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by romwell 2y ago
>Anyone else remember when HackerNews had an adventurous libertarian ethos before the school marms infested the place with irrelevant and low vibrational commentary? Boy will you not like the "high vibrational" commentary peopl
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by romwell 2y ago
It's the Delphi pitfall :( Still the best IDE I've ever used, but that was because in 1990s Ukraine everything was pirated. Wouldn't be able to use it any other way.
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by romwell 2y ago
That settles it. A company spokes person would never misinform the public.
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by romwell 2y ago
>The subject here and now is Wolfram and the irritation of many comes not from the work that Wolfram has achieved on his own but the utter lack of acknowledgement | recogonition of work done by others .. a substantial amount of work by
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by romwell 2y ago
Say what you want of Stephen Wolfram, but he's an interesting person doing interesting things - and managing to finish a lot of them. A bite-sized idea I liked from the long article: "the very act of exposition was a critical p
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by romwell 2y ago
...while being simultaneously vilified for "taking our jobs" and being "dangerous" (whereas they are being very deliberately used to generate profits). You are making a solid case to issue permanent residence permits to
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by romwell 2y ago
>If the job is unskilled (i.e. you can train the next person to do it in less than one hour) and you have several people standing in line to take it if the person doing it, quits; then the current wage is clearly enough. Enough for who
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by romwell 2y ago
The parent comment said nothing about the job , they commented on a full-time wage . Their point stands.
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by romwell 2y ago
Tomorrow's LLM-based doctor: You've got a fever, and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL Can't wait to see what fixed points will emerge in this dynamical enshittification system.
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by romwell 2y ago
That's because the traditional model didn't have a loop connecting the garbage output back to input.
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by romwell 2y ago
This is Hackernews. What are those Desktop apps you speak of? Clearly, everything is a command-line backend pipeline in container with a web UI. And everything that isn't can be easily deprecated. /s
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by romwell 2y ago
It seems like the link we got ( https://www.mono-project.com ) might be the URL for the announcement - that's to say, this is the last update on that website, and will stay there indefinitely.
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by romwell 2y ago
>Except that requires time, money, and forethought. You missed the point that actual IRL bugs are very easily obtainable for free and without much forethought.
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by romwell 2y ago
Thank you so much for reading that paper and writing this comment. There definitely are resources that I can recommend. Can't do this at the moment (work awaits!), but will come back to this in the evening. One book that did a lot for
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by romwell 2y ago
Indeed it is, sadly. But I'm very glad you got to read this paper, and get thoughts from it! The more people see things this way, the closer we are to changing the education system for the better.
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by romwell 2y ago
Sure, but the author talks about it as if the same thing wasn't already possible with Photoshop and some effort decades ago (anyone remembers Worth1000?). Of course, having the machine do it in seconds is a huge achievement. But it doe
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by romwell 2y ago
I'm sorry, but as a mathematician and educator, the comparison to Common Core is unwarranted. When you say it sounded like something to you, you communicate that you didn't understand what it actually meant and deduced the mea
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by romwell 2y ago
>unless you referenced both of them in later code Generative AI: hold my bear
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by romwell 2y ago
>When I was a teenageer a school counselor incorrectly perceived me to be in a crisis and had me sent to 72 hour hold How could they do that without notifying your parents and telling them exactly where you've been sent to, and what
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by romwell 2y ago
I am so sorry for what happened to your brother and your family. The hospital is directly responsible for your cousin's death. The fact that they assured the mother that they'll keep him, specifically told her to come the next day
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by romwell 2y ago
>Are any pictures available? I would like to know how @ could look like a dog "a with a long tail curling upwards, like that of a Laika dog[1]" [1] https://www.wisdompanel.com/en-us/dog-breeds/east-sib
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by romwell 2y ago
Seattle is an exceptional city in the US in that respect, and the only one aside from NYC where I'd feel comfortable living without a car. If not for the climate, I'd move there already.
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by romwell 2y ago
>Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds? Because the US is developed as an urbanite-hostile wasteland, devoid of third places[1], where people are kept out of the streets by design, and are goaded into existing only in the follow
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by romwell 2y ago
>All meetings should start at a time ending in 5 on the minutes side. Eg. 10:35 is a valid start time. This is an excellent example of an ADHD accommodation that costs nothing to implement, and is absolutely welcomed by neurotypical
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by romwell 2y ago
>Perspective from someone who identifies as a tidsoptimist, Swedish for “time optimist” I also wondered all those things, and loved the word tidsoptimist . Then I got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult at age 34, and it all clicked. "
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by romwell 2y ago
>Won't this show the wrong glyph if you're looking at it from the wrong angle? Time is relative (to your height).
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by romwell 2y ago
I'm an ardent user of Tiddly Wiki as a knowledge database. I know there's Obsidian and Logseq, but they feel like too much overhead to me. TiddlyWiki does all of that, and it's a self-contained single HTML file . You can r
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by romwell 2y ago
Google Maps limits how much you can download. You can't download the map for the the entire world, or even an entire country.
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by romwell 2y ago
Haven't tried EveryDoor yet. Thank you!
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by romwell 2y ago
About three hundred megabytes for a country like Romania. About a gigabyte for the US, several gigs for the whole world.

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