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by dctoedt 11mo ago
Unlocked gift article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/math-ken-ono-carina-hong-axiom-s...
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> why Aussies call the English Poms Many years ago I read that it's POME: Prisoner of Mother England, now shortened to just "pom."
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> If your build pipeline is anything more than a monkey scratching bits into a spinning disk using a needle, you are a fraud. Obligatory XKCD cite: https://xkcd.com/378/
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My first thought was to wonder whether it was a Linux offshoot.
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> We also don’t have real adversaries, that’s war propaganda. Granting for the sake of argument the (gravely-unrealistic) premise, we have to "skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it is" — the father of hockey
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by dctoedt 11mo ago
I loved Word Perfect 5.1 for MS-DOS (I wrote an emacs keyboard emulator for it). And when Windows 3.1 came out and everybody was moving from MS-DOS, most of our lawyers said, "of course we should move to Word Perfect for Windows, it&#x
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Under Article VI, Congress creates the lower federal courts (and so can limit those courts' jurisdiction); the Supreme Court has explicit "original jurisdiction" (i.e., it's a trial court) in a very-limited number of t
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by dctoedt 11mo ago
> I need to capture and circulate this claim that I'm a "very obvious leftist" to my friends and acquaintances. s/leftist/Catholic/g; (in a good sense)
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> The job of banging together reasonably serviceable form of shelter isn't that expensive. It's only expensive if you have to jump through a lot of hoops to use certified designs, materials, etc. deal with inspections, use exp
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> You can’t undo racial discrimination against someone who is now dead by discriminating against someone else who is now alive. A better way to look at it: We can and should try to mitigate the indirect, generational disadvantages of
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> So why don’t we build some damn factories then? Our infrastructure stack is woefully outdated and yet all we seem to be funding is AI and other SaaS. The short answer: 1) Veto power vested in too many NIMBYs, in various flavors; and
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by dctoedt 1y ago
In the law school contract-drafting course that I teach, students read about "Combat Barbie" as a way of giving the other party's contract reviewer something to ask to be changed. https://www.contract-rpm.org&#x2
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> you can provide all the proof you need to discount the government narrative and prove yours That's backwards: The burden of proof is on the government to show that the prerequisites have been met for invoking the Insurrection Ac
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by dctoedt 1y ago
>> Are you claiming a lack of gun / AI control is democratizing? > This is obviously the case. It results in a greater distribution of power. That's the theory. In practice, it doesn't work. Most people don'
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> doesn't this cause a loop that hurts regular people? I've seen this described as "a race to the bottom."
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by dctoedt 1y ago
KSON? (I'm a complete ignoramus in this area but recently read about KSON in a piece posted here at HN.) https://ochagavia.nl/blog/configuration-files-are-user-inter... https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> most of the things the OP likes about email make it a nightmare from a legal perspective Former litigator here: The late Dr. Randy Pausch mentioned this in his Last Lecture; IIRC, he urged people to keep all their emails. [0] That ca
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Then why didn’t the drafters just stop with the first sentence of Article II?
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Sigh. "Executive power" implies the question, execute what, exactly? Whether you take a textualist or originalist view, obviously the answer is, execute the enumerated duties , including "take Care that the Laws be faithf
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> Sir Berners-Lee Nit: The Brits say "Sir Tim." </pedantry>
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-homicide-rates-in-t...
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by dctoedt 1y ago
FTA: The misuse of antibiotics was a big reason for the rise — unfinished or unnecessary prescriptions that didn’t kill the germs made them stronger. Not my field, but IIRC this is misleading: When an unfinished or unnecessary antibiotic
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> not just what's best for ourselves but what's best for all of us One can paraphrase the Summary of the Law (Luke 10:25-37) as, Seek the truth; face the facts; seek the best for others as for your self .
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by dctoedt 1y ago
TBL's book's title is "This Is For Everyone" — taking out "This Is" here seems inapt.
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by dctoedt 1y ago
> This is probably the most ironic post I read in quite a while. [¶] TLDR: brain washing is dangerous, we don't have headspace due to Trump oh and btw Trump is hitler. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive. (But no, Trum
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Spaced repetition promotes learning.
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Apple used AI, heart study data for Watch blood pressure feature(reuters.com)
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In the Episcopal Church (of the U.S.), and doubtless in others, my understanding has always been that wedding ceremonies are just as open to the public as any other church service. [0] (In contrast, the reception would be a private event.)
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by dctoedt 1y ago
Zoom FTW, big-time.
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Certainly social- and economic considerations were factors in the southern white migration to the GOP. But it was no coincidence that Ronald Reagan gave a(n in)famous "states' rights" speech in Mississippi in his 1980 presi

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