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by chownie 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing I don't really have much of a response beyond this.
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by chownie 1y ago
On the latter point, couldn't disagree more. He's saying "fuck you" to the product, not the person, and unilaterally removing extant features to paywall them imo is poisoning the well far more than a simple FU to a devel
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by chownie 1y ago
For the most part this HN community is comments bolted on to content from different websites, we call this a community with no issues. I don't think it's a stretch.
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by chownie 1y ago
Has anyone else noticed the extreme dichotomy of developers using AI agents? Either AI agents essentially don't work, or they are apparently running legions of agents to produce some nebulous gigantic estate. I think the crucial differ
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by chownie 1y ago
> C genuinely is easy to pick up. I feel like this is a bit of an https://xkcd.com/2501/ situation. C is considered easy to pick up for the average user posting HN comments because we have the benefit of years -- th
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by chownie 1y ago
The web is straight up a weaker, worse more closed off experience post-flash, so I'm not sure that this engenders the kind of response you had envisioned but now I'm worried about xslt.
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by chownie 1y ago
On the other hand, when you want to get some plan funded, something which will help real individual people, it is going to be conservatives first in line to block such a thing from coming to fruition. Public libraries are an example of some
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by chownie 1y ago
From the LLMs perspective, "let me check the docs" is the invocation you say before you come back with an answer, because that almost certainly appears in the corpus many times naturally.
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by chownie 1y ago
If "just persuade them with your good ideas" was a workable solution it would've worked at least once by now, instead the means of persuasion are owned by psychopaths who continually convince the public to vote self-destructi
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by chownie 1y ago
Nah, we're just handling national security, healthcare, banking and social welfare. We're of course allowed to make oopsies, and since we're not a real engineering profession we're never held accountable :)
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by chownie 1y ago
If anything, we're not responding to this enough . If we were civil engineers it would be shocking for the public to learn that we are sometimes ordered build the bridges terribly on purpose, for something like the purpose that it inf
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by chownie 1y ago
> You seem rather emotionally wound up in all of this. There is no reasonable response once you turn the conversation into this, please don't do that.
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by chownie 1y ago
This is by definition a critical comment which teaches something, ie if you don't present viewers with pertinent information about your project, they cannot take an interest in your project. I think it should be noted that both GP and
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by chownie 1y ago
So obvious yet no one else has claimed the same definition.
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by chownie 1y ago
If anyone else is reading along, the throwaway account is also lying about this (shocker!) You'll open link to find a website that does not at all claim math is racist, but instead claims that it has been unequally taught for years. Wh
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by chownie 1y ago
Nah, there's at least a comparison to be made with a concrete actual thing (the nazi party) -- "woke" in 99.9% of its current usage has no meaning whatsoever beyond a nebulous "this is what they think" type connot
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by chownie 1y ago
Migrants who move to the US skinny on average gain weight, and these are people who have good eating habits and willpower. When 30% are obese and 60% overall are overweight, willpower and individual responsibility are not the tools for the
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by chownie 1y ago
Australian. "Crims" isnt said much in the UK, for us that's "thugs" or "yobs".
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by chownie 1y ago
Of course it goes without saying, the ecological niches and evolutionary adaptations different species earned through 50m years of CO2 lowering, they can obviously just do it again if we were to drastically change the CO2 numbers over like
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by chownie 1y ago
You can restore the URLs but you don't get page state, that draft you couldn't save because Firefox suddenly stopped loading new pages? Completely gone. The point is that this is poor default user experience, and it should not be
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by chownie 1y ago
Can a man support a family of 5 on minimum wage in Australia, or did it stop working?
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by chownie 1y ago
Unfortunately I'm not a chameleon, so I can't magic it up on my skin mid-conversation. We communicate verbally, I need a name or I can't talk about it.
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by chownie 1y ago
The half-nationalised half-privatised system you're suggesting isn't that far off the UK's approach, which results in almost zero maintenance, no on-platform support for disabled people and fares so high that people fly to ot
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by chownie 1y ago
That is, to me, blindingly obvious in that it says to interrogate your own interests, not to interrogate others? My original "this is basically off topic" still applies. If we revisit the original thread comment it doesn't re
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by chownie 1y ago
"why do you like this?" != telling someone why they like said thing, this is basically entirely off topic
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by chownie 1y ago
Transport is often a natural monopoly, rails almost always. There's no way to run that as a private market because no one can meaningfully compete.
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by chownie 1y ago
N=1 but I'm colourblind and frequently I need to talk to someone about a UI colour while not having any idea what the colour is called, this kind of thing is useful for me.
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by chownie 1y ago
It isn't universal, my phone gallery doesn't support webp at all by default and the windows gallery only supports non-animating webp from what I can tell?
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by chownie 1y ago
The last high profile case of this (the Oblivion "body type" one) was accompanied with a kiwifarms link by the uploader. It was a link to a thread in which users were competing for how many trans people they could encourage into c
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by chownie 1y ago
Yes! Thank you! This is actually the perfect example, because that mod wasn't removed and the author was banned after he specifically said he was making the mod for the purpose of upsetting trans people. Even better with the context th

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