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by _bxg1 6y ago
Nobody's life should be ruined over something as banal as copyright infringement. Nobody. Period. Idealist or not. This should be enshrined in law.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
For those who don't know who this is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Or to put it differently, "put your own small dent in the universe" A couple years ago I built a new website for a local shop. It was a straightforward project - a problem I "could really solve easily" - but it had a rea
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I think this is mainly a problem of social norms- there are few contexts today where people assume you want to have long-form discussion without you going out on a limb and stating it explicitly. Asking someone to coffee is one that still e
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by _bxg1 6y ago
1) Use rust-analyzer if you aren't already. It decreases the time it takes to see compiler/borrow error results by about 10x. This helps enormously when you're banging your head against something, taking guesses to see what m
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Trial Evaluating Efficacy of Budesonide Therapy in Nonsevere Covid Patients(clinicaltrials.gov)
1 points by _bxg1 6y ago|0 comments
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I honestly think the only solution is for individuals to recuse themselves from those networks (I say on one of those networks), lower the trust they place in digital information, etc. It's become clear that the downward spiral is intr
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It used to be Jira. Thankfully my current company doesn't use it. Now it's probably DBeaver, which is hard to complain about because it's free and full-featured, but it has one of the worst user experiences I've ever enc
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Social Media and the End of Discourse(theverge.com)
8 points by _bxg1 6y ago|0 comments
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by _bxg1 6y ago
As others have said, I think this is a better argument against machines emulating humanness than it is against the broader category of "general intelligence". For me it always comes down to: If we assume the human mind to be a p
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Perceptually, I think Rackspace was the first modern cloud provider that I'd ever heard of. Is that accurate? Were they early on the trend? Or did their name just advertise the concept really well?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
You do a proper study. It sounds like the resistance is coming because they're trying to push it through and skip a step.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Clickbait title: > But the idea exists only on paper...[Dr. Fauci said] scientists should first demonstrate that the coronavirus antibodies that are currently delivered to patients intravenously in hospital wards across the country actua
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The Secret Algorithm That's Keeping Students Out of College(wired.com)
14 points by _bxg1 6y ago|15 comments
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by _bxg1 6y ago
There's a school of thought that the descendants of expert-systems are the key to having auditable decision-making systems, where conclusions come from a composition of rules, and can therefore be explained (and corrected). There are l
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by _bxg1 6y ago
That's some pretty broad-strokes-painting. I'm still on a video call every week, and I'm not in as many meetings as most of my coworkers. I'm also in two separate weekly online roleplaying game groups and we use cameras
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by _bxg1 6y ago
People are suggesting just using tape, but the issue is when you want to un-cover it frequently (which is probably more common now than a few months ago). For a couple dollars you can get a thin, nice-looking little plastic cover that you c
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by _bxg1 6y ago
They probably had people come to them with broken screens and they wanted to establish a policy to waive responsibility, which is understandable.
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AR Smiles(twitter.com)
2 points by _bxg1 6y ago|0 comments
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Microsoft has also heavily invested in the web ecosystem via VSCode, TypeScript, and NPM. Not to mention that Office is now chiefly a web app. My guess is that, among other things, they see it as a way to cultivate fields adjacent to Azure
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> But there is an existing system for funding things with widespread benefits to society. It’s called the government. Not if you ask the current ruling party. Even a cursory glance at the state of the Union should make it obvious there&#
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> The problem is compounded by companies that sell inexpensive "support" for LibreOffice, but which are not involved in its development and are not really able to provide that support. Those companies "file all their ticke
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Question for someone who works in music/audio: is this actually useful as a workflow tool, or is it just a cool tech demo/toy?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It's a question of tradeoffs between professional accountability and improved working conditions in a given field, based on factors like how bad things can get in that field without accountability, how well (or poorly) employees are cu
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I would tend to think the key is the "soft" aspects of your business. The things that can't simply be copied or commoditized. Customer service, being in tune with your target market and their wants and needs, responsiveness t
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by _bxg1 6y ago
What about "may"?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Does anyone know the progress on exposing browser APIs (and hopefully real JS objects) to WASM directly? I think its use-cases will remain pretty narrow until then, but I haven't heard much noise about those developments lately.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
In some ways it should be faster because it isn't garbage-collected. But I agree that would be a much better benchmark for what should be possible.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Very interesting. Is this the first time a major city has fallen within a reservation?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
On top of that, like being in cars, it lobotomizes our empathy towards those we're interacting with, creating the perfect storm of toxic interaction.

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