SilasX

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by SilasX 4d ago
Hm I've seen keyboards where INS didn't appear to do anything, but that was because you had to press a different button to activate the set of keys that includes INS, and you might have been looking at a case of that.
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by SilasX 9d ago
Reminds me of another story about older scripts being hard to read: I found a paperback with Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England[1]. In the intro, it explains how they made the deliberate decision to render them as pixel-f
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by SilasX 10d ago
Heh, I have a variant of Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute, to bigotry, that which can be explained by misanthropy. That is, don't assume that bad behavior is because of someone's membership in a particular demographic, when it
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by SilasX 19d ago
This has been a source of tremendous frustration for me. I was really happy to discover c. 2009 that you could get browser extensions that let you do anything on a website (like clicking links) from the keyboard. But increasingly, they&#x27
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by SilasX 19d ago
Similar, when you get an advantage and a disadvantage at the same time, I've proposed "bonalty": bonus + penalty.
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by SilasX 21d ago
No, I used it by the standard meaning. The fact that you prefer doesn't make it not a breaking change, or a good idea in general. Notepad addresses a specific use case (dumb text editor). If you have a different use case, there are oth
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by SilasX 23d ago
"Breaking change" is a pretty common term, especially here, so I don't get the confusion about what it means. It means an interface-breaking change, so that the same input produces a different output, and is generally to be a
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by SilasX 23d ago
Even Notepad isn’t a dumb app anymore! They made breaking changes after 40 years so it has autocorrect, rich text, and Copilot. If I wanted all of that, I would have used a different app!
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by SilasX 27d ago
Meter does matter to me, and I do enjoy music. Just the every-other-syllable stress with natural stresses in iambic pentameter doesn't resonate. In the lightning talk, I contrast IP with ska music, which I like, and which is characteri
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by SilasX 27d ago
Thank you for recognizing the situation I was in! (Nit: "to be or not to be" is probably a bad example of something that depends on iambic for memorability.) Also, when I tried rewriting that soliloquy for modern ears, it didn&#x2
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by SilasX 27d ago
Again, it was taught[1]. The fact that (speaking it with) one meter sounds particularly pleasant (to some people), and that this is a big part of its appeal (to those who like it) was not taught. IOW, it's the difference between &q
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by SilasX 27d ago
Rant: I missed lot of Shakespeare appreciation when they somehow failed to teach that (other) people actually like how iambic pentameter sounds, and this is critical to enjoying it. Nothing about how Shakespeare is voiced has ever regis
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by SilasX 1mo ago
OpenAI released a feature that lets you tweak ChatGPT output to sound more human and like yourself and correct inaccuracies: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2026/04/open-ai-strikes-ba...
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by SilasX 1mo ago
It's not malicious compliance when the very governing authorities for this in the EU do the same thing.
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by SilasX 1mo ago
They also could have used those payments to build up an endowment that makes them not dependent on others.
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by SilasX 1mo ago
I wasn't saying that this invalidates the objection. I was (very clearly) asking them to lead by example. Regardless of the legal structure, the non-profit should still be calling the shots, and should still be vetoing efforts like the
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by SilasX 2mo ago
Mozilla is leveling this criticism? How about leading by example? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940144 Thanks to altairprime for mentioning it first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137765
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by SilasX 2mo ago
I'm a little bothered by the reddit discussion, which dismisses the concern because it was tested on a machine with "only" 32 GB RAM, and normalizes letting apps get bloated: https://old.reddit.com/r/pcma
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by SilasX 2mo ago
Yes, it's not an identical situation, but I thought it was relevant because of the concept of recovering a dead body's resources for consumption by the remaining living humans.
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by SilasX 2mo ago
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: "It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people."
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by SilasX 2mo ago
For the reason the article gives: products would be labeled with the thing that actually matters for safely maximizing producing usage -- how long it's safe to actually use the product ("use by") -- rather than a cruder heuri
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by SilasX 3mo ago
Agreed. In this case, a better title would be "California replaces 'Sell by' Labels with 'Use by', Hoping to Cut Food Waste" Still a simplification, but doesn't horribly mislead you into thinking it's
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by SilasX 3mo ago
Okay but in this case, the act, if successful, would have the outcome that it prevents recovery of critical evidence in a homicide, so yes that would count as obstruction. It didn't, of course, because the plan was foiled, but that&#x2
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by SilasX 3mo ago
What point that I made are you responding to? I was disputing someone’s appeal to a specific intuition for being an unhelpful one to use here. So I obviously get the concept of some intuitions being useful. Did you see the comment being res
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by SilasX 3mo ago
I get that involving a human body complicates the analysis. That was the point: that you can’t appeal to it as a simple example to ground the intuition in other case. Also: >Stacking a weight on top of a table holds it at a fixed height
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by SilasX 3mo ago
Okay but that depends on the intuitions the question is trying to justify, which makes it circular. We also know, for example, that the body uses more than twice as much energy to do twice as much work (because of fatigue on the muscles or
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by SilasX 3mo ago
I mean, this has long been a loophole in US law. Generally, you can't be compelled to testify against yourself (5th Amendment). But when it comes to taxes: 1) You have to declare all income, even from illegal activities. 2) The declara
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by SilasX 4mo ago
I'm aware I can read the prospectus. And, to the extent that I found the relevant portion of the prospectus (that you could have done yourself and posted) here's what I see: >The Fund employs an indexing investment approach des
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by SilasX 4mo ago
Sure, I was simplifying a bit with the technicals. But you're sure their leeway is enough that they can say "nah, we don't like what the index is doing now, we'll do our own deviations from it?" That seems implausib
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by SilasX 4mo ago
No, that's not all. They had additional criteria that they changed right when big-name companies wanted to get added. Now, if they had historically gone by pure market cap, and these companies met that, then you'd have a point.

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