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The implication is not that people learned this skill from the SAT, but rather that not requiring it to score well on the SAT further lowers the baseline.

For the love of all things holy, can we not do these kinds of experiments on the same planet we live on?

This is impressive. This kind of migration is super easy to mess up, especially doing it in-place like this.

Right? I find submissions titles like this so frustrating: it's simply not possible to be aware of every project out there. Please, please provide me some context in the title. Thi…

I'm just a community mod, not a dev on the project, so take this with a grain of salt: I believe the intent is that you get bidirectional selective sync between your terminal and t…

My experience with runbooks has been: - I am on a team that oversees a bunch of stuff, some of which I am very hands-on with and comfortable with, and some of which I am vaguely aw…

Using the arrow keys to navigate the current input is well supported on most modern terminals, and has been for most of my adult life. If this isn't working properly in your termin…

Ok, thanks, this is exactly what I needed. I'm apparently too much of a casual user here because I don't even recognize minimaxir as a username. So that's gotta be the disconnect f…

Sorry, I don't understand the point you're making here. Are you saying that karma farming on HN leads to successful IPOs? Or are you saying that karma farming in general can be pro…

Ok, but to what end? Is there some karma-to-dollars pipeline that I don't know about? There a bunch of other platforms that superficially seem like much softer targets with more ob…

Right, but that was the exact nature of the attack: it's a small commit that doesn't look like it needs a lot of scrutiny. Like, I get that you meant "it wouldn't take much scrutin…

The malicious commit was designed to be confusing, as noted in the first comment of the investigation: > but calls to safe_fprintf were replaced with calls to the unsafe fprintf. T…

Thanks for weighing in! But this is just speculation, right? Are you speaking from experience? I'm specifically looking for someone who does it to explain it. I mean, I can make my…

Interesting! But this sounds like an explanation why you read the comments without reading the article, not why you comment without reading, and those aren't inherently the same th…

I'm confused why this is being posted now? This thread appears to have taken place in the days immediately following the original XZ discovery, with no new activity since very earl…

Asking in seriousness: did you comment without reading the link? If so, why? I legit don't understand why people comment on things without having read them, and I would like to

Those aren't meant to be apps representative of the Mobifree "platform", those are existing projects that have agreed to partner with Mobifree towards a common goal. They're bullet…

how will US customers prove that they're not foreign customers?

The only away for US citizens to prove that they are such would be for them to also submit their IDs. So it affects everyone. Basically, it forces providers of a very wide variety …

I'm not sure what you mean about throwing more resources into the system, but as regards the DNA evidence, in this specific circumstances just asking the fraud "What's your Dad's n…

I am also not a mathematician, and indeed got fairly mediocre math grades throughout most of my education. But you don't need to be PhD candidate to understand that if you never ac…

Ok, but probability doesn't work like that. Even if 99.99% of the time a given individual is delusional, you still have to check every time because this person might be the 0.01%. …

- all the data is stored in a sqlite db, so it's actually structured, as opposed to just being in an adhoc text format - this matters because it's capturing not just what commands …