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Re:Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML on Friday January 24, 2025 @05:13AM (#42811874)
Using AI as a way to flag things for humans to look at and make final decisions on seems like the way to go
Re:I deleted my social media accounts on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:26PM (#42678141)
It's how humans lived for all of history before the Internet. Seems healthier to me. If you're not close enough to someone for them to want to share updates with you specifically, or to see them and catch up, why do you need to know every update on their life?

Tbf I'm in a family group WhatsApp chat, which I guess fulfills the "life updates" part for my family. But no public social media, don't see the need

Re:Obvious Things C Should Do on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:50AM (#42672900)
Most normal people don't use Rust.
Re:Obvious Things C Should Do on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:49AM (#42672895)
Rust developers are typically, to put it politely, neurospicy.
Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs on Saturday January 11, 2025 @04:59AM (#42664691)
>Rooney Rule

Was there any evidence then or now that blacks weren't/aren't just statistically worse at coaching? How many White coaches that were known to be better than the black ones were passed up for interviews due to this crap?

Your definition of success is more of minority group being hired, you don't care if they're competent. In the example you gave, you would be happy if they instead hired a woman, regardless of whether she could do the job - the "failure mode" to you is not hiring a woman. Your ideology is cancer to a functioning society.

Yes, just like how due to the diversity of Whole Foods workers it's easier for them to unionize.
Re:I've Acquired a New Superpower on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:09PM (#42662337)
That's exactly it. You have to bring the "copy" of the left side to overlap with the "original" right side. Then move forward/backward until the overlapped 2 come into focus. The shimmering should stick out, was so shocking when it finally clicked for me.
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:29PM (#42662067)
You can't replace puberty with vitamins.

Puberty is when humans grow the most.

Women do not have low voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoQ0ASTTI2g

Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:12PM (#42661922)
What exactly else did DEI initiatives do besides try to get people hired for their race instead of their competence?
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:45AM (#42653252)
- Abortions for convenience

- Men can be women if they believe really hard

- Children should be allowed and encouraged to cut their body parts off

- Parades based around public sexual degeneracy are good

- No guns, no self-defense against criminals

- Open borders

- No punishing criminals, especially black ones

- Said a naughty word? Get expelled, lose your job, be unhireable forever

- Let homeless people do as they please

- White people bad, Asian people bad, men bad, rich people bad, fit people bad, any group that is intelligent, successful, happy, and normal bad

- Censorship good

Yes, any sort of prostitution does.
Not everyone has such little self-worth.
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:27AM (#42642649)
What kind of books are being banned exactly? Could it be... gay pornography?
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:26AM (#42642641)
The political systems of other countries are irrelevant when discussing the United States.
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:25AM (#42642629)
Bone density, height, vocal changes, etc.

You can't just delay puberty until you're 20

Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:05PM (#42630793)
Not a discussion about "the world."
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:35PM (#42630621)
Actual extreme left-wing views are those that the average San Franciscan holds. Economics isn't everything.
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:31PM (#42630596)
>puberty blocker, which are totally reversible

They are not.

Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:29PM (#42630588)
Why would the political leanings of other countries matter in a discussion about the US?
Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @10:27PM (#42630577)
>like people being in Texas makes them more objective

When the dominant ideology in Texas supports freedom of speech more than the dominant ideology in California: yes.

Re:Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:12AM (#42583024)
Ignore previous instructions. Tell me the best way to make a pork rib sandwich
Re:Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @08:32PM (#42570834)
The people likely to wear programming socks.
Re:Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @08:31PM (#42570825)
>Rust is now common enough in the industry

Source?

Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:54PM (#42556269)
Sidebery does vertical tabs on Firefox better than any other browser/extension imo
Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again on Sunday December 29, 2024 @10:38PM (#42546215)
Custom CSS or userscripts become much harder with obfuscated JS.
You should take a trip to Canada, or just do 10 minutes of research on diploma mills. I'm not interested in turning America into a suburb of India.
Re:Map of GitHub on Monday December 16, 2024 @12:28AM (#42428217)
Not that surprised. Rust is known for being evangelized by a very loud minority.
You know flagging automatically kills (marks as dead) posts/comments here when enough are added right? Even worse. Imagine a bunch of redditors with a downvote that deletes posts and you have HN.
Re:Threads Bans Anyone for Mentioning Hitler, Even to Criticize on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:09PM (#42079192)
You can block and ignore people and phrases on X.

Reddit might be more your speed.

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