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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Clearly, you have not tried my microwave's popcorn or defrost settings.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
The two aren't really separate, because the grifters who are on the receiving end also often end up being ones "donating" to the corrupt politicians who select their organizations to receive money.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
> This discounts the value of user experience, which people will pay a premium for. The people making purchasing decisions at this level aren't the ones using it and don't care one whit about UX. That isn't to say that it
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
> so it would be stupid (plus impossible) not to let students use it It's been plenty of years since my college days, but even back then professors had to deal with plagiarism and cheating. The class was split into a lecture + a lab
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Really? That's how it was taught to me by Korean teachers at University. Even if it isn't daily-useful bit of info, it's such a fundamental component of the written form that I would have expected it to be common knowledge.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
The Heritage Foundation's database on fraud was explicitly described as not exhaustive, but merely demonstrating that the potential (and reality) is there. It's not like they've got exhaustive access to both voter registratio
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Here's the comment I replied to: > Source: actually ran a fucking election precinct. Non-citizens aren’t casting ballots illegally. So, you can see people are actually claiming that it doesn't happen. Further, > It's al
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
They literally just charged someone in Philadelphia for illegally voting in every federal election since 2008. Non-citizen, ordered deported back in 2000 but still in the country. There's not been a reliable audit to show the extent to
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Slax ( https://www.slax.org/ ) runs entirely off of a USB stick. There's other options that have been around for awhile aimed at simple experiences for older and weak hardware. Back in the netbook era, there were quite a
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
I thought the implication was that juniors would continue to use AI to stay "productive" (AWS is not a rest and vest job for juniors, from what I've heard) and seniors would no longer have time to do anything but review code
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Not at all. I'm just pointing out that code does not intrinsically convey intent, only implementation. To use a less trite example, I'd probably find some case where a word or name can have different meanings in different contexts
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Is it private if it is in a public affidavit?
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
In your example, the implementation matches the intention. That is not the same thing. bool isWeekday(number: Int) { return number % 2 == 0 } With this small change, all we have are questions: Is the name wrong, or the behavior? Is this a c
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Code doesn't express intent, only the implementation. Docblocks are fine for specifying local behavior, but are terrible for big picture things.
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
In my years of programming, I find that humans rarely give documentation more than a cursory glance up until they have specific questions. Then they ask another person if one is available rather than read for the answer. The biggest problem
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Hot reloading is about the only difference if you're doing incremental builds. For that, some languages are blocked by runtimes that don't support it. C can do it [0] so it's not a limitation of the static/dynamic divide
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
I got tinnitus before ANC was a thing, and I've never been able to comfortably use it for more than a short period of time. Whenever I do, I swear I feel increased pressure on my ears and my tinnitus temporarily gets worse. I've
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
A few generations back, it was expected that half of your children would die before they reached their fifth birthday. Death is inevitable, but that doesn't mean we need to accept that all the things that could kill us are also inevita
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by zdragnar 7mo ago
Dementia is a terrible way to go, both for the people who get it and for their loved ones who are with them. One day, my grandmother forgot English when my uncle was visiting and kept speaking in her native tongue and got so mad because nob
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
> Recreating the lignite era process could be as easy as genetically engineering an alternative,presently indigestable version of lignin. Ah yes, so easy. Why on earth have we been treating wood with chemicals to prevent rot in our struc
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Two loaves of bread off the same line are perfect substitutes for each other, and compete to be sold. Lines of code within the same code base aren't competing to be sold. They either complement each other by adding new features, making
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
I remember interviewing someone who got hired by Facebook, sat around for a few weeks for a team to open up while they went through onboarding / Junior training, then was let go. COVID did weird things to the industry, that's for
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Sinking wood into a lake won't remove the carbon unless you have a very deep lake, and you'd need many, many of them to have any impact on the CO2 levels whatsoever. The scale of wood that would need to be harvested is far beyond
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Depending on the tree, freshly cut wood can have anywhere from 1:3 to 2:1 ratio of water to actual wood fiber. So, unless we want to remove a massive amount of fresh water from the ecosystem, we also need to invest energy in drying out the
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
People who are vegetarians are already engaging in a disciplined diet, so they are more likely to eat a restricted calorie diet as well. Add enough ranch sauce, cheese, oil, refined sugars and carbs to your meals and you'll be just as
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Meta's AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya(theverge.com)
4 points by zdragnar 8mo ago|1 comments
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
"may only" and "may not", however, are unambiguously hard limits, which makes things even more confusing.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
The assumption is not the variation in the nutrient counts, but in the link to obesity. The rise in obesity has much stronger correlating factors than CO2 levels- diet and sedentary lifestyle being far stronger. This is especially obvious w
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
You'd be amazed at what you can do to yourself with enough fried potatoes and refined sugar.
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
There's an oversimplified assumption here that the plants will be less nutritious, and so people will eat more calories to make up for the deficit. I suspect the presence of protein, fats and sugars influence the hormone production re

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