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by smcl 3y ago
A few commenters on HN were giving Hector Martin shit and trying to dox Asahi pseudonymous contributors (who clearly did not want to be ID'd). Maybe the popup should have included a bit of detail on that so people such as yourself wh
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by smcl 3y ago
I am quite impressed by how Sam Gross pushed for it. After he got a positive but non-committal response from the steering committee it would've been easy to just sit back and hope for some movement. The fact that he disagreed and press
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by smcl 3y ago
How can Germany be the "sick man" of Europe when the UK continues to UK?
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by smcl 3y ago
I haven't used it in a couple of years (tbh I may have to remove "full stack" and "Angular" from my CV...) but I don't recall TS compilation being particularly slow. Are people not happy with how quick it is, o
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by smcl 3y ago
Would you not just move that `try { ... }` block into a separate function or method?
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by smcl 3y ago
You’re a good sport :)
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by smcl 3y ago
There’s a 16+ comment discussion on whether or not an innocent, on-topic and factually correct comment is appropriate. HN is not becoming Reddit, it’s becoming more HN than ever. Personally I think it’s a little suspicious that there are HN
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by smcl 3y ago
You probably want to cover your bases, IMO. If they're a vampire, ok no worries we have the little sickle over their neck. If they're not - a couple of złoty to help them on their journey in the afterlife.
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by smcl 3y ago
Before you scoff and dismiss this as silly, superstitious nonsense, know this: there have been ZERO vampire incidents in Poland since this practice was adopted.
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by smcl 3y ago
Ahhhh yeah that makes sense
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by smcl 3y ago
I suppose, I'm not sure how far these cases get pursued but it feels like you could track the movement of money between a stolen card and the scammer's account if you really wanted. But maybe they give up after seeing a charge t
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by smcl 3y ago
Not to mention the phrase "x times less than" doesn't really make sense the way it's often used. For it to make sense you have to reinterpret it to mean something that it doesn't based on being the opposite of &quot
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't get the angle of the "random people" here - is it just to cause a nuisance by causing target accounts to incur fees? I mean it's stupid but a lot of PayPal stuff is stupid. > To a point, I am suspecting Paypal
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah you're right - I think "AI" as a concept for your average person was quite abstract and hard to wrap their head around, to get some kind of idea of the kind of things it can or cannot do. So having something tangible the
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by smcl 3y ago
The original article suggested an explosion of fears around the mid-2010s that our current AI tech was just one "FOOM" away from taking over the world. The fact that there have been a steady stream of sci-fi film and television pr
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by smcl 3y ago
It was the original article which made that claim, not me. However I think that two firms being given a license to operate in one specific city (which they've likely been testing in for a while) is not as enormous as you think it might
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by smcl 3y ago
> Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020
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by smcl 3y ago
SpaceX rockets took a NASA probe to space that crashed into an asteroid, while JAXA have actually landed something on an asteroid (Hayabusa2)
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by smcl 3y ago
Rab and Ryan from Consolevania kept referring to how good it was, and at first I thought it was an in-joke because it doesn't sound like a classic. But it's genuinely quite a well-respected and critically acclaimed game, even if
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by smcl 3y ago
I'm a little bit the same. The look and feel is wonderful, the idea is great and novel. I just couldn't get that far into it. I think I may have also gotten distracted by the release Elden Ring around the time I started playing
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by smcl 3y ago
> Your politics are revealed My beliefs and my politics are pretty transparent in my comment history, I'm not trying to avoid them being "revealed" whatsoever. > Who needs a decision-making mental model when we can just
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by smcl 3y ago
Interestingly noclip (as in Danny O’Dwyer) have their own video game archiving project going on, where they’re preserving and uploading old clips to https://archive.org/details/noclip?tab=collection
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by smcl 3y ago
I've seen this on here before. Guys convincing themselves that they're being rational and you're being emotional - because they put little numbers besides their feelings and perform some calculations to produce a percentage t
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by smcl 3y ago
The way that title is worded reeks of very low quality “chum” articles. Can’t put my finger on it but there’s a very distinct clickbait style that I deliberately avoid.
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by smcl 3y ago
Eh fine if the original reply is not getting reinstated I'll repost it: -------- It’s fine in the sense that Musk owns Twitter/X and can do whatever he likes with it. It’s a bit stupid in my opinion (I don’t know if they really ga
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by smcl 3y ago
I don't think it'd work like that. If anyone's underperforming should they be identified and handled through the process you'd normally follow, not by specifically retracting home-office priviledges as a punishment. From
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by smcl 3y ago
Here is the guy in question - a non-anonymous person publicly posting child porn to Twitter who then got suspended. Then Elon Musk took a personal interest in the situation, removed the tweet and restored the account. https://www
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by smcl 3y ago
It’s fun to have sex. Glad I could clear this up for you
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by smcl 3y ago
If you say so! No skin off my nose :-)
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by smcl 3y ago
> Which doesn't stay particularly well exacty because of the thing on which we both agree. No idea what this means. > But both parting ways, and being alone is well-known to incur costs Alright I'm gonna stop you right here.

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