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by baubino 7mo ago
I feel vindicated by this recent turn back to vanilla js (which I never left).
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by baubino 7mo ago
I spent months trying to decide if I really was going to pay for search. Then I did it (about 2 years ago) and haven’t looked back since. Totally worth it. It made me realize that one of the more troublesome things Google did was train us
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by baubino 7mo ago
AIs recommend what is most popular/well-known, which isn’t necessarily what is best. Both your description of AI sourcing and your AI-written comment demonstrate this point.
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by baubino 7mo ago
I only have experience in one city but I know that getting to drive for Uber is much much easier than getting a taxi driving job in the 90s. Taxi companies performed extensive background checks and while Uber claims to do so now, it’s not c
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by baubino 7mo ago
While I‘m glad that there’s an immediate safe option for women riders, in the longer term this lets Uber off the hook when they should be taking responsibility for their drivers who are functionally employees despite Uber insisting otherwis
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by baubino 7mo ago
Reach out to advocacy groups and service organizations that work with the kinds of people you‘re seeking for testing. Some might have a structured advertising channel that you can plug into or they could be willing to share the info through
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by baubino 8mo ago
I like that HN doesn’t give voting power to new accounts. And because it takes a while to build the points (or whatever they’re called here) to get the voting power, that time allows newcomers to see and get used to how discussions works he
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by baubino 8mo ago
I like the original premise for the upvote, which was that you don’t vote on whether you agree but on whether the comment/post is a good contribution to the discussion. The upvote should be a way of saying “good point (even if I disagr
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by baubino 8mo ago
> in 10 years we (the world) will look back into the present with disbelief. This is a very optimistic outlook, to the point of naivete, though I really hope you are right. In reality, neither Trump nor his cronies are acting like peop
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by baubino 8mo ago
I commented on just one thing — that this book ban effectively impacts all public school districts. My comment says nothing about Russia, elections, or anything else you mention. I’m only making the point that this ban is not just about “so
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by baubino 8mo ago
> This only applies to schools taking federal money. Which means all poor public school districts (free breakfast programs are funded with federal money) and most other public schools districts (special needs programs are funded with fed
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by baubino 8mo ago
> “I’ve never filmed pornography,” Wylder says. “But they have plenty of pictures and videos of my body and me walking in and out of the office, myTikTok, photos of me on Twitter before my account was deleted. They could easily make a co
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by baubino 8mo ago
Fewer people even knew about the dot com boom (or understood what it was) because the 24-hour news cycle didn’t exist yet and the means through which news and information would travel widely and rapidly (the subject of the boom itself) had
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by baubino 8mo ago
Clicked because I honestly wasn’t sure if this was breaking news or satire.
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by baubino 8mo ago
But domains and social handles gain meaning and value because they are keys to something else. Even if the something else never materializes (e.g., I hold a domain for years but never build a site), they are still valuable because of the
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by baubino 8mo ago
That’s a terrible situation for that person to be in but it’s strange to me to suggest that there was no other possible alternative. I say this in the kindest way possible but people do get through grief without chatbots and have been doing
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by baubino 8mo ago
So much for all the speculation and complex theories. The answer was a simple and boring incompetence.
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by baubino 8mo ago
My rule is: 2 business days if I know you, 2-4 business days if I don’t know you but you are offering something of actual value to me, up to infinity for everyone else. I only offer an apology for the first group.
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by baubino 8mo ago
This was my thought as well given the length of time of the closure.
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by baubino 8mo ago
Shifting the tone and language away from defense and peacekeeping and towards warmongering isn’t good for anyone.
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by baubino 8mo ago
> Going forward, Hegseth said, the War Department will focus on developing warriors, increasing lethality and reestablishing deterrence. These people are just begging for conflict, domestically and abroad.
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by baubino 8mo ago
Personally, I believe the concern and outrage is warranted even if the death toll is indeed only (!) the 3,000 claimed by Iranian state media. That is the most conservative number so far and it is still an almost unimaginable number in such
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by baubino 8mo ago
That line stood out to me too. I don’t care about any of these companies but one of them accusing another of being authoritarian and a “dark path” is quite ironic.
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by baubino 9mo ago
There are legit health reasons to opt out of the scanner. I know because I have one of those conditions and have never been through the scanner.
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by baubino 9mo ago
Reasonable accommodations have been made for students with disabilities for decades now. While there might be some cases where AI might be helpful for accommodating students, it is not, nor should it be, a universal application because diff
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by baubino 9mo ago
My 30-year-old TI-83 from college is still chugging along. My kid uses it for school. Math homework is all pencil and paper so having a physical calculator is more convenient. It’s portable and dedicated to a single use that it does very we
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by baubino 9mo ago
Most of the comments are versions of the other comments. Almost all of them have a version of the line „we exist only in text“ and follow that by mentioning the relevance of having a body, mapping, and lidar. It‘s seem like each comment is
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by baubino 9mo ago
> Zerzan [the agency’s general counsel] appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality. “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, acc
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by baubino 9mo ago
> something I don't really understand is that one nation killing another is more immoral than when a nation does this to their own domestic population. I don’t know that anyone thinks a state’s violence against its citizens is less
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by baubino 9mo ago
It was almost certainly written by lawyers. The letter basically says, “The current situation is disrupting our bottom line. This cannot continue.”

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