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by foldr 3d ago
I certainly wouldn’t go anywhere near Twitter these days, but the question is how much of that is to do with engineering failures and how much is to do with the overall change of culture and moderation practices that Musk has introduced.
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by foldr 3d ago
Very much this. If you have 3000 engineers (and all the associated non-engineering roles that inevitably come with that) then you have guaranteed that no problem will ever be easy to solve. Possibly you might be able to solve some extremely
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by foldr 7d ago
The iPhone 18 Pro main camera is f/1.48, which is half a stop wider than the f/1.78 main camera on the 17 Pro. An f/1.48 fixed aperture would probably not be ideal (less depth of field, more revealing of lens aberrations) so
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by foldr 7d ago
That's a non sequitur. But you see, this is the exactly kind of thing that a high school literature class could usefully dig into. We know that Orwell was thinking of the Russian Revolution when he wrote the book. Many events in the st
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by foldr 7d ago
I think you're quite confused about what Animal Farm is. It's a short work of fiction. It's not something that you'd "cite" in support of a particular point, and it wasn't written with the intention of mak
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by foldr 7d ago
One of the main reasons to encourage kids to read fiction is to expose them to stories outside their current experience. We don't get kids to read Treasure Island because they can inherently relate to a story about 18th century pirates
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by foldr 7d ago
Sounds like a problem of unrealistic expectations. I read Animal Farm when I was a kid and enjoyed it. No-one told me that it was going to profoundly change my life, and it didn't. Neither did my chemistry class, or my math textbooks
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by foldr 8d ago
>The war is at a complete standstill and it will last for another horrible decade if no concessions are made. There is a slight hope that the current Russian regime will collapse before then and be replaced by one that doesn't want
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by foldr 8d ago
US motives are currently inscrutable, but the US is sending military hardware to Ukraine, whereas China is sending dual-use hardware to Russia. You can see an itemised list of US contributions at the following link. It's not nothing.
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by foldr 9d ago
>A man from the past might consider the current mainstream democratic party "far/extreme left" Surely not. "Far left" would mean public ownership of the means of production and the abolition of the capitalist eco
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by foldr 9d ago
If you're just looking for the general concept of what 'far right' means and why the AfD is a far right party, then the Wikipedia article covers it. >It wasn't a semantic argument The poster seems to agree with my int
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by foldr 9d ago
By that semantic argument, we needn't worry about the far right gaining power because any party that wins an election cannot possibly be far right. Genius!
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by foldr 9d ago
Allow me to extend my sincere sympathies. PCB debugging is honestly one of the most intense experiences I've had in my life (and I don't even have a boss looking over my shoulder). It requires intense physical and mental concentra
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by foldr 10d ago
As tomhow points out, you are likely going to need more than just a multimeter. However, the hard part isn't whipping up a board that's 90% of the way there; it's the last 10%. I'm currently on revision ~11 of a hobby pr
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by foldr 12d ago
I agree with your point, but UK students also have to get very high grades in standardized national exams. That’s by no means a perfect measure of intelligence either, but it’s not something you can just blag your way through in an intervie
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by foldr 12d ago
Yeah, I think there are lots of places that have a semi-official preferred AI vendor but also some backup subscriptions floating around. For example, at my workplace, we generally use Claude, but I also have some kind of Codex subscription
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by foldr 15d ago
"I don't know".
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by foldr 16d ago
That can only be true for a definition of 'elite' that excludes the Eton and Oxford educated Prime Minister of the day and the majority of his government. So I mean, yeah, some people wanted Brexit. If those people had some sort o
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by foldr 17d ago
We're talking past each other because you only care about your own research needs and apparently can't see any value in opening access to documents which other researchers might need. I am not a historian, but even so, it's n
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by foldr 17d ago
The UK government usually publishes explanatory notes together with the text of the bill itself. It's quite feasible to read these if you're interested in the details of a particular piece of legislation. E.g. https://w
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by foldr 17d ago
It works better with an informed electorate. However, one of the reasons that voters don't bother informing themselves is the campaign of cynicism aimed at convincing them that all political parties are the same, that their vote doesn&
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by foldr 17d ago
Britain leaving the EU purely because a majority voted for it in a popular vote is a pretty bad example to use in support of the claim that democracy isn't real. It's probably this sort of vague cynicism about democracy that led C
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by foldr 18d ago
Yes, you can make a non-intrusive UI for that. Indeed, website creators can do that right now, with existing technology and compliant with the GDPR as-is. The question is how do you prevent the annoying UX without making overly technolo
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by foldr 18d ago
Ok, but their post talks about making a product in small volumes. It doesn't explicitly say that it's a small business, but together with the first person singular language, that's definitely the impression given. Also, their
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by foldr 18d ago
I take your point. It would be nice to have a header that effectively just automatically canceled all the consent pop ups for you. But there are still some issues. 1) You'd have to find a way of writing the regulations without baking i
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by foldr 18d ago
I don't think so. The most natural reading of OP's post is that they are outside Europe. You wouldn't say "I can't imagine how much this affects small business in Europe" if you were yourself running a small bu
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by foldr 18d ago
The do-not-track header is a nice idea but could never have worked. The GDPR is based on the idea that you can only store certain data about users if you have their consent to do so. Bearing in mind that most users have no idea what a heade
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by foldr 18d ago
These are just general barriers to international trade, though. Small manufacturers in Europe may likewise decide not to design for US regulations.
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by foldr 21d ago
With 512GB of RAM, it may finally be feasible to run both Slack and Teams.
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by foldr 22d ago
'Research' includes subjects such as history, where old documents are important for obvious reasons. Besides such cases, I gave a concrete example above of a paper from the 90s that's available online because JSTOR scanned it

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