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by giaour 1y ago
Meh, just use a random number generator or dice. The "AI" is either just an inefficient frontend for an RNG, or it's using criteria that you don't know about and/or don't fully understand.
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by giaour 1y ago
BlueSky users are already kind of doing this. Members of the US House and Senate tend to use their .house.gov/.senate.gov domains as usernames, which is a very trustworthy signal that the account is legitimate.
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by giaour 1y ago
"Working" would be a stretch, but this is how "web of trust" systems like PGP are supposed to function. Although I would say the BlueSky system sounds like it could skirt some of the pitfalls of web of trust because veri
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by giaour 2y ago
What state are you in? A lot of community colleges have "articulation agreements" or "guaranteed admissions agreements" with nearby public universities that give you guaranteed transfer admission if you meet the requirem
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by giaour 2y ago
Are there any intra-city trains that have fare classes? Inter-city trains sell plenty of first-class tickets for the same value proposition, but I've never seen it on public transit (although I've only ever seen transit in North A
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by giaour 2y ago
I have personally watched very rich people spend 30 mins circling and looking for a meter spot in Manhattan, which saved them ~$15 at a cost of ~$50 worth of their time. (I was also in the car having my time wasted, so the true cost was hig
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by giaour 2y ago
I haven't lived in NYC for about a decade, but the subway was the quickest and most convenient way to get from my home (lower Harlem) to my place of work (Flatiron district). Taking a taxi was more comfortable and private, but it took
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by giaour 2y ago
By that logic, any policy that assigns a fixed price to a good or service penalizes the poor. Which is true but is just a roundabout way of saying that poverty penalizes the poor. Roads and signaling infrastructure are an expensive public g
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by giaour 2y ago
I was a medievalist before moving into tech, and I was always taught that students usually could not afford parchment on which to take notes, much less to copy down every word read out to them. Please cite a source for this claim. Also, peo
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by giaour 2y ago
People didn't read books by making copies of them. Producing new copies of manuscripts was a skilled occupation.
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by giaour 2y ago
I still use Android but have replaced most Google apps with a 3P alternative that works better for me. Google search has felt useless to me for years, and AI results have made it worse. I use DDG for stuff like finding a business's web
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by giaour 2y ago
My org has a bot that generates AI summaries of all internal pull requests, and it's honestly been pretty helpful to compare that (a fairly accurate guess of what the PR will do ) against the PR author's description (a statement
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by giaour 2y ago
> it's literally more difficult to do this lending thing than to just dump the books on the device and have them all there forever with their essentially infinite storage space True, but you could say the same of music streaming pla
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by giaour 2y ago
Libraries purchase the copies they loan out. In the US, libraries can typically only loan out an ebook a fixed number of times, and in other jurisdictions (like the UK), authors are paid per check out. Please check out a book from a library
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by giaour 2y ago
That's not true. Just like in every other time, many authors rely on multiple income streams, but book sales are an important part of that. Amazon would love for your assertion to be true, but we're not there yet.
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by giaour 2y ago
> Within the fantasy genre, at least. Also true of smut! Chuck Tingle recently signed with Tor, but I believe all of his earlier books (including classics like Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt ) are Kindle-only. Same for niche favori
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by giaour 2y ago
For books from small and specialty presses, I like to buy the ebook from the publisher because they'll often sell you a copy without DRM. Mind you, this has been true for tech presses and small companies but not for university presses
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by giaour 2y ago
The filtering of blocked replies is done server-side. You can view whatever top-level posts you want in the protocol; making those visible/invisible is up to the client software. If I post something that gets traction, and someone re
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by giaour 2y ago
Highlights so far this year are: - Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesch -- really phenomenal pacing and psychological terror in a sci-fi action novel. - The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach -- good portrait of different strains of Amer
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by giaour 2y ago
> no `let`. only `var`. compiler can optimize further. This is not an "additional feature" so much as removing a feature. One reason a programmer might declare something to be a constant is to prevent the symbol from being rebo
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by giaour 2y ago
As career paths, mathematics, philosophy, and law have pretty high barriers to entry. Positions within the former two tend to require a PhD in the discipline, and lucrative careers in law require a JD or LLB plus admission to the bar.
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by giaour 2y ago
MS runs a grant program that awards $10K each month to one open source program. There's a vote each month to decide which project will get it, and you are only eligible to vote if you contributed to a OSS project not affiliated with Mi
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by giaour 2y ago
There's even a company wide incentive program for running or contributing to outside open source projects. (Source: I work for Microsoft, maintain a couple small projects, have contributed to outside projects, and have gotten token but
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by giaour 2y ago
Did you read the article? The sentence OP objects to is the lead-in to a conductor on a trip telling him about how rail passengers were encouraged to help reduce the native population. It's a bit of context for an anecdote, in an artic
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by giaour 2y ago
I see, good to know you weren't looking to make the political point you expressed above but merely wanted to be technically correct.
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by giaour 2y ago
> "the subjugation of indigenous people" in the American west began long before the transcontinental railroad So did "empire building" and "westward expansion," but those assertions don't seem to have b
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by giaour 2y ago
Would a cryptid currency be something like a NessieCoin or Bigfooteum?
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by giaour 2y ago
I have a really hard time waking up, and the two things that have worked best for me are: 1. A Phillips wake-up light/sunrise alarm, and 2. A vibrating alarm on my watch. The wake-up light worked really well but wasn't a great sol
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by giaour 2y ago
> Python-esque experience if you make many one-off programs as you can simply write Main as python script For simple scripts, you don't even need to bother with a `Main` method anymore; you can just write statements outside of any s
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by giaour 2y ago
What you're describing is a political calculation that I doubt Irish courts have the discretion to make. The law was in place, and Twitter chose to either knowingly break it or act without assessing the legality of their actions. Incon

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