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hackeraccount commented on Desktop Linux Keeps Winning the Wrong Battles howtogeek.com/desktop-lin... · Posted by u/the-mitr

TiredOfLife · 2 days ago

> no preinstalled .. crapware

Every distro except arch is full of preinstalled crapware. Some like OpenSuse even have preinstalled crapware bundles where stuff you uninstall comes back after update

hackeraccount · 2 days ago

Debian?

hackeraccount commented on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in nytimes.com/2025/08/26/te... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

hkpack · 3 days ago

That is exactly not what we have here.

LLM is a new phenomenon and the rules dealing with it will be different than with books or any other prior media.

hackeraccount · 2 days ago

LLM's are a nice UI to existing information.

They're like a card shark showing you how they can pull the red queen from out of your ear after making it vanish from the table.

When that happens you can enjoy the trick and wonder how it's done but your response shouldn't be that we need to ban magic. What's going on isn't magic. Banning "magic" might stop the card shark (if that's the goal) but it's fundamentally not understanding what's going on.

hackeraccount commented on A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in nytimes.com/2025/08/26/te... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

adzm · 3 days ago

However it then explicitly says things like not leaving the noose out for someone to find and stop him. Sounds like it did initially hesitate and he said it was for a character, but later conversations are obviously personal.

hackeraccount · 2 days ago

Obviously personal? As was mentioned up thread - if I'm talking to someone and I say "I'm writing a book about a person doing something heinous - I'm planning to have them do X - what do you think about that?"

How are they supposed to respond? They can say, "really? it sounds like you're talking about you personally doing X." And when I respond with, "No, no, don't misunderstand me, this is all fictional. All made up"

Honestly I wouldn't go to an LLM looking for personal advice but people do. I wouldn't go looking for advice on my attempt at the great American novel but people do that too.

If you want LLM's to be responsible for stuff like that then OpenAI or Google or whomever should be able to go look around after you've written that novel and get a piece of the action.

This is like giving credit or assigning blame to postgres for a database lookup. It's nice in theory but it doesn't seem like the proper place to go to.

hackeraccount commented on Omarchy Is Out world.hey.com/dhh/omarchy... · Posted by u/kristianp

wonger_ · 4 days ago

Happy niri user checking in. Hard to imagine going back to a non-scrolling wm. Niri also has a decent config and builtins like screenshotting too.

hackeraccount · 4 days ago

I recently switched to niri from sway. I do like it ... There's something nice and spatial about it that makes keeping track of what's where really easy.

hackeraccount commented on Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

seanmcdirmid · 15 days ago

California was undergoing non-partisan redistricting, which when they started, republicans actually picked up a seat or two. See https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card/

New York actually is less gerry mandered than CA, neither CA nor NY list any party getting more representation than their votes. Illinois, however, is just as gerrymandered as Texas.

States where Democrats have the strong advantage due to gerry mandering:

* Illinois

* Oregon

* Nevada

* New Mexico

NY and CA are both states where representation roughly corresponds to votes. Democrats also have less strong advantages in Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Mississippi (out of all places!). I'm guessing Alabama and Mississippi are just flukes.

States were Republicans have a strong advantage due to gerrymandering:

* Utah

* Kansas

* Texas

* Louisiana

* Wisconsin (??)

* Ohio

* Kentucky

* North Carolina

* South Carolina

* Georgia

* Florida

Arkansas and Oklahoma are moderately biased to Republican. Republicans have minor advantages in Maryland, New Hampshire, and Iowa.

Given that representation is roughly balanced in NY and CA right now, the Democrats could probably get a bunch of seats out of those two states if they decide to gerrymander.

hackeraccount · 15 days ago

Also I just looked at Maryland. I can't figure out just how many people voted for the GOP in the House but 35% voted for Trump - a reasonable proxy I think. The GOP for that gets 12.5% of the House representatives.

My larger point is that the GOP isn't without representation. Heck if the GOP had zero out of 8 seats and was getting 55% of the vote they wouldn't be without representation. They'd just be getting representation that wasn't proportionate. Even in that case I think they'd be getting more then you suspect - that degree of gerrymandering generally means that no one has a huge margin and even the most ideological politician will cast a glance backwards every now and then on a tough vote.

hackeraccount commented on Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

seanmcdirmid · 15 days ago

California was undergoing non-partisan redistricting, which when they started, republicans actually picked up a seat or two. See https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card/

New York actually is less gerry mandered than CA, neither CA nor NY list any party getting more representation than their votes. Illinois, however, is just as gerrymandered as Texas.

States where Democrats have the strong advantage due to gerry mandering:

* Illinois

* Oregon

* Nevada

* New Mexico

NY and CA are both states where representation roughly corresponds to votes. Democrats also have less strong advantages in Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Mississippi (out of all places!). I'm guessing Alabama and Mississippi are just flukes.

States were Republicans have a strong advantage due to gerrymandering:

* Utah

* Kansas

* Texas

* Louisiana

* Wisconsin (??)

* Ohio

* Kentucky

* North Carolina

* South Carolina

* Georgia

* Florida

Arkansas and Oklahoma are moderately biased to Republican. Republicans have minor advantages in Maryland, New Hampshire, and Iowa.

Given that representation is roughly balanced in NY and CA right now, the Democrats could probably get a bunch of seats out of those two states if they decide to gerrymander.

hackeraccount · 15 days ago

I've read that the GOP in California gets about 40% of the votes in House elections to net them 17% of the seats.

In NY I read it's 43% of the vote for 27% of the seats

Is that true?

hackeraccount commented on Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

hackeraccount · 15 days ago

By definition you can Gerrymander your party to power - unless the ruling party has a death wish. The Gerrymander is a tool of a majority party that keeps the majority in power.

It's not a magic bullet - it exchanges depth for width and in so doing it can expose risk of different types. I'm not saying it's right or fair, I think it's neither and wouldn't support it but it's politics.

The best solution to my mind is to increase the number of representatives. I've heard the counter-argument to that and it has some plausibility but I reject those arguments because I'm close minded.

hackeraccount commented on Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

drivingmenuts · 16 days ago

Yes, you can and the Republicans have done it in Texas. Democrats have effectively no representation here.

hackeraccount · 15 days ago

"effectively" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. In the same sense that the Democrats have not representation in the Senate, the House or the Presidency. I mean, it's true but it's not the whole truth.

Democrats in Texas are under-represented compared with their numbers. It's not fair or democratic but I wouldn't say they have no representation any more then Republicans in CA. or NY have no representation.

hackeraccount commented on Is economics education fit for the 21st century? rethinkeconomics.org/reso... · Posted by u/pramodbiligiri

throw0101d · 23 days ago

> People confuse personal finance and budgeting with economics in general and don't know how to correctly think about the difference between legal and economic incidence of taxes like tariffs on imports.

Or like treating the debt of a country in a similar fashion to household debt.

hackeraccount · 23 days ago

You get further thinking about the similarities between the debt of a country and that of a household then you do concentrating on the differences.

hackeraccount commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

HarHarVeryFunny · 24 days ago

You can tell if that regime reverses aging when you instead start wanting to eat chicken nuggets and mac & cheese.

hackeraccount · 24 days ago

Nice.