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by wnoise 9y ago
Male-by-default isn't sexism? What do you mean by sexism?
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by wnoise 9y ago
"vir-" is a preëxisting masculating prefix. I would read patrulo as "A fatherly person", rather than a parent, as "-ul-" turns an adjective into a person embodying that adjective. (ge- is the neuterizing prefi
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by wnoise 9y ago
> In Esperanto nouns are male gendered by default, and a suffix is used to make them female. (e.g la patro means "the father", and la patrino means "the mother"). Unfortunately, that is indeed the common usage, but it
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by wnoise 9y ago
It's both, of course.
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by wnoise 9y ago
Already posted at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15982161
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by wnoise 9y ago
The sane way to handle congestion would be to have a congestion fee (as London does) for driving in the urban core. Make it apply to taxis as well as private cars, and the created incentives will balance uses well.
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by wnoise 9y ago
Other way around. Acronyms are the subset of initialisms that are pronounceable.
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by wnoise 9y ago
> CS programs have, in the main, not decided that the primary path to becoming a programmer should involve doing material actual programming. Well, that's because CS programs are designed to teach CS, not to be a vocational school f
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by wnoise 9y ago
Wildcard certs are coming in January.
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by wnoise 9y ago
Where does he say you should run fat binaries in a VM?
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by wnoise 9y ago
IME the cot-caught merge is widespread enough that "split" can't be considered a requirement for standard. (Wikipedia says 40% merge, 60% don't.)
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by wnoise 9y ago
Those people who point out absurdities that almost everyone wants desperately to ignore?
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by wnoise 9y ago
anti-monopoly laws seem to be the exact opposite of "less government regulation".
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by wnoise 9y ago
The idea of digital contraband is anathema to a free society.
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by wnoise 9y ago
That sounds absolutely crazy, so I believe it. Can you elaborate though?
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by wnoise 9y ago
> But that's a cop-out. We should work on all stages of the pipeline. We have finite resources to devote to this problem. Prioritizing them to the interventions that work is not merely acceptable, but praiseworthy and necessary. &g
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by wnoise 9y ago
It's not great -- but it is a good example because nearly everything else in wide use is far worse.
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by wnoise 9y ago
"Yelp" is generic for "customer reviews"! ... half serious?
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by wnoise 9y ago
The original article is also generally biased and filled with opinion. At least the comments might have a diversity of bias.
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by wnoise 9y ago
Then tell the stories. Don't repeat third hand rumors of other industries as whataboutism.
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by wnoise 9y ago
> A lot of deep theorems are trivial when you fully understand all relevant definitions. A lot of deep theorems comes down to properly choosing the definitions so that the theorems are true.
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by wnoise 9y ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by wnoise 9y ago
Huh, I thought BLOB was a backronym for Binary Large OBject, not Binary Medium Object.
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by wnoise 9y ago
> everyone else chose the bag of bytes approach. Sequence of bytes. "spiroagnew.txt" and "xtt.growapenis" are not the same filename.
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by wnoise 9y ago
Yes for the first, no for the second. He means something quite different by session -- a stack of windows. And it does support it, by having multiple screen servers running at the same time.
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by wnoise 9y ago
> but women don't particularly care for gay male porn You are so very wrong about that. Though it is true that women generally prefer written porn to visual.
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by wnoise 9y ago
Unfortunately, you can't keep multiple chains in a single X.509 certificate. While you can have a given key signed by multiple CAs, AIUI, this just lets you switch easily, not tell a client about both, and just work if they trust eith
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by wnoise 10y ago
For the bits described in https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02527 you're essentially correct. Though it's still stochastic, and you can have mini-batching on each node. The interesting technical bits are in https:
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by wnoise 10y ago
"and then let N=14" is how I've heard it.
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by wnoise 10y ago
Everyone has the right to be an asshole. And everyone has the right to judge them for it.

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