TomSwirly

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by TomSwirly 3y ago
The idea that Google is trying secretly trying to push some agenda by putting embarrassing and ridiculous bugs into their code is mind-blowingly stupid. Google is a for-profit company whose interest is in making money.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Agree 100%. The idea that "This can't be a bug! They must have spent huge amounts of effort making deliberately ridiculous outputs that no one would value!" comes close to clinical paranoia.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
> I think they're simply not telling the truth. That there are bugs in AI training? That when they tried to retrain their model to remove one type of bias, they accidentally went too far the other way? What's his theory? That G
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
The more boring but more probably true explanation is that almost no one captions their family photos "white woman with white man", and nearly all of the photos of couples that use the word "white" or "black" a
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
This is hardly new: stories similar to this have appeared every few years since Google started image search. The boring truth is that this is not a monetizable query, so Google doesn't really care: and that no one except a few white su
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
I came here to say this! I might add that this has showed up every few years on social media, always with this same, "Look at how the woke are destroying our search engines!", spin on it.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
> It takes the indented block as-is, which I feel like is going to be what you'd want … always? What if you are writing primarily paragraphs? What if you want extra blank lines at the end of a block? Or no carriage return at all? In
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
I finally ran into the "on" bug just last month with github workflows: the default .yml file github writes has an unquoted `on` as a key to a dictionary, and pyyaml "correctly" interprets that as `True`. I can imagine th
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Agreed! Just one quibble: the reporter was anonymous, so they aren't doing it for prestige. Perhaps it's griefing?
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
I'm technically aware, but do I really have the expertise and bandwidth to tell the difference between an actual CVE and one that isn't, for the whole database? The database isn't really much use unless it's pretty accur
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
We should be defending the creators of our most important tools, like `curl`, from gratuitous time-wasters like these! I'm glad the `curl` organization is a CMA now, though, maybe that will mitigate the issue.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
For us non-Chinese speakers, some sort of background or description as to what these files are would be greatly appreciated.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
If you didn't read the article, I'm not entirely sure why you're commenting on it?
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
The point of the article, which I hope you did in fact read, is that some sites force dark mode on the user, so "just use whatever setup you prefer" doesn't work. This is particularly hard now when many sites use images of pr
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Reading the article helps avoid gaffes like this comment.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Like most older programmers, I have some astigmatism - not even that bad, apparently. (A majority of adults in Europe and Asia also have it.) One of the side-effects is that light on dark text is harder to read. And now a lot of people seem
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
But people definitely do judge. Try wearing a face mask these days - even if you're sick and wanting to protect others, some people will frown at you, or even ask you to take it off.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
That the US military is the most trusted organization in America after losing one war after another against developing countries with Bronze Age technology simply astonishes me.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
> interest rates are high Interest rates are lower than they have been for most of my life, and close to the average interest rate over the last 700 years. https://bankunderground.co.uk/2017/11/06/guest-pos
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Maybe step away from the keyboard for a bit?
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
It would be very, very hard to come up with a lower effort comment than yours
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
I expect memes not to be blatantly racist, particularly when they are attached to a technical article.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
If this were a photo, would you expect the infant launched high in the air like a basketball to survive?
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
I'm confused. Is it your claim that the brown woman throwing the brown baby like a basketball is white?
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Strong article so far, I'm still reading, but I found it rather jarring to have a cartoon in the middle with a white couple cherishing a baby and a black woman killing one...
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
> 50-line code changes are reviewed and merged ~40% faster than 250-line changes. Reviewing a 50-line code change in 60% of the time it takes to review a 250-line code change means the shorter code review takes _four times_ as long to re
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
In exactly the same way, no one knows how many Americans are killed by law enforcement officers, either. A cynical person might believe that this was deliberate, and wonder why these various "corrections" and law organizations get
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. Do you have some specific refutation to
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Sarcasm is never a good look. The article presents a serious argument as to why this is a possible danger. You don't try to engage with the article, or present a counter-argument. Given the terrible consequences of weakening the Earth&
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
It depends entirely on what you're actually writing! In some jobs, I always have multiple tmux terminals running. I was about to claim that I have none running right now, but shamefully I have a Mastodon bot that I never productionize

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