tomsthumb

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by tomsthumb 3y ago
Do you want to read hacker news or be hacker news?
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by tomsthumb 3y ago
>relax >harping I don’t accept the characterization of being thorough as harping, or that anyone would need to be unrelaxed for that. Is that ironic with me being told to assume good faith?
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by tomsthumb 3y ago
> assume good faith and be civil. I did. Twice in two comments foldr quoted from a source. Both of those quotes are literally right next to another sentence in the source which is exactly the opposite of what foldr asserted. The Affila w
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by tomsthumb 3y ago
>Oh, and here's a rather important detail. The paper was rejected! From the link you provided - “Accepted by Affilia , August 21, 2018” Don’t lie.
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by tomsthumb 3y ago
>they submitted coherent papers that they considered absurd I’ve never heard anyone describe Mein Kampf as coherent. The ramblings of an asshole clearly abusing stimulants would be closer to the usual. >Of course some things that Hitl
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by tomsthumb 3y ago
>they submitted coherent papers that they considered absurd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affilia
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by tomsthumb 3y ago
The impact of test prep is commonly overstated. According to Washington Post and Slate, both being rather progressive, SAT prep might improve scores 10-20 points on average, with greater effect on the math section. There is a paper on the A
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by tomsthumb 4y ago
>How does “power of attorney” have any relevance here? It doesn’t and that’s Earl’s point. That would be the best way for them to have any standing, but it just doesn’t line up.
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by tomsthumb 4y ago
bang to run a command is from ed. thats pretty core vi
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by tomsthumb 4y ago
I’m semi-sure that this is possible with .tar.gz files already. I’ve used vim to view a text file within a few different rather large archives without noticing the machine choke up on extracting several gigs before showing content. Certainl
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by tomsthumb 4y ago
Why should you couple your archive format to a compression algorithm?
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by tomsthumb 4y ago
In at least one location in the US they did this to mitigate ore dust traveling via wind near a plant.
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by tomsthumb 4y ago
presumably work accounts are paid
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by tomsthumb 6y ago
For the most part, people who don’t address Covid as a risk do so because they don’t see it as a risk. That’s different than choosing to avoid risk.
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by tomsthumb 7y ago
There’s a great Kubecon talk on Queueing Theory if you want a bit more: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yf6wSsOFqdI
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by tomsthumb 7y ago
That sounds like a great argument for subsidizing teacher and social worker education instead of the wholesale forgiveness of student debt which includes people with degrees in poetry and pottery. Poetry and pottery are both valuable to soc
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by tomsthumb 7y ago
In an economic context, why would it not be fair to judge the economic worth of someone’s degree on the basis of that degree’s ability to influence their earnings?
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by tomsthumb 7y ago
From a place of total ignorance, why would telegraphing a particular false strategy to your competitor in order to get them to respond in a way that is profitable to you be illegal?
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
Do you understand the difference between searching an individual you know had committed a crime and searching pool of people that might contain an individual? No hyperbole needed, and only one way is present :)
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
There’s a meaningful difference between the government getting a warrant to look for a specific person’s DNA and searching everyone’s DNA to see if it’s a match. Why should the government get to digitally “stop and frisk” three hundred thou
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
The article explicitly mentions that students use an app called Remind. I would not call this, along with the web portal etc, social media per se, but it does approximately fulfill the ISocialMedia interface.
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
How can social media be a subset of the more widespread problem and the title of the article be correct? The article also does a poor job of framing the school apps as part of a wider problem with those technological behaviors. Looking back
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
Author claims it isn’t social media, then proceeds to describe the use of what is effectively social media applications where students communicate with their school and teachers. The apps are noted as a problem due to their notifications an
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
Rich people disproportionately represent spent money might be more accurate. “Rich people” is a relatively small category of money spenders.
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
The keyword there was “contrast.”
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
As long as the known wins are bigger than the known abuses. There’s also the question of whether people understand and care about potential, or if it would need to happen first.
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
Which technologies were those? I’m only vaguely familiar with FreeBSD, and not at all with Solaris.
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
Gotta euthanize the presence of the situations unwanted features somehow. “Filter bubble” does a nice job.
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
Customers should pay a premium for the driver to not park a block and a half from them at pickup?
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by tomsthumb 8y ago
What does this give you over the `include` directive?

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