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Add in the number of people who have fond memories of BeOS

I spent some time researching how to teach commodity LLMs to pose geometrically correct figures and challenges, for the purpose of teaching middle school trig. I originally wanted …

when people say "it's rational" they're invoking this feature of rationality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality in other words, if you see behavior in others that d…

I would appreciate the timer not turning red. It's better to be surprised that time's up, rather than be surprised to know it's running out.

> an organisation funded by almost all of big tech Agreed, and this sucks, but what should be done about this? Some NGO called "We Stop Bad Guys" approaches your company with its h…

As with many of your premises throughout this thread, > And you think that's worth a 30 year sentence? this claim was never argued.

> met to have some coffees and a chat ... with the intention to commit a violent crime I'm sorry, do you believe it's legal to meet someone for coffee and credibly plan the commiss…

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God bless Hacker News, where "just start building your own package management system, like I did" is an earnest comment, including a sketched out implementation. (I'm admiring this…

The thread you're weighing in on is about whether the four-fifths rule is merely diagnostic, or functionally punitive. You're arguing about something else, using the form "given we…

You've misunderstood the point. Prior to the beginning of your excerpt is the word "You", meaning the comment's author is the subject, not "companies". I'm saying the commenter is …

I don't start from the conclusion that disparities are evidence of racism.

What evidence would disprove the claim that systemic racism is the cause of a persistent disparity?

You are selectively adhering to the letter of the law, when the practical effects are already well known and studied. One is not obligated to ignore literature, nor abstain from do…

This is an application of the disparate impact doctrine. Even facially neutral policies are considered suspect if they produce results that correlate against protected groups, irre…

I recently bought a used Dell R240 and 4x 20TB for less than this. From TechmikeNY if anyone's interested.

That's the role of rhetoric as a skill: all the true and sufficient syllogisms in the world will be ignored by most readers, if the argument leads with priors-triggering hyperbole …

So long as that OSS keeps accumulating features, there isn't quite the equilibrium you're imagining. If you can pin to a stable version, which continues to audited, you're fine. Bu…

> /r/unixporn has a lot of _beautiful_ looking desktops The emphasis here should be on the word _looking_ instead. A lot of these desktops (majority are hyprland setups) reveal the…

Very nice result. You can also do the same in QGIS, this blog post shows off using orthographic projection for other goals: https://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2019/09/globe-projections-…