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So, treatment for an STD, for example, should be public information? What if that treatment occurred while the spouse was on a six month military deployment? There has to be a better example of why privacy is important than keeping infi
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> The original loaded pretty much instantly. Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything Huh? Just about everything that didn't come on a cartridge took forever to
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by thwarted 3y ago
>I fail to see a purpose for guns apart from killing, You can use guns for target shooting, you can use guns as a detterent [sic] when your life is in danger, you can use guns for hunting. Of these three things you listed, two of t
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by thwarted 3y ago
In an episode of Flaked, a character says his pin is "one eleven one", and there's something about that being easier to remember than "one one one one". I will say I think about "one eleven one" all the ti
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by thwarted 3y ago
For our two-sided marketplace startup, this meant Android and iOS apps for customers, and another pair of apps for mechanics. 6 months later, we released our fully-fledged MVP to a deafening silence from customers, mechanics, and investors
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by thwarted 3y ago
It's the same short-sighted logic that leads to job seekers using LLMs to convert their experience bullet points into resume prose and hiring managers to use LLMs to summarize resume prose into bullet points. Or marketers using LLMs to
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by thwarted 3y ago
There is more to life than paying taxes Exactly. You don't pay taxes to pay taxes, you pay taxes for the collective benefits you get out of it. Paying taxes and not getting the benefits of safe cities, clean roads, parks, and all th
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by thwarted 3y ago
My sense is that lay-people believe that these LLMs really are "thinking" The way the comment rhetoric is on hacker news around LLMs, it seems some technical people believe that LLMs really are "thinking" too.
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by thwarted 3y ago
Interestingly, this exists for cloth baby diapers, and it made using cloth diapers a no-brainer. You don't need to own the diapers, you don't need to wash them.
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by thwarted 3y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
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by thwarted 3y ago
So it's idiot human vs idiot GPT at this point. No one believed those who said "make it idiot proof and they'll just make a better idiot", but we should have heeded this warning. They did it! They finally did it! They
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by thwarted 3y ago
(ignoring all the other comments in this thread who are legitimately calling out these are professional services you want and your suggested price is insulting) What ever happened to taskrabbit anyway?
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by thwarted 3y ago
Yeah, this makes no sense and is pretty blatantly bogus to anyone with at least a high school understanding of supply and demand and is also pretty blatant collusion. They didn't also trot out gentrification, due to the new building go
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by thwarted 3y ago
Making even a single word change to a cover song, even if you paid the compulsory license fee, is not fair use. Wouldn't obtaining a license supercede any claims of fair use? The defense wouldn't be "this falls under fair u
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by thwarted 3y ago
It helps catch the most obvious bugs. Like the algorithmic bugs. IME, algorithmic bugs are rarely obvious.
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by thwarted 3y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
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by thwarted 3y ago
Ah, the Reverse Kobayashi Maru.
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by thwarted 3y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
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by thwarted 3y ago
It’s also very common that a website wants credentials to be cleared when the user is inactive for a certain amount of time. This is important for sensitive applications such as banking and healthcare. Currently there’s no way to enforce t
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by thwarted 3y ago
But the vast majority of people use their hands. It's not the writing, the assertion it's that it's the movement associated with/occurring at the same time as thinking that reenforces learning. That writing of words usin
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by thwarted 3y ago
Things being "a waste of screen real estate" was a bigger issue when we only had 1024x768. Now we have extremely high resolution monitors, and we use that to get really smooth angled lines and anti-aliasing, scaling up the visuals
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by thwarted 3y ago
I tended to forget the order of the arguments of the find command, and I would lose time trying to remember its syntax when I'm in front of a machine with no readily available internet connection. The man pages are readily available.
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by thwarted 3y ago
would be great for almost any other team that doesn't have a strong sense of what to automate and how The "what" is always the hardest part, both to acknowledge as being necessary and to get right.
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by thwarted 3y ago
That said, there needs to be brutally transparent examination of operational safety and possible contingencies (e.g., terrorism, earthquakes, tidal waves, heat waves, etc). Exactly how much examination and experience do we need to have wi
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by thwarted 3y ago
My mom's interpretation (midwest and eastcoast US, 80s) is largely related to snacks before dinner. "Can I have a few cookies?" "You can have a couple". This meant two. You could sometimes get away with three, but
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by thwarted 3y ago
Reading this comment made me feel like I'd been transported back to 15+ years ago, when the same laments existed; and it's mostly the same actors, er, frameworks/libraries/tools being mentioned. WPF was released in 2007
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We don't want the pure and holy scriptures being subverted or interpretted by secular / political dictionaries, or corrupted by general internet corpora, political ideologies etc. Too late for that.
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The ATM is in the lobby between the elevators and the restaurant” probably mean the ATM in the restaurant. This starts with "The ATM is in the lobby", so there's no reason to think it's in the restaurant. The "be
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by thwarted 3y ago
Exactly. People and society having to deal with certain individuals "making repeated false claims" has resulted in this having a name: "bad reputation".
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by thwarted 3y ago
…and being structured, the passwd file content should be accessed with the getpwent family of functions.

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