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by freeopinion 8mo ago
We recently had a funeral for people killed in an accident that was not caused by the car driver. When cars and bikes share the same space, it might be an impact with a car that kills somebody, but that impact might be the result of a chain
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
> This works across OSes and browsers. It doesn't work for me in Firefox on Linux. I'm very curious to know how it works for you.
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
I don't have a problem with vouchers. I mostly agree with you about not penalizing a child for the failures of the adults. But whether the failure be the child's or the adults', a child who hasn't learned multiplication
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
Of course there are tools focusing on this. It takes a little getting used to how prevalent it is. My editor now can anticipate the next three lines of code I intend to write complete with what values I want to feed to the function I was a
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
> Why do we think parents are actually capable of choosing the "best" option, and why wouldn't 100% of parents choose that option? It seems obvious that vouchers could be spent at schools that have entrance exams and don&#
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
If you are looking for reform, consider rethinking how much "education" the public should fund. Should we keep paying to have every student sit through Algebra and Geometry if less than 15% of them can pass the proficiency test af
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
This does not require a persistent parent. Administrators whose job it is to administer consequences for misbehavior already reprimand teachers for enforcing school rules. The turnover on new teachers is crazy bad. It's kind of like wh
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
I think it might be more insightful to say "laptops in the hands of students are worse than books in the hands of bad teachers". A bad teacher can say "read chapter 7, there will be a test!" and the student can ignore
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
Please be careful about voicing generic complaints in a discussion of a specific product. IMO, FreeCAD 1.0 took some huge leaps in ergonomics. I was surprised about how much work had been done. The workers behind FreeCAD don't deserve
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
The Preview of the Sidebar doesn't display the Logout button in the footer of the sidebar. edit: That is, the footer is not within a visible area of the sidebar.
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
Ditto, if you mean the codeblock in the Typography section. edit: clarification, focus
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
I laugh at myself sometimes for things like this: I refuse to provide my phone number to the cashier who promises me loyalty points, then I hand over the same credit card number I use for all my purchases. Boy, I really showed them how much
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
Presumably, the maintainer wants the best for the product and its users. So they have a definite interest in documenting a todo list. Presumably, the user wants the best for the product and their ability to use the product. So they have a d
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
Saying good things can get you sued. The truth doesn't need to be disparaging. If you are uncomfortable about the privacy implications of some action, just say that. You don't have to use words like "evil" or "villi
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
You could say that. The schema in question was not mine nor in any way within my control. I could start up a business and write an entire app to replace the one in question. Maybe I could even get you to donate some money to fund that endea
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by freeopinion 8mo ago
I think it is pretty indisputable that there is a valuable place for AI. I recently had to interact with a very horrible db schema. The best approach I came up with to solve my challenge involved modelling a table with 300 columns. Converti
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
Money out had better not match money in or the insurance company will be in a lot of trouble.
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
In this specific discussion familiarity does seem relevant. I don't think shooting is so relevant, but printing and assembling are. You don't have to be a life-long user to regulate heroin, but if you start legislating second-hand
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
You are missing an important element. You can decide for yourself whether AI-produced code is worth the price. You don't get to decide whether the TSA is effective enough to pay for it. Maybe you are willing to pay 15% for AI that save
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
Here we are specifically discussing the gold star on a USA driver license. When there is already the whole TSA kwikset fiasco in place. The gold star indicates that a person provided some pieces of paper that may be fabricated to a very bus
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
If you offer the public FDA-inspected cinnamon for a 20% premium over not-inspected-and-may-contain-dangerous-levels-of-lead cinnamon, a lot of people will pay the premium. But a large percentage of people will opt for the cheaper cinnamon.
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
In other words the benchmark doesn't even use the same hardware for each run?
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
I don't really get the idea that LLMs lower the level of familiarity one needs to have with a language. A standup comedian from Australia should not assume that the audience in the Himalayas is laughing because the LLM the comedian use
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
I guessed the same thing. Probably the fault of employer-mandated software gumming things up. But since the only reason to run Windows is because my employer mandates it, almost all of my Windows experiences involve enterprise-managed lag i
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
Are there really a lot of alternative Wifi chips that don't require closed blobs? Do you have a list? Are they found in any laptop that is reasonably available on the market? I don't think that Guix is punishing users by not suppo
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
Does the study account for things like coal-fired power plants in Delta, Utah being operated by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power? This makes for less pollution at the site of the vehicle, and more pollution two giant western states
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
It took me less than 1 second to access that 192.168.0.1 address! It wasn't that hard to find. (;-)
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
NAT absolutely does provide good security. It denies all incoming traffic that is not part of an established connection. Of course, that can be accomplished trivially without NAT. It can be done in IPv4 and in IPv6 with the simplest of rout
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
I think Arduino and RPi demonstrate that there is still a relatively strong attraction for tinkering. In the past, freedom meant a lot to tinkerers. My sense is that this is not so true today. Perhaps I am wrong. It may be that few people r
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by freeopinion 9mo ago
Desktop Windows still has rough edges. Desktop MacOS still has rough edges. Desktop Linux still has rough edges. Pick your poison. Niche professional software may lack native Windows support or require workarounds. Windows has a strong grip

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