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Although I fully understand why Iranians would protest, considering what happened to Syria and Libya, I would be very cautious.

I tried switching from VScode to Zed but unfortunately it doesn't have Jupyter notebooks and image/video preview which are deal brakers for me.

Other pain points:

- Format on save by default: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/29395

- VSCode Debugger UX seams to be much better

Laws don't exist in a vacuum, in practice governments decide how to implement and to enforce them or not.

Depending on the crime, most people would agree that face/gait recognition is warranted, for example in case of murder or rape.

The difference here is that some people consider "illegal immigration" to be more like a misdemeanor, others consider it to be something much more serious.

I'm very skeptical about such systems, although they note that:

> You can crop it, resample it, compress it, smooth out pixels, or add noise, and the effects of the poison will remain. You can take screenshots, or even photos of an image displayed on a monitor, and the shade effects remain

if this becomes prevalent enough, you can create a lightweight classifier to remove "poisonous" images, then use some kind of neural-network(probably an autoencoder) to "fix" them. Training such networks won't be too difficult as you can create as many positive-negative samples as you want by using this tool.

Thematically, many of them resemble the kind of WordArt we used to make as children in MS Word.

The GitHub project has more details: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c

Some ways C3 differs from C:

- No mandatory header files

- New semantic macro system

- Module-based namespacing

- Slices

- Operator overloading

- Compile-time reflection

- Enhanced compile-time execution

- Generics via generic modules

- "Result"-based zero-overhead error handling

- Defer

- Value methods

- Associated enum data

- No preprocessor

- Less undefined behavior, with added runtime checks in "safe" mode

- Limited operator overloading (to enable userland dynamic arrays)

- Optional pre- and post-conditions

The problem is that it is really difficult to define what hate speech is, and more often than not it's used as a cudgel to silence the opposition.

For Iran and Russia, it is what Khamenei and Putin don't want to hear,

in the UK it's what Starmer doesn't want to hear.

Considering the staggering number of arrest for online/offensive communications in England & Wales, we should add Britain to the list of Russia and Iran

2017: ~5,500 arrests

2019: ~7,734 arrests

2023: ~12,183 arrests

typst is so much nicer than latex, although unfortunately a lot of universities/publishers still accept only latex.

I think this is reading using System 2 instead of System 1. And as System 2 is much more detail oriented, it makes sense that you would notice a lot more.

> Also did you notice that the numbers in your quote don’t even agree? In parentheses the numbers are out of 41, not 336.

I agree that it's at least sloppy.

> The final results were from a survey, not a study where they trialed Super Mario games on students and followed their progress.

afaik a study can consist of one single survey

> This is not a serious paper.

Maybe, maybe not, my only point was about the sample size which was surprising if you read only the top part.

If someone was wondering if this is statistically significant after reading the first line in the method and seeing 41 interviews, then the answer is probably yes, as the final results are based on a study with 336 full-time university students.

> The final sample consisted of 336 full-time university students (women: 19/41, 46.3%; men: 21/41, 51.2%; prefer not to disclose sex: 1/41, 2.4%; mean age 22.51, SD 1.52)."

Easy fix: add a gajilion tracking scripts

Went into expecting some crazy conspiracy... But found a surprisingly convincing and well researched story.

Although in principle I agree with the sentiment, sometimes for difficult illnesses we need to accept the side effects of the cure.

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own,” Bruce Lee

Mozilla CEO compensations

2018: $2,458,350

2020: Over $3 million

2021: $5,591,406.

2022: $6,903,089.

2023: ~$7m

Mozilla declined to detail the CEO's salaries for 2024+

Mozilla needs some of that Brave and Opera energy. They have their issues too, but at least they try not to be just a worse chrome.

Or it's just BBC doing BBC stuff.

A simple way to solve this would be to have some kind of gov certification process.

Which could also include a QR code going to a gov website with details why this org was given the certification.

This isn't perfect but would certainly lower such incidents.

Most movies and games about WW II, do depict killing German soldiers as justified, even in horrendous ways.

The data makes a lot of sense if you consider trust to be

trust=AI_proficency/Local_professional_proficency

ad hominem -> ok

snarky comments -> not ok

got it, ever thought about going into politics?

You can't preserve some cultures and at the same time advocate for western style man/woman relationships. For example, although I have a lot of sympathy for women in Islamic countries who are we to tell them how to live.

As someone who wrote two paragraphs about why they dislike my comment, I don't think you see the irony here. Also speaking about enjoying Christmas then doing an ad hominem in the next sentence, very nice mental gymnastics.

next year: How we managed to cut spending by 1.4 million by removing underutilized tools

then repeat ad infinitum