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by mplanchard 6d ago
Totally agree, and also this was one of the most powerful aspects of using nix development environments: when everyone is guaranteed to be on all the same (recent) versions of bash, make, awk, sed, and any other system deps, you can confide
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by mplanchard 6d ago
This sounds to me like something a native french speaker would say in english. I feel like most english speakers would respond, “They are vendors,” “Just some vendors,” “It’s some vendors,” or even just “Vendors,” but not “They are some ven
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by mplanchard 6d ago
This is often apparent from the sound or spelling of a word, rather than any genderedness in its concept. A chair is une chaise (feminine), and it would be weird for chaise to be masculine. It’s not because the chair is feminine, it’s becau
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by mplanchard 9d ago
Average, yes, but the way they phrase it, it could be a token bucket or similar, where you can do 60 quick requests and then be blocked for a bit while the bucket refills
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by mplanchard 12d ago
Sorry, do you know what words mean? > […] the president or any other elected person, their whole job is to serve people. Do what the people voted that person to do by putting aside all personal preferences, belief and ideologies. I don’t
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by mplanchard 12d ago
Yes of course, anyone who lives somewhere with winter knows that some winters are colder than others. In the late fall when it is time to swap the tires, you don’t know in advance whether the winter will be harsh or mild, but people put sno
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by mplanchard 12d ago
Didn’t know it was required, but it makes sense, as it is indeed quite cold. Good thing I always have winter tires on in the winter anyway, so I’m not breaking the law when I drive to Montreal!
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by mplanchard 12d ago
Are there any places that require winter tires by law that don’t have cold winters? I don’t know of anywhere in the US that even requires winter tires, although I think some states require you to have winter tires OR chains.
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by mplanchard 12d ago
Yes, this stuck out to me, too. I use winter tires in the winter specifically for the snow and consistently below-freezing temps. Are there places people bother with winter tires that aren’t actually cold in the winter?
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by mplanchard 12d ago
> If the experts can't even agree on what's happening "inside of" these LLMs, how can they give laypeople an assessment of the risk? The answer, if you are a responsible expert in the field, is to convey the range of
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by mplanchard 12d ago
nuclear winter doesn’t discriminate based on region
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by mplanchard 14d ago
Agree the $10 plan is so worth it as to be a complete non-question as to whether to renew whenever it comes up. Also, super cool link, thanks for the share.
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by mplanchard 14d ago
I grew up in the 90s too, and I’m fairly certain that shooting paintball guns out of a taxi would have been generally frowned upon even during that halcyon era.
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by mplanchard 14d ago
Thank you for sharing an argument. I for some reason was thinking more like medical gore, which I don’t think should be illegal, but I’m sympathetic to your argument re: violent crime. I don’t know that I agree about car crashes, though. I
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by mplanchard 15d ago
Two decades puts us back to the post-9/11 war on terror era, from which it seems like a fairly straight line to, for example, ICE murdering people in the streets. So, yeah, political disasters take time to reach their conclusions, and
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by mplanchard 15d ago
Try turning off VPN for the archive link? It worked for me, but I had to turn off the VPN
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by mplanchard 15d ago
This thread is so weird. Several people asking why gore should be as illegal as child porn, but with no followup from anyone so far with reasons. I am not trying to be sarcastic in asking why. I am legitimately curious.
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by mplanchard 15d ago
Yes, speedbar, with speedbar-prefer-window set to t Or use any of the various file tree packages in [M]ELPA
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by mplanchard 15d ago
Yeah, speedbar and dired are built-in. Speedbar by default still opens in a new frame I think, but in emacs 31 there’s a config option to make it open in a side window without any additional tweaking needed.
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by mplanchard 15d ago
Im curious, why? The argument against CSAM is easy: the creation of the content is clearly harmful to the victims, its viewing and distribution furthers that harm, and its availability has the potential to increase demand. How do we get to
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by mplanchard 15d ago
The point is more that these images should not be uploadable in the first place, since they are trivially validated against the national DB to be CSAM. And, from TFA: > The program The Times wrote reported the images to the authorities.
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by mplanchard 15d ago
From TFA: > The Times conducted its own scan for child sexual abuse material on X by writing an automated computer program that searched for related terms without displaying the images, which are illegal to view. Links to the images were
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by mplanchard 15d ago
The newsworthy thing here, IMO, is that they don’t even seem to be checking images against the NCMEC database > The U.S. national center shares digital fingerprints with major technology companies so they can scan and remove the imagery.
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by mplanchard 15d ago
https://archive.is/pdKjA
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Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X(nytimes.com)
48 points by mplanchard 15d ago|67 comments
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by mplanchard 16d ago
Is the implication here that it’s cheaper to build a house with lead, asbestos, and radium? I cannot see how those have any causal link to home prices, which seem to be much more heavily influenced by broader socioeconomic factors (area des
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by mplanchard 16d ago
I mean, the wikipedia on proletariat disagrees with your definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat The proletariat’s primary economic value is their labor. They do not own the means of production. Having
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by mplanchard 16d ago
Uh, do you think that the labor class is defined by utter poverty or something? The labor class is defined by having to work for their livelihood , which most of us still do, even if we have a mortgage or a nice 401(k) or whatever.
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by mplanchard 16d ago
I don’t necessarily think meta complaints about the HN crowd are productive, but… Worker proportion of total company profits is at a historic low, but “unions bad” is often the most that the HN contingent can come up with. A lot of it is “I
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by mplanchard 20d ago
AI seems to be a good tool for people who are already good at learning and critical thinking to use to accelerate their learning. Research on broader populations so far is not so hopeful, with most people using it to avoid learning. This is

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