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by efitz 2y ago
So you’re saying that forcing a treatment on people that don’t want it, is a fair price to pay to reduce inconvenience for others? I’m not sure what your anecdote proves because I’m wholly in support of a polity being able to make that deci
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by efitz 2y ago
Why is a one-size-fits-all state intervention that assumes or targets the least responsible people appropriate? Why is it appropriate especially in light of many people actively opposing the intervention? These are questions about what is t
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by efitz 2y ago
I was thinking the same thought- maybe we should fluoridate Brawndo :-)
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by efitz 2y ago
It is trivial today to get whatever level of fluoride is recommended for dental health, via toothpaste. So there is no compelling need to fluoridate as there exist viable alternatives to achieve the same that fluoridation is for any other
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by efitz 2y ago
Sometimes they do it because it’s contractually required if they want to get access to proprietary standards, for example to allow them to play copy-protected content. Copyright and patent have morphed into evils that drive anti-consumer an
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by efitz 2y ago
https://archive.ph/zs37l
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Doxxing, 1770 Style(reason.com)
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by efitz 2y ago
Thank you. I stopped reading after the octal discussion.
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by efitz 2y ago
A long time ago on the 6502 I was trying to figure out how to quickly multiply by 3 in assembly and I came up with: 1. Shift-left 2. Add original value For multibyte values use rotate left which carries, and do the rotates from LSB to MSB.
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by efitz 2y ago
Practically all software that matters is already Linux only. That happened 15-20 years ago as a combination of “cloud” and “SaaS”. Android and iOS apps, with the exception of games, are usually just thin presentation layers around cloud ap
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by efitz 2y ago
If you want people to return to the office, then make the working conditions at the office desirable to return to. Yes, free meals, interesting spaces, massage rooms, etc are all great perks. But you’re there to work, and the reality is ho
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by efitz 2y ago
What kind of data set are you trying to build using the dependency information from collected toml files, and what do you intend to do with it?
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by efitz 2y ago
Remind me in X number of days.
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by efitz 2y ago
Most of the ones that are profitable for cloud providers.
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by efitz 2y ago
The security in this scenario comes from the fact that the two people met in person. The one-computer solution is a little suspect IMO because it could have exploited some protocol weakness and inserted itself as a MITM. A better solution i
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by efitz 2y ago
I actually think about it a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540862#42542151
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by efitz 2y ago
Most people have an intuitive sense to ask themselves questions like "If I do this, will someone be harmed, who, how much harm, what kind of harm, etc.", that factors into moral decisions. Almost everyone, even people without a mo
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by efitz 2y ago
There is no correct answer for this; it’s a highly personal preference. A lot of people prefer purity of grammar; these are the kind of folks who demand coding style guidelines and will be very unhappy if you violate their preference. They
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by efitz 2y ago
On a recent AllIn podcast[1], there was a fascinating discussion between Aaron Levie and Chamath Palihapitiya about how LLMs will (or will not) supplant software developers, which industries, total addressable markets (TAMs), and current ob
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by efitz 2y ago
Thank you Liz Cook for this brave and important research! Love the writing style.
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by efitz 2y ago
Try buckling all your back seat belts. Recently US cars are required to annoy you if back seat passengers are not buckled in; many (most?) manufacturers are not putting in weight sensors to see if there are rear seat passengers present; th
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by efitz 2y ago
Learning command line options is like learning hundreds of DSLs. It gets worse when you have to learn more, or different, sets for different platforms, like Linux vs MacOS. Unices, by design, intend for you to compose many of these, so you
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by efitz 2y ago
Unattributed hearsay is not useful in any rational debate. It is effectively just veiled ad hominem.
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by efitz 2y ago
What everyone needs to understand about [reasoning] LLMs is that LLMs can’t reason. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229
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by efitz 2y ago
Germany (and the entire EU) are complete hypocrites about data privacy. “Privacy for me, but not for thee” appears to be the operative principle. And it’s completely random. Transnational businesses have to expend enormous time and effort
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by efitz 2y ago
I think that the first question to ask oneself is "why do you want to learn assembly language?" If you want to learn to write programs in assembly language or to debug disassembly of programs written in higher languages, then lear
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by efitz 2y ago
> End the child tax credit and extra tax exemptions for being (straight) married Agreed.
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by efitz 2y ago
US law has the concept of "civil contempt" to address willful lawbreaking of this sort. At that point executives risk jail time.
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by efitz 2y ago
Kudos for adopting a user friendly billing policy. I would love to see the FTC mandate a policy that prohibits automatic renewal billing if the service hasn’t been used for some time.
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by efitz 2y ago
I am not talking around the issue; I am just not accepting your framing that moving these people into men's prisons puts them in any danger over and above the danger of being in a prison. I agree that there are dangers in prisons. But

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