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by xigoi 1mo ago
Treating people differently based on their race is racist.
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by xigoi 1mo ago
Harassing people is very different from writing an article on the internet that complains about people shitting in front of metro stations.
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by xigoi 1mo ago
Bitwarden takes a few seconds to show the login scren when you open it. It can’t possibly be doing any decryption in that time.
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by xigoi 1mo ago
What EU country drives on the left?
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by xigoi 1mo ago
The EU explicitly recognizes tens of languages as being equally valid.
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by xigoi 1mo ago
Probably violates privacy laws.
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by xigoi 1mo ago
Microsoft Word does not write your documents for you.
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by xigoi 1mo ago
> How can I tell if Claude created the text? > To detect watermarks embedded in text we have a Detection API which is currently in private preview to eligible organizations as required under EU law.
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by xigoi 1mo ago
This is similar to how most people would say that mathematics is about numbers, but the word “number” doesn’t even mean anything in math.
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by xigoi 1mo ago
Big O notation has nothing to do with worst or best case. f = O(g) simply means that f is asymptotically bounded by a multiple of g.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
It shows that about 40% of supposedly human-authored PRs are actually authored by Claude, and that these PRs clearly stand out from the others even without prior knowledge of Claude’s writing style.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
I wonder if this could be reversed to give an intuitive “proof” of the divergence theorem.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Given the tone of the post, I was assuming the menu was only available on Instagram, i.e. they did not have a paper menu. Obviously if they have a paper menu, which most restaurants do, you can just go there and read it.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> What makes it better than Mastodon or Matrix or Scuttlebutt? Decentralized identity. You don’t have to choose a specific instance and be locked into your decision.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Are there any good paid fonts that you can just buy and use without having to worry about what websites you put them on and how many people view those websites?
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Looks like we need “Days without ‘Days without GitHub incident’ incident”
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> Where it gets most nasty is that whitespace that looks the same (in your editor) might not be equal and will cause you pain. This is why idiomatic Python only uses spaces for indentation.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
JavaScript still has many quirks you can’t just ignore, such as sort() using string comparison by default.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> nor does everyone have the disposable time to learn how to make it hugely useful to them. True, I’d rather spend my time to get useful skills whose usefulness cannot be destroyed by a single corporation deciding to pull the rug. > A
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Federation is much easier when you only need to see messages explicitly sent to you, rather than aggregate content from all over the world.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
If using a washing machine required you to send your laundry to an evil corporation, the washboard would start to get some appeal…
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by xigoi 2mo ago
I used to use Lobsters, but I was banned for making a stupid joke about emojis.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
If you click the timestamp on a comment, you can bookmark it.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> more than 50 million consumer subscribers So, about 0.6% of the world’s population is willing to pay for something that’s supposed to be hugely useful for literally everyone (as opposed to Adobe products, which are only for digital art
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> ChatGPT work is basically a personal assistant for $20/month A personal assistant that will happily tell you that you’re the world’s largest supergenius who invented perpetual motion. I wouldn’t want that if they paid me $20/
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by xigoi 2mo ago
Ironic that the company calling itself “the public town square” is complaining about someone making their content public.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
> Whenever my friends send me something on Instagram or TikTok Reply with a screenshot showing that you can’t view the content. > a restaurant puts their menu on Instagram Don’t go there. Plenty of other restaurants to choose from. Th
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by xigoi 2mo ago
You can’t move to “the fediverse”, only a specific instance.
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by xigoi 2mo ago
How is archiving content disrespectful toward the creators of the content? Are you also going to sue the Internet Archive?
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by xigoi 2mo ago
So if someone uses a VPN to access Hacker News, the VPN is infringing copyright?

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