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by rixed 5mo ago
If all they wanted was to know more about your profile, they could already buy this information form the bank I presume.
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by rixed 5mo ago
How is this different from usual sensor stabilisation techniques? Is it because it can adjust for a wider range of motion?
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by rixed 5mo ago
There is another thread elsewhere on the first page about low-trust USA. Sadly, behaviors and expectations converge toward one another.
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by rixed 5mo ago
A full email? We need a "you've been fired" emoji.
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by rixed 5mo ago
If one is honorable only for the reward, is one really honorable though? Either it is a principle or it is a strategy, can't be both.
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by rixed 5mo ago
This is HN not some doxing subreddit.
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by rixed 5mo ago
Real basic and, fairly universal. You may prefer a quieter car, but there is also a sound level that is below your preference. I do not believe this to be true. My feeling is: some people (or rather: some people in some occasions) e
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by rixed 5mo ago
Meanwhile, all european companies, tech or not, big and small, are preparing to make all their business depends on Anthropic or OpenAI...
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by rixed 5mo ago
The days of my old google account that predates real identity policies are numbered... People already assume that your "google name" is your official name, so much so that I had to patiently explain a delivery man once that the fu
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by rixed 5mo ago
No we won't, and that's why we had free software in the first place. Many people dream of a community not of being forever singled out.
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by rixed 5mo ago
The thesis of Idiocracy is that society gets dumber in the future because intelligence is mostly genetically-determined I don't remember the movie taking side on the nature vs nurture debate. The thesis is that intelligence is
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by rixed 5mo ago
When you picture the attacker, don't picture a bored nerdy teanager. Picture a selfish, $$ motivated psychopath. Let's not side with the parasites.
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by rixed 5mo ago
And to factor in other infrastructure costs that's become more expensive too, such as hosting or hardware. So unless you can isolate AI spending from others that's not going to be convincing.
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by rixed 5mo ago
Please don't do that, expect has to die.
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by rixed 5mo ago
For that exact same reason I've been avoiding half-sized up/down keys and full arrow keys, as well as mate screen and weight, have been my first filters when browsing for laptops. How annoying must it be to design those machines w
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by rixed 5mo ago
> it's worth pointing out that binary search (or low-level implementation variants) is the best only if you know nothing about the data beyond the fact that it is sorted / monotonic Also if you do not learn anything about the d
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by rixed 5mo ago
> Disregarding genuine differences between cultures and intentially treating those cultures as identical is racist. Just for the record, I don't think that's a widely used definition for "racism". Also, the linked art
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An Update on Rust-Coreutils(discourse.ubuntu.com)
3 points by rixed 5mo ago|2 comments
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by rixed 5mo ago
Also of interest: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues Is rewritting old softwares into a newer language a bit like adding people to a late project?
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by rixed 5mo ago
Why makes this statement racist?
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by rixed 6mo ago
I really find this amazing, gives you the feeling that learning the ideograms would be enough to get the gist of most texts. Quite bright yet simple hack. I wish HN would feature more projects like this one instead of wtv is currently on th
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by rixed 6mo ago
Does not work on FF, iOS : the translation is drawn with the same font.
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by rixed 6mo ago
> So what was valued? ... None of that was valued much compared to lineage, though.
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by rixed 6mo ago
Serviceability by owner is less and less important as fewer and fewer owners actually do maintenance themselves, though.
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by rixed 6mo ago
Option 1: "I am so much smarter than these stupid engineers" Option 2: "Certainly, I do not understand the various trade offs that led to this design" I wished at least in software tech circles there would be more of opt
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by rixed 6mo ago
I've been not betting on x86 in the long term since the PowerPC was announced ;)
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by rixed 6mo ago
It's sad to admit, but being a chef étoilé does not make it easier to find a job in the fast food industry. It can even be detrimental.
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by rixed 6mo ago
Am I the only one to believe that they used Lego, a company strongly associated with Denmark, to prime Europeans into associating Iran with Greenland?
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by rixed 6mo ago
The confusion comes from the fact that the regime which is very clearly better for its own people is also the one which actions are clearly awful for the rest of the world (if only because it has vastly larger means).
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by rixed 6mo ago
So one side is evil while the other side is just wrong ? Like after 300k deaths in Irak when the administration said "sorry we have been misled by wrong information about the WMD"? They made a mistake, yet Iraqis were evil.

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