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by 0815test 7y ago
> I disagree a lot of people seek a higher ranking job because of power. Maybe, but those are not the sorts of people you want in high-ranking jobs, as a general rule. So it still makes sense to explicitly reward competence as an alter
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More specifically, it's called the Dunning-Kruger effect. Impostor syndrome is a broader description that heavily overlaps with the "give up competing due to perceived losses" that the article talks about. (As a side effect o
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> How does the percentage of LGBT folks change whether I should have equal rights? I'm not making this argument at all, but apparently some people are; they seem to be saying that we should be extremely careful not to underestimate
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I thought freesync support in modern GPUs meant that they weren't restricted to a fixed refresh rate anymore, and that pixels would then just be "composited" and appear on screen as quickly as possible regardless of their o
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The point of processes is to be meaningful protection boundaries, especially post Spectre and Meltdown. Maybe you shouldn't have to spawn a separate process to do a simple calculation, but spawning processes had better be as cheap as
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> Calling someone out on their perceived flaws generates an immediate boost in social status and provides opportunities for bonding. The important part here is ' perceived flaws'. The whole dynamic you're pointing at is
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I think LLVM is adding 16 bit support of some kind. It's not something that's "self-hosted" on DOS itself like some of the other solutions are, but the flip side is that this gives you a lot of flexibility. You could eve
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by 0815test 7y ago
> Well, I can probably name a bunch of groups that you aren't forced to think about Really? So why not name them in the first place? This whole idea that mistreatment of tiny, hidden, unrepresented minorities that aren't active
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Yes, it's interesting that the overestimate seems to be occurring on both sides. If more people realized just how small the whole LGBTQQetc. minority is, attitudes around these issues would be a lot more relaxed.
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The whole point of his comment is that the government is what's enabling that kind of lobbying. There's no such thing as a government that is free of private interests pushing for their preferred policies; the closest you can
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"The books will stop working"? They were never "working" properly in the first place! There's a reason why DRM systems are said to be "defective by design"; DRM is inherently anti-consumer (in denying ent
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> This school of thought that Dijkstra decried is the one that eventually triumphed in our industry ... The whole "languages are first for programmers to read, and second for computers to run" shtick. If that was the case, I th
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Disruption from below is more likely to be a big factor, I'd say. Why even bother with expensive streaming TV when cheaper stuff like YouTube/Vimeo (and perhaps PeerTube/DTube in the future) is just as popular?
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This whole movement for having CoC in open source projects came about as a side-effect of the use of CoC for physical conferences, meetups, workshops etc. etc.; stuff where "is X being unprofessional to the point of outright aggressi
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> The suggestion that encouraging contributions to OSS might expose someone to being harmed in some way is absurd. Ironically enough, given the way this woman has been treated, and with CoC's that are explicitly open to being aggr
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In many ways, it is the very opposite: the "egalitarian" model of homosexual relationships was itself a new development and a desirable outcome of the gradual "cultural acceptance" of homosexuality. You can see this
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> Not sure if you're kidding I was obviously engaging in some hyperbole to make my point as clear as possible, but the basic issue stands AFAICT. Is there any evidence we could look at of Boris Johnson's expertise in policy
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> Gtk2 already had oversized controls compared to Windows GTK+2 can actually be run with a Windows 9x/2000 widget theme ("redmond9x" IIRC). It's a tiny bit more compact, but just doesn't save a real amount of spa
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by 0815test 7y ago
The values you are objecting to are not "liberal" values but radically collectivizing ones. Liberals value freedom and have always done so.
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The FPH folks seem to have moved to /r/fatpeoplestories. A similar subreddit all things considered, just a lot less hateful (and not focused on the sort of doxxing that was ubiquitous on FPH), which is pretty much what we'd
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Yup, thanks for linking this. These allegations seem quite serious, and contra claims by TD users on that subreddit, they actually go far beyond what we've seen on leftist, socialist etc. subs wrt. hostility towards police. (I've
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> (females) have been genetically programmed by evolution to desire the highest status males. You do know that this is not a good reason to declare most males to be beyond hope, I assume? Status signals and impressions are highly pli
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Do you really think "false hope" is more common than "false hopelessness"? (Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-braver... )
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It's assuming that "a pixel is a point sample" is a better model, even of pixel art, than "a pixel is literally a small square". Checkerboard patterns are also used quite often for simple dithering (in pixel art wi
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The thing about CRT pixel "bleed" is that it is a pure Gaussian blur, which is practically the best way of upscaling a raster image within a purely analog system . Strictly speaking, you can of course do much better with a digit
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> So you'll end up with awkwardly large and cumbersome controls for mouse users and to small and finicky controls for touch users to interact with. GTK+3 gives you touch-sized controls anyway, even on mouse/keyboard-only system
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Energy sector? Renewable energy is actually becoming cheaper than fossil fuels. It doesn't matter. And foreign-policy-wise they're not even trying to seriously wield "influence" that could actually be positive for them
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> Johnson excelled in English and Classics English and Classics... seriously, dude? That's good enough for working at Starbucks and McDonalds, I guess, but not for much else. Least of all for effective policymaking.
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U.S. is not at all "on the way out", I don't know why people are saying this. Europe and China could both do well in many ways, but China, as "rising" as it may be, is still way lower than even Europe, never mind t
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> A structured web ... has been found to be not scalable or flexible enough to accomodate for unanticipated needs - and not for a lack of trying! Linked Open Data (the latest evolution of Semantic Web technologies) is actually working qu

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