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by bdzr 18d ago
I think it's completely fair game. This is the singular document that gets put in front of employers. Ostensibly the person has put a lot of effort into it, and they haven't even run it through spell check? What are they going to
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by bdzr 21d ago
I also ran into the eBay application being blocked just recently. Other than that I've had no issues, but I imagine this is going to become more and more common as time goes on.
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by bdzr 8mo ago
This has also been my experience. I like that it's a small community but their toxicity is much more towards AI or anything to the right of RMS.
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by bdzr 11mo ago
> As it happens, the daily practice of medicine does not require interpretation of p-values. Indeed, medicine existed before the p-value. What are you talking about? Doctors refer people based on test results every single day. From what
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by bdzr 11mo ago
> I agree. Expecting perfection from humans, even experts, is not reasonable and is frankly counterproductive. There's a big difference between perfection and "Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance"[1].
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by bdzr 1y ago
Or at least give us the discord feature of "Mute channel for ..." with some fixed set of durations.
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by bdzr 1y ago
I've made heavy use of emdashes my whole life. It feels like I have to eliminate them now :(
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by bdzr 1y ago
Are you worried about being sherlocked at all? I know "multiplayer" is on their official roadmap.
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by bdzr 1y ago
I think it's a matter of time until we see a notable plugin in the obsidian space get caught exfiltrating data. I imagine then, after significant reputational harm, the team will start introducing safe guards. At a minimum, create some
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by bdzr 1y ago
It's *significantly* worse than vscode. vscode is at least attempting to grapple the problem: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/extensions/exte... .
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by bdzr 1y ago
Will the secure backups also be incremental? I've gotten to the point where the backup takes quite a while to generate.
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by bdzr 1y ago
> Using an LLM is not just ridiculous here but totally the wrong fit and a waste of resources. Time and labor are resources too. There's a whole host of problems where "good enough" is tremendously valuable.
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by bdzr 1y ago
> I'm not proposing that we all just try harder to be altruistic, but rather that we craft some institution for rewarding people who have solved problems for many without encumbering those solutions with a monetization scheme. >
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by bdzr 1y ago
> there aren’t a ton of good options for workers seeking shorter hours. Is that true? Most trades can work fewer hours, medical workers like nurses can, hairdressers, plenty of writers are freelance, the entire gig economy. It seems like
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by bdzr 1y ago
Also tariffs on cane sugar.
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by bdzr 2y ago
90% of the people here wouldn't pay $3/mo for a browser. Who do you think is going to raise the money?
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by bdzr 2y ago
> I don’t know if it’s the nature of the products themselves Isn't this what you were just arguing it was not 10 minutes earlier?
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by bdzr 2y ago
I don't see what the big deal is - Governments don't change hands or selectively prosecute.
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by bdzr 2y ago
> the stated target of the law but the least likely to be affected by it The least likely to be negatively affected. This will absolutely be good for them in that it just adds another item to the list of things that prevents new entran
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by bdzr 2y ago
Why not raise it to $50/hr? While we're printing money without side effects we might as well go big.
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by bdzr 2y ago
Interesting. I usually don't complain about prices because I wish more products charged, but I always found the publish pricing to just be too high altogether. I have a blog that's a few simple markdown files and it's easily
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by bdzr 2y ago
Oh god. Didn't they try to do something like this in Mexico City and it resulted in no change? Clever policy is always rife with unintended consequences; prices are good.
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by bdzr 2y ago
It sounds like they're not yet at the stage where they need to worry about it, though I've heard Charlie mention making an easy to host package registry as one offering.
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by bdzr 2y ago
An alternative framing. "This software could be so fast, but it's bogged down by having to support every single workflow it's ever once even accidentally supported."
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by bdzr 2y ago
Don't forget that this emboldens the government to define what is and isn't healthy. Something that's worked out super well in the US.
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by bdzr 2y ago
Why?
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by bdzr 2y ago
But didn't you know that social media is causing all of the problems we have right now? Haven't you seen the graph that shows society with no problems until social media, and now we have all the problems?
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by bdzr 2y ago
I haven't used it, but I think this is well targeted by https://github.com/dabapps/django-zen-queries .
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by bdzr 2y ago
> Third, caching without taking the context into account will probably lead to data corruption one way or another. One can only hope it's data corruption and not a sensitive data leak.
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by bdzr 2y ago
What solutions are 100% accurate?

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