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by nimih 2y ago
Those same quibbles applied to the policy before the addition of the LLM section: how does the NetBSD project detect if I copy & paste a bunch of code from my day job into a patch submission (and then lie about it)? Obviously, they ca
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by nimih 2y ago
How do code review and testing address the licensing concerns identified by the project? If you read their policy (which is two paragraphs, one of which is quoted directly in the article), it's pretty clear that the quality of the code
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by nimih 2y ago
An .epub file is in a lot of ways what you're asking for (it's HTML-based, it's designed to package inline media such as images and provide fallbacks if the client can't/won't make remote requests, it has limit
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by nimih 2y ago
I can't speak for the OP, but I've used a bare git repo for a number of years to manage my dotfiles, and in the few cases where I need to handle differences between machines, I've always been able to find a simple and straigh
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by nimih 2y ago
You seem to have an extra level of html quoting occurring somewhere. For instance, I got the following synopsis for "Not Love, Just Frenzy" (1996): From the land of Almodovar comes a hot new film about drugs, sex & e
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by nimih 2y ago
I think this is a pretty commonly held belief at this point in time, and I'd be somewhat surprised if you could change even a single American TikTok user's behavior by convincing them of it, since, anecdotally, people seem to lump
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by nimih 3y ago
I had the option to be paid by paper check as recently as 2017, and probably still would if I had remained working for that employer (a US-based legacy insurance carrier).
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by nimih 3y ago
> When the Third Millennium Stasis kick off, basilisks on leashes, those are the intelligence treasure troves they will stripmine your optionality with. I don't know what all this means, but generally I think it's probably not
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by nimih 3y ago
Are you regularly using stateless, asymmetrically-encrypted tokens during service-to-service communication? That strikes me as a rather odd architecture decision, but maybe there's something I'm missing.
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by nimih 3y ago
They should estimate the average stay length of their guests and amortize the cleaning fee appropriately, the same way that many other businesses (including real B&Bs, in my experience) handle fixed costs. In theory, AirBnb should be
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by nimih 3y ago
Blood doping is listed as a prohibited procedure by various sports organizations (e.g. the world anti-doping code), and thus is doping by their fiat. According to wikipedia, the Olympics first banned the practice in 1985, so reading comment
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by nimih 3y ago
They have human moderators who by and large care about maintaining the quality of the communities they moderate, and give those moderators buttons to delete posts and ban users. Although FWIW, reddit seems to have it's fair share of as
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by nimih 3y ago
> They don't care about profits. This isn't really true in general: intelligence agencies often want access to funds with less/no oversight from (or to skirt controls enacted by) other parts of the government. As an exampl
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by nimih 3y ago
archive.ph misreports its IP address when responding to queries from cloudflare, apparently on purpose. It's not too hard to dig up some old threads/comments discussing the issue if you're curious about the details--you can f
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by nimih 3y ago
> What am I missing? Probably that different people find different areas of math interesting and compelling. I personally find the subjects you listed rather dull, and difficult to study as a result, but find the subjects of (f.ex.) alge
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by nimih 3y ago
Someone should probably let Shin Jinseo know that the Go world championships are now "moot", because he appears to still spend a lot of time training and practicing for them.
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by nimih 3y ago
I think you're still a bit confused. 81.8% refers to, out of the population which _both_ failed in their first suicide attempt, _and also_ eventually (within the study observation window, i.e. 3-25 years) dies of suicide, the proportio
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by nimih 3y ago
The 81.8% is out of the 5.4%. (In fact, it is out of a subpopulation of the 5.4%--it is the rate at which, given that the person died by suicide, but survived the first attempt, died within the subsequent year). From the study: > During
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by nimih 3y ago
> If you know bash or sh well enough to do those things quickly then there is no incentive to use fish. I honestly think you might misunderstand why a lot of people use fish. I know bash “pretty well”—I’ve written and maintained my fair
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by nimih 3y ago
> How can anyone believe he's acting in good faith here? Is there a particular reason to believe that he's doing so? Recall that he didn't voluntarily make the purchase; he was forced to by a lawsuit. And, given that the p
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by nimih 3y ago
Part of the reason that I, personally, hate algorithmic feeds is precisely because I end up spending more time staring at them. With a chronological feed, as soon as I see a post I've seen before[1], it's very easy for me to put
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by nimih 3y ago
Yes, I agree. I probably should've been more clear that when I said "behavior," I meant "behavior observable by the caller." Going back to the original article, it seems reasonable to me that the following qualifies
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by nimih 3y ago
You can improve performance without changing the function's interface. Or remove a bug which causes an unrecoverable error. Or fix a memory leak. Or improve the error message on an internal assertion. Or add new methods to an object&#x
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by nimih 3y ago
Well, yes. Any time you change a function’s behavior, you’re risking breaking the behavior of its callers. That’s just the nature of programming and doesn’t seem like particularly controversial statement, honestly.
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by nimih 3y ago
The webpages for most of the graduate studies/research departments seem to indicate that some level of public funding is expected/necessary for at least some students and researchers at Stanford. An example[1]: The department has
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by nimih 3y ago
FEC v. Ted Cruz for Senate[1] is probably the better (or at least more egregious) example these days. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEC_v._Ted_Cruz_for_Senate
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by nimih 3y ago
As a book author, what's your feeling on libraries, out of curiosity?
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by nimih 3y ago
The headline seems quite disingenuous when the article is based on a study that puts the adoption rate of these surveillance technologies at around 14%.
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by nimih 3y ago
I have an undergraduate degree and a couple years worth of graduate school in pure math (and continue to read/work through math texts on occasion when the urge strikes me), and can say with pretty high confidence that my ability as a p
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by nimih 3y ago
The pattern that I run into a lot is that I'll find a reddit post which reproduces useful information found on a personal blog/website, but I would've had no prayer finding that blog in the first place thanks to SEO spam. Red

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