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by Tainnor 3y ago
Well yes, I would agree that memorising facts that you're not interested in is probably not a very good use of your time and mental energy.
902.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Do you have any evidence specifically about lecturers being bribed? Because there could be a whole other range of other explanations for why this practice continues.
903.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Well, books continue to work for a lot of people (including myself). Every time I read a book about a topic, I come away with deeper and more contextual knowledge than if I just piece together scraps of information from badly written blog p
904.
by Tainnor 3y ago
I apologise if I have caused any offense, because that wasn't my intent. I feel you missed the main point of my comment, though. Even if abstract reasoning, or certain forms of abstract reasoning, were not natural to you (something
905.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Why are spaced repetition "practitioners" warning against that? I have a "Roman Emperors" Anki deck. It serves absolutely no purpose except making me feel good about it, but it works well (except maybe for the final few
906.
by Tainnor 3y ago
> I think it is highly unfortunate that universities these days, at least in science, then to force students to buy a new edition every year, or at least every couple of years. This seems to be a specifically American (or anglo? not sure
907.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Unless you have a specific learning disability, I refuse to believe that you are unteachable. Maybe you have zero interest (in which case, of course you won't learn). That's fine. Maybe abstract reasoning doesn't come as natu
908.
by Tainnor 3y ago
I'm afraid I can't really follow your logic here. You seem to imply that a) one becomes "dehumanized" if one doesn't deeply care about the Israel-Palestine conflict and b) that caring about it implies one should dis
909.
by Tainnor 3y ago
I don't think there's a single reason why European countries in general aren't always as competitive and/or developed as they could be. In the case of Italy, there's an absolutely massive north-south divide, the tot
910.
by Tainnor 3y ago
The median isn't a good indicator for inequality. The Gini index is higher in the US than in most European countries (although the difference is admittedly not huge). I think Europe in general just manages to take care of the most vuln
911.
by Tainnor 3y ago
> -> reposting this since my previous one was flagged You deserve a flag for this behaviour alone.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
I respect your opinion, but > Maybe the only thing worse than trying is not trying. I and others in this thread have been trying to say that from experience, any discussion (unless maybe it's between trusted friends in a face-to-fac
913.
by Tainnor 3y ago
The law is incredibly clear on these things, lawyers can't help you. The only thing they can do is confuse people who don't actually know the law and their legal rights - that does sometimes happen, but I'd say a small compan
914.
by Tainnor 3y ago
People who are "intellectually curious" about the Israel-Palestine conflict and its history should go read a book (or several)[0] instead of debating it on social media. At least that's my opinion. [0] I would recommend this
915.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Even for non-unionised people, labour protection laws in Germany are completely incomparable to the US: 1. Mandatory notice periods (3 months is customary, mimumum 1 month) 2. "Social selection", i.e. you're not allowed to la
916.
by Tainnor 3y ago
> You're trying really hard to misunderstand my point. No, you're missing mine: 1. In no country in the world do the people vote on everything . In many countries, the head of government is not elected directly. 2. Direct de
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by Tainnor 3y ago
Same with the UK - the latest string of PMs would probably never have been elected by the people.
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by Tainnor 3y ago
Neither the Swiss nor the German executive government is voted for by the people. I guess those aren't presidents, but why does it matter? Oh, by the way, the German president (who is only a figurehead) is also not elected by the peopl
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by Tainnor 3y ago
> I'm taken completely off guard that calling the EU socialist would be in any way contentious. Well, then you should look up words you're using. Nobody considers the EU to be socialist. The word "socialism" is poorly
920.
by Tainnor 3y ago
> Continuity with past institutions. The EU was formed in 1993, with precursor organisations going back to 1948, and the European Parliament has been elected in continuity since 1979. On the European continent, there can be basically alm
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by Tainnor 3y ago
> Would you think von der Leyen were actually elected president, had the population been given the chance to vote? Who knows. Do you think Mike Johnson would have been elected speaker of the US House of Representatives if the population
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by Tainnor 3y ago
HN is not typical of the general population of Europe, not even within the IT community. It self-selects for certain kinds of people. There are other IT communities, such as the CCC, that do not at all share the libertarian bent that HN ten
923.
by Tainnor 3y ago
If you're translating vectors 10 times, or calculating cosines, or whatever, then yes, you should abstract this into separate functions. It's not like "translateVector" or "calculateCosine" are brittle abstract
924.
by Tainnor 3y ago
Nobody cares about your CMS, online shop, code collaboration tool, etc. If your software however makes life-altering decisions for its users - such as targeting people for investigation, deciding on asylum requests, etc. - then you have to
925.
by Tainnor 3y ago
I do understand that they're common and that they strike a nerve, so they're not flagged - but it makes for very poor discussion, it's just angry venting that doesn't satisfy "intellectual curiosity", so it&#x2
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by Tainnor 3y ago
Apart from the fact that the EU is not a "state", the claim that it is in any way or shape "socialist" flies in the face of basically all available evidence (including the leadership of most EU countries, the composition
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by Tainnor 3y ago
It's not "sloppy use of words", both the term and the practice of AI have been around for far longer than today's probabilistic models. In particular, decision trees and similar are some of the simplest forms of AI. The
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by Tainnor 3y ago
It's not "blame diffusion", it's risk management. Two sets of eyes are more likely to catch issues than one, and if I specifically know that some part of the code is tricky and person X is familiar with that part of the
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by Tainnor 3y ago
I answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38580236
930.
by Tainnor 3y ago
No amount of automated tooling can account for subtle security issues, wrong understanding of the spec (something that happens easily especially to people new to the project, but also every time you work with an area of the code you're

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