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by lolinder 2y ago
There's no discussion happening, though! They're just repeating themselves over and over and ignoring the contents of any replies.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> it is literally impossible for someone to be incorrect about the meaning of a word. Yeah, it's important to frame it in terms of idiolects and dialects—any given speaker has an idiolect, and that idiolect is worth describing and d
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by lolinder 2y ago
> is that every language has as many dialects as speakers. This is actually treated as linguistic fact, although we call them "idiolects" when we're talking about that level of granularity. > not because it is impossibl
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by lolinder 2y ago
And for OP's benefit because they presumably missed the attribution of the quote, these were the Nuremberg trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
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by lolinder 2y ago
Not OP, but I linked to some details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581484 The NASA Open Source Agreement is the one I found.
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by lolinder 2y ago
GNU has a helpful chart where they clearly show that there is a sliver of "nonfree open source" licenses that are available [0]. > The term “open source” software is used by some people to mean more or less the same category as
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by lolinder 2y ago
> open source as the average person would understand it ... and it's quite clear to nearly everyone except pedantic people that you can now go and fetch the Gumroad code and modify, run, etc. The average person would also assume tha
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by lolinder 2y ago
> building this mental model of an unempathetic society No, it's not about mental models, it's that what you're describing is, at the limit, no longer a society at all. You need a different word for the kind of Randian end
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by lolinder 2y ago
This reminds me of Bret Devereaux's series on Alexander III of Macedon and the meaning of "greatness" [0]: > Only once we’ve stripped away the mythology and found the man can we then ask that key question: was Alexander tr
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by lolinder 2y ago
> empathy isn't useful to society ... Having empathy will actively hurt your own life Even if I accepted the second statement (which to be clear, I absolutely do not), it doesn't follow that empathy isn't useful to society
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by lolinder 2y ago
This isn't a sufficient explanation, because a good marketing team cares about naming things well and most engineering teams are terrible at it. Letting engineering name things is how OpenAI ended up stuck with ChatGPT as a name for th
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by lolinder 2y ago
And in my experience "me 3 months later" counts as a whole second developer that needs accommodating. The only time I appreciate not having to think about types is on code that I know I will never, ever come back to—stuff like a o
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by lolinder 2y ago
It doesn't hurt that the model vendors get paid by the token, so there's zero incentive to correct this pattern at the model layer.
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by lolinder 2y ago
This is an incredibly reductive dismissal of a very diverse group of people who don't find Cage's art in particular to be meaningful.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> The last period of peace is as much an exception for one as it is for the other given a significant part of the history of the continents. But... it's not. 160 years of straight uninterrupted time without total war out of 250 make
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by lolinder 2y ago
Since you edited to reply to my comment I'm stuck leaving a second reply: the conflicts with Indians were not at all the same as the kind of total war we're talking about with the wars of religion, Napoleonic Wars, and the World W
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by lolinder 2y ago
I did somehow miss this lawsuit, but this is an advertisement for the law firm, not actual documentation of the ruling, because the ruling hasn't been issued yet. The wording is very precise here: the judge ruled that those claims were
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by lolinder 2y ago
> I could say the same about the period of peace in the USA which is only from 1865 You can't really compare a period of 160 years to a period of 80, especially given that there's war in Europe once again so the streak is alrea
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by lolinder 2y ago
> They’re not saints, especially with the games distribution platform monopoly they’re sitting on top of They got and have maintained that monopoly (I'll let others debate the merits of that wording) by being very very good to their
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by lolinder 2y ago
He has alts he uses that are probably still active.
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by lolinder 2y ago
In this case, the "our revenue continues to grow" is not transparency, it's deliberately obfuscating the increase in expenses that led to layoffs being necessary. Not mentioned is the insanely expensive legal battle that they
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by lolinder 2y ago
That was important posturing to make sure that everyone knew that his nuclear war on WP Engine was absolutely not going to impact his ability to run the business and the WordPress project. Whether it was true or not it didn't matter at
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by lolinder 2y ago
The demographics of the parties have shifted quite a bit with Trump's second term. The Republicans lost much of their educated elite but made up for it by gaining a lot of the poor folks that have hitherto been the Democratic backbone
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by lolinder 2y ago
> which is the kind of opportunity that doesn't usually come around twice. On the contrary, it most definitely did come around twice (hence the 2), and those same geographic advantages are still at play, barring thermonuclear war. I
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by lolinder 2y ago
Why does that make it inaccurate to blame the two party system? The two party system causes the problem, but that doesn't mean something else can't cause the two party system.
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm unsure how a second hand market for Frameworks would even make sense, given that the whole premise is that they're highly repairable and upgradable. If everyone just replaces pieces one at a time then there can be no market fo
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by lolinder 2y ago
> HN is mainly left leaning This is largely an illusion, as can be seen by the number of people complaining in the other direction about how wacko libertarians or MAGA or whatever dominate on here. What you're actually observing is
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by lolinder 2y ago
This. So many people—both on the dev side and the annoyed HN commenter side—act as though all websites have the same requirements. They don't. The usage profile varies enormously, and if you treat every website as just a website withou
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by lolinder 2y ago
You and I are either talking about very different kinds of specifications or very different kinds of product people. The product people I'm familiar with are completely incapable of creating a specification that is sufficiently detaile
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by lolinder 2y ago
> First thing an experienced and bright engineer will tell you is to leave the premises with your "few words about a desire" and not return without actual specs and requirements formalized in some way. No, that's what a ju

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