like jerks, emotionally unstable, etc.

I guess the same can be said about many other "fanboi", and have little to do with the facts in the book

hughesjj · a year ago

No, she's claiming that most of those stories were made up by a third guy with Daddy issues (if you want to be reductive)

hughesjj commented on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History oldmapsonline.org/en/hist... · Posted by u/agilek

klokan · a year ago

Yes! Please just use the "Feedback" button on the side of the interface - after you zoom the map and select time - then you can annotate, and it gives us most relevant context to your feedback

hughesjj · a year ago

Is it possible to show contested territories? Ex Oregon territory/British Columbia

hughesjj commented on Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going xenaproject.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/verbify

gedpeck · a year ago

What false assumption did I make? I just pointed out a fact and asked a question. How many false assumptions could I have made with just one statement of fact and two questions? If you don’t have a valid answer to the question then don’t respond.

I’m a mathematician and not a computer scientist. The first order PA axioms are recursively enumerable. Hence it’s clearly something of interest to computer scientists. The second order PA axioms aren’t so…are they part of computer science? What do computer scientists think about proofs in second order PA? There are no computable models of ZFC so wouldn’t it be the case that while computer scientists deal with ZFC that ZFC isn’t part of computer science? what is your definition of computer science? Physicists deal with a vast amount of mathematics but math isn’t physics. In the same way mathematics isn’t computer science.

Overall I think most mathematicians would not consider mathematics as part of computer science.

hughesjj · a year ago

To be fair I've heard gripes about statistics, and sometimes even probability being considered as part of mathematics.

The lines between (academic) fields are blurry -- academic fields do not form a set theoretic partitioning over areas of study.