paisawalla

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by paisawalla 25d ago
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." Everyone thinks they know better than others, and that's why their group and way of thinking should lead. Because of this, reasonable people ought to feel the
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by paisawalla 28d ago
I don't know how to say this except by repeating myself: I recommend you ask a thoughtful person, or a capable LLM, to argue against "a big reason that ... [ad hominem patronization presented without evidence]" In the age of
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by paisawalla 28d ago
The implication is that even if I might agree with you, we ought not be subjecting each other to incoherent rants in lieu of substantive arguments. Just don't say anything, if the only thing you have to say is They Watch Fox News. Even
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by paisawalla 29d ago
Per the second chart: Since 2024, Democrats went from being the most trusting (57%) to the most skeptical (91%), bringing all groups to within 10 points of each other on the question. This is not a "both sides" situation: Republic
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by paisawalla 1mo ago
"middle class" shouldn't be synonymous with "knowledge worker". And that latter itself has become conflated with "credentialed" increasingly, I'd argue. My fundamental observation is that there are a
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by paisawalla 2mo ago
Add in the number of people who have fond memories of BeOS
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
I spent some time researching how to teach commodity LLMs to pose geometrically correct figures and challenges, for the purpose of teaching middle school trig. I originally wanted exactly what you've described here, using AI to unlock
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
when people say "it's rational" they're invoking this feature of rationality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality in other words, if you see behavior in others that doesn't seem r
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
I would appreciate the timer not turning red. It's better to be surprised that time's up, rather than be surprised to know it's running out.
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
> an organisation funded by almost all of big tech Agreed, and this sucks, but what should be done about this? Some NGO called "We Stop Bad Guys" approaches your company with its hand out. You have two choices: 1. kick down som
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
As with many of your premises throughout this thread, > And you think that's worth a 30 year sentence? this claim was never argued.
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
> met to have some coffees and a chat ... with the intention to commit a violent crime I'm sorry, do you believe it's legal to meet someone for coffee and credibly plan the commission of a crime, which you then go on to commit?
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
God bless Hacker News, where "just start building your own package management system, like I did" is an earnest comment, including a sketched out implementation. (I'm admiring this, not mocking it)
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
The thread you're weighing in on is about whether the four-fifths rule is merely diagnostic, or functionally punitive. You're arguing about something else, using the form "given we know that racism is happening, and further
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
You've misunderstood the point. Prior to the beginning of your excerpt is the word "You", meaning the comment's author is the subject, not "companies". I'm saying the commenter is appealing to black letter
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
I don't start from the conclusion that disparities are evidence of racism.
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
What evidence would disprove the claim that systemic racism is the cause of a persistent disparity?
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
You are selectively adhering to the letter of the law, when the practical effects are already well known and studied. One is not obligated to ignore literature, nor abstain from doing a simple extrapolation from the incentives placed on the
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by paisawalla 3mo ago
This is an application of the disparate impact doctrine. Even facially neutral policies are considered suspect if they produce results that correlate against protected groups, irrespective of intent. This doctrine is the basis for much of e
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by paisawalla 4mo ago
I recently bought a used Dell R240 and 4x 20TB for less than this. From TechmikeNY if anyone's interested.
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by paisawalla 5mo ago
That's the role of rhetoric as a skill: all the true and sufficient syllogisms in the world will be ignored by most readers, if the argument leads with priors-triggering hyperbole and bombast.
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by paisawalla 6mo ago
So long as that OSS keeps accumulating features, there isn't quite the equilibrium you're imagining. If you can pin to a stable version, which continues to audited, you're fine. But if the rest of the world moves on to newer
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by paisawalla 9mo ago
> /r/unixporn has a lot of _beautiful_ looking desktops The emphasis here should be on the word _looking_ instead. A lot of these desktops (majority are hyprland setups) reveal themselves to be superficial jank when you try to
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by paisawalla 1y ago
Very nice result. You can also do the same in QGIS, this blog post shows off using orthographic projection for other goals: https://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2019/09/globe-projections-and-...
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by paisawalla 1y ago
Taking ephemeral arguments like channel ID from the environment is more offensive to observability and user comfort
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by paisawalla 1y ago
Someone will need to establish an entity to bring a distributable version of that browser to an app store, and in doing so, taking on the compliance liability.
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by paisawalla 1y ago
Wasteful. `confidence`'s type should be Array<number>, wherein confidence[N] gives the Nth derivative confidence rating.
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by paisawalla 1y ago
Are you the developer of draw.io?
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by paisawalla 3y ago
A great HN feature would be a link to a chatgpt chat, with the contents of the article loaded into the context, summary already generated. Some of these articles are five sentences of interesting information, hidden among five paragraphs of
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by paisawalla 3y ago
There's a lot to reflect on here.

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