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by failbuffer 15d ago
The mistake of modernity is believing that all tacit knowledge can be reduced to words.
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by failbuffer 17d ago
And don't forget the politicians and media personalities who knowingly or negligently denied that there was even a problem.
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by failbuffer 19d ago
My theory is that Mac was born with a mouse while Windows (and Windows apps) originally had to function on machines that might not have one. Thus, keyboard navigablity was prioritized, and that design sensibility stuck around longer.
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by failbuffer 23d ago
The true file was you, the user, all along.
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by failbuffer 1mo ago
Why do you think your life will be better with AGI?
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by failbuffer 1mo ago
Your menus don't change because of the administrative overhead. In the mid-sized American city where I live, menus change seasonally at nice restaurants and daily at really nice restaurants. Even fast food chains experiment with adding
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by failbuffer 2mo ago
When are we going to see substantive legislation advancing digital rights instead of chipping away at them? For the US, we need a new bill of rights, a bill of digital rights that constitutionally protects right of repair, right to root our
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by failbuffer 2mo ago
Your point about LLMs aside, I'd trust the inside source over whatever carefully baked misrepresentation the PR department doles out.
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by failbuffer 2mo ago
Yeah, but it's galling we accept these big obvious lies in our society. A legitimate government would impose appropriately stern consequences for misleading and false advertising.
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by failbuffer 2mo ago
These firms were completely fine with mass copyright infringement. And the temptation to keep data would be great, especially as they fight for every bit of technical advantage in a market that "wants" to be commodified.
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by failbuffer 3mo ago
Darn Biden for attacking Iran and causing these high gas prices!
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by failbuffer 3mo ago
Aims aside, did you even read the article? This will mostly end anonymity online and require heavier policing of content. A child might see something they shouldn't walking down the street, strolling thru the park, visiting the local z
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by failbuffer 3mo ago
Are the going to pay for the societal harms they cause?
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by failbuffer 3mo ago
So which harness did you end up choosing?
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by failbuffer 3mo ago
Why learn arithmetic when we have calculators? Reading, writing, and math are foundational skills that, aside from having enormous utility in their own right, are also crucial for developing sharp, creative, and analytical minds. Take writi
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by failbuffer 3mo ago
You're ignoring shaping effects though. Nobody prefers living in a deeply divided society. Instead, filter bubbles help bad actors (including foreign adversaries, disgruntled losers, political opportunist, and garden-variety edgelords)
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by failbuffer 3mo ago
It's the "your choice" that's the problem. The quality of a society is dominated by the choices that other people make.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Well, it's not yet monetized by YouTube hustle bros, for one thing. :D
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by failbuffer 2y ago
In a similar vein, HTTP header smuggling attacks exploit differences in header parsing. For instance, a reverse proxy and a web server might handle repetition of headers or the presence of whitespace differently.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
This is the Hacker News community. Let's be constructive and civil. Your comment would have more interesting and relevant if you had explained why this trading strategy is a bad idea instead of just labeling it as "idiotic".
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Hmmm... I nominate Mortal Kombat (1995) for the cringiest title drops. Instead of being used once for a climatic fight scene, they keep dropping it over and over (10 times according to the article).
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by failbuffer 2y ago
I don't know the law, but "build it yourself lol" is hardly easy, especially for software that needs to be constantly updated for security.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Alternatively (or at least additively), most C# developers don't really need all the new ref/Span features. They're writing line-of-business apps and garbage collection is a fact of life, not some burden to be avoided. Micros
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Heuristics don't have to be perfect to be useful so long as they improve the efficacy of our attentions. Once that breaks down society must follow because thinking about every topic is intractable.
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by failbuffer 2y ago
My cynical take (as an American) is that anything but the previous design would have been subject to politicization and protracted decision-making. Donors would have been more fickle, stakeholder groups would have mushroomed, and reconstruc
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by failbuffer 2y ago
STEMcore (which, to be clear, is just a term I made up) mostly solves problems with STEM. Contrast with something like The Expanse which builds the setting from (some) realistic physics (plus a few enabling premisses) and mostly solves prob
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Could someone explain the joke? I've been dabbling with learning robotics and I've been confused by how ROS and ROS2 both appear to be actively developed/used. Is ROS2 a slow-moving successor version (like Python 3 was) or a
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Weir may have invented a new genre: STEMcore. His narrator-protagonists face a series of puzzles which they resolve with imaginative STEM skills and... well, that's most of it. I mean, he sets up a pretty good near-future world and giv
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by failbuffer 2y ago
Add negative numbers to your list as well. Mathematicians used to rearrange terms specifically to avoid them (e.g. before the concept existed).
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by failbuffer 2y ago
RPi has an ecosystem and great documentation. People use it for projects because every tutorial and YouTube video out there shows you how to get the job done with an RPi. There's a jillion expansion boards (HATs), hundreds of 3D prints

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