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katdork
·mês passado·discuss
the clones are the foundation of many slimevr smol trackers, so it does things other than just keyboards too!
katdork
·há 3 meses·discuss
The better/real reason for not allowing calculators in certain classes is because doing these things mentally promotes healthy cognitive development. The same way that handwriting for taking notes provides better recall than writing the same thing with a keyboard.

No matter where the argument is going, turning everything into competition instead of ensuring a good environment for proper and healthy cognitive development is a bad thing.

The alternative is having a society full of hollowed out people, who understand nothing. It is no different with university, it is just a shame that so many of the students who take courses are deeply uninterested in the actual learning that they should be paying money there to attain, instead of some weird grotesque attempt at taking money from people without providing any service in return. (I would be as equally critical of faculty and courses today, as I would of students who do not care.)
katdork
·há 3 meses·discuss
I have no clue why you were getting voted down, but I agree. AI generated music isn't art. There's no soul in that, no experience.
katdork
·há 4 meses·discuss
It's actually more like the past 10 years? (Certainly was when I was in university back 8 years ago) Maybe longer.

But, I like to reference https://marktarver.com/professor.html on the state of education in the UK.
katdork
·há 4 meses·discuss
Thank you for licensing your project. I appreciate your commitment to open source. More developers and people should be like you.
katdork
·há 4 meses·discuss
I'm saying that words have meaning and that meaning should ideally not diluted. But, considering the developer licensed their project as MIT, I'm very happy.
katdork
·há 4 meses·discuss
It isn't open source, it's source available. You have not licensed your source code, it is thus under copyright.

Please read the open source definition; https://opensource.org/osd.

There are other phrases that are usable, such as source first (in the case of FUTO licenses) or source available (when source is under copyright but is provided).

The engine, being actually MIT, is however open source.
katdork
·há 4 meses·discuss
as a trans woman, the clotting risk of estrogen proportional to levels is always cited to me by medical professionals when speaking about hrt, the risks, ...

i've always found it kind of weird, like being told taking estrogen will cause "increased chance of breast cancer"; yeah, if you grow breasts, you will have more breast cells, more cell division, more chance for errors, no? but that's (at least partially) why i'm doing the whole thing to begin with...? :p

and then they skimp on the doses...

if this were statistically significant to such a degree that it truly mattered, women would not live longer than men on average. i feel like people get lost in the sheer stats of it
katdork
·há 4 meses·discuss
and this is why i, personally, use searxng these days instead of google or duckduckgo
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
atom feed is no longer malformed, appears compliant. added summaries to each post
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
I don't really feel like I've lost any functionality, personally?

If I weren't using binary blobs in the firmware, I think I would have more trouble, but that is Canoeboot to my knowledge, not Libreboot. ^^
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
I am a trans woman, yes :o

(the user who posted my blog post is not me :p)
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
because the x280 and x270 are similar enough I didn't need to try very hard to get it to post or boot a live USB to further investigate (effectively acting as a decent template for me to work off of)

The console viewing itself was provided by `cbmem -1`, which I could run via a NixOS live USB with nixpkgs#coreboot-utils
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
sorry, I'll look into it
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
Hi! As the author, no! I take a hard line stance against AI use myself. It's just not for me.
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
Outing yourself as not having read the article; an image within and the text clearly shows that Grok provided both her stage name AND her legal name.
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
It's deeply insecure in most of the ways it is used.
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
The word "auth keys" meant nothing to you, I guess: https://tailscale.com/kb/1085/auth-keys
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
I would probably argue the opposite, given that Y Combinator is a venture capital firm. This would be more true for Lobsters than here.

(Edit: to go further, it's like... ok, if HN is far-left, what does that make Bluesky? What does that make the Fediverse? It feels almost reductive to compress the range of HN onwards down to "far-left".)
katdork
·há 5 meses·discuss
This misses the point of how "deportation", snatching of those from communities and decision-making for whom is illegal is actually occurring, and how people are being snatched with disregard to their actual state as a citizen, resident or otherwise of the United States of America.

When facial recognition is said to outrank any other proof, such as a birth certificate, one cannot claim to be operating in good faith when one allows for fallible systems to decide the lives of American citizenry, encourages false imprisonment and allows for violence to be recklessly committed against people who were guilty of no crime at all.

(also, the United States and Canada are alike in their statuses as countries formed of immigrants; we close the door now simply because we feel those coming today are ineducated or don't fit our racial preferences? No different than was done to Chinese people say a hundred years prior.)