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by _dain_ 4y ago
funny how I managed to learn that without a humanities degree
902.
by _dain_ 4y ago
>This is such a weird perspective. Look at any modern business. A lot of employees will have studied something in humanities. There are valuable skills (particularly writing and communication) that are learned in these degrees that might
903.
by _dain_ 4y ago
germany's admission system would be quite impossible in america's civil rights law.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
which country do you think I'm from?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Finland didn't exist until 1918 >New Zealand didn't exist until a century after the US was founded >Iroquois Confederacy extinguished utterly, nowadays an object of idle revisionism
906.
by _dain_ 4y ago
>unless your cursive is extremely incorrect. what good does it to, to tell the majority that their cursive is incorrect? if a system results in most people doing it wrong, then the system is wrong, not the people
907.
by _dain_ 4y ago
>These letters are not supposed to look like each others. It goes further than details. No, they're not supposed to. But in practice, in actual handwriting, they do, which is what the parent comment was talking about.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
So? They're all transcribed into legible writing in a million different books and websites.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
99.999% of the time the stuff you read and write is done by keyboard or touchscreen, not pen. The remaining 0.001% of the time, chickenscratch is fine. "Cursive" is totally obsolete, get over it. When was the last time you actuall
910.
by _dain_ 4y ago
or the university could just .. make recordings of the lectures? why should students be burdened with realtime handwritten audio transcription? if you miss even a single sentence it can fuck up your understanding of the entire rest of the l
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Tangentially, it also reminds me of going back to the UK last week to visit a conference. The trains were just so much different to those in Germany, even the crappy "Stansted Express", those here in Germany feel very utilitar
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Yes but the whole point of them is that they are non-deserty bits inside of deserts
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Craigslist is a desert, a void, an oasis of empty search results. it's a desert and an oasis at the same time?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>But the real problem here is the refusal to do basic and normal things, like depict people. That's not normal - it's deeply weird and tells us a lot about what must be going on inside Google's ai research effort. Google i
915.
by _dain_ 4y ago
Nobody asked me whether I wanted to participate in the economy either, yet here I am.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>This takes away an avenue for self-expression (people will often change their display names based on trends, etc.) and might have edge cases (like transgender people whose preferred names may not match government ID cards) but it seems
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Reminds me of Gresham's Law[1]: "Bad Money Drives Out Good". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
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by _dain_ 4y ago
There's a library for simulating the Excel calculation engine in Python. It uses annotations to hint functions, but according to Excel's type system, not Python's. Then at runtime, those hints are used to do conversion and pr
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by _dain_ 4y ago
It's a fact.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
This article loses me when it gets to the "calculating the diff" section. >Autochrome and difftastic represent diffing as a shortest path problem on a directed acyclic graph. A vertex represents a pair of positions: the positio
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by _dain_ 4y ago
CF outright blocked the KF domain, they didn't just rescind DDoS protection. and deliberately not protecting a paying customer as they are attacked by DDoSing criminals is just censorship by another name. it's a critical piece of
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by _dain_ 4y ago
with US law enforcement, for actual criminal activity. null told the new zealand police to get lost when they ordered him to take down the video of the mosque shooting; rightly so.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
yeah. it is funny. I defend it on the merits: Kiwifarms is a funny site and it deserves to exist. you're just pointing and sputtering, as if I'm saying something obviously preposterous, but I'm not. the idea that a website ou
924.
by _dain_ 4y ago
because literally none of that justifies a ddos attack or censorship. hurting people's feelings is not a crime. I defend kiwifarms because it's funny and it's one of the last bastions of free speech on the internet.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
He's just repeating what he read on wikipedia. I really doubt he looked closely into the matter.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>The swatting of the discussed people is a completely unrelated coincidence. yeah, because it's so difficult to just SWAT someone and claim you're someone you're not? The MTG swatter literally used text-to-speech and said
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Kiwifarms is not a "nazi website". There's a whole subforum devoted to documenting and mocking the alt right and its weird personalities.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
The most preftigious letter.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
if you actually bothered to look into the matter, you'd see that it's more than just "posting about transwomen they don't like"; the transwoman in question is demonstrably a paedophile and there's ample proof v
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>My understanding of bullying is that it includes that behaviour. it's like one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I am bringing accountability, you are a journalist, he is a bully. >That is blind to the mechanisms of stoch

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