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by fyredge 7mo ago
Markdown is the Python of documents. As technology, and consequently technical writing increase in complexity, any reduction in barrier to access becomes increasingly necessary. The opposite of using markdown and python leads to bike sheddi
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by fyredge 7mo ago
> I needed to get xone and compile it and install the driver, a minor inconvenience, Call me nitpicky, but this is why Linux desktop is not ready yet. If anything, I'm a firm believer that SteamOS will be Linux Desktop
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by fyredge 7mo ago
Insightful indeed. It really frames the issue with trans athletes as a competition problem. We search for outliers yet arbitrarily limit the range of players available. Gender segregation, weight classes, these are antithetical to the under
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by fyredge 7mo ago
Yes and no. The first thing to understand is that in academia, knowledge is the work. You are being trained to absorb existing knowledge, hypothesise new knowledge and test if it is valid. LLMs are a useful tool if you want it to generate t
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by fyredge 7mo ago
This sounds disingenuous. How does your grandma fare on Windows? Can your grandpa even navigate Linux? For all I know, your grandma could be a HN user and your grandpa a plumber.
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by fyredge 7mo ago
Oh, I get that, but what's stopping the landlord from evicting someone who damages their property? Or if the landlord no longer wants to rent and wants to live in it themselves?
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by fyredge 7mo ago
I'm very curious. I hated how html requires angled brackets for everything and love markdown for its neatness. What are some of the ugly hacks you've seen that were applied?
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by fyredge 7mo ago
Why is right to evict tied to rent control? Seems irrelevant "Pressure to stay" can certainly be alleviated, rent control all properties. Half measures do not necessarily solve half the problem.
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by fyredge 7mo ago
I disagree. Coming froma PhD background, the researchers that spend all of their time investigating the intricacies of their field are the most qualified to train up the next generation of researchers. This isn't primary and secondary
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by fyredge 7mo ago
Oh, that is a great third path! Thank you for that. I wonder how effective feigning ignorance will be when the officer can just compare the picture of you and your ID / IRL face.
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by fyredge 7mo ago
TFA is short and only shows a single example, but it illuminated something for me. LLMs are a misnomer. These are Large Text Models, or better yet, Large Token Models. The appearance of Language is a result of embedding words or parts of wo
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by fyredge 7mo ago
Two paths: Higher quality cameras equipped with facial recognition connected to a database to issue a ticket to the correct person (driver), or Hire more traffic officers to sit at traffic intersections to catch red light offenders, which w
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by fyredge 8mo ago
Provide aid to the local population and provide support to grassroots resistance. Things do not need to be flashy to be effective
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by fyredge 8mo ago
> As with anything, they are all things that could be done better by a company. No > Airlines are a great example of this. They have changed very little in the last 30 years (again, thanks to all the government regulation and red tape
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by fyredge 8mo ago
There's something about governments moving to open source software that doesn't sit well with me. The only advantage I can see is reduction in expenditure with free software. I believe we should go a step further and institute o
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by fyredge 8mo ago
Point taken on incompetence as opposed to maliciousness. I'm not gung ho on a central database. Perhaps issuing a physical ID, similar to driving license would suffice? And if we want to prevent having tech corps scanning your face, ju
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by fyredge 8mo ago
I think we're speaking past each other. I'm talking about the way a single user can create multiple accounts on a single platform to create the illusion of consensus. If you repeatedly see a single user creating many posts /
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by fyredge 8mo ago
This sounds like an unreasonable amount of distrust in a government. If a government is truly malicious, it no longer matters if an ID was issued in the first place. Take the current US administration. If they were to point the finger at a
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by fyredge 8mo ago
On telegram and YouTube, I take your points, thank you. To be honest, I find many holes the ID method myself and it stems from the free and abundant nature of the internet where anything goes everywhere. If I could take an analogy, it'
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by fyredge 8mo ago
Sorry, I don't quite understand your argument. There will always be people with different ideas. That is what makes us human. My argument is that such ideas and the societies that are organised from them are quite fleeting (as noted by
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by fyredge 8mo ago
In the same way that they came up with the idea of divine being(s) in the image of man that rule nature. In the same way that patriarchy rose amongst them all. In the same way that a shared currency was deemed necessary. Escpecially in matt
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by fyredge 8mo ago
This sounds a lot like the pro-gun rhetoric of bogging down the "good" gun owners but not doing enough to the "bad" gun owners.
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by fyredge 8mo ago
Because of ID tracking? Say you have attach your government approved ID to use social media. It is now trivial to check how many accounts you have made and how much you have posted. You certainly can't be posting faster than the fastes
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by fyredge 8mo ago
Because they are harmful. The worry is not online use, but online addiction. We don't just allow parents to regulate what drugs their children consume (medicinal), we trust medical practitioners for the correct dosage. Similarly, socia
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by fyredge 8mo ago
It may look that way on the surface, but they are absolutely no better than other ethnicities. The main difference is the culture of pragmatism and the constant strive to better their lives. Education is seen as a path to better opportuniti
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by fyredge 8mo ago
The right moves are state control, long horizon policies and regulations, all things the US willingly throw out in the name of freedom. For all its restrictions on human rights and personal freedom, the Chinese people and government have a
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by fyredge 8mo ago
Your examples are not supporting your premise. Over medication is from all the attempts to fix all the various medical conditions found. Adding regulations are to fix all the problems of people finding new ways to abuse the system. This is
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by fyredge 8mo ago
I don't quite agree with this. Feature discovery is much easier in GUI when most commonly used features are either in the first layer of menu or in standard hotkeys. In the worst case, you would do a search in GUIs that provide them. I
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by fyredge 8mo ago
Reading this article reminds me of all the advice in university on the importance of soft skills. The OP sounds like a competent technical worker but lacked the soft skills to secure his position. All organizations have a consensus that gui
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