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by kweingar 4y ago
> On the Non-Theoretical note, I recently turned Stable diffusion to generating images from Mnemonic stories used for remembering Chinese characters. What a great idea! I’m learning Chinese characters through mnemonic, and I’m also an SD
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Well, it would be fallacious reasoning if I was using this as the basis of an argument. I didn’t intend to argue anything or draw any conclusions. Just making an observation based on conversations with friends and coworkers.
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I’m not making an argument.
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> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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There are more kinds of editors than text editors, and some of them are suited to web browsers.
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I suppose I’ve never programmed in a sane language then
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It is understandable to be skeptical of an increasing medicalized world, but a society-wide “fixing our lifestyles” isn’t an answer for people who need treatment now. For example, prolonged screen use is linked to myopia. Would it make sens
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I wonder if new Apple Watches have the same problem. The iPhone wouldn’t be a problem for me, since I wouldn’t take it on a rollercoaster anyway, but I’d probably forget to take my watch off before every ride.
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> does the experience of going through US airport security ever reduce the stigma of it? Some people feel degraded when they go through airport security, but it doesn’t carry a stigma. Nobody’s judging you for going through security so y
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> it's unnatural to be in a state of pending interruption at all times. I'd think the opposite is true. Interruption is natural, and prolonged sedentary focus is a human invention.
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Algebraic geometry is also used in robotics
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This still isn’t totally a tech fix, you still need government buy in to build the infrastructure and make it usable.
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The USPS should operate a free public email service and provide support at every post office. The government has the resources to navigate complex situations that digital safeguards can’t. If someone has no paperwork, lost the device they m
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> It would be nice if we could have communication systems that are compatible with basic human biology. At some point, this becomes a problem better suited to the government. Imagine you have a loved one who has dementia or is homeless a
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> Universal utilities like Google should have retail outlets which are adapted to local conditions and can exercise educated judgement. Sorry but this just isn't happening, and if there is regulation to make something like this happ
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I’m not conspiratorial about this, but I’m confident that an article like “Google doesn’t actually serve you all the results” drives more clicks, engagement, and outrage than “literally no sufficiently large search tool gives you all the re
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I guess they have multiple search interfaces. I navigated to loc.gov and searched directly from the home page. I was sent to this page: https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=god&new=true&st= At the top, it says
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I was curious, so I tried to do this with GitHub search. The search “Golang” returns 225k+ repositories. Each page of results has 10 repositories. I queried page 1000 to see the 10001st-10010th results and got a 404. I searched Wikipedia (u
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Something I’ve always wondered: Why don’t fan communities host their own MediaWiki instance? I don’t imagine that the storage/bandwidth/compute needs of a niche fan wiki would be cost-prohibitive. Then you could completely avoid a
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I’m not a fan of the section on governance. I can certainly understand why you’d prefer to use community-driven software, but this post steers close to calling for-profit free software “not actually FOSS.” FOSS is FOSS, regardless of wheth
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> At least they don't go around slandering programming language communities. Not so sure about this. I see a good amount of acrimony toward C, C++, Go, Zig, etc. from the Rust side.
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Regardless of whether he’s right or wrong, I think that this is somewhat natural and is to be expected. Like with any emerging technology, early adopters become advocates because they’re convinced of the technology’s superiority. Once they
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Classic Linus. From the closing paragraph, I feel like he’s under the impression that Rust-advocating contributors are putting Rust’s interests (e.g. “legitimizing it” by getting it in the kernel) above the kernel itself.
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I was taught that “debt” descended from French “dette” and was spelled similarly until Latin pedants added the b back in. I found a couple links that seem to confirm this. Words “receipt” have similar origins. https://www.merriam
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This is a question I think about a lot. It seems to me that a tech company can only pick two of the following: 1. Free-to-use products 2. High-touch support 3. Profitability I really just don’t see how free-to-use, instant sign-up services
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I think there's a bit of a difference between a bug that went undiscovered for years and vetting third-party software to see if its telemetry compromises your employees or IP. I mean, sure, if you want to avoid log4j from happening, yo
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Lots of big tech companies (including mine) let their devs run VSCode on company machines. If there was a concern about spyware, I feel like all of those security teams across the industry wouldn't have signed off on this, especially w
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I'm all for grace and forgiveness, but it seems excessive to require businesses to delete all records of people who defrauded them. If a liquor store had caught me with a fake ID, I wouldn't consider it dystopian if they put my na
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I wish people showed more grace to young people. Another example along your lines: many were quick to declare that the chess player Hans Niemann ought to be banned from the sport because he admitted to cheating at online no-stakes chess gam
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I've been banned-for-life from a handful of services after I lied about my age as a kid. I can see both (all?) sides of this: - As a society we ought to be forgiving of harmless youthful indiscretions - As a business you shouldn't

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