Timwi

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by Timwi 2y ago
There is no right-click on phones.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I might be wrong but I read the OP’s comment as sarcastic.
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by Timwi 2y ago
And yet, the argument does extend. It applied to Prohibition, too.
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by Timwi 2y ago
> When adults make decisions for children it's called "parenting" Is it? Last time I checked I thought that was only when parents or legal guardians do it to a small number of children in their care, not when politicians d
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by Timwi 2y ago
You missed the point. Tyranny of the majority is one thing if the minority can at least vote and participate in the political process. Shutting the minority out entirely is quite different.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I agree with the OP that the ban is woefully undemocratic, and that banning it for children only is a grave misstep. I think what they should ban instead is recommendation algorithms. If I subscribe to a source, and explicitly unsubscribe f
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by Timwi 2y ago
Congrats on a useful and popular app! It sounds like something that could really help a lot of people. Now, I really don't want to come across as smug or anything, but I'm not one of the people this would help. I already use my ph
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by Timwi 2y ago
> How would you suggest to compensate devs for developing and maintaining such apps? As a developer, I feel more than sufficiently compensated by seeing people use and enjoy my work and thanking me. Getting featured on Hacker News would
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by Timwi 2y ago
Yes, and one of those choices made by people is that if you don't make money, you deserve to starve.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I read through the whole page from the beginning up to the “Discussion about this post” header. At no point was there any mention of a series, or any other blog posts (the inline links all go to Wikipedia). I don't blame anyone for not
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by Timwi 2y ago
Only half of it is an ad. The rest is more a blog post about the process involving FLOSS publishing software.
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by Timwi 2y ago
How is AI regulation a laughing stock in the context of emissions reduction?
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by Timwi 2y ago
And blue and white.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I attribute it to idiocy, but not on the part of Germany today. Sibling comments have already pointed out that a shutdown of nuclear was already decided in 2011 and that you can't just reverse that decision on a whim. I want to add tha
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by Timwi 2y ago
Can I use this to generate subtitles for my own videos? I would love to have subtitles on them but I can't be bothered to do all the timing synchronization by hand. Surely there must be a way to automate that?
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by Timwi 2y ago
I feel the need to comment on one sentence in it: “companies are god damn children and must be told no explicitly by every person individually.” While it's true that children will often go out of their ways to test boundaries, I have n
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by Timwi 2y ago
The whole website is a treasure trove. There's a page with two C# puzzles and one with an HTML/JavaScript puzzle that I found very interesting. I'm still stuck on the second C# one!
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by Timwi 2y ago
> Maybe another LLM and/or other system that doesn't even see the instructions from the user and tries to stop the other one if it seems to be going off the rails. I sometimes wonder if that is what our brain hemispheres are. O
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by Timwi 2y ago
Would like to see a link where I can read the whole thing.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I do agree that this last sentence (the one you quoted) is very unfortunate and doesn't match the wit of the rest. A better closing remark might have been something on the lines of, “I never claimed to have performed any compression. I
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by Timwi 2y ago
He clearly failed at doing any actual compression, but he did not fail at the challenge. He satisfied every single condition. He obviously knows that. He knows exactly what compression is and that his solution is not it. He showed (successf
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by Timwi 2y ago
Maybe that's why there's no example in C or C++.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I didn't know Mulan was a magician.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I think it bears mentioning that women were probably not excluded from cleaning cookware because it was believed they couldn't do it. They were segregated to maintain a male-dominated society where men call the shots and women are just
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by Timwi 2y ago
A capitalist free market inevitably leads to monopolies.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I get that, but most people don't know that birds evolved from dinosaurs that survived the asteroid (which I think is both interesting and important to know) and I think it's the responsibility of science communicators to... commu
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by Timwi 2y ago
The diagram in your link only shows the dinosaurs, not the entire tree of animals alive at the time. Within that diagram, everything except Aves (which, incidentally, is the Latin word for birds) is believed to be extinct. The article makes
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by Timwi 2y ago
Thank you so much! That's really helpful and enlightening.
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by Timwi 2y ago
It doesn't show anything a still image that I can just read wouldn't also show. It has no upside and only downsides.
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by Timwi 2y ago
I would have liked a comparison with Ogg and perhaps other formats. I hear a lot about MP3 throwing away a lot more than Ogg but I'd love to see real data on it.

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