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New comment by nsvd in "Anxious Generation – How Safetyism and Social Media Are Damaging the Kids"

nsvd — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 17:43:29 +0000

I think you may have read the parent's statistics backwards. Their point (correct or incorrect) was that younger academics are more accepting of the suppression of speech.

New comment by nsvd in "A dev's thoughts on developer productivity (2022)"

nsvd — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:22:12 +0000

Realistically, whoever manages you will take credit for the additional productivity and leverage it to get more money for themselves.

New comment by nsvd in "Ask HN: Which Manual Work to Pivot To?"

nsvd — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:35:41 +0000

I work as a land surveyor. I'm outdoors every day, often in the woods. The pay is decent and the work is rewarding.

New comment by nsvd in "Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy"

nsvd — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:17:23 +0000

This is exactly how language works; words are adopted across domains and change meaning over time.

New comment by nsvd in "Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta"

nsvd — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:28:08 +0000

A female deer is called a doe.

New comment by nsvd in "DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate"

nsvd — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:32:27 +0000

Yes, if only there was some kind of democratic process in this country, where citizens could influence the laws that are passed...

New comment by nsvd in "McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test"

nsvd — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:14:01 +0000

Interesting, almost all drive-throughs here have an awning.

New comment by nsvd in "Rust is not about memory safety"

nsvd — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:15:53 +0000

I find it quite nice. Everyone has their own tastes I suppose.

New comment by nsvd in "Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees"

nsvd — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 18:57:54 +0000

My only complaint with self-hosting matrix is that the canonical python implementation is quite resource-heavy. I was unable to run it on a cheap VPS. I hope that the ecosystem will improve in the future.

New comment by nsvd in "Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)"

nsvd — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:31:19 +0000

And similarly, some people are always hungry for an opportunity to villanize OpenAI. This kind of polarized, black-and-white thinking is not productive.

New comment by nsvd in "Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years"

nsvd — Wed, 22 May 2024 16:29:36 +0000

A few points:

- Arch Linux isn't some fringe operating system full of zealots, it's one of the most popular Linux distribution (it was the most commonly used Linux distribution in the Steam hardware survey in April 2024, beating out Ubuntu). I think many people like it precisely because it takes an opinionated stance on issues such as these.

- You characterize people who ask for these features (for example in bug tracker) as "bullying" maintainers - the fact that such requests are common should show you how widespread support is for these ideas. It seems odd to procure feedback about what users want and then say, "well, that's not what they really want, it must just be a vocal minority".

- Directories like /use/local and /opt are not vestigial, they serve specific purposes. I don't think it's fair to call them a "holdover". For example, without /usr/local, how do you separate software compiled and installed by the user vs. from a package manager?

- I agree completely that containerization of apps is the future.

New comment by nsvd in "Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years"

nsvd — Wed, 22 May 2024 16:11:39 +0000

App sandboxing is indeed the way of the future, and being worked on by e.g. flatpak.

New comment by nsvd in "What We're Working on in Firefox"

nsvd — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:44:03 +0000

You should be able to change this in about:config no?

I use Ctrl-s often to save images.

New comment by nsvd in "New gel breaks down alcohol in the body"

nsvd — Wed, 15 May 2024 19:04:57 +0000

Common rule of thumb I've always heard is one (8oz) glass of water per beer drank. It works well for me although I never have more than 3-4 anyways.

New comment by nsvd in "Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cracking the egg market"

nsvd — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:55:40 +0000

This isn't unique to keeping backyard chickens, it's an ethical issue with factory farming as well.

New comment by nsvd in "Bridges in the US are threaten by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars"

nsvd — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:40:43 +0000

Yes, but GPS is a colloquial synonym for GNSS systems such as these :)

New comment by nsvd in "Chinese social media accounts are stoking political chaos ahead of 2024 election"

nsvd — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:40:09 +0000

It seems China isn't worried about this anti-chinese policy. Quite scary.

New comment by nsvd in "How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)"

nsvd — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:11:26 +0000

Yes, the grandparent comment you're replying to also called them garbage disposal.

New comment by nsvd in "U.S. students will take the SAT online"

nsvd — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:52:07 +0000

Of course, in the real world, people are more likely to use desmos than a TI-84; the test conditions matching reality is a good improvement.

New comment by nsvd in "Starving to Death on a Full Stomach"

nsvd — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 16:18:43 +0000

Well, a system is just a collection of individuals.