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by aaplok 2y ago
I agree with everything else, but I didn't interpret the HN title as you did. My reading of it was that the Linux community responded by developing a privacy-friendly alternative to MS invasive software. So not only is the title clickb
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Many magicians had excellent reputations [...] She maintains that this could only be the result of a consistent record of success. For a modern version of this phenomenon, check out any discussion about chatGPT here on HN. Things haven
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by aaplok 2y ago
I feel the same way about reading beautiful language that I feel about reading a beautiful mathematical proof. It's not that it doesn't have substance, it's that the substance is put together in such such an elegant way that
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by aaplok 2y ago
My experience has been that performance has gone down significantly since students have access to genAI. I probably get a fifth of the number of high performers that I was getting before. So I'm not worried about the hypothetical tiny
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by aaplok 2y ago
I never really understood why whataboutism is meant to be a universally rejected objection. In this particular case GGP hints that Israel gets favour treatment to gets away with anything. GP then retorts that others get away with as much, w
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by aaplok 2y ago
It's not too late for you to decide to spend more time with your daughter and less time working. You both could go part-time. If you are afraid that your career won't wait, remember that neither will your children. You might need
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Why not just use unicode bold and italics instead of hacks ? To be able to search and grep?
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by aaplok 2y ago
Treating prisoners like animals isn't showing compassion for anyone, neither the criminals nor their victims. Refuting the claim that even criminals should be treated humanely by saying we should also show compassion for victims is not
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by aaplok 2y ago
In principle every notebook is a DAG, since the cells are evaluated in a certain order. You could even infer the DAG from Jupyter notebooks, at least when the execution number is stored (the In[...] part). There is a lot of value in imposin
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by aaplok 2y ago
There are many nonconvex functions where every local minimum is global, and even many nonconvex functions with a unique local minimum (which is de facto global). Convex methods can fail on those. The reason why GD and friends are a good cho
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by aaplok 2y ago
I recommend you to read the book, I think that the film doesn't (can't?) do it justice. The book being written from the point of view of the narrator is crucial: the reader is put in the mind of a pedophile (we are told that he is
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by aaplok 2y ago
Actually in the book she is really not. She is a 12 year old child being sexualised in the mind of the narrator. She doesn't act seductively, the narrator sees whatever she does in a perverted way. There is a famous interview on Fren
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by aaplok 2y ago
> there is a complete disconnect between wealthy liberals trying to virtue-signal, and the communities they pretend to want to help. There is a disconnect between wealthy people and poor people regardless of political views. It's co
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by aaplok 2y ago
I wasn't implying anything. Because your use of the word "people" left the context very vague, I was just cautiously trying to not speak in your name when discussing the people who are pushing me to teach students how to us
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by aaplok 2y ago
> What bothers me is that people have told me that I should just allow AI for literally everything because it's the future and you should be teaching them the future or something, I wonder what "people" told you that. My p
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by aaplok 2y ago
Nice article, and nicely written. > My code from attempt #3 was effectively using base-255, with each byte acting as a single "digit". I think the author means base-256, not base-255.
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by aaplok 2y ago
Yes I did. Thanks.
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by aaplok 2y ago
I see. Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense how the law on playgrounds would backfire. It's still confusing to me that to prevent being accused of targeting homeless addicts they'd make homeless drug use illegal so to speak.
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by aaplok 2y ago
Right. So creating a new law won't change anything then? They should rather work on making sure the existing laws are being enforced.
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Rather, mostly folks who had terrible home lives and were basically screwed up from the beginning. > Folks in far shittier situations than them play their hands far better. Aren't you contradicting yourself here? If these folks
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by aaplok 2y ago
But then why not make the problematic behaviour itself what is illegal? Aggressive panhandling should be illegal, regardless of whether the perpetrators were on drugs. It makes people, particularly those that are vulnerable to violent crime
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by aaplok 2y ago
As someone who doesn't live in an area with a similar liberal law regarding drug use the article was very confusing to me. Perhaps you can help me understand. The article keeps talking about "problematic" drug use, but I don&
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by aaplok 2y ago
But this is not what I asked though. GP, and you in turn, both contend that the employees are not under a democratic regime within the corporation. I understood that point the first time it was made, and I don't disagree with it, so I
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Your corporate job isn't a democracy. If corporate jobs aren't democratic, what kind of political organisation are they under?
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by aaplok 2y ago
Your response confuses me. The discussion in the thread includes comments about people keeping 1000 tabs, and other people saying that tabs, bookmarks and history are the same thing. I was responding that it doesn't feel very practical
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by aaplok 2y ago
If they serve the same purpose, doesn't that open the possibility to use one of them for something else? I'm also in the group that never keeps more than 10 tabs open, much fewer usually. The idea of having all my bookmarks displa
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by aaplok 2y ago
To count the length of the segment, we count the number of unit segments that compose it. Start with 1 (the first segment) and count up to 4 (the fourth segment), yielding a length of 4. We're consistent with the units: we are adding u
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by aaplok 3y ago
What about history? Don't people perceive it as even more unnecessary than maths? Shouldn't we expect to see all sorts of theories on how history should be taught in more practical ways if your explanation is correct? I'm onl
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by aaplok 3y ago
I'm always very confused by this. Why are maths lessons more traumatic than, say, history or biology or foreign language lessons? I mean learning lists of irregular verbs is not precisely most people's idea of fun. And yet only ab
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by aaplok 3y ago
In fairness, zsh is only newer than bash by a year. Both are about 34 years old.

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