skillina

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by skillina 1mo ago
Robbing the students of that experience would be to hand them an inflated letter grade. If anything this encourages instructors not to be gentle in grading first semester students. Students who eke out a low C grade will get the warning and
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by skillina 1mo ago
Of course not. If a building exists, there is a risk it burns down. Insurance just moves that risk around. The only way to eliminate the risk is to not build anything anywhere.
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by skillina 1mo ago
Traditional derivatives can be used to trade the risk that would already exist with or without the existence of the derivatives market. Prediction markets create risk out of thin air.
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by skillina 1mo ago
> With all that assistance I believe modern engineers are way more productive and capable. That isn't what was asked. The capabilities of "human + machine" clearly are increasing, but the comments above posit that as a res
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by skillina 2mo ago
Community won't stick around if the questions they're shown aren't stimulating, either.
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by skillina 2mo ago
> The only reasonable conclusion is that sender and receiver should see the same pixels Since switching to iPhone recently, I've been realizing that iMessage users are living in another world, and beginning to understand their emoji
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by skillina 2mo ago
> The .com TLD is American, and is therefore subject too American legal proceedings This is not an "American" proceeding so much as a Texan one, and it's not clear that the State of Texas should have any jurisdiction over
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by skillina 3mo ago
Adding to that, but encouraging people to vibe code insecure software while blocking those same people from redteaming their own creation is a recipe for disaster.
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by skillina 3mo ago
Adding caffeine pill and placebo pill groups would be interesting.
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by skillina 3mo ago
Nothing you described is unique to actors or artists. Every field in modern life has been infiltrated by those who cheapen the craft to line their pockets. As a consumer you have the agency to ignore slop.
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by skillina 3mo ago
> Interesting that a lot of US road signs have words on them... whereas in Europe drivers need to learn what they mean I mean... Europe had to develop a system that works regardless of whether you speak the local language. The USA assume
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by skillina 3mo ago
"I don't know" has positive value, presumably you could prompt further to learn more about where it got stuck. It also increases the value of correct answers, by improving confidence that answers are actually correct. "C
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by skillina 3mo ago
It doesn't need to be an existential threat to humanity - it's an existential threat to their business. They need agentic workflows to work for their business to become profitable. So pouring money into the "no engineers writ
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by skillina 3mo ago
Same problems on Android. Google Assistant was better in 2016 than it is in 2026, and the Gemini assistant is a joke. They can’t even integrate with their own music app (YouTube Music) properly. I switched to iOS this year and I’ve been lea
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by skillina 3mo ago
Kids don't pick a sport based on the one they have the most potential in. Some parents might, but kids would pick a sport based on the one they enjoy, which will be influenced by social pressures. The question isn't "can they
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by skillina 3mo ago
Yeah, humans reviewing the AI review can only detect the false positives, where the LLM claims something is non-compliant and flags it for review/correction by a human or another agent. Human review can’t find the false negatives (true
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by skillina 4mo ago
If you want Gemini to answer your question, why not go directly to Gemini?
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by skillina 4mo ago
That statement applies to the person who won't be your friend because you don't have an Instagram, not to the person who refuses to install an arbitrary app as a precondition to becoming friends.
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by skillina 4mo ago
I maintain Meta accounts for two purposes. Facebook Marketplace, and following local businesses on Instagram because it's become the de facto platform for many artists/bars/restaurants/popups to distribute information. I
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by skillina 4mo ago
I've been considering writing a nastygram to the NYT about their nonsense popups. Every time I open their web page I get not only the family account popup, but also a "use our app, it's better!" popup. I refuse to instal
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by skillina 4mo ago
Claude and Codex are tools. You can't tell the difference in the output between something that was done with a ratcheting wrench vs a standard combination wrench, but your mechanic certainly knows the ratcheting wrench is better (for m
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by skillina 4mo ago
Source for what? The volatile keyword is explicitly telling the compiler "don't optimize read/write to this memory location". That's the whole point. Its use for manipulating hardware registers is covered in any int
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by skillina 4mo ago
I’ve found it quite unsettling to be served foreign language videos on YouTube automatically dubbed over by Google into English. Just mixed in with the search results.
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by skillina 4mo ago
The difference is that all those parties serve a necessary function. We could debate the tax office - arguably the function of a transaction tax is precisely to deter speculation or sales for short-term use. Some speculators serve a necessa
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by skillina 4mo ago
"Speculators" are not built-in middlemen, they are competing on bids with the buyer. Perhaps there could be some policy put in place to level the playing field between an owner-occupant who will bring mortgage-related red tape and
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by skillina 4mo ago
Web site maxes out cpu utilization. Scrolls like PowerPoint 2003. Firefox 140 on Debian 12. Web design has gotten so terrible over the years. HN is an example of an extremely functional site, yet it will perform well on any computer from th
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by skillina 4mo ago
What is the use case you see for non-technical users self-hosting? I think it’s important that tools remain available but I don’t expect it to be adopted by “average consumers.” I’m interested in self-hosting for privacy and control. I alre
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by skillina 5mo ago
Capable? Yes. Willing? I wouldn't be so sure. You don't even need to hurt someone to manhandle them enough to put their fingerprint on a scanner. Whereas forcing someone to give up a password could rise to the level of torture. Of
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by skillina 5mo ago
That assumes all companies care about providing a good front end experience. Many do not. Many are actively hostile to their users.
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by skillina 5mo ago
You might want to do a bit more reading on why European intellectuals migrated en masse to the US in the 1930s.

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