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901.
by fn-mote 2y ago
Dated is right. The invention of the Tidyverse freed new R programmers from 126 pages of gotchas. Tell them to learn to use the tidyverse instead. For most of them, that will be all they ever need.
902.
by fn-mote 2y ago
You are neglecting to explain why your assignments themselves cannot be done with AI. Also, this kind of fatuous response leaves out the skill building required - how do students acquire the skill of criticism or analysis? They're doin
903.
by fn-mote 2y ago
> had to award them 0s for assignments, which was heartbreaking You should feel nothing. They knew they were cheating. They didn't give a crap about you. Frankly, I would love to have people failing assignments they can't expla
904.
by fn-mote 2y ago
Hopefully someone is thinking about adapting the assessments. Asking questions that focus on a big picture understanding instead of details on those in-class tests.
905.
by fn-mote 2y ago
The ACLU has authoritative advice [1]. The article about electronic device searches [2] explains that the government claims the right to search devices without a warrant at the border. > U.S. citizens cannot be denied entry to the United
906.
by fn-mote 2y ago
> This is mind-boggling, the CPU alone almost basically makes the full price. In what world is this an efficient allocation of resources? The world in which diagnosis (plus risk of incorrect diagnosis) is done at $200/hour. Obviousl
907.
by fn-mote 2y ago
With animals this is normally called a "breeding program". For example, some dogs are bred for intelligence. Edit: Historically, there were "hunting birds" kept by the wealthy. Even today, but they are much more rare tha
908.
by fn-mote 2y ago
It’s not JS in the message. It’s the JS of the GMail page.
909.
by fn-mote 2y ago
> because nearly everything here uses phone+2FA as login Here in the US we only wish things were that secure. Unless by 2FA you mean “code sent via SMS”.
910.
by fn-mote 2y ago
Many technically adept people on HN acknowledge that they would be vulnerable to a carefully targeted spear phishing attack. The idea that it would be carried out beginning in a post on HN is interesting, but to me kind of misses the main p
911.
by fn-mote 2y ago
> If your city has 20,000 people sign up for text alerts, each alert you send is going to cost you $200 The city texts are fine, but you can see during campaign season that $0.01 is WAY WAY below their per-voter spend for their ad campai
912.
by fn-mote 2y ago
>> Is there anything they could have done differently in the past decade or two to have broader sympathy now > not used race to discriminate on certain out groups ( https://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issu
913.
by fn-mote 2y ago
Once they get you hooked, they can match you with the other whales. Until then it's just training your reponses even when it costs them 300 fluffmarks.
914.
by fn-mote 2y ago
> they're paying me a ridiculous amount of money to do a job I enjoy > It's a deal that 99% of the world is envious of, and I don't think it should inspire bitterness and cynicism First of all, I think it takes a lot of
915.
by fn-mote 2y ago
Translation: scammers get the green light.
916.
by fn-mote 2y ago
It's only "reproducible" if you find other 555's mixed in the shipment but not distributed to students. Depending on what the error rate in the shipment packing is, that might be very easy or it might be quite hard. At a
917.
by fn-mote 2y ago
> I don’t know why lists as values in a container would be confusing. The GP makes it pretty clear - the misunderstanding is that there is one value in a container. A list has many.
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by fn-mote 2y ago
> that kind of slip can also be easily avoided That PARTICULAR slip can be avoided. Avoiding all slips is equivalent to airtight OpSec, which more people on this platform are familiar with (= not happening).
919.
by fn-mote 2y ago
I agree with my sibling commentors, but I want to point out for people who do not go read the comment: this is not the off the walls Linus rant of the past. This is a very even-handed response where Linus tells people to calm down, that the
920.
by fn-mote 2y ago
> one might come to the conclusion that Europeans see Americans through the lens of reporting and social media Heck, Americans see Americans through the lens of reporting and social media. Look at the incredibly polarized climate. Why
921.
by fn-mote 2y ago
Seriously? That doesn't require a human?! Are we talking about some kind of "generic" incident? (Type 3: forgot to manually update the xxxx file.) Or what's going on?
922.
by fn-mote 2y ago
The most interesting part of the short agreement is that there was exactly _one_ objection to the settlement. I guess most people don't care or there wasn't enough of an argument for them being compensated in this particular case.
923.
by fn-mote 2y ago
The vocabulary requirements for "Proof Designer" are certainly higher. This repo is closer to an intro to automated theorem proving than "Proof Designer" is (imo). Less math, more programming. Note: Proof Designer has an
924.
by fn-mote 2y ago
Start with: import List import Nat
925.
by fn-mote 2y ago
Except for the first paragraph, I couldn’t tell if you were talking to an incompetent junior or an LLM. I expected the lack of breadth from the junior, actually.
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by fn-mote 2y ago
> Some people can debug. Some can't. Some people can write tests. Some can't. Wait… really? No way do I want to work with someone who can’t debug or write tests. I thought those were entry stakes to the profession. People whose
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by fn-mote 2y ago
Because it's not particularly targeted to benefit certain companies.
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by fn-mote 2y ago
> I'm paying not to avoid ads, but I'm still seeing paid promotion... It seems like you have shifted from having a problem with the platform to having a problem with the content producers. Can’t win?
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by fn-mote 2y ago
> Doesn't work if what you want is against their interests. There’s a world of difference between “against my interest” and “worth my effort”. Soft power could help in that gap. I’m not actually sure we disagree - this is more of an
930.
by fn-mote 2y ago
I agree that this article isn't doing something for me. It barely covers the important points of what _should_ be done, and spends a lot of time lampooning bad approaches to documentation. I also found the metaphor of "the black t

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