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by t_mann 1y ago
There's nothing rigged about loans being made for something that can't be repossessed and without collateral, there's a whole segment of the lending market for that (consumer lending, eg people take out loans to go on vacatio
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by t_mann 1y ago
Small nitpick, it's not just the variation in area that you'd care about, but the variation in shape. Two pieces of the same area/volume can cook very differently depending on the shape. The thing is, there isn't a singl
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by t_mann 1y ago
I meant 'less markup' (in the sense of a simple ratio of markup characters over total characters). Now you can say that the markup is still fairly low and actually useful. But that goes to my second point of why not just use HTML.
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by t_mann 1y ago
Sounds a bit like the idea that Bluesky started out with. I don't really get why specifically org mode though, sounds like you could be doing the same thing with a simple Markdown file. And while you're at it, why not just use HTM
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by t_mann 1y ago
How about having a synced and editable version of your to-do list on all your devices, including mobile? I've found that to be the main filter for note taking setups. You seem to suggest that there's an emacs plug-in that can hand
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by t_mann 1y ago
Great effort, a strong self-hosting community for LLMs is going to be similarly important as the FLOSS movement imho. But right now I feel the bigger bottleneck is on the hardware side rather than software. The amount of fast RAM that you n
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by t_mann 1y ago
It's a factor, together with high tuition fees, demographic changes, changing attitudes about credentialism (the political tide turning against liberal elite institutions), the cheap 24/7 availability of excellent learning materia
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by t_mann 1y ago
I agree, but unfortunately the spec authors are already going out and dangling possible bans in front of projects who implement Passkeys in more user-friendly ways: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issue
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by t_mann 1y ago
Passkeys are in their infancy. You don't go about rolling out such patterns when most users haven't even switched yet and big players like Apple are still resisting attestations (last time I checked). The problem is that the featu
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by t_mann 1y ago
Depends on whether we're talking about MOOCs in a narrow sense or online learning more generally.
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by t_mann 1y ago
The problems of Passkeys are more nuanced than just losing access when a device is lost (which actually doesn't need to happen depending on your setup). The biggest problem are attestations, which let services block users who use tools
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by t_mann 1y ago
> this would be the death of expensive university educations. That obviously didn’t happen Maybe a bit early to declare that, as the wave of college closures has shown no signs of slowing after the Covid years [0] and is expected to acce
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by t_mann 1y ago
This is a perfect example of how FLOSS is nowadays a truly different type of experience from commercial software: thanks to A/B-tests, software has become so good at manipulating our behavior that it's now often more profitable to
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by t_mann 1y ago
Careful, such an approach could easily end up giving an aura of logical objectivity to arbitrarily radical and nonsensical ideas. The political views of one of the fathers of modern logic may serve as a cautionary tale [0]. [0] https:&#x2F
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by t_mann 1y ago
Isn't fingerprinting covered by GDPR in a similar way to how cookies are? So in theory you should be able to opt out, at least as an EU user.
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by t_mann 1y ago
Great tips, especially the recovery keys. I wouldn't have thought of that, thank you. One question, some distros like Pop OS offer drive encryption as part of the installation process. Do you know whether that would affect the whole di
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by t_mann 1y ago
Having checked an answer also doesn't guarantee anything with certainty. Which, coincidentally, is the actual topic of the OP, the grading was just a tangential example and not a description of something actually happening anywhere in
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by t_mann 1y ago
If the questions are randomly chosen, the probability of the true score being 10/100 in that scenario is 10!/(100!/90!) ~ 6e-14
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by t_mann 1y ago
> Even in work environments almost everyone uses chat clients these days. Maybe in your bubble, but globally this is just false.
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by t_mann 1y ago
This looks like my favorite for installing on relative's PCs before the Windows 10 sunset - I'm just a bit worried about Dual Boot, I've heard some stories about hiccups there. Does anyone have comments about how Dual Boot wo
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by t_mann 1y ago
What is it about traditional calculator UIs that you don't like on mobile? I think they work great, unsurprisingly, since the form factor is similar. I have several (paid) mobile apps that fully emulate a traditional calculator model a
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by t_mann 1y ago
You can do all of those using Passkeys in Keepass, eg though KeepassXC, including import/export. However, Keepass applications have already been flagged as non-compliant for this reason. What you also currently can't do afaik is u
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by t_mann 1y ago
I think it's time to switch from GDP per capita to household income. You might think the two are practically the same, and globally that's true, but at the regional level there can be stark discrepancies. One example: Ireland&#x27
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by t_mann 1y ago
Stirrups are among the more forgivable historical inaccuracies, as it is difficult enough to find people who can both act and horse-ride with them reasonably well. Also, if the depiction of cavalry was more historically accurate it would ma
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by t_mann 1y ago
"This is wrong" is very helpful to people who have been fooled by any of the numerous historical inaccuracies described in the OP.
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by t_mann 1y ago
Almost 10 years ago, Uber was hailed for creating consumer surplus [0] in similar studies: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2837639 Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by t_mann 1y ago
The GP says it's baffling to combine sports teams with academic institutions, and you're saying it's not because those that do tend to have smaller endowments? Talk about a non sequitur
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by t_mann 1y ago
> “You’re [X]?! The quantum physicist who’s always getting into arguments on the Internet, and who’s essentially always right, but who sustains an unreasonable amount of psychic damage in the process?” > “Yes,” I replied, not botherin
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by t_mann 1y ago
The exact schedules will vary, but typically they'll have full days of either school or work. They're definitely employed and work there. Those are real jobs, even if they're not full-time. Not all adults work full-time eithe
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by t_mann 1y ago
> As a German, I'm dying to hear more about these 15-18 year olds illegally employed in finance! Shouldn't they be finishing high school (18) or Abitur (19)? I'm not kidding, please tell me more about these 15 year olds em

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