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by em500 7mo ago
This also works persona: emotionless vulcan
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by em500 8mo ago
> I'm worried that this will lead to a Prop 65 [0] situation, where eventually everything gets flagged as having used AI in some form. This is very predictably what's going to happen, and it will be just as useless as Prop 65 o
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by em500 9mo ago
Most of these studies get published based on elaborate constructions of essentially t-tests for differences in means between groups. Showing the opposite means showing no statistical difference, which is almost impossible to get published,
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by em500 9mo ago
Non-tech people tend to think similarly about developers, breaking things that worked fine until yesterday / last week / last month, for no user-visible benefit.
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by em500 9mo ago
Here's John Cochrane take on Fed vs Narrow Banks: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/03/fed-vs-narrow-ban... TLDR: Cochrane thinks the Fed wants keep a lid on narrow banking because it believes it can cr
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by em500 9mo ago
Rather than leaving some oblique references to "many good books", why not provide the actual references?
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by em500 9mo ago
"Production" can mean many different things to different people. It's very widely used as a backend strutured file format in Android and iOS/macOS (e.g. for appls like Notes, Photos). Is that "production"? It
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by em500 9mo ago
Sorry for my negativity / meta comment on this thread. From what I can tell the stackexchange discussion in the submission already to provides all the relevant points to be discussed about this. While the asymmetry of least squares wil
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by em500 9mo ago
I'm believe /sbin was introduced/standardized in System V Release 4. It's present in SVR4 (1988) but not in SVR3 (1987). Another candidate is would be some old BSD (check 4.2 or 4.3 (1986) if anyone has a running system)
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by em500 9mo ago
macOS has all of that (mostly inherited from NeXTSTEP which was significantly based on 4.3/4.4BSD). It's hidden by default in the GUI, visible in Terminal. Nowadays most end users just use /usr/local or /opt/lo
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by em500 9mo ago
This is Unix V4 from 1973. The total number of installations world wide was around 20, all inside Bell Labs. There was no networking support at all, so security was mostly physical, i.e., office building security (though you could dial in w
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by em500 9mo ago
Yes. AFAICT, catering to the needs of tourists ranks very low among German voter priorities.
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by em500 9mo ago
I'd reverse the question ask why Germany (or any other country where English is not an official language, and does not majorly rely on tourism for income) would provide any public information in English? Commercial services can choose
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by em500 9mo ago
Deutsche Bahn is completely state owned, UK rail is privatized. They're both pretty bad. China's new high speed rail is state owned, while the Japanese network is largely private. They're both far better than UK and Germany.
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by em500 10mo ago
What are you looking for exactly? And what issues did you hear from others who grew up in China? Most of the historical / political events (Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution) are fairly accurate, while personal / family exp
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by em500 10mo ago
I thought they pivoted to RISC-V https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V#Strategic_background
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by em500 10mo ago
Almost everywhere the issues with housing boil down to 1) location constitute a large part of the value and desirability, 2) substitutability between houses in different locations is limited, 3) the most desirable locations will have the st
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by em500 10mo ago
> Sure the 4,995 unemployed might be able to afford the gizmo, but the state does not receive the same taxes. So what happens to those 4,995 unemployed people ? who is paying for their health benefits and social security (retirement) ? S
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by em500 10mo ago
- Almost everything on blogs and HN are opinions, so don't take things things too seriously - Fun and humour are subjective, and a substantial part derives from novelty and subvertin expectations. It's hard to make something fun f
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by em500 10mo ago
Do you have some better alternatives for a country where private mental health care costs €150/hr, while the government/insurance paid care have 3-6M+ waiting lists?
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by em500 10mo ago
This essay seems to be missing the main primary references for literate programming: https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/literate-programm... https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth&
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by em500 10mo ago
Yes, marketing often works via fear. And decision making in organizations often works through blame shifting and diffusion of accountability. So organizations will just stick with centralization and Cloudfare, AWS, Microsoft et al regardle
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by em500 10mo ago
If there is a significant mismatch between what people are looking for and what manufacturers provide, why would some other manufacturer not jump in to capture the underserved demand? It doesn't seem like there's only a very smal
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by em500 10mo ago
At high level, WSL2 provides a single optimized VM and Microsoft-compiled Linux kernel. Optimized here means that the VM only provides a small set of devices to the Linux kernel, and the kernel operates with exact known hardware, which is m
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by em500 10mo ago
That entire library/dataset is less than 5Mb compressed, which is barely larger than the size of modern commercial websites. An entire bible in uncompressed plaintext is only about 4Mb (compressed about 1Mb). Computers can really handl
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by em500 11mo ago
Is Devuan not an option? It's explicitly advertised as Debian without systemd.
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by em500 11mo ago
> Honestly I can’t quite believe mlc works at all, let alone qlc. I do wonder why there’s no way to operate qlc as if it were mlc, other than the manufacturer not wanting to allow it. Manufacturers often do sell such pMLC or pSLC (p = ps
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by em500 11mo ago
Elementary schools without any kitchen or cafeteria, kids bringing meals (bagged sandwiches) from home and eating at their desks, is still the standard in probably 95%+ of the elementary schools in the Netherlands in 2025. It's not cle
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by em500 11mo ago
In the Netherlands no elementary schools have any cafeteria, kitchen or lunch area at all. Kids bring their own lunchbox, with usually some sandwiches, fruit and water, and eat inside the classroom.
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by em500 11mo ago
I did pretty much the same thing, after I observed that they'd always land on the railing first before hopping into the balcony. A thread worked very well as a deterrent. I guess they're just picking someone else's balcony no

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