profunctor

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by profunctor 2mo ago
Did they ever?
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by profunctor 2mo ago
This is probably bait but FYI it’s not normal to send thank you emails in much of the world following an interview so perhaps consider that not everyone thinks like you and it’s not a slight to receive no thank you emails. Where I live a th
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by profunctor 2mo ago
Note it’s all nationally significant infrastructure, not just data centres. And thank god because this country can’t even build a rail line without having to fight every minor concern by anyone who feels like complaining. It makes big proje
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by profunctor 4mo ago
With a harness you could feed the code to a linter and if there are errors feed that to a model automatically. It’s amazing that the models are good enough that I haven’t bothered doing this
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by profunctor 5mo ago
Children will pay nothing, same as very mentally ill or extremely disabled people.
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by profunctor 6mo ago
Why? The dashes?
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by profunctor 7mo ago
Make it so that they don’t birth and rear but instead birth and then rear with a partner who will contribute equally. Also financial subsidies so that a child becomes at least neutral in terms of cost. Social help to make raising a child le
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by profunctor 8mo ago
Perhaps the engineer could sit down for 8 hours a day during the work week. The Silicon Valley obsession with having no life and working weekends is so endemic.
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by profunctor 10mo ago
Is this proven?
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by profunctor 10mo ago
Book stores did not stop existing. They are everywhere. Book sales are up in recent times.
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by profunctor 1y ago
The reason is cost, LIDAR is expensive.
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by profunctor 1y ago
This article feels like it’s about what and how this person stores their dotfiles and then has two lines about them feeling too personal to share. I’m surprised it’s so highly voted since it’s basically “I use stow”. Must be due to the inte
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by profunctor 1y ago
Having roommates (aka sharing a home) when you leave your family home has been the norm forever. Roommates are not poverty
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by profunctor 1y ago
How do you expect them to make a living? News and magazines were always behind a paygate.
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by profunctor 2y ago
Have you seen them in real life? They are much more interesting in person.
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by profunctor 2y ago
Ireland did not eliminate its native population.
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by profunctor 2y ago
If your pr deploys a machine learning model then that would be a suitable comment. I suppose the idea is similar, we can determine that this drug helps so a (hopefully) statistically significant degree so even if we don’t know how it works
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by profunctor 2y ago
If you are using vscode in the copilot chat you can use @workspace and it tries to get the relevant files and context.
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by profunctor 2y ago
To be honest after reading this article I think the title should be “Humans have transformed the isle of Rum’s landscape”
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by profunctor 2y ago
Yes and to add on to that, the reason this decision is criticised is that it is very difficult or even impossible to properly blind a puberty blocking study. If you give people fake puberty blockers and then they start to go through puberty
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by profunctor 2y ago
Edit: I did a bit more reading and had a look at an trans group’s reaction to this report: https://transactual.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/TransActual-Br... . Certainly not as clear cut as the article makes it out t
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by profunctor 3y ago
What do you want to world to do? Russia is already under increasingly crippling sanctions and many countries are funding + arming its opponent in a war.
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by profunctor 3y ago
Free school meals don’t happen everywhere at all times. Food banks are incredibly stretched. Many people are not “reasonable” but have alcohol/ drug dependencies or mental health issues and so their children suffer. Even if they manage
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by profunctor 3y ago
Aren’t the guarantees the SLA that is agreed with Amazon, Google etc?
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by profunctor 3y ago
Yet again the workers suffer from the incompetence of the ownership class.
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by profunctor 3y ago
Won them two world wars when losing is famously bad for the economy.
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by profunctor 3y ago
I have never worked with anyone doing 12 hours a day 5 days a week as usual. Then again I’m in Europe .
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by profunctor 3y ago
As a straight person I also think it’s strange. I’ve had mixed gender friends my whole life and I’ve never had an issue.
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by profunctor 3y ago
Liberals are not a moderate part of a socialist faction. They critique the democrats like they critique republicans because neither are in any way compatible with socialism.
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by profunctor 3y ago
So you have any data to back this up? A gas station parking lot is a safe as a McDonalds. They are often covered with CCTV too.

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