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by abnry 5y ago
> And, of course, "for offenses that are minor in comparison" or "speculative" is almost always subjective. They really aren't. I used the word "historically" for this reason. Years ago, for example, pe
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> reasonable consequences for actions they take that harm others This is what is at issue. What does "reasonable consequences" mean for "harm to others"? Sometimes the harm to others is disputed, as the harm is almost
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Cancel culture is... targeted at individuals, for the loss of their job, invitations, or positions, for offenses that are minor in comparison to historical offenses, or offenses that are based on guilt by association or speculative inferenc
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Reminds me of when gas stations play adds on a screen to me while I fill up my tank. Talk about a captive audience!
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I can control my smart devices by typing the command 'turn [device-name] on' in the terminal from my computer, and I feel like an super awesome hacker every time. Works great when I am at my computer but don't have my phone a
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Amusingly, I initially thought this was deep learning related, where if you augment your training set by adding white noise to each sample, then your trained NN will be more robust.
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I looked it up and the ratio of German soldiers to US soldiers is about 2:1 in Germany. Pretty remarkable when you think about. They are kind of outsourcing their military to the US. And that's a choice the Germans made, and are starti
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In that case, it is still bad. And it makes for a good cover to actually censor based on political speech. And it is hard to give Google the benefit of the doubt in this regard. But you are probably right.
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I am not a trained software engineer but... Each html page is processed by (1) getting url, title, time saved (this is under-rated as approximate time of saving is useful if you want to rediscover) and then (2) taking a screenshot and final
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I love, love this extension. I am working on an app to turn this into a single click bookmark system on Linux. Run an inotify service to watch your downloads and then process any Single file downloads to a database and update a browsable in
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This is the same answer for me. I picked it up because as a teenager I thought it was about encryption (didn't know the word at that time). It also had the effect of introducing me to the right section of books in the library.
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I mean, I haven't thought this through, but I wish I could take a hit economically if it means Russia gets hurt. Rip the band-aid off.
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So what is the next step for things to get worse? Are we heading towards another world war?
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PowerShell has entered the chat.
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My quick and dirty trick is to set an alpha=0.8 to soften the default colors. It always looks better.
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It's one of those language things. Newspeak necessarily requires co-opting the good meaning of a work in order for it to work. I am doubtful OP dislikes the true meaning of fact-checking but what "fact checking" has become i
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The point being made is that the _function_ is different than the _constant_ producing that function through exponentiation. I think that's kind of fair. Take this headline: The function exp(x) = 1 + x + x^2/2 + x^3/6 + ... i
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It is even more than that, as now it is known as a highly posted copypasta on /r/anarchychess.
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On the other hand, that is a very good excuse for those who want to do evil.
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This is so, so true. I play chess, but only for fun, or as a way to pass time. I play 2+0 bullet on lichess. I am solidly 50th percentile. If I lose a material advantage, I'll very quickly resign. There are so many things wrong with th
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"This guy's racist" "Ok commie" About right for the level of discourse. This is the comments section of a post about RSS.
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It's easy to be a critic.
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IMO this is the real story. Tech companies know so much about you from your browsing history and your purchase history. But they also know this about your friends and family, which I think increases the creepiness factor, as they may serve
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> The myth persists because coincidences will happen in high numbers at scale. I think the myth persists because Big Tech can learn more about you from browsing history and credit card purchases (from you and your friends and family) tha
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> Yet he also made contributions larger than anyone will ever do by filling up note-taking apps and tracking how much time they spent on their breakfast with a stopwatch. Part of the problem is that both the low hanging fruit has already
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One way to think about why we tend to use averages instead of medians is that it is related to a really deep theorem in probability: The Central Limit Theorem. But I think we can twist our heads and see in a way that this is backwards. Math
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I want both. Basically I want something federated but not connected to the "fediverse" as in Mastedon. Perhaps I need to look into Mastedon.
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I am trying to get into self hosting. Can anyone recommend a Twitter or Facebook self hosted app? The idea would be that it would be an invite only social network where I choose who can join.
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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/221/ And also Dilbert: https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Random+Number+Gener...
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I work for a startup that is, among other things, advising NASA on how to architect the Lunar Network (i.e. the transit network to and from the moon) for the Artemis program. We are an Intelligent RF company. We are looking to hire more peo

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