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by musicale 7mo ago
Agreed - once you have to do something for a living in order to survive (and probably under the orders of clueless management and company executives) it becomes "work" that is no longer fun. Same way that being forced to read for
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I have edited it to clarify that (in the US) applied to losing health insurance.
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> in the US, you can get another one much more quickly than anywhere else in the world Depending on the economic conditions for the year, it can still take months: > To illustrate the recent trajectory: one analysis found that in Janu
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> I'm somewhat genuinely worried about the human race becoming like the people from Wall-E. We already get food almost on-demand, entertainment to consume too. As of right now somebody alive has to produce that entertainment, but on
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"X. Employee, 19xx-20xx. Beloved co-worker and technical specialist. Sacrificed health and happiness to deliver value to shareholders."
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> You are not your job. You're a person first. Your ability to connect, be present, and make people feel understood is what makes you irreplaceable to the people around you, which is the only market that counts. True, but losing you
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> We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. Ah, if only.
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What about that $99 yearly developer fee? (Technically it is optional if you don't need to ship signed apps or submit to the app store and you don't care about the rest of Apple's developer program.)
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"Delinquency" is a bit of a joke/misnomer since modern lenders have abandoned grace periods. This of course means that they can immediately charge late fees...
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Where did it go, though? Mostly into the pockets of universities, many of whom have rather deep pockets and retain substantial assets.
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Student loans are a particularly interesting scam. Young people with no income, assets or collateral are funneled into significant long-term debt that is difficult to discharge, even in bankruptcy. Credit card companies might have tried thi
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Welcome to CrapOS 26H1! We think you'll love it. Also, if you install tax software it might enable anyone to read all of your "encrypted" TLS connections regardless of what browser or app you might be using. Click "I A
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by musicale 7mo ago
Once the comment section went to hell, ars basically dropped off my list. I am hoping that HN won't devolve into upvote/downvote wars, but there is a risk.
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Well, maybe they don't need to be a nonprofit. How about a public benefit corporation? And maybe that public benefit thing, well we don't really need it do we? Now that we're deep into AI you know. For-profit has a nice ring
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> They will spend it on anything but Firefox, which is the only thing anybody wants them to spend it on. ;_;
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I mean... someone needs to "unlock value" from ArXiv, right?
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My prediction exactly. Maybe a bloated foundation (pursuing expensive objectives completely unrelated to ArXiv's core mission of hosting PDFs), new classes of unnecessary management staff, new and useless paid features that nobody want
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I'll take that as a yes.
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On the other hand (so to speak), European style (fork stays in left hand) is great for left-handers.
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Sandpaper and dremel aren't on the forbidden list yet.
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is that you, python core dev team? ;-)
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> using stuff is fundamentally different from making stuff It doesn't have to be. See: Tim Berners-Lee's original WorldWideWeb browser[1] document.designMode classic web (with readable html and javascript) Hyp
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> Python really needs to take the Typescript approach of "all valid Python4 is valid Python3 Great idea, but I'm not convinced that they learned anything from the Python 2 to 3 transition, so I wouldn't hold my breath. If
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by musicale 8mo ago
The iPad has a touchscreen, supports Apple Pencil, etc. but the observation that the iPad has been Apple's "budget" computing platform for a while is spot on. It is interesting that they have reformulated it into a Mac laptop
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> Now the color options, that's a tragedy. Maybe they need to bring back psychedelic iMacs. https://www.slashgear.com/1706745/rare-apple-imac-designs-fl...
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> undesirable traits that derive from the training data The research areas of model alignment and safety are attempting to address this fundamental problem - and have yet to solve it convincingly. Problems like emergent misalignment can
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You omitted the important "commercial" part. The reason they care whether your commercial software is licensed is that their business model is charging for software licenses for that software. Once there were indications that pe
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This is largely contradicted by the (pre RISC-V) MIPS editions of Patterson & Hennessy, Harris & Harris, etc., which teach you how to design a MIPS datapath (at the gate level.) Regarding silicon implementations, consider that 1) yo
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As you indicate, MIPS was widely used in computer architecture courses and textbooks, including pre-RISC-V editions of Patterson & Hennessy (Computer Organization & Design) and Harris & Harris (Digital Design and Computer Archit
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I see. So no intel CPUs with secret microcode and internal VMs. No ASICs with opaque internal functions and control software. No machine-readable serial numbers. Certainly no NVIDIA GPUs, and probably no AMD or Intel either. No hard-coded M

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