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by foldr 1mo ago
By that semantic argument, we needn't worry about the far right gaining power because any party that wins an election cannot possibly be far right. Genius!
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by foldr 1mo ago
Allow me to extend my sincere sympathies. PCB debugging is honestly one of the most intense experiences I've had in my life (and I don't even have a boss looking over my shoulder). It requires intense physical and mental concentra
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by foldr 1mo ago
As tomhow points out, you are likely going to need more than just a multimeter. However, the hard part isn't whipping up a board that's 90% of the way there; it's the last 10%. I'm currently on revision ~11 of a hobby pr
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by foldr 1mo ago
I agree with your point, but UK students also have to get very high grades in standardized national exams. That’s by no means a perfect measure of intelligence either, but it’s not something you can just blag your way through in an intervie
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by foldr 1mo ago
Yeah, I think there are lots of places that have a semi-official preferred AI vendor but also some backup subscriptions floating around. For example, at my workplace, we generally use Claude, but I also have some kind of Codex subscription
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by foldr 1mo ago
"I don't know".
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by foldr 1mo ago
That can only be true for a definition of 'elite' that excludes the Eton and Oxford educated Prime Minister of the day and the majority of his government. So I mean, yeah, some people wanted Brexit. If those people had some sort o
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by foldr 1mo ago
We're talking past each other because you only care about your own research needs and apparently can't see any value in opening access to documents which other researchers might need. I am not a historian, but even so, it's n
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by foldr 1mo ago
The UK government usually publishes explanatory notes together with the text of the bill itself. It's quite feasible to read these if you're interested in the details of a particular piece of legislation. E.g. https://w
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by foldr 1mo ago
It works better with an informed electorate. However, one of the reasons that voters don't bother informing themselves is the campaign of cynicism aimed at convincing them that all political parties are the same, that their vote doesn&
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by foldr 1mo ago
Britain leaving the EU purely because a majority voted for it in a popular vote is a pretty bad example to use in support of the claim that democracy isn't real. It's probably this sort of vague cynicism about democracy that led C
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by foldr 1mo ago
Yes, you can make a non-intrusive UI for that. Indeed, website creators can do that right now, with existing technology and compliant with the GDPR as-is. The question is how do you prevent the annoying UX without making overly technolo
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by foldr 1mo ago
Ok, but their post talks about making a product in small volumes. It doesn't explicitly say that it's a small business, but together with the first person singular language, that's definitely the impression given. Also, their
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by foldr 1mo ago
I take your point. It would be nice to have a header that effectively just automatically canceled all the consent pop ups for you. But there are still some issues. 1) You'd have to find a way of writing the regulations without baking i
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by foldr 1mo ago
I don't think so. The most natural reading of OP's post is that they are outside Europe. You wouldn't say "I can't imagine how much this affects small business in Europe" if you were yourself running a small bu
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by foldr 1mo ago
The do-not-track header is a nice idea but could never have worked. The GDPR is based on the idea that you can only store certain data about users if you have their consent to do so. Bearing in mind that most users have no idea what a heade
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by foldr 1mo ago
These are just general barriers to international trade, though. Small manufacturers in Europe may likewise decide not to design for US regulations.
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by foldr 1mo ago
With 512GB of RAM, it may finally be feasible to run both Slack and Teams.
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by foldr 1mo ago
'Research' includes subjects such as history, where old documents are important for obvious reasons. Besides such cases, I gave a concrete example above of a paper from the 90s that's available online because JSTOR scanned it
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by foldr 2mo ago
One interesting feature of vibe coding is that it allows you to write code in specialized areas where you have no expert knowledge. That makes the code effectively impossible to review in any useful way. For example, I have a vibe coded Pyt
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by foldr 2mo ago
At present I don’t see individual contributors making any significant contribution towards scanning old academic journals. Why would this change in the future? There was at least a decade where the technology to enable this existed, and whe
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by foldr 2mo ago
Anna's Archive is primarily a meta search engine. I see that they've put out a call for volunteers, but I don't think any significant part of their archive consists of volunteer scans. As to your 'why' question, we&
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by foldr 2mo ago
The majority of HN traffic originates from the US and Europe, and in both places a clear majority of the population identify as Christian. So, there are almost certainly quite a lot of Christian programmers here.
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by foldr 2mo ago
So, this discussion started with me saying that: > [JSTOR is] a non-profit that scans old journal articles that would otherwise be a huge pain to access You'd think that would pretty obviously include the vast swathes of material
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by foldr 2mo ago
Practically speaking, no-one is going to scan centuries' worth of historical journal articles for free. And JSTOR isn’t really an entity outside the research community; it’s a non-profit that grew from within it.
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by foldr 2mo ago
Sure, we’ll scrape journal articles from the 1950s from the authors’ websites... Many more recent articles also aren’t available on the authors’ websites, such as the one I linked.
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by foldr 2mo ago
SciHub mainly redistributes scans of print archives made by JSTOR and other organisations. And it does not have everything that JSTOR has. For example, this paper is not, as far as I can tell, available on SciHub: https://www.jst
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by foldr 2mo ago
Hmm, no. In the case of old print journal archives scanned by JSTOR, it's JSTOR paying the cost of the scanning.
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by foldr 2mo ago
JSTOR provides digital access to print journal archives. That's useful to anyone who wants to read an old journal article without going to a physical library. I used to have to go to the library, dig out the relevant issue of Linguist
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by foldr 2mo ago
Beats me what you're talking about, then. The literal answer to your original question is that people use SciHub and Library Genesis because they're free. But they're free because they infringe copyright. Maybe Swartz was opp

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