brobdingnagians

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by brobdingnagians 2y ago
But the presumption that we should be policing speech is not necessarily correct. Making it cheaper to do a thing which ought not be done is no real benefit to humanity.
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by brobdingnagians 2y ago
Just spitballing, but couldn't you have a new device login as three fields, username, password, and encryption key? Then if you don't add the encryption key you don't get the history, but still access the account. Then if pas
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by brobdingnagians 2y ago
I know someone who was asked what the lowest they would take was, they answered honestly and then got screwed over by immediately being offered that exact number. The company had a much higher budget. If a company asks you that question, ru
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by brobdingnagians 2y ago
A difficulty now is that we have morality police on both sides who believe strongly that they are right. And each side believes they are purveyors of uncomfortable truths for the other side. Both sides also believe in censoring their oppone
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
If you work with them long enough it becomes second nature to read them, and then it is easier to manipulate and compose them. The rest of the context is the background knowledge to understand the pithy core equations. Papers are for explai
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
Having on and no both be Boolean literals, but of opposite values sounds like a horrible decision, a typo doesn't result in a syntax error, but instead in a completely wrong semantic misconfiguration.
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Just Write the Parser(tiarkrompf.github.io)
3 points by brobdingnagians 3y ago|0 comments
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
I had this crazy idea to write an MMO server using Seastar with ScyllaDB and try to fit a huge isometric RPG shard in one server. It seems that modern servers could handle that load and have some interesting possibilities with a unified ser
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
YouTrack by Jetbrains is very good
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
For me, they've been easier to administer and more reliable. I've had some running for years with minimal maintenance and they just keep chugging along with no security issues and all of the utilities I need out of the box.
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
I've read some analyses of the F35 vs A10 which don't favour the F35 for CAS operations much. The main thing I saw was that F35 requires more maintenance and longer runways than the A10 and is more fragile. It depends on what kind
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
How do drones get around the issue of communications jamming? I suppose they have some way (autonomous would be one way), but it seems to me that if communications are cut off, having a pilot with human judgement to respond to changing cond
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
Really the board needs to go as well; someone pointed out that the founder of Iron Source is now on the board of Unity. The CEO has been in place since 2014, but recent changes were probably motivated by recent board members joining. I&#x2
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
A better comparison would be the median of both (not average); especially in the context of a young person deciding what their odds of improving their circumstances are by going to college. A quick search looks like median for bachelor&#x27
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
If I'm not mistaken, I think attendance at conferences is sometimes required as hours to keep up to date in medical practice. Not sure though.
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
Which means Disney will know I'm not watching their films at all. Their loss, I guess.
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
Expansion into space would help mitigate a lot of things, and the more population pressure, with the accompanying increase in labour, the more likely that expansion is to take place. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech&#
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
In Europe, English uses the UK flag, in the US it is usually the US flag. I wonder if a similar thing happens in Brazil with Portuguese, etc? Or what it would be for a Quebec company for french?
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
This might be quibbling but true democratic process could be interpreted as direct democracy where the law is directly voted for and people give a specific assent to the law (which ancient Athens did do). This is more of a democratic republ
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
In the West, any attempt to debate science is declared to be anti-science, which eventually suffocates science. Conformity to the party line is the ticket to funding (from the political establishment) and acclaim. Are there anti-science peo
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by brobdingnagians 3y ago
"It has erroneously been described as the first instance on American television of physical contact between a black man and a white woman,[26] forgetting many previous instances, including Frankie Lymon dancing with a white girl on Ala
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
We should look at why our society has such high levels of mental illness, stress, and dysfunction. Putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound or having self medication become standard isn't a real solution, the underlying problems persist. I
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
What comes to mind is having someone with access to production who can replicate the type of data involved in a problem without the details that violate privacy. Though in some cases that is half of the debugging work done right there figur
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
This is more of a philosophical musing, but your comment did make me think-- is it also a reflection of the shallowness of a lot of contemporary social events and rituals? People used to get together, do a barn raising, work together, have
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Similar with fly.io, I have an application running on there and pleasantly surprised they don't even charge if the amount is under $5/month. I've been very happy with how easy it is to deploy and with the hosted Postgres. I&#
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
It might be just as likely that ChapGPT will cause a mistake like Knight Capital because no one bothered to thoroughly verify the AI's looks-good-but-deeply-flawed answer, and the two aren't mutually exclusive possibilities.
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Have you ever met a kid who was excited about doing math the Common Core way? One of the issues with Common Core Math is that it really teaches children to jump through the hoops of diagramming the way the book says to do it (and that way i
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
This should probably be flagged, if I'm not mistaken. It is as out of place here on hacker news as an article about drag queen story hour or the school children's book assignments with fellatio. It is partisan and highly selective
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Opportunity for a startup to start selling these, however niche that might be...
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Sadly, these sorts don't seem to have names like "The Good Fathers" come to mind first

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