darby_eight

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by darby_eight 2y ago
> Even if some of them are based out of Dubai now Not to mention there's not much reason to trust UAE any more than there is to trust Russia.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
> Great example of why I don't like the trend of calling licenses like this "open source" when they aren't compatible with the OSI definition. Open source was always a way to weasel about terms, that's why it&#
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by darby_eight 2y ago
No, telegram is especially concerning given how insecure it is by default.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
It also helps that we now just have spam covering content and slowing our computer down inside the window. Hell, many publications will even get you to pay for the privilege.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Man, this comment made me die inside. The future is bleak as hell.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
> Anecdotally, I think anyone who reads HN for a while will realize it to be a negative, cynical place. I don't think this is particularly unique to HN. Anonymous forums tend to attract contrarian assholes. Perhaps this place is mor
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Liking the aesthetics of fitting in with the proles does not mean they could survive
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Why would anyone use chatgpt if it spams you? The second it recommends me a product i'm issuing a chargeback.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
This implies one's being upper class is a reflection of having better habits than the poor, which is incorrect. They just have more money. Rich people could not survive poverty.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
This seems really cool, but also a nightmare to maintain. What are the plans for keeping this in sync with the upstream codebase?
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by darby_eight 2y ago
> As far as I know, book publishing isn't a high-margin business. E-book publishing certainly is or there would be more bullet points to add to my comment above. The only way this could not be the case were if they were addicted to
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Why would they not simply use lidar in the cars themselves? Besides, I imagine many of the issues with vision (e.g. adverse weather) could not be addressed with training-time data.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Why would they not simply use lidar in the cars themselves?
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Yo-yo tricks could be pretty punk I imagine
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by darby_eight 2y ago
What value to publishers actually provide? 1. Marketing 2. Floating financing for editing, rendering, etc. Did I miss anything? This just seems like the same 'ol trope of leveraging capital to take future returns wildly disproportionat
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by darby_eight 2y ago
You don't need to retrofit, you can just build a reasonably-featured car to begin with. I imagine most people just want a corolla with a battery (or cheaper).
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Don't you mean the opposite? Surely the crime comes from the financial instability. I don't see how you could address the crime without addressing the financial instability.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
This can be instrumented by the compiler or more likely runtime to detect buffer overruns. Imperfectly of course if you share the page(s) with other allocations but it's worth considering.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
So much for capitalism providing an efficient market
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Actually i'm asserting precisely that misinformation deals in lying about trivially disprovable statements about the universe. If "reality" is open to interpretation i'm dealing with a bad-faith actor and I'm not go
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by darby_eight 2y ago
It may not be difficult, but it's an additional layer of requirement. Defense in depth baby!
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by darby_eight 2y ago
> The end result is not ideal and the OP acknowledges this, but I'm not seeing where the "rather twisted conception of property" is coming from. I'm just noting the continued slide from wholly owned property to buying
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by darby_eight 2y ago
> "contrarian political opinions" That is not the same thing as misinformation. One deals in reality, the other in opinions.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
I think what apple landed on—i.e. the ISO 639-1 2-character language code represented as an icon—is just about as optimal as you could get. (I supposed also supporting 3-character ISO 639-2 codes would be even better.) But finding any flag
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by darby_eight 2y ago
Also a big fan of AM radio in vermont, but the flipside of this is that it's been used to peddle misinformation for decades.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
> However, it was not intended to provide unbiased, expert advice to advance the Department of Homeland Security’s mission. What does unbiased security advice look like? Even the term "security" is itself loaded with bias about
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by darby_eight 2y ago
If you have to distinguish this sounds like a rather twisted conception of property to begin with.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
There's a simpler solution: rich (read "developed") nations can simply pay poor countries to not use coal or other carbon-emitting processes.
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by darby_eight 2y ago
> It has very little to do with "capitalism", just that there was a much larger and more efficient market around, eager to take over Great! Where can i buy coke in this glass?
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by darby_eight 2y ago
It just seems descriptive, I don't think there's any implication of a particular benefit. More description = more reason to click on link.

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