beej71

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   by beej71 2y ago

   The "algorithm" in social media discussions contexts on HN refers to an algorithm that is optimized to keep your eyeballs on the site. It does not refer to a dumb algorithm that is showing all posts in chronological order. The not
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   by beej71 2y ago

   One thing I can't figure out here is that none of these are harming me, and yet I didn't believe I'm elite. I live in a 1000-sq-ft standard house, drive a 25-year-old car, and make $98k annually. A relative of mine lives in a
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   by beej71 2y ago

   > should be considered a bug Should be, but isn't. At least not in a practical sense.
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   by beej71 2y ago

   Thanks for posting that link. It's a must-read followup.
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   by beej71 2y ago

   > is that people pick and choose what they want to believe Pretty sure this is SOP for basically every religion. :)
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   by beej71 2y ago

   Yup. Walked to school alone when I was 5. Eternally grateful for having that freedom as a kid.
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   by beej71 2y ago

   I dispute that random people have no reason to lie. There's a ton of money to be made blogging lies, for one thing. Notoriety, attention...
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   by beej71 2y ago

   And it's so just as "factual" now. People trust the pundits giving ill-thought-out opinions and distrust the anchors delivering the news.
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   by beej71 2y ago

   I remember the government asking them to do it, but have no recollection of them being required to do it. I do, however, recall Trump pulling White House press passes and threatening to cancel broadcast licenses. P.S. Go after Hunter all yo
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    by beej71 2y ago

    > When you cannot trust the media any more because they are no longer one of the last checks on government overreach and influence I'd argue you can't trust them because of the First Amendment. They have a lot of leeway to say
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    by beej71 2y ago

    As an author of free online books and POD books, I wholeheartedly second everything in this post.
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    by beej71 2y ago

    I went back to using my cell number for exactly this reason. My Google Voice number still works, but I don't want to risk it getting locked out for no reason. I have stopped using Gmail, Google One, and Google Voice. I still use photos
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    by beej71 2y ago

    New Orleans population never recovered.
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    by beej71 2y ago

    I think someone who really respected the institution wouldn't snatch a Justice appointment away from another President.
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    by beej71 2y ago

    I agree. I think Democrats should have let Trump win unopposed in 2020. Then he could have dealt with the global supply chain crisis, had inflation attached to his name, been a hero for getting it back down again, etc. And then he'd be
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    by beej71 2y ago

    I am! You're welcome. :)
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    by beej71 2y ago

    This was absolutely my take, as well. I was wondering if I was looking at some Tom's guide knockoff. And I still don't trust ChatGPT with facts. I do use it as a starting point for research, but then I switched to [my preferred pa
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    by beej71 2y ago

    Moving an item to the trash in Android TB (IMAP) doesn't seem to actually move it on the server. Webmail still shows it in the inbox. I see it in the trash in Android, but it refuses to let me move it out of the trash there, saying, &q
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    by beej71 2y ago

    Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin. If you decide to play it, I recommend *not* reading about it first; just jump in for maximum effect. https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Tangle.z5 https:/&#x2F
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    by beej71 2y ago

    I was wondering if the EU decides to do this first, maybe it'll be such a fiasco even the US will be sensible enough to not follow in their footsteps.
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    by beej71 2y ago

    On the plus side, the games most in need of archiving take up a relatively small amount of space. Old CP/M and Commodore-64 games are so small you can easily store all of them on a cheap disk. The more people who have complete archives
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    by beej71 2y ago

    I give IA money every month, and I encourage everyone to do the same. I understand that the current state of copyright put them on thin- to no-ice. But that shouldn't be the case, IMHO. It's a net gain for the universe to let th
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    by beej71 2y ago

    The CMF is big, but maybe this is part of what TFA is talking about. From Chapter 8 pp. 28-30, https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/ ------ Some students will be ready to accelerate into Algebra I or Mathematics I
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    by beej71 2y ago

    I feel like I'm missing something, too. I use iTerm and XFCE Terminal... Speed is something I never think about in my usage. I tried going back to Xterm just to see how blazingly fast it was and I couldn't really tell much differe
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    by beej71 2y ago

    And such coders should carry malpractice insurance.
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    by beej71 2y ago

    All you have to do is come up with a better model. How flawed the best model is is irrelevant. We use the best model.
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    by beej71 2y ago

    > You can change the teacher:student ratio and still improve the number of educated. If you think this is false, then anything beyond 1:1 tutors is bad. Anything beyond it isn't bad, per se, but it is less optional.
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    by beej71 2y ago

    Can't remember where I saw the quote: the goal of misinformation is not to get people to believe the misinformation; it's to get them to believe nothing.
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    by beej71 2y ago

    Whenever I hear something like this, I wonder if the Chevron ruling allows the EPA to do things like this...?
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    by beej71 2y ago

    Here's a story from my divorce 25 years ago. We were having an easy divorce, and so we used Nolo press to get it done. But it was difficult to know what forms actually had to be filed in our case. So we went to the clerk, and said, out