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by hnfong 2y ago
The education system and the media was traditionally tightly controlled or monopolized by a handful of interests. With few players on the field they could weave together a more-or-less coherent story. But was that actually the truth? We o
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by hnfong 2y ago
> Unicode is uniquely worse for Japanese than for any other real-life world language I'm not seeing any reason this is worse in Japanese than Chinese. Only in recent years has Chinese overtaken Japanese as the predominant CJK popula
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by hnfong 2y ago
> The underlying issue is that Unicode was run by people who thought 16 bits was enough[0] It really depends on how you look at it. I wouldn't fault the original designers of unicode who thought 16 bits was enough. In modern unicode
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by hnfong 2y ago
IMHO this is as stupid as a Italian complaining about Americans using English fonts to display their language. As I mentioned in another comment, there already are separate Japanese and Chinese code points for most CJK characters. It's
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by hnfong 2y ago
It's actually what they did. I heard from people involved in the CJK-unification project that the Japanese representatives insisted this be done as a condition for their participation. Given that there were thousands of such characters
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by hnfong 2y ago
Even assuming your theory is true (which I kind of doubt), you could be confusing the symptom for the cause. Why didn't software work for Japanese business purposes? Keep in mind the 80s and 90s were the peak of the Japan economy, and
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by hnfong 2y ago
> I do think the law should update and grant some protections to people who produce models This is what every reasonable person thinks, and because legislators and lawyers generally aren't that great at or keen on designing new fram
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by hnfong 2y ago
Welp, I suddenly realized I was replying to one of the creators of Django. (Why bring up a rails article!) I feel so awkward now...
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by hnfong 2y ago
It depends on the usage patterns of your site. If it's write heavy, and you need to use transactions for writes, you're screwed either way. (i.e. don't use sqlite) If it's not write heavy, but you enabled `ATOMIC_REQUEST
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by hnfong 2y ago
When I found out the underlying issue, I basically applied the patch suggested in the ticket. It's been great since.
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by hnfong 2y ago
Same in Django. Glad we were not alone! https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29280 The issue has since been fixed somehow (after being outstanding for 6 years). The Django docs gaslights the developer into thinking it
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by hnfong 2y ago
hear hear
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by hnfong 2y ago
Assuming Jesus Christ was real, you'd be seriously underestimating his ability to love people despite using phrases such as "JFC". I mean, words have power, and it's a bad idea to swear in general. But I doubt Jesus woul
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by hnfong 2y ago
If you have a list of links of stuff Pythagoras did (whether disputed or not), do let me know. I'd happily gobble them up.
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by hnfong 2y ago
TBH it might not matter in a normal life for the individual. But (as long as the claims have some truth too it) statistically, it definitely matters. The "scares" are overwhelming only because you live in a society where things ar
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by hnfong 2y ago
The lighter weight makes maintenance much easier in practice.
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by hnfong 2y ago
I think the problem here is that government departments are not the only entities consuming the data. Private companies also deal with company names too. So at this point it's either: - somehow ensure all software is bug free (at lea
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by hnfong 2y ago
The actual situation is much more nuanced (at least in English law). See for example https://www.lawteacher.net/cases/r-v-g-recklessness.php
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by hnfong 2y ago
Getting a law degree helps! (speaking from experience...)
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by hnfong 2y ago
Right, because hacking into the matrix and tweaking the code there to make security breaches physically impossible is obviously the more robust solution...
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by hnfong 2y ago
You probably want to say "correctly handle arbitrary input" than "sanitize" inputs. If everybody sanitizes their inputs (in undefined ways) then companies like the one mentioned would be randomly blocked from administr
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by hnfong 2y ago
FYI, we're still not sure whether the scraped AI training datasets involve copyright infringement.
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by hnfong 2y ago
Welp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzRLgw2NTc
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by hnfong 2y ago
> Part of that is showing that you can learn about and deliver results on things you're not necessarily excited about. Why is that useful besides for the employer trying to impose Framework v3.0 onto their subjects? To me at least,
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by hnfong 2y ago
> as a former team member of a major package manager I can assure you we don’t vet shit beyond project notability, and new versions are accepted semi-automatically An example that illustrates this: https://lwn.net/Article
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by hnfong 2y ago
It's simple Darwinian evolution. The relatively few families that have five children, and assuming that the values of having a large family can be passed to offspring, they will continue to have large families. In a couple generations
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by hnfong 2y ago
But... But... But the whims and color were the best things about the book! I also appreciate that I learned a lot of tangential things mentioned in the book that had nothing to do with the mind or consciousness.
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by hnfong 2y ago
Aside from some once-in-a-blue-moon security breach events, how does better security help a salesperson sell more stuff?
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by hnfong 2y ago
Ah my bad.
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by hnfong 2y ago
I think the Nobel Prize in Literature for "the most copied paper title" seems a better justification. The first page of google for "Hopfield Networks" is " Hopfield Networks is all you need ". No kidding...

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