phyllistine

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by phyllistine 2y ago
If you're active on social media (twitter), you will still see people, like the FFmpeg account, still bashing higher level languages (C) and praising hand written assembly.
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by phyllistine 2y ago
Switching to nonsense with physical books is as easy as having two books in your bag/desk, or reading a physical newspaper with a comics section. Treating the ability to switch context quickly as essentially bad for learning is reducti
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by phyllistine 2y ago
The Harry Potter and comic book argument also works for paper newspapers, the same object contains good, informative articles, opinion pieces etc, but also the comics page. I am arguing that thinking that the same object cannot be used in t
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by phyllistine 2y ago
This is largely just anti tech puritanism. I cant comment on the psych and neurological arguments, but the following line of reasoning > A pre-Covid survey exploring how US students aged 8-18 utilize digital technologies both inside
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by phyllistine 2y ago
Yeah with this and the privacy zinger at the end its definitely time my monthlong experiment with arc comes to a close. Too bad that the thing theyre actually proud of, the tabbing UX, was actually really good.
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by phyllistine 2y ago
That is a worse system, and this public policy change is preferable to poor people having to be live in workers.
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by phyllistine 2y ago
I can't say the same, Hi-Fi Rush was incredible and I want so many more genre bending games like it.
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by phyllistine 3y ago
Unity has much better documentation and tutorials abound for literally any topic. It also has all sorts of tools and assets that are easily available. Godot is open source, and doesn't have the licensing fee controversy. You will not h
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by phyllistine 3y ago
Ah, my bad. Apologies for overeager correction.
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by phyllistine 3y ago
#12 overall global university, #3 in Europe, a handful of other top 10 placements [1] seem like quite good rankings actually, and not knowing about the University of London seems like a gap in knowledge on your part if anything. [1] https:
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by phyllistine 3y ago
People will specifically not add android users to group texts. If I am making a casual group text, and there is one android user, it may just be easier to not add a person than turn everyone's text boxes green, reduce image size, etc.
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by phyllistine 3y ago
He clearly meant what he said.
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by phyllistine 3y ago
I wonder if the path stays consistent in other (maybe very high) number bases, or if that general path is random and unique to base-10
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by phyllistine 3y ago
Mass transit construction, promotion, and adoption would solve the same problem with technology that is easier to build and distribute.
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by phyllistine 3y ago
You're right, we should fix the laws. The companies actions under the ownership of KKR should not be considered 'playing fair', and some corporate buyout laws should be changed to disallow this behavior, maybe by enforcing th
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by phyllistine 3y ago
The rate of Forfeiture is going up [1] while the rate of burglary is going down. Unless you hold the position that dwindling number of burglars are becoming massively more efficient over time, it is clear that civil asset forfeiture is a ma
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by phyllistine 3y ago
[Citation Needed]
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by phyllistine 3y ago
No one is arguing that it's illegal, OP only said its 'spooky', therefore bad. Sometimes bad things are plainly allowed by federal law.
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by phyllistine 3y ago
> No manufacturer wants a repeat of the 1080Ti I think I'm out of the loop. What does this mean?
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by phyllistine 3y ago
>Google Takes a Stand Against Keyword Search Warrants—in Brazil >Google Fails to Challenge Keyword Search Warrants in the U.S. Your distinction is already acknowledged in the second[1] article linked by the original article, that Goog
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by phyllistine 3y ago
> How does someone weaponize your information? Increase your health insurance prices based on more detailed knowledge of conditions? Deny you health insurance entirely?
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by phyllistine 3y ago
Swipe to upvote/downvote puts it leagues ahead of the official app already.
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by phyllistine 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/ Aside from the xkcd, this 'everybody knows' effect can be domain specific. The people who hired the pinkertons, and any party interested in stealing corporate secrets, know who they are
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by phyllistine 3y ago
I love HN but the demographics of the users makes them more likely to assume the cops will do the correct action, when that does not always play out.
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by phyllistine 3y ago
>readers of Homestuck I will develop a typing quirk for the express purpose of ensuring that I wrote the email instead of AI
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by phyllistine 3y ago
> The only way I see this being something that's truly time critical is if they're using "emergency" as a euphemism for school shooting. Parents are regularly getting notified about school shootings several minutes be