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by bsder 8mo ago
> The first generation of programmers counted more women than men. I have heard this before, but you need to back that up with more qualifiers. There were a lot more female plug technicians because women were trained as phone operators.
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by bsder 8mo ago
> We should give up with the idea of databases which are 'open' to the public, but you have to pay to access, reproduction isn't allowed, records cost pounds per page, and bulk scraping is denied. That isn't open. I d
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by bsder 8mo ago
> enabled cyberbullying The problem here is that adults do not take bullying seriously and they take cyberbullying even less seriously. This is the fairly standard problem that we do not apply the existing rules and laws online with the
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by bsder 8mo ago
> I think looking at the data you’d have to conclude that women can’t play chess as well as men, that black men can’t play chess as well as white men, and that Judeo-Christian (and perhaps Hindu Brahmins) beliefs are just as indicative.
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by bsder 8mo ago
Because SaaS at the corporate level is about liability transfer first and any value or functionality is a distant second.
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by bsder 8mo ago
> The only people who think that destroying useful items is a good idea are those who would stand to lose money from it; either by having to pay a tiny fraction of their massive annual revenue for responsible recycling services Some of u
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by bsder 8mo ago
> Ageism also just one of these shitty unproven biases You might be right, if we were talking about anything except chess. Chess, unlike everything else, has a clear ranking system and lots of records for people to analyze. And unfortun
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by bsder 8mo ago
Everyone has an agenda. The question is whether they are also reporting facts . This is the particular thing I care about. If I can count on their facts, I can mostly subtract their agenda. See: https://app.adfontesmedia.com
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by bsder 8mo ago
Is it more likely that no one is speaking the truth, or, more likely, to you, the truth looks like an agenda?
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by bsder 8mo ago
> As an american, grocery checkout queueing always angered me. It should, because practically everywhere in the US does it wrong. There should be a single entry queue that distributes to the multiple handlers. Instead, you wind up wit
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by bsder 8mo ago
It looks weird because the frequency is plotted linearly instead of logarithmically like our ears are sensitive to. When plotted in a log scale for the X axis, the distributions look correct.
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by bsder 8mo ago
> Cynically, this is classic product management: simplify and remove useful information under the guise of 'improving the user experience' or perhaps minimalism if you're more overt about your influences. Cynically , it&#
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by bsder 8mo ago
The trick is to separate your codebase into "code I care about that I give the AI a fixed API and rarely let the AI touch" and "throwaway code I don't give one iota of damn about and I let the AI regenerate--sometimes co
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by bsder 8mo ago
> If you got what you're asking for you'd presumably lose access to any fixed function hardware. Are there any fixed functions left that aren't just being implemented by the general compute shader hardware? I guess the ray
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TIL. And that petrified mud wasp nests can be used to date things. Wild. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optically_stimulated_luminesce...
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by bsder 8mo ago
> I'm still reeling at how very much chip consolidation the world's gone through. All of it should get stomped flat, but since we don't actually believe in anti-trust enforcement in the US anymore ... Rather than thinking
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by bsder 8mo ago
As I understand it, the primary advantage of Bazzite is that it handles "odd" (read: "nVidia" or handheld) hardware out of the box properly. If you have normal hardware, something like like Fedora Kinoite should be mostl
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by bsder 8mo ago
As much as I like to slag on CAFE, we have been here before . Automakers simply hate making affordable cars. MBAs extol "Number must go up! BRRRRRRR!" and you cannot do that with cheap cars. Remember the 70s? What did the big
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by bsder 8mo ago
Sure, there are things like "Really, how do superconductors work?", but nobody (mostly) believes that understanding things like that requires "new physics". And, I think, most people would place that kind of stuff under
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by bsder 8mo ago
Theoretical physics progresses via the anomalies it can't explain. The problem is that we've mostly explained everything we have easy access to. We simply don't have that many anomalies left. Theoretical physicists were bot
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by bsder 8mo ago
> Honestly, this is HN and founders should pay attention to this. People don't want to host their own shit, they want a one-click easy switch. All of these alternatives have baggage. I mean, come on, this is, what, a couple hours of
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by bsder 8mo ago
Maintaining a following distance is going to be one of the things that improves dramatically once self driving cars are widespread. Self-driving cars simply don't care that someone cut them off, they'll just happily open up ext
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by bsder 8mo ago
I'll believe it when I see them export it. We have seen the "YYY Miracle" before. Invariably it winds up that someone is cooking the books (getting low performing kids to quit school, giving out the tests, etc.) and a bunc
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by bsder 8mo ago
> But it's also the case that PE also tends to come in when a company is already troubled in some manner. The problem is that PE also has a nasty habit of coming into a business that is marginally profitable but not spectacularly so
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by bsder 8mo ago
Sure, we have complex systems that we don't know how everything works (car, computer, cellphone, etc.) . However, we do expect that those systems behave deterministically in their interface to us. And when they don't, we con
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by bsder 8mo ago
That just means you cling to your wrong ideas with the same tenacity as your correct ones. Someone very famous who predates social media had words for you: "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolu
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by bsder 8mo ago
The problem is that "partisan" doesn't automatically mean "wrong". People wield "the middle" as if it is some magic incantation that makes them correct or immune to criticism. In fact, it is generally the
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by bsder 8mo ago
How? The install was just sitting there and there was literally nothing I could do while it just ground and ground. I'd love to know what to do differently in case I have to do this again.
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by bsder 8mo ago
Fusion is cloud-only, as well, annoyingly. I'd love to have a Linux-based 3D CAD program, but the open source ones just aren't up to scratch. I've tried using FreeCAD, but it still scrambles things topologically (for example:
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by bsder 8mo ago
Agreed. I had the version of Notepad++ that got popped and was being nagged by Fusion 360, so I decided to burn everything down, get a new SSD, and install a copy of Windows 11. Holy sh*t! I haven't had this bad a Windows install exp

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