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by foldr 5mo ago
>There were other near accidents before due to the exact same problem, the problem was well understood, and the changes needed to solve it was known. Could you be more specific here? The article doesn't even say which problem Airbus
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by foldr 5mo ago
>If you get offered a chance to ride on the rocket ship, you don't ask questions you just get on This doesn't even work as a metaphor. I absolutely would not jump on the chance to ride on a literal rocket ship without asking a
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by foldr 5mo ago
Fair enough. Yes, it is in the linked document. I agree that's sufficient. I was responding to people suggesting that Mozilla didn't need to declare this at all.
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by foldr 5mo ago
This isn't only happening in Europe: https://ondato.com/blog/florida-age-verification-law/ The real answer to what's going on is one that HN doesn't like to consider. It's simply that a lot of
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by foldr 5mo ago
I said that they should have declared the conflict of interest, not that they shouldn't have made the statement.
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by foldr 5mo ago
The foundation does get some of its funding from the corporation, though.
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by foldr 5mo ago
It’s better to hide conflicts of interest? (Edit: I don’t disagree with Mozilla’s position, but failure to declare an obvious conflict of interest undermines their credibility.)
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by foldr 5mo ago
Same way I can tell that my next door neighbor isn't poisoning my water supply or that Tesco doesn't have a secret chemical weapons program. That major supermarket chains are running scam charity appeals just isn't a hypothes
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by foldr 5mo ago
You're overthinking this. There's a publicity element to it, but the money just gets given to charity, like they say it does. It's not a conspiracy or a tax accounting trick.
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by foldr 5mo ago
People started depending on GitHub more. Do people really think it was more reliable when it was a sprawling RoR app in 2010? (Not that there’s anything wrong with RoR; people just didn’t expect such high uptime back then.)
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by foldr 5mo ago
I think the future is pretty up in the air in this respect, but my guess is that AI will just lead to another shift in the set of knowledge that a 'real programmer' is expected to have. I'm old enough to remember when people
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by foldr 5mo ago
It's probably somewhat worth it because some people will never notice the debit.
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by foldr 5mo ago
The Turing test isn't a test for whether a machine is conscious but whether it can think.
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by foldr 5mo ago
> an essentially non-deterministic statistical code generator that might get you what you want, and might do it in a reasonable time frame, and that might not land you in a minefield of short-term-good/long-term-bad design points. S
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by foldr 5mo ago
They apply to products that a company ships to the EU, yes. As another poster points out, these could (in principle at least) be seized at customs if they are noncompliant.
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by foldr 5mo ago
I get the jealously part, but the highbrow part seems off to me. Brooker has always shown much more interest in distinctly lowbrow art forms such as video games. I don't think he is sneering at Banksy because he thinks we should be loo
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by foldr 5mo ago
Well yes, but so does Banksy :) (Also, if you're familiar with Charlie Brooker's output, he's not really a 'highbrow' type. He started out in games journalism.)
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by foldr 5mo ago
As shown by this savage Charlie Brooker takedown: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/sep/22/arts.v...
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by foldr 5mo ago
I’m not sure how I’d respond if someone asked me that question. It’s a bit like asking “is America run by white men”? I mean, yes, in a sense, but also no.
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by foldr 6mo ago
Is it really the case that GitHub had fewer issues in its early days? Or have our expectations just increased as GitHub has effectively become a critical piece of infrastructure? Go back to 2010 and half the functionality that people are co
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by foldr 6mo ago
Yeah, I actually wasn’t aware that axolotl was an established English word, so I was more in your hypothetical “Chinese village” mindset.
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by foldr 6mo ago
AI tools can certainly fail to fix bugs, but if you’re consistently finding them of minimal use for debugging, I’d say that you’re either working in a fairly niche domain or that you’re maybe not fully exploiting the capabilities of the too
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by foldr 6mo ago
There aren’t any hard and fast rules about how to pronounce loan words. I agree on that point. In your original post, though, you seemed to be entirely dismissing the option of pronouncing the word according to an English approximation of i
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by foldr 6mo ago
It’s not a misconception that the English word ‘chocolate’ exists and that there’s a particular history of how that came to be the case. I think, reading the thread again, I didn’t make it clear that the sentence you quoted was talking abou
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by foldr 6mo ago
What I meant is that it would be weird for an English speaker to have views on how Nahuatl words should be written using Nahuatl orthography, since different languages obviously have different orthographic conventions and associate differen
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by foldr 6mo ago
I think the disconnect here is that I actually wasn't aware that 'axolotl' existed as an established word in English. If you're looking at it just as a Nahuatl word written using Nahuatl orthographic conventions, then it
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by foldr 6mo ago
I'm just explaining why it's written 'x' and pronounced [ʃ]. If it pleases people to knowingly mispronounce Nahuatl loan words, they can do so, but it seems rather silly given that [ʃ] is also in the phonemic inventory o
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by foldr 6mo ago
They wanted it to be pronounced 'x', so they wrote it 'x': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl_orthography
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by foldr 6mo ago
That's because in English we get it via Spanish, which doesn't have ʃ (although interestingly, it was just in the process of losing that sound in the early 17th century). If we're going from Nahuatl direct to English, and the
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by foldr 6mo ago
I don't think there's anything peculiarly British about that usage. It's easy to find examples of Americans doing the same thing, e.g.: >The report, in an op-ed from commentator David Ignatius, cites a senior US official a

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