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by freeopinion 5mo ago
Thank you for this contribution. Your repo has a link to the standard[0], which might interest some people. It makes me unreasonably happy to know that this was funded out of Singapore. [0] https://posithub.org/docs/pos
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
If you take a 1x dev and a 2x dev and apply an AI force multiplier, do you get a 10x dev and a 20x dev? Or do you get two 10x devs? If a human element is required to get value from AI, but any human will do, then devs should get minimum wag
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
During a recent semester final exam with fill in the blank questions, a student raised their hand to ask the teacher, "Do we get marked off for spelling?" The class was bewildered when the teacher answered, "Of course."
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
FWIW, I don't think climate change is a scam. I think humans need to be better stewards. I certainly don't think I "just know better". I think I have been pretty clear that I am not a fan of Microsoft or Amazon. It is pu
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
If it soothes you at all, you can think of it the other way around. All members of a society have a duty to pull their own weight. But everybody stumbles. So sometimes we have to pull more than our "fair share" and sometimes someb
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
Some might say that Capitalism (with a capital C) was born in Wealth of Nations. IIUC, you argue it was birthed by Muscovy or BEI some centuries earlier. I argue that capitalism (lower-case) is as old as humans. Was not the shift away from
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
You might think that my brain is broken, but I do not think that capitalism and socialism are mutually exclusive. I think that capitalism describes the effects of acting out of self interest. I think that people can act in a way that they t
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
Please indulge me to try to clarify my thought. Before you choose to practice capitalism or something else, you should choose whether to be a good person who contributes to society. Those two things are independent of each other. First choo
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
Charity is the only thing that can save us. Tax is just a different take on charity. We all agree to pay into the community chest to provide for a pubic commons. Resistance to progressive tax is resistance to a type of charity. One importan
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
Even extremely slow LLMs can generate Part B faster than I can audit Part A. So the LLM can generate Part A while I look over my email. Then it can worry over Part B while I look over Part A. It can worry over Part C while I have my 10:30 g
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
I believe in local societies. Very few of us are in a position to affect things at a global scale. If you want to change your world, demonstrate empathy in your very small, very local society. I'll try to do better in my small world, t
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
I have spent my entire adult life getting paid for a particular skillset. At the same time I have donated that skillset to family, friends, neighbors, and strangers. Every single time I have been paid for my skillset I have guaranteed that
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
The convenience of wifi printing is obvious. That doesn't explain why you don't allow USB printing. I'm not suggesting that they should remove wifi printing. I'm questioning why they removed USB printing. A person may ap
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
Should we start with an explanation of why you would need to communicate with an IP network to use a 3D printer? Is it impossible to just plug in a USB connection and print?
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
How well has this worked for Open edX?
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
Canvas is AGPL licensed. Moodle is GPL. Universities or anyone else can already contribute to big name LMS. Canvas is used by Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, CalTech, etc. If they each paid 10 FTE, they could set up a foundation th
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
On paper your idea seems obvious. You take a bunch of institutions that actually teach students how to program and have them cooperate to build an open LMS that benefits them all. In reality, universities always spin off anything that looks
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by freeopinion 5mo ago
Canvas is built to automatically export its gradebook to an external system. It will do that automatically every day if you want it to. Teachers or others can manually export to the configured foreign system on demand. So if you grade somet
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Disconnect Remote Vehicle Access for Toyotas(disconnectaccess.toyota.com)
5 points by freeopinion 6mo ago|0 comments
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by freeopinion 6mo ago
This doesn't require research. Just reject by default and concede if a lawyer shows up. It doesn't cost any money to have a default denial policy and saves millions.
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by freeopinion 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865868 ^^ Not EV, but... :)
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by freeopinion 6mo ago
This is the exact mindset that has amused me for years with computers. People use an OS with which they have a seriously hostile relationship. Why would you continue to pay a lot of money for a product you consider to be your adversary?
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by freeopinion 6mo ago
Even more tangential: Kia declined to cover an engine failure, under warranty that was extended by recall because I change my own oil. Kia's engines are known to fail predictably even within first 100K miles. They extended their warran
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Iowa went all-in on school choice(npr.org)
3 points by freeopinion 6mo ago|0 comments
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by freeopinion 7mo ago
Its your business and your call. But my opinion is that I wish you would quit offering free services. I'm pretty concerned about the horrible effect your free services are having on education. Yes, AI can be an incredible tool to enhan
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by freeopinion 7mo ago
Dune3d comes off like a reskin of SolveSpace. SolveSpace is pretty awesome, so that's not a knock, per se. I'll leave it to somebody with more experience to fill in what value Dune3D adds beyond SolveSpace.
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by freeopinion 7mo ago
FreeBSD supports a much larger range of hardware than MacOS. It's a bit strange to bemoan hardware support, then switch OS and buy very specific hardware for that OS. Imagine quitting MacOS because it doesn't support Realtek RTL81
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
In the United States, anyone brash enough to prosecute Donald Trump or his allies finds themselves being prosecuted on federal charges. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the President is largely immune from prosecution. The w
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
Let's say--hypothetically--that the U.S. President walked out into Times Square in broad daylight and shot a person to death unprovoked. Who would prosecute that crime? If you can't (or won't) be prosecuted, why hide your cri
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
How else will a witness be able to report the get-away bike in a bank robbery?

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