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by rectang 1y ago
Carmina Burana, which used to be ubiquitous in video games and medieval movies, says it ain’t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQXehmVDLc (trad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE01DAATf6s (remix) https:&
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by rectang 1y ago
A lot of immigrants read HN, and immigrants are getting plenty harassed these days.
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by rectang 1y ago
It’s a bad litmus test because people are at least capable of making distinctions between classes of crimes and the extent to which rehabilitation is practical. Many might support rehabilitation for e.g. petty thieves (or murderers, since
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by rectang 1y ago
Rape is not the only crime people get sent to jail for, and at least some fraction of the US population is capable of seeing the imprisoned as human beings. I agree nevertheless that inflicting maximum misery and pain on prisoners is popula
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by rectang 1y ago
Or as my brother and I called it, "Ick-bihn-buh" — enunciating the "ICBINB" acronym. The proof-of-concept marketing name "I Can't Believe It's Not Salmon" illustrates the fundamental problem here. Ca
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by rectang 1y ago
Anecdotally, the LED bulbs I've bought from Ace Hardware (BR30 for 65 watt recessed kitchen lighting, and A19 for 75 watt classic bulbs) have consistently failed on order-of-months timescales similar to incandescents. Same with some F
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by rectang 1y ago
Is wonder if there's a strong correlation between whether you experience static zaps in your daily life and your propensity to fry chips with ESD. When you fry a chip is it obvious because you experience a zap? If so, then that would m
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by rectang 1y ago
And so the "solution" is to give dissenters free rein and thus trolls and haters free rein as well, effectively deplatforming all but the most pugilistic amongst marginalized communities as those who don't want to spend their
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by rectang 1y ago
Here in the US, we have been getting a visceral lesson about human willingness to sacrifice your own interests so long as you’re sticking it to The Enemy. It doesn’t matter if the revolution is bad for the commoners — they will support it a
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by rectang 1y ago
So what? Should they not exist? Why must marginalized communities leave themselves defenseless and accept that they can only have a conversation among themselves in the midst of a hurricane of abuse?
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by rectang 1y ago
> moderation inevitably leads to exclusion Yes, it has to, because trolls and haters are relentless. The choice of whether or not marginalized communities are allowed to ban abusive posters is fundamental because moderation resources
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by rectang 1y ago
> stymy the flywheel effect that allows a handful of users (and thus sets of norms) to come to dominate so strongly This prevents certain communities from forming and certain topics from being discussed. For example, you can't di
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by rectang 1y ago
An excellent point. Compelling others to live no matter how great their pain or grim their prospects has much in common with compelling others to cede their likenesses after death no matter how much the usage might go against their wishes.
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by rectang 1y ago
Do others have a moral duty to allow businesses to exploit their likenesses the moment they die?
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by rectang 1y ago
Would you deny others their wish to have their data deleted?
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by rectang 1y ago
I’m ticked off that I got duped and would have welcomed a rejection. It sucks that lots of great HN comments got tied to an AI slop article.
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by rectang 1y ago
I can’t see the WSJ article. None of the mainstream articles I could find discuss Unimatic in any detail, including the Reuters and NYT articles. I figure that there has to be a forum out there where the nature of the software glitch is th
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United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown(allchronology.com)
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Open Source Software.
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by rectang 1y ago
The "Hanging Out with a Contrarian Friend" TikTok that inspired this post is the opposite of the improv technique of "Yes, and..." https://www.tiktok.com/@kelseyjunejensen/video/7525163617197...
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by rectang 1y ago
I agree that we shouldn't mix allocators, and so does the post's author. Can you put your technical arguments into terms which aren't so dismissive of people's honest efforts to learn? We ought to be all on the same pa
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by rectang 1y ago
I find it hard to believe that an LLM would have come up with this quote to start the article: > “Memory oppresses me.” - Severian, The Book of the New Sun That sort of artistic/humourous flourish isn't in character for an LL
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by rectang 1y ago
I don't agree with your contemptuous framing. It's incorrect, and per the post's author, "dangerous" — but depending on your background it's not "silly" or "borderline insane". It's j
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by rectang 1y ago
It's not like "spewing maga talking points" is the only way to show fealty — accepting Republican framing of issues suffices, such as "the national debt is a problem so the only option is to cut entitlements". The
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by rectang 1y ago
I wonder how many profitable, sustainable, rewarding medium-sized businesses that have never taken VC money are utterly invisible to HN. “You know, you could just not take VC money.” “… We don’t do that here.”
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by rectang 1y ago
I’m socially liberal by American standards, but on the subject of government funding for media I feel like a small-c conservative. Government funded media faces constant pressure to become propaganda. I’m rather looking forward to public r
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by rectang 1y ago
I wonder if now, shorn of the need to “bothsides” everything to justify government funding, public radio news will begin to reflect the political affiliations of its donor base more closely.
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by rectang 1y ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5408014-rural-stations-vu... > Rural stations hit hardest > Up to 18 percent of about 1,000 member stations would close
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I'm pretty sure I fell for a phishing scam a couple decades ago — my eBay password was compromised (fortunately there were no significant consequences). Once upon a time I also got tricked by the phone company into ordering stuff I di
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by rectang 1y ago
CNAs (Certified Nursing Assistants) have low up-front training costs, but don't make a lot of money: an average of $19/hr [1]. So at least some of the less skilled work is being done with economic efficiency. [1] https:/&#x

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