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by zdragnar 1y ago
They are chased out of academia. I knew professors who were proudly, vocally socialist but the professors who had any conservative leanings were very subtle about it. You don't get tenure if your fellow professors don't like you,
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The argument is rather that humanities degrees are a luxury item. Neither kids just starting out their adult lives nor society should be burdened propping up departments whose value doesn't match their price tag.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
That's a nice fantasy that hasn't been true for a long time. Even university websites talk just as much about career opportunities as they do personal growth.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
I'm not sure why you're being down voted. Art degrees aren't aimed at artists. There are dedicated schools to go to for things like graphics design and other creative degrees, but those aren't the sort of humanities degr
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by zdragnar 1y ago
When you're not a Hebrew speaker and you don't interact with Hebrew script, and you're developing a PDF library by yourself, it's easy to not even realize that there is something about it that you've overlooked. In
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by zdragnar 1y ago
On the one hand, a lot of those are feature requests, not necessarily bugs. They also have more users, so they catch more edge case bugs like "Hebrew is rendered backwards" and so on. On the other hand, PDF.js has been around for
907.
by zdragnar 1y ago
Actually, swallowing a rock will almost certainly cause problems. Telling your state medical board that your doctor told you to take a rock will have a wildly different outcome than telling a judge that you swallowed one because ChatGPT tol
908.
by zdragnar 1y ago
I think the sharing is easy. The maintaining is hard when there isn't clear ownership. How do the teams divide maintenance duties? How are vandalism and moderation dealt with across teams? How do disagreements between teams over styl
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by zdragnar 1y ago
> a pedagogical environment engineered for optimal knowledge and skill acquisition I'm not sure how many of those we have available to us. Many are compromised by politics, funding, or the need to act as a daycare. I learned a lot a
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by zdragnar 1y ago
It would still need to be regulated and licensed. There was this [0] I saw today about a guy who tried to replace sodium chloride in his diet with sodium bromide because ChatGPT said he could, and poisoned himself. With a regulated license,
911.
by zdragnar 1y ago
"Death to Israel" is not a culture. The surrounding countries don't care about Palestinians or Israelis.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
RTK driven tractors are not using just standard GPS. They have positional accuracy down to one inch.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The problem with the hype is the market distortion for startups looking for funding. I don't know if it improved at all lately, but for awhile it seemed like every startup I could find was the same variation on "healthcare note ta
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by zdragnar 1y ago
GitHub is not, and never has been, an open commons. There has always been a terms of service, and GitHub has been able to remove accounts and repositories at will. Further, git is made to be decentralized. Having the government take over a
915.
by zdragnar 1y ago
No, I meant in the newborn US. The OP founding fathers reference is Hamilton and the Federalists who feared the harms of political parties, but ultimately couldn't reconcile with the anti-federalists who ultimately formed the democrati
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by zdragnar 1y ago
And yet, there were defacto political parties in the delightfully misnamed federalist and anti-federalists. It was this divide that led to the first political parties.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
10 columns is pretty tame. Add in another 5 or 10 to introduce horizontal scrolling, add in some fixed position columns, html inputs like a checkbox in each row, apply styling or custom rendering to individual cells, and it can starts to sh
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by zdragnar 1y ago
That larger point deserves its own thread. My newest pet peeve is someone jumping into the middle of a conversation with the equivalent of "I don't care about what you're talking about. What I want to talk about is more impor
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by zdragnar 1y ago
GitHub (pre-microsoft at least) and Crowdstrike both did. Amazon didn't have a take home so much as a "prove you can write code with this simple problem" though that was also pre-AI days as well.
920.
by zdragnar 1y ago
Legacy admissions are preference, not prejudice.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Depersonalizing a fetus is necessary to maintain the legality of abortion. There are already plenty of conflicts in western laws- killing a pregnant woman in some jurisdictions will get you two counts of murder. Stillbirths can qualify for
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by zdragnar 1y ago
The Bolsheviks were the first to get a country to legalize elective abortion in 1920. They did so as a temporary measure because so many women would have difficulty raising a child in the post-war environment. It got to the point where hosp
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by zdragnar 1y ago
This is somewhat unique to Southwest Wisconsin due to all the bluffs. I've lived in Eastern Wisconsin and the Northwest, and while they aren't quite Iowa's grid, they're generally all east-west or north-south running.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Android 16 / mobile Chrome here, it displays a dark font like the iOS paste above. It looks more like the browser is rendering the font color incorrectly than anything.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Even tractors with RTK satellite guidance have 1 inch precision. Commercial fields with modern tractors are guided to the point that the tractors drive perfectly between crops without damaging them automatically. Spraying applications and o
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by zdragnar 1y ago
You can have your cake and eat it too with dotnet core on Linux if we're talking remote / web servers.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Whether the Hippocratic oath, the rules of the APA or any other organization, most all share "do no harm" as a core tenant. LLMs cannot conform to that rule because they cannot distinguish between good advice and enabling bad beha
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Marine deep cycle batteries might work better, but at some point I'm pretty sure lithium would be price competitive.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
So the organization can't alert each other when they hear one of their locations or operations on dispatch.
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by zdragnar 1y ago
Now replace "kids" with gangs and other organized crime, and it makes a little more sense why they'd want to encrypt it.

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