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by fao_ 4y ago
I love that feature, if it prevents a number of hackernews from posting on or joining fedi, it's working as intended imo
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Urbit – A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century (2016)(urbit.org)
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by fao_ 4y ago
Oh, let's not forget this zinger! > MockObject 4 months ago | on: Being black in tech is exhausting > I am a minority, and I am furious that my advancement is besmirched > with the asterisk of the possibility of
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by fao_ 4y ago
Honestly? Don't bother. You're not going to get through to a place that doesn't instaban people who have posts like: > frontman1988 7 days ago | on: On Aging Alone > 40 is the prime age for men. You can easily
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by fao_ 4y ago
My question was unironic, because to date there have been a large amount of issues resulting from black people using e.g. Zoom's autobackground, and it detecting them as the background, because black people were not featured in the tra
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by fao_ 4y ago
I mean the obvious question here is... how many BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) do you have in your training sets?
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by fao_ 4y ago
> Some commentary added by a random law firm does not mean that guaranteed outcomes == no need for litigation and courts. But it would appear that you expect us to believe that some commentary added by a random hacker news poster means
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by fao_ 4y ago
Yep. A significant fraction of MENSA are in fact "underachievers" -- due to mental illness or poverty or something else. source: several relatives are members
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by fao_ 4y ago
> If you think that secure cryptography in the browser is a joke then feel free to earn $10,000 by hacking ProtonMail.[0] You'll be laughing all the way to the bank, and actually helping to improve the security of millions of people
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by fao_ 4y ago
You cannot solve social problems ("how do i know I can trust X") with technology. meta-code-verify is itself vulnerable to the trust chain. You trust Mozilla/Chrome not to alter the version you install from their store. You t
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by fao_ 4y ago
> most people had no cell phone, no mobile phone, and never, ever suffered mishap as a result. never??? How do you possibly have enough information to know that?!
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by fao_ 4y ago
I wonder what the chance is that the model has been inaccurately trained and is basing itself on the periodicity of the taps.
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by fao_ 4y ago
Unrelated but wrt. modern rendering versus 90s rendering I'd imagine that a lot of the performance shims used in the 90s might not apply because the critical problem is different. Performance based development these days isn't so
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by fao_ 4y ago
Congratulations! You are the only person to have ever used the word "eugeroytidue" :)
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by fao_ 4y ago
"Takes Ritalin" and "Has a prescription for Ritalin" are two different things. A friend at Uni in the US said they had to get a locked box for their ADHD meds because otherwise they would just have been stolen -- and tha
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by fao_ 5y ago
As a parallel, I'm not sure how Elon Musk would turn SpaceX into PayPal.
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by fao_ 5y ago
Why have cameras at all?
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by fao_ 5y ago
> If you can't afford to run something forever, you probably shouldn't advertise it as free forever. Sorry, what do you mean by "forever" in this instance? 10 years? 20 years? 50 years? 100 years? 200 years? 500 years
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by fao_ 5y ago
To be honest, I'm just baffled that this guy apparently saw "6 gigabytes of storage, free, forever" and his immediate reaction wasn't "Wow, that has to be a lot of data, I wonder how long they'll be offering th
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by fao_ 5y ago
Sure, but all this misses my point that these are comparisons. This is what has happened with other technology in a similar ballpark of "we know how to do this, we can (technically) do this". You're arbitrarily selecting for
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by fao_ 5y ago
Wage slavery is a fact and inevitability of capitalism
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by fao_ 5y ago
> First, a fusor is a bench-top nuclear fusion device. The main downside is that no one has figured out how to get more useful energy out of it then we put in. So probably not what you had in mind. > Of course, it's also a comple
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by fao_ 5y ago
I mean, sure, I guess you can do that. But a basic Makefile does this too. So does every other build system on earth.
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by fao_ 5y ago
> intrusive ideological messaging Would "Martin Luther King Day" also be intrusive ideological messaging? What about "Christopher Columbus Day"? I'm interested on where the line is here for you.
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by fao_ 5y ago
I'm kind of surprised there was no code caching. I compiled the linux kernel on an X200 in the last year or two and essentially there was a wait of 1 - 3 hours for a minor change. 3 hours if you build from scratch, 1 hour if you do a m
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by fao_ 5y ago
> If they can't afford it as a basic cost of doing business, they can always close. This 100%. It reminds me of the similar issue of zero-hour contracts and living wages. One person I know complained that putting restrictions on zer
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by fao_ 5y ago
> The big tdd misunderstanding is to believe that it provides good test coverage. Have you considered that, because TDD is a design practice (a 'meta-design') for writing code, there is no "one correct" interpretation
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by fao_ 5y ago
This is what the Game of Thrones TV show proved: overall the show should not be considered a masterpiece, even though the early seasons seemed good at the time, since the stories they were telling mostly led nowhere.
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by fao_ 5y ago
As I have argued elsewhere -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929745 ADHD is a neurophysiological defect , and cannot be changed by just trying to "will" it away or by doing certain lifestyle changes. Gran
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by fao_ 5y ago
> As i said, brain swelling from the surgery. Which constitutes brain trauma! > Which wasnt the case, it worked and he collected his dataset with his ancient hardware till it had to be removed again. Unfortunately as others have point

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