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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Partly because algorithmic curation is a big business, tied in pretzel knots with advertising, and is marketed by major companies as a huge "improvement" or "user need" (to sell more ads) You might have inadvertentl
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by sangnoir 2y ago
With BS postings, low response rates, and the effect of having to apply to many jobs at once, how else can applicants manage their many applications but write things down? The last time I did ran the job search, I needed a spreadsheet to ke
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Calling this "cluelessness" is being more charitable that parent, and on the balance of evidence, mayn not be the correct explanation. If one were sceptical of this synchronized "political awakening" in the tech industry
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> State and other propaganda actors didn’t take it as a serious platform Security was awful for both the client and server. Who needs a warrant when all the user data is an SQL injection away? Broswers not fussy about https, Java Apple
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Re-insurers also re-calibrate their rates, which may mean private may be effective ... until the first big disaster whereafter the re/insurance premiums become eye-watering.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Try broadcasting on a licensed frequency without a license and find out... If the terminals were completely passive, finding smuggled terminals would be much harder.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The module that translates[1] Linux syscalls? That module? Can I say I'm fluent in Tagalog with the help of my "English Subsystem for Tagalog v1" (aka a hired translator)? 1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-u
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I'm not parent, but at some point McAffee could refer to either the person or the company in the past. Whenever I read a Wolfram blog post that floats to the HN frontpage, I'm never certain if the post is entirely the effort of ju
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The Texas thing sounds like PR but isn't really given their huge offices in Austin That distinctly smells like pork barrel politicking: we're moving jobs from Commiefornia to your great state, and if your criminal [1] state A
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by sangnoir 2y ago
If you're playing fast and loose and consider a chroot running under a the devices' kernel (that also handles all syscalls directly) to be the same as a hypervisor, then yeah, Windows is approximately a Linux distro by the same lo
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Is it not a conservative culture-war victory designed to earn favors? There is no external evidence of this having been anything other than a contingency around November 6 of last year, so it's hard to definitively say it's one
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Android can run a full-blown Linux desktop distro in a chroot[0] - so yes, you absolutely can run LibreOffice on stock Android if the mood strikes you. I haven't tried it wine[1], but I don't see why one wouldn't be able to r
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Using outdated tensorflow (v1 from 2018) or outdated PyTorch makes learning harder than it need to be, considering most resources online use much newer versions of the frameworks. If you're learning the fundamentals and working from fi
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Nvidia segments its big iron AI hardware from the consumer/prosumer segment. They do this by forbidding the use of GeForce drivers in datacenters[1]. All that to say, it is possible for the H100 to to have excellent Linux support, whil
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> The difference is that Microsoft wants to force you to use an online Microsoft account to log into your own local computer. Macs do not require that. I have no OS or tech giant loyalty, but I think the pushiness is wash between MacOS a
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> He doesn't run any of the companies mentioned, and he is not some emperor of the software industry. ?! He's the longest-serving member on Meta's board, and is a named partner at a prominent and prolific VC fund[1]. Maybe
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Counterpoint: there are places in the world where people will not accept a $2 bill due to unfamiliarity - it may as well be a $7 bill. Therefore, there exists a $2 that's worth nothing as legal tender.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Genuinely curious whats better under Canadian system for the young and old. The young, old, and those too unhealthy to work full-time. And to answer your question: a better social safety net, IMO. Edit: Because this topic is flamebait,
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The Third Geneva Convention categorizes sleep deprivation as actual torture.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> people have come to hate it so much that they can't maintain it, they're in for a collapse because of it Considering how post-Brexit Britain panned out, the people in charge of policy will be pragmatic and allow immigration t
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The USA is great when you're working age and are healthy. Outside the 18-65 age range, not so much. I hope Canada will not morph into USA-lite.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It's fascinating how the same arguments can apply to the homeless, but how one sees the homeless vs. the truck protestors is likely to be polar opposites with one group free to stay as they aren't infringing on any rights, and the
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I think low recurrence is the bigger factor for sleaziness: roof replacement aren't low value, same goes for the archetype for sleazy sales tactics: car salesman.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
This is software sales, which has long cycles, ongoing relationships and is a tiny sliver of the "hires salesmen" industry. For commoditized markets like phone plans, cable TV / ISPs, paper, or roof repairs after a hurricane,
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I hope you appreciate the irony of your white-hot rage against framing, and the contrast of you saying: > this is the new normal even if it’s only “because we say so”, that when an other option is presented, and one isn’t ordered to “a
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by sangnoir 2y ago
What journalism? I'm talking about how we frame the discussion on HN in threads like this one.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Well, I'm glad that we can at least agree that the US has protectionist policies and has had them for a long time. If you want a bigger protected industry, perhaps checkout any Farm bill from the past several decades. But that's
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It's not a red herring, I was responding to this specific sentence about the US "finally" acting, as if it's a new phenomenon: >> The US is finally starting to act in kind, and should continue to do so > No coun
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I mean, did we reach some checkpoint here where reality is blurred with fiction? Yes, the first interactive synthetic pop culture icon is probably the Vocaloid Hakune Mitsu, circa 2007, and she has lots of fans who know exactly who and
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I wonder why so few companies employ Pixar’s Brain Trust method It doesn't scale. That model hasn't been utilized at Pixar lately - whatsm was the last good/hit Pixar movie that wasn't a sequel or side-quel? Like mo

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