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by shawnz 3y ago
But wasn't it through experimentation that we developed that understanding? And in the earliest phases of that experimentation, that's when our understanding was at its weakest, right? You almost seem to be implying that we had th
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by shawnz 3y ago
> You know what else grows unchecked until it has consumed all resources of its host? Every living thing which has an evolutionary advantage over its competitors
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by shawnz 3y ago
It's already disabled by default, which is basically what you are asking for. However, disabling it by default doesn't solve the problem of the maintenance burden. That's what this change is meant to solve: > [...] we no l
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by shawnz 3y ago
Why the scare exclamations? Are you implying that plastics ought to be scarier to consume than those other things? Even though plastics have been specifically engineered to be as inert as possible, they're used in the body in medical a
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by shawnz 3y ago
No matter the real root cause, surely multiple layers of precautions must have failed to allow this to happen, right? So given that's a foregone conclusion, how can we discredit a hypothesis based on that?
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by shawnz 3y ago
But I don't think anyone here is asserting that. I'm not sure how to make my point any differently so that you see what I mean. I simply don't think that basing our judgement about what's acceptable for software around w
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by shawnz 3y ago
I still think you're getting too far into the weeds here. If we decide that a certain kind of usage of software shouldn't be considered acceptable, then we could sue the user who used it, or the developers who created it, or somet
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by shawnz 3y ago
But all that stuff about "software can't marry" etc doesn't change the point that we need to make decisions about what behaviour is acceptable for software, and it makes sense to base those decisions on what is already c
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by shawnz 3y ago
> You're arguing for giving personhood to software right now I'm not sure anyone in the thread is actually arguing that. I think what they are saying is that we should look at what behaviour is considered acceptable for humans
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by shawnz 3y ago
What's wrong with slowly building up the hardware management features of the web? Why is that worse than releasing them in one big bang like traditional operating systems have done? And why worry about the nomenclature to begin with? T
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by shawnz 3y ago
This seems like a sunk cost fallacy to me. The web has evolved for decades, too, so why is it so wrong to allow it to compete as an application platform with the established desktop operating systems of the past?
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by shawnz 3y ago
But only once every 60 Hz (for a 60 Hz display). So, if you have an LCD display with higher latency but also higher refresh rate, you could on average be spending less time waiting for new information.
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by shawnz 3y ago
There are LCDs with a refresh rate more than double 60Hz, so even with entire frames worth of latency they could still be faster than a 60Hz CRT
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by shawnz 3y ago
> A better n-gram model would calculate the probability of an n-gram following another n-gram according to their frequency in the training corpus. With a larger corpus and better training techniques (some smoothing for one thing) you&#x2
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by shawnz 3y ago
You need at least 31 karma.
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by shawnz 3y ago
How would you want the comments to be ordered then, chronologically? Or are you saying you want them ordered by rating, but not colourized or minimized? Note also that you can vouch dead comments with the vouch button if you believe they&#x
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by shawnz 3y ago
Just to be clear, it is readers themselves who flag and bury comments on HN
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by shawnz 3y ago
the iPhone messages app already supports unencrypted SMS though
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by shawnz 3y ago
I don't see any new information here.
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by shawnz 3y ago
It shares the same lineage as this code: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/tree/master/apps/news
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by shawnz 3y ago
I think that the computers-as-rocks analogy works even better than this story, since there is no such thing as non-sentient meat, but there most certainly are rocks that can't compute
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by shawnz 3y ago
If you're not waiting for the remote log server to write the messages to its disk before proceeding, then it seems like that's not guaranteed to me? And if you are, then you suffer all the problems of local disk logging but also a
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by shawnz 3y ago
It seems like that frequency space would be doing more good for more people if that were the case?
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by shawnz 3y ago
It's possible, but I like to think I'm a pretty experienced drug user (I estimate that I've tried maybe 10-20 different psychedelics, maybe 30-40 times in total) and this has been a consistent hallmark effect of all psychedel
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by shawnz 3y ago
Here's how I'd describe what I think they are getting at. At least for me, psychedelic drugs create a feeling of novelty and wonder surrounding everything I experience when I take them, as if they flip some kind of lightswitch of
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by shawnz 3y ago
I'm glad to see a tiling window manager that makes effective use of the mouse, I think it is an underappreciated input device for that use case
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by shawnz 3y ago
I believe Citus is the closest alternative for Postgres.
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by shawnz 3y ago
I think this is really underselling the danger of lead and asbestos. They were known to be dangerous basically since their commercial introduction and there are undeniable large scale negative health trends which are clearly attributable to
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by shawnz 3y ago
Have you tried it though? I use it primarily for games and I've never had an issue with it
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by shawnz 3y ago
Maybe instead of spending effort providing low res fallback options, we should be spending more effort making high res GUI-based options more dependable?

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