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by nosianu 1y ago
That is how you get Oracle source code. It broke my illusions after entering real life big company coding after university, many years ago. It also led to this gem of an HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442
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Brains are not computers and we don't learn by being given abstract rules. We also don't learn nearly as well from class room teaching as we do from doing things IRL for a real purpose - the brain always knows the difference and t
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Here in Germany, in Berlin, these "protests" included wrecking a lecture hall and seriously injuring a Jewish student. - https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2025/04/berlin-humboldt... (April 2
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by nosianu 1y ago
Just for the record, not just on StackOverflow but everywhere it is good practice to not just post a link and nothing else. One should always include a TL;DR summary so that it is clear what the link is about without having to click. Especi
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> most of these things can happen for poorly documented large codebase. Documentation does not help beyond a point. Nobody reads the documentation repeatedly, which would be needed. When you keep working on a project, and you need a ne
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> But relying on other people's kingdom isn't free either I know it sounds trite, but looking at what I'm responding to, it is not possible to not rely on others for anything but the most basic things where input(s), too
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There is the "Lite" version by the same author written for the current Chrome. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/... Works fine for me. It has a lot less options, truly "Li
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by nosianu 1y ago
There is worse going on in other areas, for example "China Recruiting Former R.A.F. Pilots to Train Its Army Pilots, U.K. Says" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63293582 https://www.nytimes.com/202
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> Here is a German podcast on the high quality "Deutschlandfunk". I forgot the actual URL! It's German though. And a podcast (19. July 2025, 29 minutes) But it's good and quite thorough and has a lot of details, so
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I checked and found some numbers from Australia (they fly a lot down there, and use similar airplanes). Rotax engines were not worse than Lycoming or Continental ones, 1 in 36 vs. 1 in 35. Japiru engines were the bad outlier. "Engine f
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Gini does not give a full picture, it is just one measure. Here is a German podcast on the high quality "Deutschlandfunk". Headline: "Only the top four percent make it to the top in Germany." > Despite political uphea
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The majority of the linked articles is waaayyyyy too long for what they have to say, and they reveal the subject only many paragraphs in. From reading one or a few short comments I at least know what the linked article is about, which the o
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by nosianu 1y ago
I don't get such incomplete, selective, comparisons. The country can't go bankrupt and you just found another one. Yes, when a country messes up they have to actually fix things, there is no way around it. Except getting merged in
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Anecdote Many years ago, in another millennium, before I even went to university but still was an apprentice (the German system, in a large factory), I wrote my first professional software, in assembler. I got stuck on a hard part. Fortunat
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In general I agree with you, but I see the point of requiring proof for statements made by them, instead of accepting them at face value. In those cases, given previous experiences and considering that they benefit from making them, if they
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by nosianu 1y ago
> Are you saying they weren't lied to? I think Trump & team have been very open about their intentions. There's even his entire first presidency to look at. At most, some of his voters might be surprised that he actually
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> the only thing preventing total war is the belief that it might be possible to fix it next year And the knowledge that you cannot win when the other side controls the armed forces, the FBI, and all the governing institutions, a lot o
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> because cats can climb trees are more of a danger to humans than dog/wolves That's on an individual level only though? Dogs/wolves are pack animals. I once stood in an empty eastern European city street and a pack of s
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> My guess is that both (cats and anime) hacked our visual network in a sense It's not just cats. It's many furry mammals. But it's also most birds, which look completely different. And bees and bumblebees, even more dif
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by nosianu 1y ago
I have a modified tiered approach, that I adopted without consciously thinking hard about it. I use AI mostly for problems on my fringes. Things like manipulating some Excel table somebody sent me with invoice data from one of our suppliers
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by nosianu 1y ago
If you would give a balanced PoV you would not only count the good drugs that could have been, but also list all the bad ones that were fortunately prevented from being released on the public. If you only list one side, your argument is m
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by nosianu 1y ago
Funny you use something the author of the linked post talks about at the start. This is one of those debate methods. Reframe what was said! I don't remember that the OP claimed that all problems are solved, perfectly. Do you think by
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Yes? They stayed and did not leave. Confucius asking the woman did not create that option. It was always there. My personal thought would also be that one has significantly higher chances to succeed against a tiger than a government, includ
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> if not in the middle of a densely populated city, especially if above a plain or water What is on the ground below does not matter at that point - how far above that ground you are is what is important. More altitude is more time. Th
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Could be worse. All the many things named after people prevalent in some fields more than in others, biology/medicine for example. When you read, for example, "loop of Henle" or "circle of Willis" you don't e
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by nosianu 1y ago
So? The comparison still makes no sense. Those switches cannot be accidentally flipped, and they are in a place where the pilots' hands have no action to take at all during that period. That is very different from mixing up two simil
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> It is pity, that Google Mail is «good enough» and it killed development of good desktop e-mail clients. Microsoft Outlook has a very large market share in the business world. There is an old and a new GUI design version, and you can
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> I haven't got the first clue about governing a country Is this really so different from quite a number of high profile politicians today? Many are mostly good at networking and how to use the media machine. The actual competence
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That was exactly the question??? That "AI generated slop" IS Google's main response now. I posted it so that someone might have a look to see if/how correct it actually is, your response, that does not deign to even lo
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I asked Google that exact question, and I got an AI summary that looks alright? Please verify if those steps make sense, I pasted them into a text service, it's too much for an HN comment: https://justpaste.it/63eiz It

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