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by bsder 8mo ago
My favorite open source projects still have zillions of open bugs. Lots of projects are shutting down accepting external contributions because the PRs are so terrible. Wipro still isn't bankrupt. Cheerleading is nice. Seeing the bug
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Teacher-centered and direct approaches cope quite well with greater class sizes, but again they're unpopular among teachers. Cite. All research I have seen completely contradicts this. The limitation with larger class sizes is no
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Why are big changes not arrived at by first gaining experience with them in in some reduced scale Because the results that come back are always politically inexpedient to agendas--generally for all sides. Examples: 1) Charter schools:
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Honestly, the costs are so minimal and vary wildly relative to the cost of a developer that it's frankly not worth the discussion...yet Is it? Sure, the chatbot style maxes at $200/month. I consider that ... not unreasonabl
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Gosh there's a lot of corollary evidence pointing to his guilt but this is likely going to become more and more common and force the use of a lot more technical forensic resources. Nah. People who do something like this can'
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by bsder 9mo ago
Andrew Carnegie funded a whole lot of stuff we still enjoy today. He was still a piece of shit and responsible for a lot of people winding up dead. Gates has always been a piece of shit. For example, when Paul Allen got diagnosed with can
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by bsder 9mo ago
In addition, there is a vast difference between say tennis, a sport, and chess, a purely mental activity. A child prodigy in tennis may find that their body didn't grow in such a way to be a pro as an adult. If your opponents are ta
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Linux people are very resistant to this, but the future is going to be sandboxed iOS style apps. Linux people are NOT resistant to this. Atomic desktops are picking up momentum and people are screaming for it. Snaps, flatpaks, appi
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by bsder 9mo ago
> I don't even understand how a title transfer could happen without verifying ownership. Centralized vs decentralized isn't relevant. The issue is that nobody wants to have one of the icky humans in the loop because they have t
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by bsder 9mo ago
> For sovereignty purposes, airgapped software or locally made software is as good as open source and it's usually higher quality. I don't agree. Even if proprietary software is somehow "better" (and I don't con
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by bsder 9mo ago
I like humor, however, for the peanut gallery who might not get sarcasm: Every credible scientific study of women and guns in the last two decades strongly indicates that a firearm in a woman’s home is far more likely to be used against her
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Sounds to me like that found a valueable use for their land and got rid of the low value things you really enjoyed... That would be the case if the storefronts didn't just wind up remaining empty. Empty commercial real estate is
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by bsder 9mo ago
Erm, what would you propose as an alternative answer? Presumably women are giving those creepy drivers bad ratings, and yet they are still on the road. So, that's clearly not working. Sure, the US should fix their transit system, but
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by bsder 9mo ago
> NLNET can only allocate funds to something an individual or small group proposes. If you want to propose something, please go ahead. Well, gee, let's look at the sponsorship page for KiCad: https://www.kicad.org/sp
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by bsder 9mo ago
As someone who has taught CS before, I just wanted to say thanks for doing all this for your students. They don't understand how much work you are putting in, but I'd like you to know that at least one other person does. Thanks f
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by bsder 9mo ago
"He did it, too" is an argument that 2 year old children make and should be accorded the commensurate amount of regard. Decreasing the number of bad actors by one is is worthwhile even if ninety-nine still remain.
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by bsder 9mo ago
Intersection calculations from computational geometry. Intersection calculations generally require about 2*n+log2(n) bits. If you like your CAD accurate, you have to operate in integer space.
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by bsder 9mo ago
> the issue is with specifically US politics and social issues being everywhere. It drowns out all attempts at discourse for anything else Unfortunately, US politics also drives tech issues elsewhere like the EU. For example, local dat
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by bsder 9mo ago
How on earth can you say that with a straight face? > Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understate
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by bsder 9mo ago
And which an LLM/AI model can apply the huge training set of Lisp/Scheme to help solve your problem. Nixlang is so infuriatingly obtuse that I generally have to fire up Discord and bug the local Nix acolyte when something goes wro
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by bsder 9mo ago
Please tell me that he does realize that when something bad happens, that Waymo car has all the footage that it is his fault? Something in people's brains often makes them think they are anonymous when they are driving their car. Th
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by bsder 9mo ago
And I would be VERY interested to see if that increasing NFL revenue was due to people spending more hours watching/attending or because the NFL have a ton of deals with all the online gambling sites whose revenue is going apeshit. M
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by bsder 9mo ago
Gaussian splatting is the current rage and also side steps tessellation.
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by bsder 9mo ago
The general public, as a group, cannot identify quackery . People died from bleach and horse dewormer to prove this. The continuing career of Mehmet Oz also demonstrates this. There will always be more malevolent actors looking to take
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Our society's morbid, irrational fear of quack medicine It is not an irrational fear. Brandolini's Law applies: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produc
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by bsder 9mo ago
> But he has structured it in a way that prevents the money from helping this goal. I suspect it's worse. It's structured in a way that will probably harm the goal. The money will go to people who somehow already managed to ma
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by bsder 9mo ago
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct. However, most people don't know the difference between the proper Moore's Law scaling (the cost of a transistor halves every 2 years) which is still continuing (sort of) and
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by bsder 9mo ago
> Not sure if it's an American pronunciation thing It's a bad American pronunciation thing like "Febuwary" and "nuculer". If you pronounce the syllables correctly, "an-ec-dote", "Feb-ru-ar-y&q
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by bsder 9mo ago
> The "hitting a wall" / "plateau" people will continue to be loud and wrong. Just as they have been since 2018[0]. Everybody who bet against Moore's Law was wrong ... until they weren't. And AI is the
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by bsder 9mo ago
1) The problem with teaching is that "filler" often isn't. Teaching is art and not science in spite of what so many tech folks think. If I'm teaching a hard subject, I don't know a priori what will click with each

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