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by reshlo 4mo ago
The trailer also reminded me strongly of House of Leaves .
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by reshlo 4mo ago
These compromises are usually caught within hours by security researchers performing automated scanning of all published packages.
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by reshlo 4mo ago
Getting another job when you have Meta on your CV is a lot easier than moving to another country.
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by reshlo 6mo ago
How it’s done today is that they rely on your other marks from earlier in the semester to inform how your exam grade should be adjusted. That doesn’t work if there are no other marks to use.
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by reshlo 6mo ago
Dozens of credible witnesses, including several who authored sworn affidavits, claim they saw Richard Pearse achieve powered flight before the Wright brothers. Pearse is a much better option if someone wants to claim the Wright brothers wer
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by reshlo 8mo ago
It’s not just “extended” flavours of Markdown that allow embedding HTML. The original reference implementation supports this too.[0] > For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself. There’s no need t
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by reshlo 8mo ago
The claim doesn’t need to be substantiated, because it doesn’t matter whether they actually will control Venezuela, it only matters that it was their intent to do so, which Rubio and Trump have both admitted.
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by reshlo 8mo ago
It doesn’t matter whether the US actually has control, only that the military action was taken with intent to establish control. >This market will resolve to "Yes" if the United States commences a military offensive intended t
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by reshlo 8mo ago
Isn’t it? > This market will resolve to "Yes" if the United States commences a military offensive intended to establish control over any portion of Venezuela between November 3, 2025, and January 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET. Otherw
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by reshlo 8mo ago
The widespread acceptance of Postel’s Law also encourages poor authorship, because if you know clients have to be liberal in what they accept, there is no incentive to be conservative in what you send.
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by reshlo 8mo ago
If authored files had to be valid in order to work, how would the author have sold you an invalid file in the first place? They would have seen that it didn’t work when they were making it, and fixed it. If they’d sold you a book that didn’
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by reshlo 9mo ago
> The Economist recently had a piece on word usage of British Parliament members. They are adopting words and phrases commonly seen in AI. Many of the speeches given by MPs are likely to have been written beforehand, in whole or in part.
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by reshlo 9mo ago
All of those things are more than 5 years old.
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by reshlo 9mo ago
The randomisation features were significantly improved in Safari 26. Is that the version you have?
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by reshlo 10mo ago
People who end up leading successful companies are often able to do so not because they’re more willing to take risks than others, but rather because they have experienced more good luck than others. Take Bill Gates, for example. His parent
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by reshlo 1y ago
F# can do this too. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
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by reshlo 1y ago
What good is a contract if you can’t prove what its terms are? Such a contract is worth the paper it’s printed on.
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by reshlo 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/1070/
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by reshlo 1y ago
> In the Limitations and Directions for Future Research, it also note that right-wing ideologies tend to be more prosocial toward ingroup members than left-wing That supports the original comment, which asserted that right-wingers often
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by reshlo 1y ago
> Do you think that prosocial is the same as empathy? Empathy is one of the main prosocial traits that the second linked study analysed. > Prosocial means getting a group/everyone to do things. No it doesn’t, it means your indivi
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by reshlo 1y ago
> Here, we tested this putative asymmetry using neuroimaging: we recorded oscillatory neural activity using magnetoencephalography while 55 participants completed a well-validated neuroimaging paradigm for empathy to vicarious suffering.
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by reshlo 1y ago
“It would enhance productivity” is not a sufficient justification for requiring someone to do something. Ignoring safety regulations would often enhance productivity, but I’m sure you understand why we shouldn’t do that.
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by reshlo 1y ago
If more people valued how others perceive them more than they valued winning, the world would be a better place.
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by reshlo 2y ago
"The Ukraine" is grammatically incorrect for the same reason "the England" is grammatically incorrect. An article doesn't go there. The politically incorrect usage here is not bound to intent, because unaware reader
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by reshlo 2y ago
> the Ukraine It’s called Ukraine. It would be particularly prudent to avoid using the Soviet-era nomenclature given the context of the conversation you’re participating in. > "The Ukraine" is incorrect both grammatically an
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by reshlo 2y ago
Is the source code for every binary blob present on an Android device available for inspection, and is the code running on every Android device verifiable as having been built from that source? > or through convictions If they wanted to
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by reshlo 2y ago
NACKs of bad Rust code, or Rust code that you don’t want in the system that you maintain, would be fine. The specific NACK at issue here was a NACK of code that used a maintainer’s API from a language that he didn’t like, which Linus has c
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by reshlo 2y ago
In what way is the sole person who decides whether code gets merged into Linux not the boss of everyone who writes code for Linux? I addressed your second point here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43075508
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by reshlo 2y ago
I don’t think that’s an accurate way to describe what happened, no. He seems to be enthusiastic about it and to genuinely want it to succeed. > "A lot of people actually think we're somewhat too risk averse," said Torvalds
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by reshlo 2y ago
> The maintainers in question did not ask for people to add Rust to the kernel. They have no obligation to be welcoming to it. Their boss, however, did ask for it, so yes, they do have an obligation to be welcoming to it.

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