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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
Windows 11 made that computer my last MS purchase. I’m only looking at computers that natively ship Linux from now on — that OS was a disaster, that doesn’t even support basic functionality and was shipped without support docs or training t
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
The problem is that “software” is as broad as “aerospace” or “construction”. Some aerospace things are highly engineered — airplane, rocket ships, etc; some things aren’t — kites, paper airplanes, etc; and some things are in-between, like g
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
In mathematics, it’s a continuum: Discussion starts in blog posts, on Twitter, in conversations. Then longer blog posts and code demos. Then pre-prints and more blog posts about that. Then finally journal. You get incredibly less review at
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
You’re missing two key points: 1. COVID was always going to become endemic to humans. 2. Young people are part of society — and you’re blatantly disregarding harm to them in your appeal to the “health of my society”.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
Democrats are using the shameful legacy of slavery to commit further shameful acts - racist takings from people who did nothing wrong, because of the crime of having a particular skin color. This is no different than 80 years ago how we wer
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
A $500 mill will let you mill out one or two sided circuit boards without anything particularly dangerous used. The future is wild: $500 and some free software let’s you build electronics at home.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
Isn’t this why there’s a correlation between Asperger’s and engineers? The same kind of logical, exacting thinking necessary for mastery of physical systems is in tension with the kinds of thinking used in social games. Some brains are bett
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
I took it to mean that workers did what was asked and no more — so productivity stayed constant. Which was contrasted with engaged employees, who sharing in more of the profits, have an incentive to increase productivity — eg, by inventing
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
It depends on the application, but CLIs can make testing GUIs easier in two ways: - you can test the rendering layer in isolation by using the GUI to display two pieces of information manipulated by the CLI and comparing the renders, eg bla
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
I’m not sure that time is passed. I was in college only ten years ago, and my English professor’s key insight to punctuation is that it’s to define framing and tempo for your sentences. That the sequence you listed is the pause count — simi
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
For people who want to understand more of the math behind things like hypergraphs. Hypergraphs as math object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CW_complex Or with data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
Library directors would look like the entry-level workforce 20-30 years ago, right? One of the major faults in these analyses is to not account for cohorts — and so they discriminate against men in the here and now (fresh hires) to “balan
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
> Granberg and his colleagues found that women had higher positive employer response rates than men on average, an effect that was primarily driven by female-dominated occupations. There was no evidence of discrimination against women in
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
This is wrong. We know that either: a) there’s mysterious undetectable particles, or b) that something beyond the standard model is happening, as in your second and third points. There’s a failed “prediction” that all fermions have similar
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
That according to the FBI, black people commit 5-10x the violent felonies of white people, per capita. They’re a uniquely violent demographic and it’s unsurprising that their arrest statistics don’t match other demographics. The statistical
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
I quit a job because a manager made it insufferable by insisting he be invited to every developer meeting, then interrupting with useless tangents and requests people explain things to him.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
> What does that even mean when you are trying to hire 100 people a week, and you just want to hire the 100 best people you can find every week? That if over 100 Americans apply, “the 100 best people” needs to come from that group — not
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
Your comment on why you’re not viewing it: > someone who isn't a bully and a homophobe Your explanation of your own comment: > I don't have any opinion about him as a person […] as a source of information he isn't reput
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
For people for whom coding is an iterative, exploratory process, forcing type declarations upfront is not just slower… it’s a no-go. There’s no way to bootstrap that process for them: you’re asking for the output as an input. I think TypeSc
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
You’re assuming that because you were unaware of that evidence, that others were as well. But we’ve known since the COVID outbreak that there was experiments making novel corona viruses infect humanized mice in Wuhan just before two of the
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
The conspiracy theory is that modern “Woke” was a PSYOP to dismantle Occupy Wall St, which it was highly effective at.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
Extended lockdowns were always QALY negative for populations under 60. The destruction from this panic will manifest over decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
On HN, shadowbans are implemented via automatic flagging.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
The problem with censoring is the bias you showed in your comment, with who you selected as examples. Eg, mentioning the Proud Boys, but not Antifa — the violent street gang who committed billions in arson, murdered dozens, and is still pep
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
It’s absolutely fraud, at scale and across state lines. They started selling product A, under a particular version number. They then substituted inferior product B as the same version number , deceiving customers who were attempting to buy
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
That’s not true — we bought the spy equipment the state uses to oppress citizens with warrantless surveillance.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
All of those externalities apply to driving a car. Are you saying it would be legal to ban cars for those reasons?
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
You changed function signatures from int->bool to uint->bool, which changes how long the functions are. That seems unfair when comparing: Removing negatives from the Go implementation removes 6 out of 16 lines, bring it from 3x Rust t
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
I would suggest two avenues: - making data easily accessible and publishing our own narratives - building better consensus mechanisms, which can be federated in nature One of our problems in the US is the media spreading its own misinformat
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
“Plant discovered to be carnivorous” I don’t understand why not just say it — it sounds pretty exciting to me.

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