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fche··on C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question'
this fact may not in fact be a fact
fche··on Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community
"problematic"

bravo on the careful word choice, good luck on avoiding another libel suit

fche··on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
| what a reliable source says like Wikipedia

oh dear me

fche··on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
chatgpt outputting credible bs is EXCELLENT to the extent that it will push intelligent people into critical reading of everything around them - "[citation needed]" et al.

lazy people will just suck it up, "experts / AI said so!"

fche··on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
chatgpt also produces bullshit because openai has explicitly and deliberately lobotomized it against politically incorrect output
fche··on The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018)
that's not 'better'
fche··on The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018)
> Racial discrimination has been banned in California

someone should send a memo to remind countless california institutions who nevertheless persist

fche··on The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (2018)
tragedy
fche··on New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content
live streaming a terror attack does not "impact on the freedom of others"
fche··on New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content
censorship is fine, if it's of opinions i personally disapprove
fche··on Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce
praying for an appropriate opinion from the SCOTUS on the asians/harvard case
fche··on Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce
> And of course that white person had innumerable advantages their entire life

such as being overtly and illegally dispreferred for college admissions, scholarships, hiring, promotion, and preferred for being fired

such privilege much wow

fche··on Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce
yes, so very hilarious that a ceo muses about making firing decisions based on race

just so funny

ha ha ha ha

fche··on Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce
w t f
fche··on Peter Eckersley has died
any news about cause of death?
fche··on DALL-E Diversity Filter completely breaks certain prompts
It could have documented the "issues" and let the bot operate unlobotomized.
fche··on Cost of Attrition
If it's enshrined woke culture that's driving people away, mere $$$ won't fix it.
fche··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
"purpose"

this is the "inverse teleological fallacy", q.v.

fche··on AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service
Affero GPL FTW
fche··on I Am Deleting the Blog
... and yet newspapers are shutting down comment sections
fche··on The problem with third-party delivery platforms
ebay's main value is its escrow capability related to its dispute resolution
fche··on Troubleshooting Systemd with SystemTap
The debuginfo aspects of ubuntu/systemtap interop are much improved with debuginfo auto-downloading support in v0.178+ elfutils.

https://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html

fche··on Linux Foundation publicly announces ban of conference registrant on social media
congratulations on your successful cordyception
fche··on Open Letter to the Linux Foundation
> not once, in all the hotly debated discussions I had, I found anything of value in the person being censored.

This says much more about you than about those people. Shame on you.

fche··on World hunger not going down and obesity still growing – UN report
> poorer people aren't poor because of low IQ, if anything it's the opposite

What kind of data would you accept as falsifying this belief?

fche··on World hunger not going down and obesity still growing – UN report
"anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"

when everything is on topic, nothing is

fche··on World hunger not going down and obesity still growing – UN report
"exploiting" is a conspiracy theory
fche··on World hunger not going down and obesity still growing – UN report
Those observations are also consistent with "Inverting cause and effect", but not in your position's favour. So one should want to investigate the directions of causality etc., instead of assuming.
fche··on World hunger not going down and obesity still growing – UN report
news relevant to hackers ?
fche··on World hunger not going down and obesity still growing – UN report
That's a painfully conventional response to the inquiry. Aren't you interested in the data, if it exists?
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