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901.
by zahlman 5mo ago
... Why does it have anywhere near the level of computing power that a botnet would find useful?
902.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> "smart" bulbs Thankfully I don't think I've seen these for sale. What sensors would they have that could be exploited by an attacker?
903.
by zahlman 5mo ago
I've been getting a little bit from what I think must be people scraping my GitHub. (Or their OpenClaw agents electing to do so, or something.)
904.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first. I've gotten that too, now that everyone ITT is talking about it. I had no idea what was going on with it at the time and igno
905.
by zahlman 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure "cold turkey" here refers to the original English idiom ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_turkey ) and not any particular software.
906.
by zahlman 5mo ago
I simply didn't get a smart phone. I had to get a new vertical flip phone last year — $80 plus tax to own it outright (and I think they gave me some credit on my pay-as-you-go balance too) — in order to migrate to 4G, but I was definit
907.
by zahlman 5mo ago
No, I agree with you quite strongly[0]. There is indeed very explicitly no plan for a Python 4, although several people seem to have a vision for it. (I have a design of my own that I think of as a spiritual successor, but I am definitely m
908.
by zahlman 5mo ago
It is not at all "gatekeeping" to point out simple actions you can take (and it really is simple) that are consistent with your stated goals.
909.
by zahlman 5mo ago
`which sudo`? `/usr/bin/sudo`?
910.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> The hurdle around assignment operator is as old as symbolic languages. That's why legends such as Niklaus Wirth wanted to use another operator, ":=", a notation that is still being used. Well, sure; but more generally,
911.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> Notice which way this cuts. Pre-agent, the engineer had a path the dispatcher didn’t: they could go learn the domain. Slowly, painfully, by shadowing experts and reading specs and getting things wrong in production, they would build th
912.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> 1-2 weeks for enough of an understanding to appropriately use terms? No way. Using Harvard CS50 as a reference, it takes until week 2 to learn about arrays. In my experience trying to teach, appropriate use of terms can lag way behind
913.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> The part that makes no sense for me is men ending with smaller rates of dementia, given they had much less estrogen to begin with. Men have less incidence of dementia. My understanding was that they have lower incidence specifically of
914.
by zahlman 5mo ago
If privacy matters to you, you should at least be using a JavaScript blocker/whitelister such as NoScript. With this, the entire page is readable and there is no popup; no first-party cookies are added as far as I can tell (and I have
915.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> The thing about first order thinking is that it is very rarely useful, because the actual experts in the field have almost certainly thought of all the things that first order thinkers come up with, and deemed those ideas unworkable fo
916.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> showed how virtual mixed-color filaments could be created by alternating thin layers of differently colored materials.... The principle is well-known from traditional 2D printing. It uses Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow (CMY) inks in a metho
917.
by zahlman 5mo ago
Those demands are what they are because of the general political environment.
918.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> Which distinction can't be made? You said, and I quoted: > The politics were mostly fine, but the students... were the problem. The distinction, thus, is between "the politics" and "the students". In the res
919.
by zahlman 5mo ago
Incorrect on every count, as a matter of fact. I do not treat my likely neurodivergence as a disability; I argued my point (which is absolutely not "for the concept" of those disability claims) very clearly; and I am in my mid 4
920.
by zahlman 5mo ago
Please do not use "Ask HN" to promote your project behind a bad-faith question. (It's very easy to notice when people are doing this.)
921.
by zahlman 5mo ago
The style demonstrated in the blog post is really not the same.
922.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> ...actually one of the motivations for moving away from ACT and SAT as college entry benchmarks. "Teaching to the test" is a rampant problem in the US.... If there's one good thing that can be said about ACT and SAT, the
923.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> This is the direct inverse of what's actually asserted by people talking about equity. It very obviously is not. The equity proponents are extremely vocal about expecting equal outcomes; their metrics are stated entirely in terms
924.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> So? Name a social intervention that did achieve all its goals. This is a complete non-sequitur. > Digging up a straw man from the 17th century is not particularly persuasive. It makes no sense whatsoever to refer to a strawman. Lock
925.
by zahlman 5mo ago
Clearly none of this has anything to do with GP's own position. The argument is that the equity proponents are explicitly targeting "equality of outcome", explicitly taking measures that aim to establish this, explicitly usin
926.
by zahlman 5mo ago
Saying "everyone can" is not incompatible with intending to force the issue. The claim "Equity is equality of outcome for all subgroups in society." demonstrates a clear intent to force the issue. "Equality of outco
927.
by zahlman 5mo ago
For those who downvoted without comment: how did I say anything disagreeable, untrue, or otherwise meriting a downvote?
928.
by zahlman 5mo ago
> I remember decades ago when I started high school. We were all given laptops Decades, plural? Perhaps that could happen two decades ago, but I doubt much more than that. Three decades ago you were lucky if your school had a computer la
929.
by zahlman 5mo ago
I actually took fairly involved test prep way back when (and didn't end up actually writing the SAT) and there really wasn't anything to it beyond the practice exams that I couldn't have figured out myself.
930.
by zahlman 5mo ago
They can profess all they like to care about opportunities; the actual policies make it abundantly clear that their metric is purely outcome-based instead.

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