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It frequently works the best "out of the box". It typically has the newest stuff. Googleability isn't quite as good as Ubuntu, but it's rare that I find answers that just fundamentally don't apply to Fedora.

I've beeen running a home server on Fedora, and in-place-upgrading since like version 28, and never has the OS been my problem.

I recently swapped my daily driver to Fedora from Windows. My biggest complaint is nvidia's drivers, but that's not unique to Fedora.

People forget, but early reddit was pretty racist.

For every lovely flash animation on sites like albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, etc, there were dozens of deliberately-shocking animations with gratuitous violence, ___ism and nudity.

My take is that this is that these dark sides have a silver lining that everyone, even kids, intuitively recognize: if a site is full of content mainstream corporations wouldn't want to be associated with, the content you're getting is almost certainly not the product of mainstream corporations. What you're consuming there is someone's passion, and the barrier to your passion appearing on someone else's screen is as low as possible.

It is for this reason everyone waxes poetic each time a site like this shuts down: this was a site by regular people, for regular people. Its flaws are our flaws, and so we believe that its beauty is ours too.

Saying that the cost of giving persecuted minorities an out is "then we might not be able to persecute the minorities that I've decided actually deserve it" just feels fundamentally unconvincing.

You categorize this as contributing to segregation, but I say that it contributes to diversity. Public school is a hugely homogenizing force and the homogeneity it targets is not necessarily good. I think it is good for society to have a set of people who were raised in an environment with fundamentally different experiences and priorities.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/parenting-translator... https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/

This article makes a case that the statistics of small sample sizes has bamboozled many different well-intentioned groups, including the small school movement.

The argument is that the fact that many of the best schools are small is an artifact of statistics (de Moivre's equation) rather than evidence small schools are superior.

I think it does a pretty good job of identifying if you're fighting your tech/language or doing things the "intended" idiomatic way. The difference is usually at least an order of magnitude in LOC.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/higher-rates-of-f...

He explained that he eventually went blind in one eye because he had miscalculated the dose of something in his pill and eventually OD'd on it.

My reaction to the story was: "This is fantastic. More people should be doing this." (Obviously not the going blind part.)

What I do want is for it to be more widely recognized that we have in fact reached a point where it is possible for people to make their own blood tests, identify promising treatments in the scientific literature, and make their own medicine. I can't help but think that if that guy had been sharing his treatment with a like-minded community, someone else may have caught his dosing error.

It would not surprise me at all if the makers of things like Ensure are scared of weight loss drugs and are trying to find a way to stay relevant.

1. I scheduled a colonoscopy with a hospital. They charged me $300 for the procedure, which I paid up front. Everything went smoothly and there were no delays, complications, or followups. A week later they sent me a bill for over $1k. They had not applied my $300 payment towards the total. They had not waited for insurance to reimburse them. They simply decided they could arbitrarily charge me more, and they did. Fortunately, my wife is somewhat familiar with medical billing and we did not pay. Insurance reimbursed them, then we called them and told them to apply the $300 we had already paid, at which point we owed nothing. If we had paid the $1k+ bill, I am sure we would not have been reimbursed.

2. I went to a clinic for a minor sports injury. They charged me a $60 consultation fee which I paid up front; I then spoke to the doctor for 15 minutes and got a prescription. A week later, I got a bill demanding an additional $180, and in that bill they claimed they had already been paid by my insurance. I checked with my insurance provider and found they had not even filed the claim yet. I ignored the bill, insurance reimbursed them, and they have not contacted me since.

Your characterization is ignorant of how scummy medical billing actually is.

Consciousness is just a log file. It's our mind's representation of itself. Suppose we decide to eat something because we're hungry. What actually happens is a vast array of calculations in our meat computer considering many inputs and possibilities. However, once the "eat" action is selected, it summarizes all the calculations into "I was hungry so I decided to eat" and feeds it back into the meat computer as input for the next round of calculation.

Therefore, the only "proof" we have of no consciousness in the current LLM zoo is that they're all once-through.

And since that question has been answered in the negative, I'm inclined to agree.

The economy grows by either converting more atoms, or changing the value of the in/output.

Obviously "sustaining more people" requires proportionally more atoms, so exponentially growing population implies exponential economic growth.

What happens in the constant population assumption is an open question.

It could be that our rate of atom conversion also becomes constant/decline. We might become more efficient and grow the economy by increasing the value of the atoms we convert. The economy might cease growing altogether because we reach a technological plateau and need satiety.

But it's also possible that we'll decouple demand from the capitas, and find whole new ways and reasons to increase atom conversion.

That plus named tuples and a little discipline gets me 80+% of the benefits of pure functional.

The biggest thing to me wasn't in your list: lack of tail call optimization means you have to be a bit careful about where you use recursion.

I personally think long anonymous functions are an anti-pattern, naming your functionality is great for readability. I learned this from Wolfram language which makes heavy use of anonymous functions, I would often find myself returning from lunch to find my code which was perfectly clear that morning had become unintelligible. Today I try to limit anonymous functions to re-ordering arguments or "picking" functions that pull simple values out of more complicated data structures.

See, for example, this article from this global-warming-denialist source:

https://cei.org/opeds_articles/its-the-sun-stupid/

Other users confirmed Google could not identify any other use of that phrase.

People saying GPT4 is unoriginal have an uphill battle, it is not the default assumption of anyone who has worked with it.

twitch.tv/sirlarr

https://www.dolthub.com/

One use case I've not heard anyone talk about is modeling/optimization. In my previous role we were managing a bunch of data that all fit nicely in databases (e.g. market prices, timeseries data from facilities, optimization model structure) but had no good tools to summarize "what changed from last week" when the optimization models would spit out something unusual.