Torgo

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by Torgo 12y ago
I worked in standardized testing for ten years for SAT's competitor and am very familiar with the SAT as well, and phenomenal effort was made detect and correct for racial, gender and cultural bias. I cranked out crates of statistical
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by Torgo 12y ago
Before gamergate was even a thing, some jerks in the atheist/skeptic community created a blockbot whose explicit purpose was to game the Twitter automatic suspension algorithm to boot people off Twitter they didn't like (usually o
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by Torgo 12y ago
>Did she steal, defraud, or harm anyone? Well, she was creating and selling derivatives, for Goldman Sachs, prior to 2008.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Caitlin Dewey's articles tend to be provocative and simplistic. It is worth doing independent checking before assuming this article is on to anything.
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by Torgo 12y ago
The site is a first-class citizen on mobile, mobile is a primary platform for many less-privileged classes. Same with Twitter.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I'm going with "plausible deniability." I have done this by accident by using a site with Javascript turned off (heck, I have coded something like this.) That's what happens when your code relies on client-side behavior
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by Torgo 12y ago
My TV isn't even "smart" but it has a USB port used for doing system updates (there's been exactly one in years.) I did some very basic investigation on the firmware update and could see it had busybox. It got me thinkin
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by Torgo 12y ago
That and, until the CD-ROM came along, what were your options, floppy disks? (Yes, I know that the Famicom had a floppy drive and that there were piracy decks for other systems to load from disk. And they sucked.) Also, the first CD-ROM dev
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by Torgo 12y ago
He did so much physical construction of electronics that I assumed they meant he was a "real" engineer.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Black or white, could you get a job as a self-taught engineer today?
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by Torgo 12y ago
>So .. where to go next? Specialized subreddits with competent moderation. Ideally with post scores hidden.
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by Torgo 12y ago
There is a spectrum of how many legs a human is born with. Some people are born with two, some with none, some one, some with three. Some people are born with between one and two legs that enable them to walk upright on the side of a slope.
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by Torgo 12y ago
>once any client has any kind of X11 access they can snope any kind of keyboard events, including your password at the unlock screen. Wayland fixes this.
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by Torgo 12y ago
One of the goals of Haiku is to be able to run BeOS software unaltered, and an unfortunate side effect of this is that the ABI for BeOS software is compatible with 1998 GCC, version 2.9 or thereabouts.
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by Torgo 12y ago
>Last year I switched all my accounts' user names to my actual name. Create new accounts. Don't switch your existing accounts. Unless it's Github or something.
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by Torgo 12y ago
Does anyone have experience trying this with Firefox on PowerPC or ARMHF Linux? These platforms don't have any working Flash versions from Adobe...
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by Torgo 12y ago
People get their shockingly incorrect sex advice from Youtube personalities now.
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by Torgo 12y ago
A similar book from 1904 is "Vivilore": https://archive.org/details/vivilorepathwayt00meleuoft I got a copy of this in a table of junk in an auction. It's an interesting mix of good advice, sexist advice
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by Torgo 12y ago
>it's a direct result of those who vehemently disagree with my handling of the Noordhuis pronoun incident. Could it be because of this recent OSNews article bringing it to a bunch of people's attention? http://www.os
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by Torgo 12y ago
I just dealt with this a couple months ago, and had to explain to my boss why I reverted from best-practice SSL settings in the course of trying to solve a tricky problem. Another issue I ran into was, the current packaged version of Wiresh
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by Torgo 12y ago
Incidentally, I don't think you should have to apologize for what you said 20 years ago, because it was 20 years ago and that's ridiculous. But I do think you were an ass for escalating the Noordhuis incident the way you did, not
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by Torgo 12y ago
I see what you're saying and agree that's a rational reason for bringing up past events. But hear me out. My issue was that based on these three events it seems like he continues to like to raise his relative position by slamming
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by Torgo 12y ago
You at least admit that it might backfire on you. I try to tell people, you don't get a choice in how people interpret what you say. If an angry mob decides to take one tweet out of context, your good intentions won't save you.
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by Torgo 12y ago
>imagine Louis CK making that quip. Here's Louis CK doing a bit about being so disgusted by a gay guy rollerblading that proclaims "go skate into an AIDS tree, you motherfucker." https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by Torgo 12y ago
Provided without comment, here's Cantrill on Twitter relatively recently criticizing Linus Torvalds' "idiocy" in a usenet post from 2000: https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/456540342649487361
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by Torgo 12y ago
Experience managing virtual economies.
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by Torgo 12y ago
I respect your opinion but I gave this up when the default kept fucking changing. I didn't have time for the endless breaking bullshit introduced by distros wanting to be cool with their desktop. Now I am using roughly the same config
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This has the potential to be the Uber of dickbutts.
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He seems to have not actually understood game theory, from my watching.
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by Torgo 12y ago
People are anti-vax, disbelieve the moon landing, because they don't trust, actively mistrust, American institutions.

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