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by andriamanitra 25d ago
I'm guessing "race term" got automatically flagged because it can be understood as "word or expression that refers to a racial group or to race/ethnicity" i.e. an euphemism for a slur.
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by andriamanitra 1mo ago
I think "avoid naming things after people without a deep personal connection to the thing being named" and "prefer established names used by locals" are pretty good principles to follow. > The Koyukon people who inhab
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by andriamanitra 2mo ago
Even when LLMs add something it's a better idea to let the readers use LLMs to augment content. They have the best knowledge of their own background and what they're looking for. Sharing information that is already in the corpus
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by andriamanitra 2mo ago
I don't see how a wealth tax that starts at $100M could possibly disproportionately (or at all) land on the middle class. I'm sure the parasitic class will always find ways to partially dodge taxes but compared to income and capit
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by andriamanitra 3mo ago
Because the fixed cost of deploying infrastructure (digging the fiber to the house) is extremely expensive compared to the marginal cost (of serving data over an already installed fiber). 20 different companies all digging their own fibers
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by andriamanitra 3mo ago
That argument might be valid if there were no urban areas in America. However it fails to explain why, for example, New Jersey does not have affordable 25 Gbit residential internet either. It is half the size of Switzerland but has similar
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by andriamanitra 5mo ago
The changelog looks reasonable, seems like the language is moving in the right direction. I'm excited to try it out once it's open sourced. The dependency on glibc is an unfortunate limitation as it means you can't install Mo
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by andriamanitra 5mo ago
Was there even a PR? The post from Bun [1] says they have no plan to upstream it, and that ziggit post says the changes are undesirable. It sounds like there never was anything to reject. [1] https://x.com/bunjavascript&#x2F
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by andriamanitra 5mo ago
The cost of living would certainly rise somewhat but the point is that UBI is redistributive: the same absolute amount to everyone raises low incomes by a larger percentage than high incomes. Long term effects are hard to predict but in the
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by andriamanitra 7mo ago
Where did you get the idea that EVs have caused it? As far as I know the amount of road dust from EVs is within the same ballpark so the claim that it has led to overall higher pollution levels sounds inconceivable. I can't even find s
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by andriamanitra 7mo ago
This is very interesting. I'm a bit skeptical about the benchmarks / performance claims because they seem almost too good to be true but even just the extended operators alone are a nice improvement over existing regex engines. Th
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by andriamanitra 7mo ago
If you need to deal with matrices Julia's built-in support for that kind of stuff is the best out of any language I've ever seen (and I've tried dozens of different languages). It's like having first-class numpy arrays w
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by andriamanitra 7mo ago
That model breaks when you don't have perfect knowledge of whether or not you will perish. Therefore in every practical situation we are forced to assign a finite cost to risk. And generally people tend to prefer tiny increases to soc
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by andriamanitra 8mo ago
Would you want it to? The further the goal posts are the more progress we are making, and that's good, no? Trying to make it into a religious debate between believers and non-believers is silly. Neither side can predict the future, and
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by andriamanitra 9mo ago
That's really neat! I found a bunch of cool repositories I had never heard of by looking up my username and a few of my favorite projects.
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by andriamanitra 9mo ago
Marketing for cars and soda isn't that far off from actual scams. Ads are a big part of why (especially American) car and food culture is so toxic. The ad-driven demand for sugary drinks and large, impractical, environmentally unconsci
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by andriamanitra 9mo ago
It's not possible to become a billionaire with a B without fucking over a lot of people, but for a billionaire he isn't so bad. If we can't get rid of billionaires the next best thing is to hope they are more like Buffett a
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by andriamanitra 9mo ago
Profit is not an appropriate measure of how well a business is operated. I'm sure they have been prioritizing growth because the whole point of the platform is to introduce competition to Steam. Keeping the margins low (or even negativ
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by andriamanitra 10mo ago
Corruption and nepotism does not get much more blatant than this. The president's son is involved in one of the American drone companies that stand to gain the most from this policy. Their investor presentation boasts about regulations
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by andriamanitra 10mo ago
> If they are enemy combatants you are allowed to follow up and ensure they have been killed Not true. Launching an attack on shipwrecked enemy is a blatant violation of the Geneva conventions. [1, Chapter II Article 12] It's also p
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by andriamanitra 10mo ago
I think Ruby is the ideal language for AoC: * The expressive syntax helps keep the solutions short. * It has extensive standard library with tons of handy methods for AoC style problems: Enumerable#each_cons, Enumerable#each_slice, Array#tr
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by andriamanitra 10mo ago
The list is clearly mostly machine generated but the name typo is an unlikely error for LLM to make. I'm guessing the "general editing pass" that introduced it was done by an actual human while trying to make the text flow be
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by andriamanitra 10mo ago
Complicated, sure, but opaque? EU is incredibly transparent – the amount of information on the European Council website [1] is daunting. There are vote results, meeting schedules, agendas, background briefs, lists of participants, reports,
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by andriamanitra 10mo ago
> No? It’s not just crime, it’s harassment, antisocial behavior, and other things that are not strictly crimes but you don’t want to be around. A lot of crimes are crimes of opportunity where someone strikes because they’re in the same p
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by andriamanitra 11mo ago
> capitalism (where ownership is detached from operation) That is a really eloquent way to phrase one of my main gripes with capitalist societies. Thanks, I will be stealing it.
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by andriamanitra 11mo ago
The article misses the most important factor: the customers have no way of knowing they would be getting a better product or extra 25 millimeters of leg room if they paid 3% more. The higher prices could just as well be for completely unrel
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by andriamanitra 11mo ago
First .mkv support and now this! I really like what Firefox has been doing recently. The only major annoyance that still remains is hard-coded keyboard shortcuts, fingers crossed!
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by andriamanitra 11mo ago
I gave it a go in C (I wanted to do assembly but couldn't be arsed to write string to int and int to string conversions). [1] The trickiest part was figuring out how to terminate the program. My first attempt invoked nasal demons throu
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by andriamanitra 11mo ago
Iran's military spending (as percentage of GDP) is fairly similar to that of the U.S. and European countries. The most recent numbers I could find (from 2024) indicate that they spent 2.0% compared to 3.4% in the U.S. [1], although the
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by andriamanitra 11mo ago
Talking about "trains in Europe" as one thing doesn't really capture the complexity of the system – it varies a lot between different countries and operators. For example Swiss trains (SBB) are extremely reliable but Deutsche

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