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by xnorswap 1y ago
I clicked one at random (net_ssl) to get a sense of what a package looked like in this ecosystem and how to install it, but it takes you straight to a github page which says it's deprecated and to use a different package (ssl) instead,
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by xnorswap 1y ago
That unironically is the opinion of many people. It comes up again and again, and is a culture clash that is not limited to but particularly prevalent between US and European perspectives. US sports tend to have less meaningful "regula
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I note that you picked two hard sciences as markers of respect, "neuroscientists and microbiologists", not social sciences. Secondly my point I'm trying to make, is that these aren't "intelligent discussions" n
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I've seen plenty struggle. They don't struggle to write code, but they struggle to write idiomatic code. An experienced programmer from a different language introduced to another will write lots of code that works, but in a style
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by xnorswap 1y ago
HN can be infuriating sometimes. Imagine if there was an environmental science forum that sat around pontificating with mistrust about software performance. Chances are people would mock it and marvel at their ignorance. But here we have a
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I have definitely felt a dramatic downturn in reading comprehension and the ability to deal with nuance in the past few years. I have learned to be extremely explicit in my communication to ward off getting sucked into an argument with some
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He also wrote a very good first series episode of Black Mirror, "The Entire History of You".
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Where does it say that? ESTA doesn't appear and searching waiv only turns up: > The fee applies to all visitors who need nonimmigrant visas to enter, and cannot be waived. Which sounds like the opposite of "no fee"?
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by xnorswap 1y ago
The article says it, "Cannot be waived", so does that mean that the thousands of people who travel under the ESTA visa waiver will suddenly need to find $250 (each, so $1000 for a family of four?), and to have the headache of pote
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Another way to detect the odd way HN handles articles it re-pushes to the front-page, the wikipedia submissions page, and the submitter submissions page show the original 2 days ago submission time: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I don't know, "random" wikipedia articles often pop up on the front-page. It's been speculated that some groups use random wikipedia articles to test-run their botting. I think a more charitable explanation is often that
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And the thousands of other bots also hitting those, together is far more than the legitimate traffic for many sites.
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I'm going to be controversial and say that if sorting by date isn't the default in an email client, it's a broken client. That's beyond just breaking "Have sensible defaults", and is well into, "Your defau
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Dropped? You've produced a graph showing they've been on the increase for the past 30 years.
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I just want the ability to put on a lightweight pair of glasses and have it remind me who people are. Ideally by consulting a local database, made up of people I already know / have been introduced. And yet while this capability would
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by xnorswap 1y ago
It's not long now until we re-invent SOAP and pretend it's a productivity breakthrough.
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It's something I experimented with as an edgy teenager. It's not something I'd expect from an adult.
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If you mark data as "Processed by LLM", that in turn taints all inference from it. Requirements for a human in the loop devolve to ticking a box by someone who doesn't realise the responsibility they have been burdened with.
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No, because the systems pre-date bitcoin. Chip & Pin launched in 2003 Contactless payments launched 2007. ( Yes, these pre-date Apple Pay, etc, by quite a long time ) Faster Payments System launched 2008 ( After a decade of planning ) B
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by xnorswap 1y ago
In my view, the value, ( as it was in 2015 too btw) is digital extortion and money laundering. Some are happy to take a hair-cut to get their money clean. The wider crypto-currency community is happy to make money off the back off essential
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Audit is at the heart of accounting, and LLMs are the antithesis of an audit trail.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I've dealt with low-limit APIs, and I've always considered the better approach to the problem is to create a proxy rather than trust the clients to manage, limit and coordinate themselves. Then we send all traffic to proxy.service
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And yet the policy appears to have been effective in reducing overdoses.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
It hotlinks geocities via the wayback machine cache. I'd tut but hotlinking others' random images is very on-brand for 90's web design too.
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That first email is confusing. If I received that email I'd assume my manager was going to be the one sending out the updates. It needs to be a lot more clear and direct about the expectations of others. "I'd like us to do X&
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But you'll have the "freedom" to "choose" to pay a premium to get an ad-free version of the lock.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
As a .net programmer, the "stringly typed" nature of the metadata horrifies me, but the choices of Go have long confused me. So in .NET, like Java as you mention, we have attributes, . e.g. [JsonPropertyName("username&q
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I think viewing YouTube in that manner would be a nihilist point of view. I can't think of an adjective less suitable for Alphabet/Google/YouTube than "mere".
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by xnorswap 1y ago
YouTube is the system, you've not heard of "don't hate the player, hate the game"? If I "blamed" the creators, you'd be telling me it's not their fault, they're just incentivised by the system, t
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by xnorswap 1y ago
That's not difficult to answer, it's because it's free / they get paid.

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