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by msla 3y ago
The FTC probably can't fine them enough to make the training unprofitable.
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by msla 3y ago
Or they'll do it without updating the ToS. Nothing's stopping them. Adults realize other adults do what benefits them.
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by msla 3y ago
The COVID vaccines used in the West are very effective.
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by msla 3y ago
The GPL is only restrictive to companies that want to use unpaid labor. I'm not surprised to see their astroturf around here, and I'm not surprised that the astroturf probably isn't paid for, either.
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by msla 3y ago
Stop embarrassing yourself.
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by msla 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law > The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. The logical conclusion of that is the Gish Gallop: h
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by msla 3y ago
> "The science is settled" is a marketing term put forward by administrations that wish to manipulate the will of it's citizens. Especially those citizens who follow sheep-like behind a Media Personality who happens to bel
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by msla 3y ago
Nobody cares who you are or claim to be. Anyone can pick any user name here. We care what you say, or, in this case, fail to.
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by msla 3y ago
Don't forget Nintendo Power magazine, with all of the "helpful" (read: all-but-required sometimes) walkthroughs and tips!
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by msla 3y ago
> There are obviously commonsense exceptions granted. Rather a lot of the history of disabled and otherwise 'unusual' people seems to disprove how 'obvious' and 'commonsense' that idea is in practice.
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by msla 3y ago
That seems rather ableist. As a trivial example, what happens to quadriplegics? Do they not get to go to MIT?
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by msla 3y ago
It's a dumb joke with no basis in fact.
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by msla 3y ago
People actually still think this dumb joke is true?
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by msla 3y ago
Normal software testing (remember that?) can catch bugs without invasions of privacy.
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by msla 3y ago
> In college you can sometimes talk your way out of the Intro To XYZ classes and go directly to the upper level stuff. There's a formalized way to do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Level_Examination
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by msla 3y ago
Same with Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer XTerm can as well, if built with Sixel support: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by msla 3y ago
My point is that we can, apparently, improve the baseline expectations in the parts of science where this kind of reproducibility is possible. That isn't all science, granted, but it is some science. It isn't a panacea, granted, b
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by msla 3y ago
With some of the things, but admittedly not most of the things you mentioned, there's a dataset (somewhere) and some code run on that dataset (somewhere) and replication would mean someone else being able to run that code on that datas
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by msla 3y ago
This might have a better UI in a few hours. https://archive.org/details/sad-bastard-cookbook
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by msla 3y ago
OOP is how large-scale procedural programs are organized. It allows programmers to try to reason about medium-scale parts of the system. (Mesoscale programming? Is that a thing yet?) FP is a set of guarantees (maybe even enforced by the com
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by msla 3y ago
Part of doing maintenance is being able to migrate to a better language, yes.
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by msla 3y ago
> There is a pattern in this list [of green and brown, or most loved and most dreaded, respectively, programming languages]. Can you see what it is? HTML, which isn't even a programming language, is in both of them. Just make sure y
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by msla 3y ago
We're making good strides in some areas and others are more resistant to breakthroughs. This even works in different aspects of the same thing: We have the ability to genetically modify T-cells to kill some kinds of cancers, but it&#x2
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by msla 3y ago
> As an organization the CIA has a very long and sordid well-known and documented history of committing acts that most reasonable people would find extremely difficult to justify - not so, the nationalists, who incidentally are also infl
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by msla 3y ago
> Not everything that makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed about your state is a conspiracy theory. This is a great thought-stopping cliche to prevent people from realizing they've bought into some dumb ideas. "I can't b
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by msla 3y ago
> the CIA's "conspiracy theorist" agitprop What's your actual claim here? "Everything anyone comes up with about the CIA is either true or invented by the CIA to make people think people like me are insane"?
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by msla 3y ago
My point is less about Danish taxes and more about external constraints. By all means nitpick my knowledge of the Danish tax code, though. That sounds like fun.
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by msla 3y ago
It's the right word, it just isn't being used in its full context. Like, plenty of people have names not on the Great Big List Of Dane Names. Those people are not Danes, but if you want to deal with the non-Danish of the world, yo
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by msla 3y ago
> Falsehoods about Names - The article that started it all. This is a meta-falsehood in that the names programmers deal with are often mandated to have certain properties by external authorities, such as governments. For example, a progr
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by msla 3y ago
> So, basically, nobody would have any interest in preventing an explosion of new strong cryptography is that right? Not really.

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