ywain

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by ywain 1mo ago
> look at the Rwanda: It is absolutely possible to have a genocide made by democracies, Rwanda has never been a democracy. Habyarimana was "elected" with 99% of the votes ffs. > and it is in fact more frequent than dictators
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by ywain 1mo ago
The detailed terms of the bet include this: > A 301 redirect from www.longbets.org/601 to a different URL containing that text would also fulfill those conditions. I assume this would cover the HTTP->HTTPS redirect scenario.
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by ywain 1mo ago
What's your point? You'd rather have a democratically elected but corrupt leader than an appointed but honest one?
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by ywain 1mo ago
Normal rules do not apply because these companies are worth billions and powerful people don’t want them to fail. It’s neither specific to AI nor a new phenomenon.
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by ywain 4mo ago
Sure. We can't even agree on a good definition for "consciousness", we certainly don't know _how_ it works. I don't think there's a lot of debate around that specific point. I'll try and read the paper mor
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by ywain 4mo ago
Ok, I only skimmed the paper but it seems like all of the "non-local phenomena" in support of their theory are basically psychic powers. Not exactly strong evidence.
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by ywain 4mo ago
Mostly by looking at packets TTL. It gets decreased by 1 by the hotspot’s NAT so if the value is something like 63 or 127 (instead of 64 or 128 which are the defaults for most platforms) then it’s almost certain the packet originated from a
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by ywain 10mo ago
Is that what really happens though? EU countries usually don't immediately punish violations unless they're particularly egregious. You're more likely to get a warning and a grace period to meet the requirements. So the ratio
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by ywain 2y ago
Urban Dictionary might be a better place for recent internet slang: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cracked
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by ywain 2y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to, but here's my take: even though the two look conceptually similar, Unix programs are just a lot simpler. All programs run on the same machine, they read their input, execute, produce out
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by ywain 2y ago
This was a very enjoyable read. Thanks for sharing.
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by ywain 2y ago
Very cool and fun project! Thanks for sharing.
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by ywain 3y ago
The Q5 Pro is a 96% layout, but Keychron also has quite a few 100% layouts: https://www.keychron.com/collections/all-keyboards?sort_by=m...
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by ywain 3y ago
Stripe does use Ruby, but not Rails.
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by ywain 3y ago
Apple's ad business is fairly limited in scope (I think they only sell ads in the App Store and the News app) so user data is not as valuable for them as it is for Google and Facebook. They definitely do make some money off Apple Pay t
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by ywain 3y ago
Presumably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Sherpa
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by ywain 3y ago
There are definitely some parkings where you can only pay with a smartphone. The worst is when they force you to download a shitty app. Super fun when the parking does not have good reception and you have to download an unnecessarily large
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by ywain 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand how your analogy is relevant to the discussion, but you should know that the current consensus is that the pyramids were build by paid laborers, not slaves. Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by ywain 3y ago
But HAL didn't act "on a whim"! The reason it killed the crew is not because it went rogue, but rather because it was following its instructions to keep the true purpose of the mission secret. If the crew is dead, it can&#x27
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by ywain 3y ago
I'm working on a fairly recent Rails 7 code base. We initially started using Stimulus, but are now considering switching to React for a few reasons: - if you're looking to hire frontend engineers, the candidate pool for React is a
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by ywain 3y ago
The binary for Microsoft Paint is called mspaint.exe, and there is no "paint" alias AFAICT -- typing "paint" in the run prompt results in "Windows cannot find 'paint'". You could create a paint.bat fi
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by ywain 3y ago
I strongly doubt airlines can change flight plans after everyone has boarded.
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by ywain 3y ago
Out of curiosity I tried a few of the services on this list. They all follow the same textbook dark pattern, with fake progress bars, making the process of looking up someone artificially take several minutes, then only at the end do they a
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by ywain 3y ago
I recently replaced Powertoys Run with ueli: https://ueli.app/ Basically the same thing, but Powertoys Run was always slowish while ueli is very snappy. It also integrates with Everything.
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by ywain 3y ago
> The universe is the same in 3D. This would mean the universe has positive curvature. Experimental evidence points towards the universe being flat (zero curvature), though there is some margin for error that could go either way (positiv
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by ywain 3y ago
By that line of reasoning, we may as well eliminate tax brackets entirely. Or any sort of arbitrary limit, really. What makes an 18 year old mature enough to vote, but not a 17 year and 364 days old?
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by ywain 3y ago
Probably, but I doubt it's as intentional as you suspect, if only because that would require a level of competence I don't think they have (Hanlon's razor and all).
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by ywain 3y ago
I don't understand how he was not pushed out after he was caught abusing his admin privileges to edit user comments a few years back. Any employee caught doing that would have been let go immediately, yet this guy was allowed to remain
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by ywain 3y ago
Very cool game! Are all seeds solvable?
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by ywain 4y ago
"Indefinite" in this context means that there is no set expiration date. It doesn't mean "perpetual" or "irrevocable".

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