stephbook

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by stephbook 4mo ago
Sounds like your father would have noticed a missing cigarette.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Your observation is spot on. (Gemini Pro)
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by stephbook 4mo ago
I don't think you have spent much time researching. TLDR: Social media bad for kids. Facebook was never allowed to let in kids under 13. It's now only being enforced.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
That's kind of a bleak vision. I wonder how the author would explain that the ID and age systems we already have – cigarette dispensers, liquor stores, club entry, driver's license, to name a few – work "kind of fine" th
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by stephbook 4mo ago
> I assume correctly, at least the application now works. That's like saying the lock works because people can enter the building. What about keeping the bad guys out, which is the whole point?
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by stephbook 4mo ago
I still don't understand the threat model and, obviously, it's not explained here either. I log in to social.net. I click on scam.org and change sites. I'm on scam.org and it triggers a request to social.net/friends. No
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Should use an ELO rating to find your level faster. Slogging through 100 basics is pointless.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
My vibe sense tells me AI slop. It's just too much vacuous text in general and "not x, but y."
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by stephbook 4mo ago
It's also not like Meta could train it for content moderation, translation or judicial expertise even if it wanted to. They have software engineers idling, not translators.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Since you've put in effort, I will return to doing so, too. But note that your ad-hominem attacks only reflect on yourself and don't strengthen your argument at all. My point was simply that some work isn't essential to the b
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by stephbook 4mo ago
I didn't say that. You misunderstood me. Read again.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
How is that related to immigration? > Berlin can basically dictate EU immigration single handedly That's what I was responding to. Note the UK left the EU and accepted more immigrants than before. We didn't force them. Hungary
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by stephbook 4mo ago
They pay incredibly well, but their work culture (vacation, protections for parents etc) is atrocious. They're on par with Japan/South Korea. You get bonus points for commuting across the German border and utilizing our cheap pric
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Is this Berlin that decides anything and rolls it out contintent-wide with us in the room right now?
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by stephbook 4mo ago
The cleaning lady at SpaceX doesn't do a better job than that at Walmart. So why should she be paid more? You think she's doing the heavy lifting there? Creating the billions? While the underperformer at VideoBuster / Radio S
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Elon Musk easily earned the billions for SpaceX. It's providing space internet to Ukraine, an innocent democracy that's under attack. The technological feats of rocket reuse and the vision of Mars don't even matter, insofar
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Playing on iphone13 mini. It instructs me to rotate my phone. The pasture doesn't get any bigger, but now the top bar blocks half the screen. The tooltip about rotating stays in the middle of the screen. Unplayable. There's a musi
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Shouldn't a bad job market convince people to get a degree? You only miss a bad job market entry and low salaries, you need every meagre advantage you can get. 100% agree on a degree being a strong signal, by the way.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Imagine sanctions killing a million civilians due to insufficient medical care. Imagine firebombing Tokyo. Imagine dropping a nuclear bomb on a city full of civilians. Imagine genociding Palestinians. Imagine bombing a girl's school, k
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Thanks now I'm imagining HN as an endless torrent of TikTok videos, where it's an AI voice reading the comments.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
What I love about operator overloading is that now you can't use operators without looking at their definition, in which case.. you could have done numpy.equals(a, b) anyway. Does a == b true, if all elements are the same? Does it retu
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Five different type-checkers and even type-checking projects think adding multiple "ignores" is sound code. Typescript would allow overloads without ignores, for example. Python's type checking ecosystem truly is a mess.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
The Mercator hate is a remnant of the turn of the decade. The unprivileged "global south" is smaller than Greenland!! Except that Google Maps (yes maps, not Google Earth) has shown a globe for a decade now. And, of course, pupils
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by stephbook 4mo ago
I don't think it wise to retreat into the romantic couple, leaving everything else by the wayside. Your partner might leave you or come to resent the closeness. Then again, "I haven't seen him in months, he has a new girlfrie
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Where did it say they consider the US an ally?
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by stephbook 4mo ago
But it's safe and easy!
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by stephbook 4mo ago
> Thankfully, IG gave me the option of restoring my username when I logged back into my account today. The hackers read all your formerly private messages, saw all your private photos, saw all the photos your friends wanted only their so
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by stephbook 4mo ago
> Just let anyone fly with a dozen devices with the names BOMB and CRASH? That sounds terrible. Please get me the manager.
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by stephbook 4mo ago
The naturalistic fallacy needs to die. Then a metaphor about food without any expertise and "programmers are special" sprinkled in. Holy lord, what a wild ride of an article. Guess what? People weren't meant to live in stone
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by stephbook 4mo ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)

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