JCTheDenthog

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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>Those are certainly shitty ways to ensure equity. Why are they what you jump to? Because they're effectively what proponents of equity have implemented in practice: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>And that's commendable, but what if your brother would not have had time for doing cross country in high school because he had to care for his siblings as your parents were poor and working double shifts? Or so heavily indebted due
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
I didn't say it was fair, I was pointing out the NYT being racially biased (as per usual). Imagine at a school that Jenny gets 10 cookies from the teacher, Timmy gets 3, and Johnny gets two. Billy sees all this, but he has a crush on J
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
The person I was replying to quoted the article saying "conditions should not interfere", my point was that they do interfere, and will continue to interfere, in spite of all the efforts and hands on the scale and discriminati
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>In your scenarios, equity proponents would tend to advocate for things like extra testing time, access to tutoring, etc. So you claim, but in reality proponents of equity instituted a system that gave Black students a roughly 450 point
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Sure, but if some people are faster than others because they have longer legs or because they've trained more etc. then people without such advantages aren't given special accomodation. It actually runs in my family that we have v
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Sure, but the reality is that such conditions do interfere with the potential of academic success, as much as proponents of equity like to argue otherwise. If I had a severe brain injury as a child, or my mom drank and did a ton of drugs
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>This is the direct inverse of what's actually asserted by people talking about equity. From the wiki article you linked: >Equity is equality of outcome for all subgroups in society. Equity proponents believe that some are at a l
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>Critics call the SAT inequitable and say high school grades are a good predictor of college success. I mean, it seems pretty clear from the last 6 years of experience by professors and others that grades (or at least grades in isolation
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
I'm not trying to dismiss what you're saying as a possibility (AMD's behavior in many regards over the last 15 years or so is baffling to the point that a family conspiracy feels surprisingly plausible) but Huang isn't S
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
You have a problem, so you try to solve it with a regex. You now have two problems.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
Pretty obviously the latter.
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by JCTheDenthog 4mo ago
>There's a problem with tech hiring and nobody wants to talk about it because most people are unaware. And those who are aware and bring it up often get accused of racism when they do, making it difficult to spread awareness of this
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
In what way? Here in the US it takes too long and costs too much, but there are lots of charities that assist with this. Otherwise it's fairly straightforward. I say this as someone dealing with fertility issues and in the process of p
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
They can always adopt?
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
I don't think you'd find anyone arguing that the lottery isn't gambling, so I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make here.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Part of it is that it considers downtime in any of the services GitHub provides as GitHub being down. So if GitHub had 100 different services, and only one of them was down at any given time (but at least one was always down), then it wou
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Your comment assumes, a priori, that the stereotypes are in fact "unfair". I don't know enough about cybercrime rates per capita amongst Eastern Europeans vs. other populations to be able to say if it is actually an unfair st
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Exceptions are significantly slower than normal control flow in C# (about 10,000 times slower). It's also pretty non-idiomatic in both C# and most other languages I've worked in to use exceptions instead of a switch statement or s
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Simple example that I use often when writing API clients: In current C# I usually do something like public class ApiResponse<T> { public T? Response { get; set; } public bool IsSuccessful { get; set; } public ErrorResponse
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
>No, you're wrong. You can lose their Green Card. Didn't know that. >If you leave the country for more than 6 months, you need to seek prior approval, and you definitely can lose it. Doesn't seem unreasonable to me. &gt
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
I lived in central Europe for two years. Had to wait in line for 20 hours halfway through my time there to renew my visa, otherwise it wasn't much of an issue.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
They're permanent residency, so other than voting rights effectively the same thing.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
What else have your psychic powers revealed to you about me?
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Correct, and congress hasn't been exercising that power for the better part of a century now. The War Powers Resolution was 1973, for example. I don't know what the exact solution is, but something needs to change in the structure
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
>Bureaucrats who must follow the rule of law is what you want. Under Chevron we had the opposite of that: bureaucrats who had ridiculously wide latitude to make their own rules. What we actually need is for congress to take back control
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
At least from how it's described in the filing, it sounds like they're committed through 2029 on the deal with SpaceX. So they can't just pull out without a massive lawsuit from SpaceX.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
Unfortunately the cloud providers also rarely if ever tell you the reason.
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by JCTheDenthog 5mo ago
I prefer Forgejo, which is a Gitea fork. Forgejo is what runs Codeberg if I understand correctly.

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