tdeck

33 ms·

691.
by tdeck 1y ago
I think it's mostly a rhetorical thing because Americans have been conditioned to respond to this word in a particular way, and Congress has completely ignored their duty to reign in the executive's use of the military during the
692.
by tdeck 1y ago
Why make the perfect the enemy of the good? Unrealistic demands like "shut down the orphan crushing machine" are why the left always loses. We need to start thinking about how we can make orphan crushing machine operators fe
693.
by tdeck 1y ago
If "this is how it works" is about testing the functionality or user experience of a proposed feature idea with a prototype, this is actually a good thing. If it's about "see, you can implement this feature I want and it
694.
by tdeck 1y ago
Frankly I'd argue that something that produces 1 in 23 fake citations may be worse than producing 21 fake citations. It's more likely to make people complacent and more likely to go undetected. People have more car crashes in area
695.
by tdeck 1y ago
The thing is, this statement is doing as much harm to his reputation as the original act, if not more. Who would hire this lawyer after he said something like that?
696.
by tdeck 1y ago
This kind of thing isn't new. When I maintained a Google owned project on GitHub in the pre-LLM era someone submitted a slop PR "fixing" some tests, seemingly generated with some kind of static analysis tool. The description
697.
by tdeck 1y ago
I think the Burroughs machines also had a stack-based architecture https://www.hoa.org/blog/jack-allweiss/evolution-of-burrough...
698.
by tdeck 1y ago
I do still find it odd that injecting urine into the frog repeatedly is OK for the frog, but perhaps the volume was quite small.
699.
by tdeck 1y ago
I've had the same experience with the pull through sharpeners, but I bought a cheap 2-sided Japanese waterstone and learned to use it (not very well) and the difference it makes is very noticeable despite my lack of skill. It does howe
700.
by tdeck 1y ago
I think I'm good at code review, but we've all seen parts of the codebase where it's written by one teammate with specific domain knowledge and your option is to approve something you don't fully understand or to learn t
701.
by tdeck 1y ago
Elon Musk would love this. Even harder for his workers to leave.
702.
by tdeck 1y ago
> The original test involved injecting urine into a rabbit, killing it after a few days, I can see how this might be read in two different ways now.
703.
by tdeck 1y ago
The sentiment reminds me of this old 19th century labor movement song "The Dollar Alarm Clock" (although in that song, they were making fun of it) What a blessing it was when the thing was invented; It beats the slave-dr
704.
by tdeck 1y ago
What an astute reading of the text of my comment.
705.
by tdeck 1y ago
Speaking of the frog test, there is apparently an old expression "the rabbit died" in English to refer to someone being pregnant. The original test involved injecting urine into a rabbit, killing it after a few days, and examining
706.
by tdeck 1y ago
Ironically the original snake oil salesman's pitch involved slitting open a live rattlesnake and boiling it in front of a crowd. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377...
707.
by tdeck 1y ago
There are such long gaps after each question too. Apparently the sci-fi future will be laggier than expected.
708.
by tdeck 1y ago
I always wonder whether these have a good ROI. Billboards seem like a vanity project to me.
709.
by tdeck 1y ago
One instance of an actual threat or antisemitic harassment doesn't mean that this conversion isn't dominated by the exact thing I explained earlier: people with an etho-supremicist ideology complaining that there is any pushback a
710.
by tdeck 1y ago
Doesn't this refute your point that nothing was being done? This indivudual made criminal threats and was charged with a crime in 2024. Where are the charges for Zionists who beat Jewish pro-palestine protestors and sent them to the ho
711.
by tdeck 1y ago
The truth is that Zionism is a Jewish supermicist ideology. To some Jewish Zionists hearing bad things about Israel is considered a personal attack, and any suggestion that it might be wrong to support an ongoing genocide is antisemitic har
712.
by tdeck 1y ago
> the only real thing you can do is vote. That is your lever of power. This is not the only thing you can do, and this kind of engagement leads to a worse set of options each election cycle. No social movement has ever won rights simply
713.
by tdeck 1y ago
> when has a Democrat politician done this at any level or has talked about doing it? During the Red Scare.
714.
by tdeck 1y ago
When a Democrat is in office it's the Major Questions doctrine, or some other excuse. When it's a Republican it's Unitary Executive all the way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_questions_doctrine
715.
by tdeck 1y ago
This brought me a wave of nostalgia for the old Qbasic "operating system" projects, of which there were many. This site has a lot of reviews and screenshots: http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/ Ans this site has
716.
by tdeck 1y ago
There's a lot of vaporware in Braille tech where people announce they can sell something for $X and then it either doesn't materialize at all or costs much more on release.
717.
by tdeck 1y ago
The reason is that Braille can't really be resized and still be readable, so letter cells are fairly large. A normal letter / A4 sized paper fits maybe 28 columns of text, so Braille is often embossed on legal size paper. And Brai
718.
by tdeck 1y ago
> but popular displays can also be had as short as 12 characters Worth noting that this is because refreshable braille cells are really expensive to build, not because people necessarily want to be limited to such a short window of text.
719.
by tdeck 1y ago
Particularly the Israeli government.
720.
by tdeck 1y ago
There's no discrepancy because there aren't numbers. The 60,000 number is a dramatic undercount. The fatalities were being undercounted even before Israel had attacked every hospital in Gaza multiple times. There are mass graves

More ›