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Thanks! > Features in the docs The Docs section of the website has "Installation", "Editor setup", and "Your First Model". Not a list of operations/features. The front page lists some (extrusion, fill
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What geometry kernel is it using? Which operations are supported? (Booleans? ...) Where's the API link? ...finally, was this vibe-coded? Inquiring minds want to know!
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As one of them queer folks, it just rolls of the tongue easier.
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Ah, so a propagandist with a predefined narrative.
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> What about when Zohran Mamdani or AOC or Kamala makes the EXACT SAME MOTION? If they did, they'd make international news for the same reason. They did not. A freeze frame of someone waving their hand ain't remotely close to
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>What do you mean _exactly_? Covering your statement is a shroud of vagueness doesn’t help form an opinion, only infuse more polarisation Oh come on. Everyone who's been paying attention enough to warrant having opinions on the su
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>But since when did using a business's product come to require sharing (or not sharing) political views with the business's owner? Since 18th century at the very least; see: anti-slavery sugar boycott[1]. That's if you a
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>After all, why should we be okay with government censoring people on behalf of businesses? Well, some folks[1] here opine that "this is a feature, not a bug". That's why, apparently. [1] https://news.ycombina
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6mo ago
>Happy to. A service is any activity that one party performs (or refrains from performing) in exchange for consideration from another. That's basic contract law. Every lawyer learns this in 1L. By that definition, blackmail (or ex
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>Ah, the "I'm right, it's the world that's wrong!" argument. Not the world . A particular small component of the US legislation. It's amusing that you don't understand the difference between the two.
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>Severance is like tipping in that it's not required at all. Great comparison. Tipping is also a form of compensation for work already performed . It's not required in the legal sense indeed. It is, effectively, requir
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>Yes, we agree on how the legal system works Indeed. It's also clear from the article. Laws don't describe reality though. Severance is compensation for past labor in the real world, just not from a legal standpoint in th
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>If severance was part of your compensation, it would be part of the contract you sign. Instead, it's something in addition to your contract. What you are pointing out is a legal loophole. In the same way I got legal psychedelic m
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6mo ago
You could say the same thing about the right to abortion access in the US until Roe vs. Wade was overturned (or equivalently, before Roe vs. Wade). Comparisons to physics are unwarranted. Laws change, and they are interpreted when appli
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>And yet here you are shaming me for my kink of making compensation contingent on provided service... The service to get a severance has been provided prior to termination. You're aware that severance is commonly proportional t
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>The pro-compensation crowd assumes that because severance is taxed as compensation, that it is payment for past work, and therefore any non-disparagement clauses are illegal. Here are more considerations: - No person who did no work
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>If non disparagement clauses were illegal then perhaps the severance amounts would be smaller since there’s now much less value to the company. ...and the salaries would be higher, and some people would be make different choices regar
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>An argument that it could Defence the west would be a better one Ah! It just hit me: of course! This is just another one of Peter Thiel's defence ventures! :D
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If the Meeks' post gave the parent commenter whiplash, TDF's posts would cause brain damage. They're as unreadable as they're vague.
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6mo ago
> A herd could be spread over thousands of acres, canyons, mountains, all sorts of places to be out of site [sic]. Are you.. mansplaining how herds work to a cow farmer , because you've read an article on HN?
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>If I offer you money to eat a turd, is it your view that you are being forced to eat the turd? Look, I'm not here to kink shame, but that's not the right forum for that sort of fetish. Anyway. You seem to have a trouble unde
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That's not privilege . She earned it. A company's reputation when it comes to severance is a part of compensation negotiations and decisions whether to accept the offer to work there. She got a high level job where such a sever
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>Different entities having different amounts of leverage in a negotiation is neither unusual nor inherently immoral. Having a leverage to force an NDA is not immoral, but breaking the NDA (no matter how unfair the situation that led to
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Yeah, clearly the employee and the company have the same leverage in negotiation here. It's a free market! If she didn't like the offer, she could've just gotten herself fired from some other company instead. /s
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They don't have to. But they do.
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> legally speaking.. if you're not sure of the risk- you don't document it. Ah, so you kinda maybe sorta absolve yourself of culpability (but not really — "I didn't know this was copyrighted material" didn&#
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>And the reality is that confirmation is part of life. Sycophantic agreement certainly is, as is lying, manipulation, abuse, gaslighting. Those aren't the good parts of life. Those aren't the parts I want the machine to do
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>Also weird arrogance It's part for the course, yet I'm still surprised. My favorite so far is a commenter proudly touting their own run-LLM-locally app to prove that they "did it already". An app which is desktop on
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I am not seeing the Android App Store / Apple Store links on that page. Can you post them here?
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No you didn't. > A desktop app for running Large Language Models locally >desktop app Make it an Android and iOS app, get it published in the respective stores, add cross-device sync, and then you'll have a comparable
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