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by twright0 4y ago
The reason that sports dictate school start times isn't difficulty in scheduling practices (since you could, at least on paper, put those practices before school starts rather than after). The problem is that sports are competitive bet
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by twright0 4y ago
Just to be clear, it gave an essay answer about fictional teams playing in the 1850-1859 time range. It was absolutely more informative, but the information was not accurate
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by twright0 4y ago
That answer is also wrong - there are four different leagues that used the name American Soccer League, and the time period 1913-1983 covers two of those four but not the other two - the last game was played 2017 - per wikipedia. As far as
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by twright0 4y ago
There are specific things it knows that it doesn't know, like explicitly current information. But you can ask it for information that doesn't exist at all and it will happily generate nonsense without a hint that the question migh
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by twright0 4y ago
> I spent a good few hours trying to get a feed that was interesting to me by searching for various keywords... If anybody has any tips about how to get a better feed, I'm willing to give it another go. The whole magic sauce is that
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by twright0 4y ago
Only five minutes! - Here's the source, show us. https://github.com/jes/nightdrive
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by twright0 4y ago
> The principle dev reviewed every single commit and enforced a consistency across the code base that was better than what any tools ever could have done. How was it so much better that it justified that level of busywork on the part of
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by twright0 4y ago
I made that leap too (moved from a company that used Pagerduty to a company that used Opsgenie) and it is the same feature set but not the same quality. Pagerduty in my experience is rock solid - I used it on various high-page-frequency r
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by twright0 4y ago
This is super interesting work! One thing I was curious about - the ACPT is a crossword speed-solving competition, with time spent solving a major aspect of total score. How did you approach leveling the playing field between the human and
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by twright0 4y ago
I don't disagree that some library systems are pretty tech illiterate and might share email addresses without understanding the consequences. However, I feel the need to assert my opinion that librarians are generally pretty fierce def
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by twright0 5y ago
> The district should supply the Chromebook for school work. They will manage that as they see fit. I haven't been a student for a while, but the closest analogous technology they had when I was in high school was my graphing calcul
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by twright0 5y ago
My favorite line of reasoning about eugenics[0]: let's just accept that eugenics is a good thing; so good, in fact, we can go back in time and give a past society the ability to decide on the physical and mental attributes of their fut
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by twright0 5y ago
Starlink requires hardware on the ground that cannot easily be hidden, which enables corrupt governments to tear that hardware down or put pressure on the maintainers of that hardware in other ways.
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by twright0 5y ago
> Then TikTok came along and it's kind of disproven that? ... none of the algorithmically generated content is as polarizing as what I would find on the other apps. I don't think this is fully accurate. The big differentiator f
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by twright0 5y ago
This is additionally confusing because different prominent platforms use different systems - eg, 1500ish is the 50th percentile on lichess (used in the blog post), but chess.com (which many streamers / online commentators use) has more
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by twright0 5y ago
I believe Megacrit, which built Slay the Spire, is two people, Casey Yano and Anthony Giovannetti. But to the broader point I knew the name of the studio off the top of my head while I needed to look up the names of the individuals.
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by twright0 5y ago
Strongly agree! And if Google closing your account is a big part of your threat model, that's something to hedge against. But I suspect that for the average consumer - people using their gmail to send and receive emails, and doing stuf
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by twright0 5y ago
Firm agree on mixing work/personal contexts. However, in practice, using "Sign in with Google" by default dramatically increases resilience to most failure modes for almost everyone without a sophisticated threat model. >
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by twright0 5y ago
The end of the post is extremely specifically and carefully not describing a framework for rolling out files to exploit these vulnerabilities; those files as described do nothing, and serve only aesthetic purposes. While it's easy to r
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by twright0 5y ago
Wikipedia gives credit to Dawkins for coining "meme" in 1976. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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by twright0 6y ago
I dislike finding myself defending Apple, but these complaints are essentially unfounded. The butterfly keyboard issue is so noteworthy because it is a dramatic departure from the normal quality levels of Apple products. The only other majo
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by twright0 6y ago
Dropbox does not have client-side encryption; its servers have full access to the content of synced files. You can verify this yourself by uploading a common image filetype like jpeg and seeing that the website shows you compressed file thu
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by twright0 6y ago
Watching the original video, do you legitimately believe that any of the police officers are in danger? Do you believe that a single (unsubstantiated claim, without any evidence of a) thrown object justifies pepper spraying reporters and at
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by twright0 6y ago
The parent claimed that it was a misconception that police were "quelling" peaceful protest and I shared a video of police disrupting a very obviously peaceful protest - feels relatively straightforward? If you're looking for
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by twright0 6y ago
It's not a misconception. As an example, here's a video of riot-gear-clad police marching on a crowd that is peacefully listening to a violin vigil for a man murdered by that same police department: https://twitter.com&
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by twright0 6y ago
This resonates... from mine: alias emcas='emacs' alias emac='emacs' alias emasc='emacs' alias enacs='emacs' alias emas='emacs' alias emascs='emacs' alias eamc
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by twright0 7y ago
Alternate model for how I would guess this works: Facebook CDN urls are unauthed (in the sense that the CDN probably doesn't know how to evaluate the entirety of Facebook's permissions model). Instead, the web/api server that
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by twright0 7y ago
You're right, sorry. Edited my post.
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by twright0 7y ago
To be frank, this is bad advice [EDIT: parent wasn't giving advice, so instead this should read as something like "Talking to police without your attorney present is a very risky idea..."] that probably literally every crimin
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by twright0 8y ago
The argument in favor of this generally goes: if there wasn't a government lottery, there would be privately-run lotteries, and attempts to ban lotteries would just push them into the hands of organized crime. At least a government-run

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