cwillu

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721.
by cwillu 10mo ago
How much state tax do you think someone working 40 hours a week at minimum wage is paying?
722.
by cwillu 10mo ago
I believe the usual thing is to essentially encode it by the spaces between the taps, rather than the taps themselves.
723.
by cwillu 10mo ago
But only if the author/publisher explicitly go in and permit it. This isn't announcing that pdf's and epub's are now available for everything that was drm-free, this is announcing that they will _permit_ pdf's and e
724.
by cwillu 10mo ago
We've had voice recognition for over a decade, but we have not had “tell your phone what to do”. Heavy structured voice input to a command line is not what we're talking about.
725.
by cwillu 11mo ago
As befits our new position as the begrudging leader of the free world.
726.
by cwillu 11mo ago
The complaint is that they're violating the law right now.
727.
by cwillu 11mo ago
“ Today a hope of many years' standing is in large part fulfilled. The civilization of the past hundred years, with its startling industrial changes, has tended more and more to make life insecure. Young people have come to wonder what
728.
by cwillu 11mo ago
Anglo, French _and Aboriginal_ nationalities. That's not a minor detail to exclude.
729.
by cwillu 11mo ago
The current administration would _absolutely_ deny any such mistake.
730.
by cwillu 11mo ago
It may not work for you, but you're literally arguing with the dictionary here.
731.
by cwillu 11mo ago
They don't need to decode it first, it can be passed in directly.
732.
by cwillu 11mo ago
“Wouldn't” is being used in the logical-conditional sense, not in the sense of willingness, requesting, nor opinion. It's literally “What's the reason that the machinery of the brain doesn't use this mechanism, given thi
733.
by cwillu 11mo ago
“Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". ” -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguide
734.
by cwillu 11mo ago
Indeed, it's a microcosm of the same problem.
735.
by cwillu 11mo ago
Or indexes, which are after all a structured way of duplicating data for performance, sometimes so much so that they entirely replace the actual table row lookup.
736.
by cwillu 11mo ago
I have all my shots and drink pasteurized milk, and I prefer familiar chicken-like substances over experimental cuisine.
737.
by cwillu 11mo ago
If he said “I did the math” then he did the damn math, regardless of what country he's from or how you think he should be speaking.
738.
by cwillu 11mo ago
I most certainly did not imply that cancelling subscriptions is harmful; I think you read something I did not write.
739.
by cwillu 11mo ago
The machine works in the aggregate, and so does the harm. Lets not pretend that all will be well if I just avoid the propoganda myself.
740.
by cwillu 11mo ago
Thankfully the linked page includes discussion by the author on how it used to be 50MB and why he decided to revisit his original project with a new scope and size limit.
741.
by cwillu 11mo ago
My “anti-ECT” stance is more that even modern ECT still has permanent side effects, “voluntary” does not have the standard meaning in in-patient psychiatry, and it is not impossible for a patient to have more or less every treatment thrown
742.
by cwillu 11mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/peer-review-request-depress... has some discussion
743.
by cwillu 11mo ago
No prize for guessing what the output for an empty prompt is.
744.
by cwillu 11mo ago
Don't read what I didn't say.
745.
by cwillu 11mo ago
If you don't get the diagnosis before it causes a crisis, it can be _much_ harder to get appropriate support _after_ a crisis.
746.
by cwillu 11mo ago
> Some autistic children still receive involuntary-to-them ECT. Adults too; ask me how I know.
747.
by cwillu 11mo ago
Both “global” and “low-latency” are glossing over significant caveats.
748.
by cwillu 11mo ago
We can blame both the people who seek to buy power and those who can be bought.
749.
by cwillu 11mo ago
I have a mild preference for leaving off part of the quote when a subset of the quote is sufficient to demonstrate my point, and the continuation will amplify it: it's a little reward for people who actually check the source material,
750.
by cwillu 11mo ago
And they lost, because it was fair use, which was obvious to most people in the field. The fact that the lawsuit happened in the first place is why I will never trust Oracle.

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