Ivoirians

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by Ivoirians 1y ago
Meanwhile, on this side of the Pacific, the Trump administration is waging a war against the renewable energy industry... because, um... well, presumably, at the behest of oil and gas lobbyists. https://www.nytimes.com/2025&
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by Ivoirians 1y ago
It's one thing to have a backdoor so your engineer can unfreeze someone's phone or fix their smart lights. These are motor vehicles carrying people inside of them on highways.
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by Ivoirians 2y ago
I think various parties have managed to frame political discourse in America as an us vs. them, ingroup vs. outgroup, purely partisan sport. All that matters to people is that their team scores points and the other team loses points. There
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by Ivoirians 2y ago
I have to assume they meant Visual Studio licenses, but whoever penned the tweet didn't know there was a difference between VSCode and Visual Studio. I mean, the names and logos do look pretty similar.
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by Ivoirians 2y ago
I'm generally optimistic for the potential benefits of chatbots to people who are lonely or depressed. But I wouldn't want to just hand over the burden of society's mental health to an unrestricted language model, especially
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by Ivoirians 3y ago
Doesn't Google do that thing where if your team becomes redundant, they don't lay you off, they give you some time to find another team if you choose to transfer?
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by Ivoirians 3y ago
That almost sounds like a made-up joke, but I guess it's a free government-subsidized pizza dinner.
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by Ivoirians 3y ago
I received this email yesterday, which I found amusing in a sad way. Hello, Thank you for booking time with me to discuss your background and opportunities at Microsoft. Unfortunately, I need to cancel our meeting because I will be leaving
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by Ivoirians 3y ago
It doesn't matter if someone thinks Cantor "breaks the rules", or the square root of -1 "doesn't exist." The (majority of) mathematicians who take those as true have created a wealth of rigorous, interesting, a
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by Ivoirians 4y ago
It tricks people into (temporarily) thinking that it is real. For a brief moment, your brain has to work out that it's too absurd to be real.
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by Ivoirians 4y ago
The Onion actually recently submitted a hilarious satirical amicus brief to the Supreme Court for the case Novak v. City of Parma [1] that made a splash in legal Twitter, for a case where a man who was arrested for making a parody Facebook
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by Ivoirians 4y ago
I've noticed that one article which was marked for deletion on Wikipedia is marked as "hooray survived deletionism" on deletionpedia, but only got changed to a redirect after a lot of data was deleted. https://del
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by Ivoirians 4y ago
Imagine if a polarizing figure, who you and many other people strongly dislike and whose vision for your company is openly controversial, were going to take over your company in the near future. How could the company function? It seems almo
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by Ivoirians 4y ago
The problem would be that you probably wouldn't want to exclude the page from the results in case people expect to find it. Did the page get ranked above other more relevant pages that had the quoted term more prominently? If it did, y
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by Ivoirians 4y ago
It does work. In the past when I mentioned it, someone provided an apparent counterexample, a search with a term in quotes that wasn't found on the page. When I reported it to the search team, they found that the quoted term was actual
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by Ivoirians 5y ago
This is true, a universal oracle would probably lead to some chaos in the world's computer science departments. I wonder how many mathematicians would switch over to help formalize and solve their fields, and how many would stick to th
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by Ivoirians 5y ago
>Why is there no value in that? Because it's uninteresting. The point of pure math is not to be "useful", it's to be interesting. The Collatz Conjecture is (as yet) a completely useless result. Like I said, if God him
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by Ivoirians 5y ago
They've verified that the Collatz conjecture holds for all numbers up to ~2^68, but that's precisely 0% of all the numbers that need to be checked. But more importantly, the goal of (pure) mathematics isn't to declare truths.
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by Ivoirians 6y ago
Your comment is not a gotcha. She'd clearly prefer that stock trading not be frozen at all. Freezing purchases but not sales is a gift to short sellers because retail investors can only lower the price, which will induce more people to
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by Ivoirians 6y ago
When I google "white wine and beer new orleans" I get this blog post as the top result: http://psycho-gourmet.blogspot.com/2014/06/boozing-with-brod... which suggests that besides one line in a movie, th
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by Ivoirians 6y ago
User behavior has changed. Look what happened when a similar law was passed in Spain. Google News pulled out and people stopped visiting Spanish news sites, they didn't flock back to purchasing subscriptions and physical newspapers.
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by Ivoirians 6y ago
This is going to be a fascinating PR war. Apple was probably caught by surprise with how immediately public Epic was willing to take this. But besides the fun of that wonderful drama unfolding over the next months/years, I actually fee
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by Ivoirians 6y ago
The real-life goal is closer to "HR picks 7 blue, 6 red, 2 white instead of 10 blue, 5 red, 0 white".
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by Ivoirians 7y ago
To be more specific, they're being screwed because the department is now unable to add new (8hr) positions. Class size pressure will increase because the price of instructors has gone up, and fewer students will get to have cushy teach
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by Ivoirians 7y ago
Here's my high level summary, as a former instructor. 1. Berkeley offered tuition remission as a benefit to grad student instructors essentially as a stipend/subsidy of living. 2. The union representing instructors negotiated tuit
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by Ivoirians 7y ago
Not that I would personally blame you, but the collapse of WeWork hasn't directly affected peoples' jobs, home values, or retirement savings. The implosion of the company has left the rest of the world pretty unscathed.
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by Ivoirians 7y ago
Disclaimer: Googler. I'm going to retread a comment I made when I first learned about Epstein a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19167084 In short, and ignoring my ad hominem attack on his motivatio
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by Ivoirians 7y ago
I can't stop playing with this. Plugging in foreign words and locations is pretty fun, like Nouakchott, N'Djamena, Lviv, Hagia Sophia, Ibiza, Louvre, etc. Just getting the variety of organic, candid pronunciations is fascinating.
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Do you have an example of this not working?
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
I was super confused too--to this day I get annoyed when I see apps that never updated their icons to circles, rendered as a square-in-a-circle with >50% whitespace. And now less than a year later, we're going back to squares?? But

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