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by sltkr 4mo ago
No, there is no such requirement.
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by sltkr 4mo ago
How is forcing prospective academics to pledge alegiance to the American woke left anything _but_ political? DEI statements were nothing more than obligatory loyalty oaths.
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by sltkr 4mo ago
There is a comparison here: https://loreline.app/en/docs/comparison/
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by sltkr 4mo ago
The post suggests replacing the linear congruential generator (LCG) with a permuted congruential generator (PCG). The latter has more random-looking output. Another solution is to switch to a cryptographic hash function. For example, using
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by sltkr 4mo ago
> Claude models have been getting notably worse at chatting over time, clearly inversely correlated to their ability to code. Funnily enough, the negative correlation between chatting and coding skills seems to apply to humans as well.
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by sltkr 4mo ago
If you compress the HTML, which you want to do anyway for HTML/CSS if you care about file sizes, then most of the base64 overhead goes away: $ head -c 1000000 /dev/urandom | base64 -w0 | gzip | wc -c 1009042 $
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by sltkr 4mo ago
Where is the joke? What is funny about hundreds of thousand of Swiss people being unemployed and housing costs increasing every year? And clearly you still haven't bothered to read the initiative, which doesn't kick out anyone, bu
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by sltkr 4mo ago
Hacker News admins: can we please ban illiterate morons like this who think they are contributing anything of value by responding directly to the post title alone, while obviously not having read the actual posted article?
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by sltkr 4mo ago
Interesting that you're downvoted for pointing this out. Lots of people in Switzerland are struggling to find jobs, but no, they're all unfit, and we must import more immigrants. Then of course those immigrants are laid off and co
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by sltkr 4mo ago
> On the other hand, it's already now hard to find people for almost any kind of work. Lots of people in Switzerland are struggling to find jobs, especially in the tech sector after mass layoffs and outsourcing. If you're looki
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by sltkr 4mo ago
That's an easy answer, but it doesn't explain why nearby/culturally related countries like South Korea and Taiwan have similar or even lower fertility rates, despite never having a one child policy. And of course China's
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by sltkr 4mo ago
Right. Kids cost time and money. So the lifestyle you can afford _with_ kids is slightly lesser than _without_ kids. But this is true at all income levels below the richest 1% or so. Every person who chose to have kids had to make some life
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by sltkr 4mo ago
Despite that, China has a fertility rate of 0.93, which is among the lowest in the world, and certainly much lower than the US (1.6). So it doesn't seem that that cultural difference boosts the fertility rate all that much.
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by sltkr 4mo ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1102/ And according to your article, this is almost exclusively a problem with the elderly: > Those aged 85 and older die from malnutrition at a rate about 60 times higher than the rest
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by sltkr 4mo ago
You're not taking the comic at face value are you? The orange shirt guy is supposed to be the loser who is just trying to "gotcha" the people in the other panels. The comic isn't even _always_ wrong; sometimes people are
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by sltkr 4mo ago
The problem with "just" asking people is that people aren't always aware of the reasons for their own behavior, and even if they are, they are prone to giving socially desirable answers, _especially_ in a social setting like
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by sltkr 4mo ago
That comic is popular only because it absolves people of personal responsibility, not because it makes a great point.
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by sltkr 5mo ago
That Wikipedia article is called Spring Violets, by the way.
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by sltkr 5mo ago
What's so nice about twelve-and-two (12)? Twelve (10) is a much nicer round number. Though programmers may prefer base two (10) or base twelve-and-four (10).
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by sltkr 5mo ago
Also if you care that much just mirror the solution horizontally or vertically, and now your bishop is on the white square instead.
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by sltkr 5mo ago
Doesn't the Google Play Store account for something like 15% of Google's revenue?
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by sltkr 5mo ago
https://archive.is/Ik3Sl
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by sltkr 5mo ago
https://archive.is/t6MyI
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by sltkr 5mo ago
Explain how that's different from Hacker News?
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by sltkr 5mo ago
The question is how reliable that detection is.
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by sltkr 5mo ago
Control-shift-u, 9, space/enter, works on most Linux systems. To explain: control-shift-u allows entering a Unicode character by its hexadecimal code. This presumably depends on the Input Method Editor (IME) in use, which is something
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by sltkr 5mo ago
On my Arch boxes the official exploit works, both with the LTS kernel (6.18.21-1-lts) and the mainline release (6.19.6-arch1-1).
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by sltkr 6mo ago
How have you determined that? Are you basing it solely on the em-dash (which is trivial to avoid if you want to generate AI comments)?
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by sltkr 6mo ago
Update: looks like this has been fixed now.
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by sltkr 6mo ago
Looks like Anubis is also blocking robots.txt which seems to defeat the point of having robots.txt in the first place.

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