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901.
by thrance 1y ago
I've tried pushing Typst on my academic friends. One of them listened and eventually wrote his entire PhD thesis with it. He didn't seem to regret it.
902.
by thrance 1y ago
Do not underestimate the law of large numbers and how little your sample can be while still remaining somewhat representative.
903.
by thrance 1y ago
Your ad hominem does nothing to further whatever views you may hold.
904.
by thrance 1y ago
Boohoo, poor Google. And won't somebody think of the consumers? This is honestly shameless. How I wish for a world rid of these insufferable American monopolies.
905.
by thrance 1y ago
Companies have a duty to ensure they don't provide services that would enable illegal behaviour. What the IDF is doing is illegal under international law and a crime against Humanity.
906.
by thrance 1y ago
It's a throwaway line Israeli officials have been using for a long time. I heard Netanyahou himself use it to describe the IDF and explain it can't possibly do wrong. https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/174550
907.
by thrance 1y ago
I don't think "paracetamol doesn't cause autism" is a divisive topic, nor should it ever be. By letting these articles be buried, I believe HN is fostering a culture where lies and misinformations are held to the same st
908.
by thrance 1y ago
> I'd say the article is extremely opininated and biased against primarily trump and rfk I mean, at this point an article would be biased not showing opinion against Trump and Kennedy. How else to discuss their unhinged rant on pa
909.
by thrance 1y ago
Oppression is not the only alternative to legalization. Just because your country's policy on drug addiction is very misguided and does more harm than good doesn't mean the solution is to legalize everything. Anyway, my point, tha
910.
by thrance 1y ago
So, an entire article just telling you to put objects as the last parameters to functions? Wow thanks, I'd have never thought of that.
911.
by thrance 1y ago
Let's also legalize crack and heroin. Getting addicted to fent is a person's natural right.
912.
by thrance 1y ago
Who cares how many passengers it has while not moving? It's not using any energy then, and neither is it participating to traffic.
913.
by thrance 1y ago
> Making flying even crappier doesn't seem like a good idea to me. It does, from a purely ecological point of view. What was the number again? 4 longhaul flights for life per person if we want to achieve sustainability?
914.
by thrance 1y ago
The waymo carries no passengers when it's driving to pick up its next customer. So, its average occupancy (<1) is somehow even worse than that of a car used exclusively by one person.
915.
by thrance 1y ago
I think you have a shallow understanding of both free speech and free will if you think this is the gotcha you seem to think it is. Why couldn't people have discussions about free will in a determinist universe? They could be weaved by
916.
by thrance 1y ago
Have you been living under a rock these past few years? The "bad" ideas outnumber the "good" ones ten to one. The current secretary of health lets internet conspiracies dictate its politics, such that vaccines are gettin
917.
by thrance 1y ago
Ever watched Fox News?
918.
by thrance 1y ago
That journey of "fringe hypothesis" to "actual fact" doesn't start out on right-wing Facebook groups, nor has it ever. There are more efficient channels for this. Make a paper, submit it for review, tell the press m
919.
by thrance 1y ago
Look at 4chan and it's derivatives: minimal algorithms and they're the shitholes of ideas on the internet.
920.
by thrance 1y ago
How's that working out? The worst ideas of the 20th century are resurfacing in plain sunlight because the dem's couldn't pluck their heads out of the sand and actually fight them. Now vaccines are getting banned and the GOP i
921.
by thrance 1y ago
Stop thinking and give them money. But for real, the leap from GPT4 to GPT5 was nowhere near as impressive as from GTP3 to GPT4. They'll have to do a lot more to give any weight to their usual marketing ultra-hype.
922.
by thrance 1y ago
I mean, most don't? I know you can provide a pseudo-EBNF grammar to llama.cpp but, for example, none of Anthropic, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral or Gemini allow us the same.
923.
by thrance 1y ago
Nice, I missed this. Thanks.
924.
by thrance 1y ago
Not really, no. There is extensive documentation showing his charity is way less than it appears to be, and selling overpriced unhealthy garbage to children negates what little goodwill he may have gained through it, in my book.
925.
by thrance 1y ago
It's still baffling to me that the various API providers don't let us upload our custom grammars. It would enable so many use cases, like HTML generation for example, at essentially no cost on their part.
926.
by thrance 1y ago
He doesn't even have to convince his rubes of anything anymore. He can just go "the debt is fixed" and they all instantaneously believe it is. Straight out of Orwell's.
927.
by thrance 1y ago
At this point, the real economy is completely decoupled from financial markets who are perfectly happy "investing" in bubble after bubble. If the markets were at all representative of the country's actual economic health, the
928.
by thrance 1y ago
I think you're being way too charitable with them. If the past few months have shown us anything, it's that these people have no principles.
929.
by thrance 1y ago
More free whitewashing for the GOP. A better title would have been "Most Republicans Completely On Board With Ending Free Speech".
930.
by thrance 1y ago
I wish it did, but I am not surprised it does not. The EU remains a fundamentally pro-business organization at its core.

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