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by dissent 9mo ago
> I cringed while reading his many comparisons between people of different regions, as if they were species of finches Only because we know better now. It must have seemed self evident at the time and we can forgive Darwin for making tha
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by dissent 11mo ago
This reminds me of the Harvard Implicit Association test, particularly the gender career one. It will tell you if you implicitly associate certain careers with certain genders. Since the overwhelming majority of, say, auto mechanics, are he
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by dissent 11mo ago
You're arguing in favour of OP there. For most of the past 10 years we've seen the liberal left celebrating this kind of McCarthyism. They normalised it, raised the stakes, and now it's being leveraged by the traditional acto
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by dissent 1y ago
This sounds suspiciously like the "noble savage" myth perpetuated by imperialists during the colonial era. Guessing which context you intended your comment to be read in, I can't help but find that a little ironic.
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by dissent 1y ago
Aware of the US distinction, and it's mostly sensible. I believe in the US you actually can yell "fire" in a crowded theatre and if nothing happens, you'll be given the benefit of the doubt. As it should be. Anything els
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by dissent 1y ago
Then that'll be factored in as intent and they'll be held accountable for the consequences - not the speech itself. The important part is that yelling "fire" is fine if the entire theatre laughs it off.
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by dissent 1y ago
Some people broke the law, and the poster can be held accountable for successful incitement. It's not the post that broke the law per se. You can yell fire in a crowded theatre. Just hope you don't cause a panic or you'll be
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by dissent 1y ago
I've never set foot in the USA, but from an outsider looking in, it seems like academic integrity was sidelined by ideology during that period. Once this has been normalised, it's not difficult for a competing ideology to move in.
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by dissent 1y ago
That's not entirely true. It just moved the work somewhere else, generally an Apache config on a shared host. The user could very often just dump some PHP files in place and they'd be served up, but if you had to set up a new host
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by dissent 1y ago
Anybody is free to agree or disagree with that as they see fit. You yourself qualify them as "trans women", after all. However, you can accept them as "real women" without that automatically entitling them to participate
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by dissent 1y ago
That's an American legal distinction. Free Speech is a value
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by dissent 1y ago
Are people, developers included, who feel threatened with the loss of their income to AI, any different to the Luddites? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite Genuine question. I'm trying to find a difference, but
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by dissent 1y ago
I had the opposite thought. That it was the most difficult of things to replace with AI, and that the eagerness to do so was driven by non developers who see it as an expensive cost centre that is holding them hostage. Where I work still us
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by dissent 1y ago
The theatre thing ought to be contingent on harm being done as a result of yelling "fire". This is a natural consequence and there isn't a law against the speech itself because none is needed. Otherwise it's the same as
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by dissent 1y ago
Is that not a rather pernicious idea? That I may or may not be punished based on how the recipient of my speech "feels"? Why can't the rallies be permitted while policing the violence if and when it erupts? Banning the rallie
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by dissent 1y ago
Even that's a slippery slope. If I was to say publicly "death to all agile practitioners", it's up to interpretation whether I'm serious or not. I deserve the benefit of the doubt, which is traditionally how it&#x27
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by dissent 1y ago
I dunno, this whole idea of "hate speech" or even "hate" being something prohibited feels like a sleight of hand. I'm sure it's been said before many times, but it's so easy to subvert and weaponise this a
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by dissent 1y ago
Point #2: Say nothing behind another's back you'd be unwilling to say, in exactly the same tone and language, to his face. This has essentially been shut down in the modern corporate workplace, at least in the Anglosphere. The ove
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by dissent 1y ago
It's less than I'd like to play at, but wasn't the point that it is great for something running on laptop hardware with integrated graphics? The implication is it would have been similar on native windows on comparable hardwa
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by dissent 1y ago
The article reiterates the facts about the notions of race and essentialism. The context is that the far right are leaning on historically harmful, scientifically inaccurate, and honestly, kind of absurd ideas about "race". Having
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by dissent 1y ago
That's the point really, you can generate JSON or YAML and it doesn't really matter. If you want to include 100 similar objects in that output, you can use a for loop. You can't do that in plain JSON/YAML.
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by dissent 1y ago
There are probably two use cases. Configuration files for programs. These tend to be short. DSLs which are large manifests for things like cloud infrastructure. These tend to be long, they grow over time. My pet hypothesis is these DSLs exi
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by dissent 1y ago
I reckon if this is really a big concern for anybody, then they are probably writing way too much YAML to begin with. If you're being caught out by things like this and need to debug it, then it maps very cleanly to types in most high
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by dissent 2y ago
Perhaps it is not ideal, and you carry some expense and risk to yourself and the business by doing so, but in some organisations the constraints are so absurd that the competitive advantage you get by doing this and breaking the rules highl
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by dissent 2y ago
I use an Android phone by preference. There are faster and more powerful laptops on the market, but they are not better, and calling some of them laptops at all is a bit of a stretch. Apple have a vertical that is very difficult to compete
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by dissent 2y ago
You are correct that the word "best" doesn't appear, but this was their meaning. These laptops are superior - you cannot buy anything better from another vendor at any price, period. The gap will likely close, but it's a
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by dissent 2y ago
OP actually says it's the best laptop, not the computer, or even laptop, with the most powerful compute.
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by dissent 2y ago
This is all well and good, except we all know the current zeitgeist is to go to any length necessary to frame absolutely everything in terms of race. As a reader, it's hard to distinguish between that and genuine academic interest. I n
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by dissent 2y ago
It's a culture that has grown up around a dominant platform that had little or no security built in. Where I work, Windows is heavily locked down with all sorts of security junk on it, but iOS gets by with minimal MDM.
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by dissent 2y ago
I go the other way, it's absolutely their fault. Their historical business model of monopolizing the enterprise while outsourcing security is at the root of all this. The same thing could happen with Crowdstrike on other platforms, but

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