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by tpoacher 4mo ago
Black people constitute 13% of the US. Should opinions exclusive to black communities be ignored and dismissed as unreasonable?
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
Is it bait? I'm pretty sure it's a reasonably factual, albeit general claim. Asking chatGPT for country-specific examples for instance gives this: > Yes—some countries have (at various times, and in some cases still today) adop
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
> Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass This needs a "2004" date.
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
My favourite entry was the "leaky redaction" one, which created a "redacted" version of an image in the text-based ppm image format, but in such a manner that most of the redacted information could be restored directly f
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
The main thing I feel this article gets wrong (or at least does not properly address) is that all the reasons provided seem subjective. Is there no objective (or at least semi-objective) process to do a cost-benefit analysis of a rewrite? I
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
I agree for the most part, though it's worth pointing out that HN specifically has a mitigating characteristic in this case, which is that repeat posts are not moderated away, and are in fact encouraged. Case in point, one if today&#x2
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
> If anything, that they thought this was acceptable makes me wonder what else they're harvesting from my machine? PII? Hah, you just reminded me of this meme I spotted the other day: https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
Possibly, but that still doesn't mean there isn't a real benefit to developers developing for ReactOS as a proxy for developing for Windows in a manner that makes their products instantly compatible with Mac and Linux. The "r
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
Then again, this goes completely against the "O" in the SOLID principles (and possibly also the "D" too). Personally I prefer SOLID to YAGNI.
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
How about this analogy then: "OP says Windows needs webdevs to make webpages, but then says Windows Lite internals shouldn't be tightly knit with Internet Explorer, one of the primary means of viewing webpages on windows."
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
There is already a "Windows Lite", and it's called ReactOS [0]. Except, the last thing we need is for Microsoft to own / embrace-extend-exterminate this. It's best that it's kept as an independent project, enab
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
Most people here seem to thank that the only realistic alternative for submitting code / written reports in the age of AI is handwritten invigilated exams. So just mentioning my own anecdata here; I've had reasonable success conve
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
> Writing in block letters was seen as a sign of illiteracy How interesting. I've always thought the cyrillic block letters look beautiful, whereas the cursive variant not so much. I learnt some russian and I've never bothered
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
Ah, really? I had no idea! Very surprising too, since they've made their reputation as an indie+abandonware promoter. Though, to be fair, I haven't seen your game in the Dreamlist [0] or Community Wishlist [1] pages either. You co
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
GoG, pls.
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
Nice name, "Akrites". Probably not as impressive to a non-Greek, but to a Greek person it creates very strong imagery.
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
While the "thankfully not all books are worth reading" adage is presumably very true of blogging as well, I do still feel some admiration for bloggers, even when their blogs could be perceived as "useless". Even to put s
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
I reluctantly confess that I have indeed on occasion had to write in a way that makes the reader have to do a couple of extra mental steps to follow the logic, to avoid reviewers rejecting the manuscript on the grounds of the theoretical co
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
A plug for my favourite book here. Richard Webb's 80/20 Japanese covers these topics extremely well, and in a very logical / productive order for a foreign speaker. (and it comes with very enjoyable audio tapes and anki cards
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by tpoacher 4mo ago
In some sense, you should still act on this, since if an external auditor relies on the same stack, it'll still cause you headaches.
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
Well I wouldn't. The whole point of communication is that something is adequately communicated, otherwise it makes for an extremely frustrating experience. And the whole point about "slop" is exactly that the communication is
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
This isn't an explanation, it's just a quote from the article. Let alone an explanation on why it's "slop" rather than just AI (re-)phrasing etc.
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
"Guidelines" eh? Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ojK9Q_ARE
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
Just curious, on what grounds do you call this slop? I thought it was a perfectly cromulent article making a perfectly reasonable point.
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
Yes, instead he should have written: "The attacka didn broke into nuffin bruv. They jus noticing sometin I aint, yeh?" Instant betterness.
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
It isn't just a psychological feeling though. We've (unnecessarily) offloaded everything to the net, so there's a very real element of uselessness that kicks in when there's no connection. E.g. back when you were c
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
> Put simply, Stack Overflow’s new niche is the trust built by its old community and their expertise. One has to appreciate the irony on the use of the word "trust" there ...
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
Impossible! After they embraced it so warmly and even tried to extend it?
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
But they get more grants. So maybe this tells you more about the funders and their vision than it does about the researchers and their vision?
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by tpoacher 5mo ago
minor criticism. I haven't had a chance to read properly yet, but for a method that purports to be an evolutionary algorithm, it's missing all the formal language of the field. there's zero mention of a fitness function (let

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