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by lolinder 1y ago
With all due respect, your (2 whole pages of) comments here are showing exactly the kind of in-group out-group aggression and defensiveness that I described, and it's that attitude that people are consistently complaining about. It&#x2
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I'm not proposing mandatory voting, but you have to fix turnout somehow or just openly acknowledge that you're running on a non-democratic system. > Second, the voters may not have been qualified; they did not use the site enou
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Look, I'm all for democracy in the real world, but this is a very bad use of democratic processes for a number of reasons: 1. First and foremost, it's not a democracy if your turnout is too low. The 2024 election had voter turnout
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There's no such thing as identity theft, it's all bank fraud or in this case student aid fraud. "Identity theft" is a term coined by banks to try to make it sound like random people should have to deal with the fallout o
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This is an argument to extremes, and it falls apart when you go to the other extreme: if you refuse to make any adjustments then you're now unable to separate the marginal effect of the school from the much larger effect of socioeconom
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Game changer feels a bit strong. This is a new entry in a field that's already pretty crowded with open source tooling that's already available to anyone with the time and desire to wire it all up. It's likely that they execu
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No, those are the rankings that are immaterial to measuring the success of a school system. Raw score rankings do not as a rule measure the output of schools, they measure the involvement of parents, which will always have a much larger imp
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"Has been opening" is the present perfect continuous tense [0], which describes something that started in the past and is still ongoing. In TFA JetBrains says explicitly that this is a process that they intend to continue assuming
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Most "AI" startups aren't building coding tools, and the utility of this tech goes down dramatically in industries that are less legible on the open internet than software is.
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That's not what he says. He dedicates most of the section that's directed at Republicans critiquing the administration's wholesale dismantling of the Department of Education and warning that they could run on education in t
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Not if it's applied evenly across the country, no. When you're measuring schools you're trying to measure the impact of the actual school, not all the other factors, and to do that you have to separate out socioeconomics. Hig
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Which is just one of many reasons why adjusting for economics matters when evaluating schools.
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> "Your children aren't just dumber, they're also poorer" feels like a very spicy way to elevate the status of a state to me. Would this comment have been made if we were talking about The Bronx instead of Mississippi
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> unless you control for it very, very carefully, you end up with results like "free and reduced lunch programs cause kids to do worse" Nonsense, you end up with results like "free and reduced lunch programs are correlate
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Can you clarify what exactly you mean by the idea that adjusting for gender, age, race, and ethnicity makes this less impressive? Generally speaking in order to evaluate the success of a school system you really do want to adjust for the de
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Just to clarify to those reading the comments first, the political point he's making is not to ignore Mississippi just because it's Mississippi. He has warnings for both Democrats and Republicans at the end and is pretty clearly n
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Oh, yes, I missed that! You're correct. It's still more permissive than LGPL in that it isn't 'infectious' even when statically linked, the license only applies to the source file, not to any derived work. That make
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TFA does a poor job explaining what this means, but I found the original data and included it here [0]. The short version is that investment emissions are defined as the emissions spent in building up capital: machines and similar. The emis
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Direct link to the paper [0]. They're drawing emissions data from an earlier paper [1]. Here's the key bit from that earlier paper describing the difference between investment emissions and consumption emissions: > Consumption-
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The FSF has a whole article on why you'd choose GPL or LGPL [0]. In general they agree with you that LGPL is overused, but they do identify a few reasons why you might choose LGPL. That said, if the other option is something like MPL t
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by lolinder 1y ago
Cursor just lost access to the extension marketplace and key proprietary plugins that they were using against Microsoft's terms, Windsurf has been eating a chunk of their mindshare, and Copilot is catching up. That's three good re
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That's not actually how unseating an incumbent works. The incumbent can adapt to the threat for quite a while if they act on it, they just have to not be Blockbuster. Copilot is showing every sign of making up ground feature-wise, whic
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Define losing? My company pays for Copilot but not for Cursor, and it's not at all clear to me that we're the exception rather than the norm. What numbers and data are you working with?
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> Looking for a moat in the technology is always a bit of a trap - it’s in the traction, the brand awareness, the user data etc. Traction, brand awareness, and user data do not favor Windsurf over GitHub Copilot. The few of us who follow
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Part of what you're missing is that OpenAI needs to justify its own overinflated valuation. They raise money on the premise that an AI-native company can and will outcompete giant established players, so lowballing Windsurf would run c
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It's not quite that bad! The last version of Office released with Clippy was in May 2003! So you would have been born, if only just.
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Local public schools vary dramatically in quality. A perfectly rational parent could have grown up in a good public school and when looking at the school that is assigned to their children based on where they moved to decide that private sc
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VS Code is shipping agentic coding in the form of updates to GitHub Copilot. I haven't used it extensively yet since they added agent mode, but it's obvious that they're gunning for this market hard, and if I were into VS C
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They could still use version numbers for that. 2.5.1-preview becomes 2.5.1 when stable.
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But what is "this"? It's just refactoring with an LLM along for the ride! That's increasingly the default assumption when we're coding or refactoring, so the extra "vibe" attached at the front is totally m

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