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by skissane 7mo ago
1980s office suites very commonly included terminal emulators, because they were in high-demand back then Most large enterprises, you’d have core business applications running on a mainframe or minicomputer or Unix host, and you’d need a te
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by skissane 7mo ago
I think one thing that has changed-both my parents and my wife’s parents are divorced, which makes things socioemotionally more complicated in terms of grandparental involvement in our children’s lives-it still happens, but I think it invol
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by skissane 7mo ago
> Separate from this policy debate I think you’ll find Australia is a country where the right frequently wins actual majorities of the vote. Isn't that basically every democratic country? We can't judge how "right" or
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by skissane 7mo ago
The problem I see with this-AI-generated versus human-written isn’t a binary, it is a continuum. One person gives an AI a brief prompt, the AI writes a whole novel, person publishes it without even reading it first Another person spends wee
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by skissane 7mo ago
> but as I understand it, the requirement is that the system administrator assigns ages to the users on their system. That seems pretty reasonable to me, and maybe even like a good idea in some scenarios Does it require exact age, or jus
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by skissane 7mo ago
Here in Australia, I’ve seen what we call “strata title” applied to “single family homes” before (American terminology, we’d say “detached houses”) - it is uncommon, much more common with apartment buildings or townhouses/villas/s
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by skissane 7mo ago
Mostly PL/I but a few files of COBOL too, e.g. https://github.com/navikt/DSF/blob/main/src/GML/FO04D1X1.cob...
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by skissane 7mo ago
> Yeah, the assumption is that the non hereditary peers are somehow more representative, but all they represent is being friends of the PM of the time There is an informal understanding that the government gives a certain number of life
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by skissane 7mo ago
> My guess is that all those who are actually useful will get "grandfathered in" by this legislation making them life peers The government made a political deal with the hereditary peers-drop their fight against this bill, and
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by skissane 7mo ago
> The australian senate, before 2015 or so, used to contain enough fun cooks that legislation had to get broad support to make it through. It was a pretty decent check against the beige dictatorship. But since they updated the voting rul
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by skissane 8mo ago
> @kvinogradov (Open source endowment), I am (Pinging?) you unfortunately, @-pinging does not work on this site, it does nothing to notify anyone. If you want to get a specific person’s attention, use off-site communication mechanisms
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by skissane 8mo ago
I really like PyPy’s approach of using a Python dialect (RPython) as the implementation language, instead of C. From a conceptual perspective, it is much more elegant. And there are other C-like Python dialects now too - Cython, mypy’s mypy
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Who cares if it works in places that won't play nice? They're digging their own grave if they don't publish, and only hurting themselves. The timezone database was not created for the benefit of governments, it was creat
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Give each country it's own NS in the TLD and give them the authority to update it There are 193 UN member states. Then add to that the Vatican, Taiwan, and dozens of overseas (or otherwise special) territories having ISO 3166 coun
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by skissane 8mo ago
> The first is that SRE team size primarily scales with the number of applications and level of support. It does scale with hardware but sublinearly, where number of applications usually scales super linearly. It takes a ton less effort
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Sunni Muslims will be upset too, because Israel was involved. Some will be. I saw on X a video of some Taliban commander saying nobody should cry for Khamenei, because "Israel and Iran are two sides of the same unbeliever coin&quo
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by skissane 8mo ago
Let me put it this way–if Boeing is developing a new missile, and they say to the Pentagon–"this missile can't be used yet, it isn't safe"–and the Pentagon replies "we don't care, we'll bear that risk, sen
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by skissane 8mo ago
Some vendors will decide to sue the government. Others may decide that switching to another LLM supplier is cheaper and lower risk. And I'm not sure your confidence in how the courts will rule is justified. Learning Resources Inc v Tr
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by skissane 8mo ago
I guess the reality is, all proposed solutions have low odds of success, and their relative probability ranking is debatable. At least something like "adopt the Australia/Canada model" is easier for people to understand, beca
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Who in their right minds wants to have the military have the capabilities to do mass surveillance of their own citizens? Who in their right minds wants to have the US military have the capability to carry out an unprovoked first strike
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by skissane 8mo ago
A very widespread belief among political scientists is that parliamentary systems are superior to presidential systems in terms of stability and quality of governance. In fact, even the US State Department's own "nation-building&q
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by skissane 8mo ago
The issue is, even if the Trump admin is misrepresenting what the law actually says, federal contractors may decide it is safer to comply with the administration’s reading. The risk is the administration may use their reading to reject a bi
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by skissane 8mo ago
It is interesting that this is a mainstream existing thing in the US (at the state level), but more of a fringe proposal in the rest of the English-speaking world. I think the answer may be that the difference in political systems (parliame
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by skissane 8mo ago
> The supply chain risk designation will be overturned in court, I'm honestly uncertain how the courts will rule. You could be right, but it isn't guaranteed. I think a judicial narrowing of it is more likely than a complete ov
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by skissane 8mo ago
This tweet (from Under Secretary of State Jeremy Lewin) explains it: https://x.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/2027594072811098230 https://xcancel.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/20275940728110982.
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Elon being affiliated with Trump. About the strength of logic that makes Dario woke. I think you have to distinguish between the official justification and some of the associated political rhetoric. Official justification: "Previo
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by skissane 8mo ago
> If Trump can do this to Anthropic, a Dem President will do it to xAI. We have no idea where the contagion stops. Will the next Democratic President do it to xAI? On what grounds? The Biden admin negotiated a contract with a supplier wi
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by skissane 8mo ago
> @dang @dang doesn’t actually notify anybody. It isn’t guaranteed dang will see it Email to hn@ycombinator.com, someone will see it
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by skissane 8mo ago
I sometimes go in the opposite direction - generate LLM output and then rewrite it in my own words The LLM helps me gather/scaffold my thoughts, but then I express them in my own voice
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Even if you can argue the British didn't deliberately cause famine over their subjects, they almost never took active steps to alleviate them. They sent Protestant missionaries with free food for kids (souperism). Private charitie

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