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by ball_of_lint 8mo ago
I mean, I didn't close them all but still, ... Look at the code! That's gotta be valuable
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by ball_of_lint 9mo ago
Powell for president please
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by ball_of_lint 10mo ago
Yes, people should be good parents. But still, there's going to be many who are not. I would rather good parental controls existed to make it easier for people to be better parents. Yes, maybe parental controls don't make the diff
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by ball_of_lint 10mo ago
> Or pretend to be a stranger and try to befriend them, seeing if they fall for it? That seems like a great way to destroy any trust in you your child might have.
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by ball_of_lint 10mo ago
Yes, the internet has changed that much. https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-for-kids-videos-problems... Lots of people are in this thread saying "ah, just tell your children not to get groomed / not to watch
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by ball_of_lint 10mo ago
Touch is nice. And important for making social bonds.
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by ball_of_lint 11mo ago
The TL:DR of every "AI vs Schools, what should teachers do?" article boils down to exactly this: Talk with the students 1-1. You can fake an essay, you can't fake a conversation about the topic at hand.
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by ball_of_lint 11mo ago
You don't convince the teacher, you talk with the Dean.
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by ball_of_lint 11mo ago
I have had Turnitin flag my work as plagiarism for quotes from the relevant text that were quite clearly indicated as quotes. It's shit software for schools and teachers to cover their ass. Nothing more, and deserves no more attention.
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by ball_of_lint 1y ago
My opinion after using go professionally for ~2 years and repeatedly running into gotchas such as https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview is that it's just not a good language. A lot of people praise it for it's
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by ball_of_lint 1y ago
There's a little panel on the bottom right where you can change some parameters of the animation - setting twist high makes some interesting patterns. I wonder if that's intentional or left in from debugging the animation when it
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by ball_of_lint 1y ago
> helping people recognize the type of power they're actually wielding and use it more consciously lol, lmao even. I don't even think this would work if there wasn't capitalism in play. > Most importantly, we need to re
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by ball_of_lint 1y ago
Eslaught didn't mention survival, so Noman-land's rebuttal doesn't cover all cases of dread. I'm more trying to help him understand than directly refute his misdirected point. The feeling of dread isn't about how yo
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by ball_of_lint 1y ago
Even if this was true for neurotypicals (which it isn't) it wouldn't be true for neurodivergent folk. Can you hold a conversation next to a lawnmower? A jackhammer? A jet engine? At some point there's literally too much noise
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by ball_of_lint 1y ago
"Once you've read this book, then you can read a good book" (/s - I have read and enjoyed Infinite Jest. It's very reasonable for someone to not enjoy it though)
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by ball_of_lint 1y ago
> I own three houses > I could just about manage covering all the expenses You put literally all your income into non-liquid assets, taking on significant debt to do so. As you said, you had <5% of your income leftover at the end o
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
That would give you some string that contains all the permutations, but definitely not the shortest such string.
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum I'd much prefer a small amount of deflation to the massive inflation that USD is currently undergoing. And furthermore I think our economic system which encourag
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
This is a significantly less good piece of writing than many of his older essays. It can be as simple as that.
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
Oh wow, this puts words to an insight I've had and lived by for a long time. I think I'm not just a moral incompletist but also a moral inconsistentist. My take on the trolley problem is that while it's "best" in so
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
It's actually still not exactly right - should be "Either moral systems are incomplete, or they are inconsistent". Here's an example of a both incomplete and inconsistent Moral system: - Petting dogs is good - Petting ca
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
If, in an argument, you want to go back to the data and do different or better statistics on it then by all means. I would _love_ to have a disagreement with someone that went in that direction and we could discuss the intricacies of how to
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1732/ We've had in the last 100 years a temperature swing that usually takes a thousand years or more. We've already seen greater than +1C of temperature increase compared to before widesprea
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
I think it would be better to require a meaningful percentage (say 1%) of compression rather than an exact count of bytes. Especially while people can ask for arbitrarily large files.
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
I'm not familiar with the culture. Nothing in the challenge says anything about doing universal compression. In fact the key point I'm trying to make is that you _don't_ have to make a universal compressor or break entropy to
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
This strategy or something like it legitimately wins the challenge. The challenge (based on expected value) is not to find some compression scheme that will compress 100% or even 50% of files to less than their original size. Instead it&#x2
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
As you climb the engineering IC ladder your responsibilities involve larger and larger tasks and timescales. It's not possible to measure whether someone can make the right decisions about the architecture of a service as requirements
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
Sure, rephrased "die unnecessarily, again," https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/02/11/trumps-pol... I haven't said that America is perfect or innocent. And past problems don&#
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
The biggest problem is the legitimization of bigotry and hate in America. Dang, how many biggest problems is it okay to have? I can still think of a couple more.
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by ball_of_lint 2y ago
I think you misunderstand. A number of people from marginalized groups literally fear for their lives right now. That's based in reality, coming from Trump's bigoted rhetoric and the people he allies himself with. Whether you thin

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