fishstock25

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by fishstock25 2y ago
> Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Correct. Not more, not less. Question is what the default assumption is. With enough BS thrown around, the public seems to tend to tilt to "something is fishy" without any (non-
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by fishstock25 2y ago
Sorry but you are blurring the lines between an actual malicious attack and a badly designed driver. The first is what the original claim was, screaming "Russians!" and "Chinese!" at the same time with poor technical und
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by fishstock25 2y ago
I meant relative to a random dude on the street.
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by fishstock25 2y ago
I like when people put their thoughts so out in the open. Makes it much easier to know whom to not work for, since the work culture must be terrible, if they even publicly express themselves that way.
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by fishstock25 2y ago
I've lived in sweden for a while, I have family ties. People there care, compared to US. I've seen people pick up some random trash on an otherwise spotless sidewalk. I've seen people point out to somebody misbehaving that th
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by fishstock25 2y ago
A lot of wildlife, like birds, bats, insects etc. are really confused by white light. There are some nordic countries which are experimenting with red street lights in outer districts which are showing great promise. (Don't have a refe
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by fishstock25 2y ago
Haha fair enough
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by fishstock25 2y ago
When you invite a girl/guy over, do you say "let's meet at my place" or "let's meet at the place I'm renting"? The possessive pronoun does not necessarily express ownership, it can just as well expres
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by fishstock25 2y ago
> Seems like a pretty standard "free markets/Econ 101" argument to me. Hm I think I see what you mean. It's a free market argument that includes that some regulation is in place which keeps A in business and keeps D o
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by fishstock25 2y ago
It's sad because the HN crowd is technically maximally (?) literate and should be one of the last communities to even remotely buy the debunked story. It's scary because if even those in the know are not resistant to such BS, who
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by fishstock25 2y ago
Yeah, for a substantial fraction of people, this case will stick to their minds as "oh the chinese .. again" It's both sad and scary. It was even submitted to HN. Flagged by now, but still. Many people won't have read t
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by fishstock25 2y ago
"The chinese" yeah sure. Lmao. Everybody panic, there are two chips inside! Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743033#42743428 for more lulz
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by fishstock25 2y ago
Totally agree. And a great example that truth is complicated, expensive and uncomfortable. It's much easier to postulate an evil nation-state entity with a bad plan (without evidence) than to dig through the thicket of this article.
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by fishstock25 2y ago
In your mind, probably. More seriously, nowhere of course, but if the risk is manageable (a fluffy term to mean predictable and not too high) then you'll find an insurance that covers you. Those natural conditions are dynamic though, s
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by fishstock25 2y ago
> the narrative of “insurance companies bad” is incredibly prevalent among left-leaning perspectives, Perhaps it is, I don't have enough insight to know. It's obvious (to me) that this is clearly over-simplifying things. > I
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by fishstock25 2y ago
That depends on what you mean with "pull out". Typically you pay a premium and that means you are insured for a certain period. A year or so. Everybody who is insured at the moment of course needs to be paid by the insurance unde
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by fishstock25 2y ago
> The government banned insurance companies from raising prices. They used tax payer money to subsidize this for a while which increase home prices. Eventually insurance companies stopped offering insurance. Obviously. Such a move by the
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by fishstock25 2y ago
I don't understand the downvote. I think this hit the nail on its head. People whine about insurances pulling out. All they want is for somebody else to pay for their risk. It's their choice to live in that area, they should bear
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by fishstock25 2y ago
The term "uninsurable" is not linked to "too expensive" or (equivalently) "too high risk". It's linked to "unpredictable". The business insurances are in is a business of statistics. As long as y
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by fishstock25 2y ago
Anyone relating LLMs to school kids cheating hasn't seen programmers be 3x as fast using it and journalists churning out articles 3x as fast by focusing on what they do best (gather and sort facts) and leaving the tedious make-easily-r
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by fishstock25 2y ago
"For free" and "collaboration", right. Just like my employer gives me lots of stock options "for free" every quarter, it just happens to be the case that I also do a lot of programming for them every day, &quot
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by fishstock25 2y ago
Oh boy, where to start.. > So why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited? > Why indeed. Strategically, Cloudflare offering unlimited bandwidth for small static sites like mine fits in with its other benevolent services Those ar
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by fishstock25 2y ago
I believe that Arista has (had?) P4 devices in their lineup, but after Intel's sunsetting of that platform, they probably axed them.
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by fishstock25 2y ago
Not gonna happen. "I can't wait for the PC hype train to die" "I can't wait for the internet hype train to die" "I can't wait for the smartphone hype train to die" "I can't wait for the
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by fishstock25 2y ago
This is why it's important not just that people do the right thing but also why they do it. Circumstances can change, but if people do the right thing for the "right reasons", then what they do won't change. Doing st
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by fishstock25 2y ago
> watch -n1 date Um, that's a pretty inaccurate way to notice an offset in the millisecond range, isn't it?
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by fishstock25 2y ago
Another way to view such invariant is to see it as a generalization of both pre- as well as post-condition. The pre-condition is a special case, then the invariant provides the "guard rails" along which the computation proceeds,
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by fishstock25 2y ago
> because now I have to split my attention to things I don't want to even be bothered with yet. One of the reasons could that you realize you don't need those parts, so it would have been a waste of time to write tests for them