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  • So this is pretty good.

    https://measuredcollective.com/is-google-forms-gdpr-compliant/

    It’s a list of things you need to do in order to make the use of Google forms gdpr compliant.

    One thing they don’t touch on is the use of personal accounts to collect data. People tend to use Google forms because it’s easy to set up using their personal account, but that essentially removes any company oversight from the collection and data processing. This makes it much harder to satisfy the data controller requirements.

    Of course if it’s an external contractor gathering the data and processing it independently, your company is likely to dismiss all this as not their problem.

    If it’s real academic research it will have had to go through ethics approval, and this should include data handling, and gdpr compliance.



  • Yeah, there’s two problems with this.

    1. Congress is non-functional and can’t act as a check on the executive branch or the courts. In the past they’ve passed fuck you laws where they initially passed a law saying X, the supreme court interpreted it to say Y and then they passed a clearer version of X. This hasn’t happened in a long time.
    2. The supreme court likes to reinterpret the constitution. This means if you want to correct the supreme courts interpretation you have to pass a constitutional amendment. Even if Congress functioned properly this would be difficult.

    The idea we’re talking about wouldn’t work anyway. The problem is, many of the state supreme court judges are also batshit.

    The only way round this is to copy other countries that have functional judicial systems and stop making judges either political appointments or directly elected. They need to be professionals selected on merit, and firable, or at least replaceable after a term, if they’re incompetent.




  • If the data is present but difficult to restore, it’s annoying. You might need to spend a few days fixing stuff.

    If the data is gone, it’s devastating and can bankrupt a company. On a personal level it’s the same as having all your photos destroyed in a fire. And backups not containing the right data are very common.





  • The main differentiator of fish over everything else is it prioritizes intuitive behavior over backwards compatibility.

    Zsh is to bash as c++ is to c. Most bash scripts and habits will work in zsh, but zsh is just more convenient and has more options. Fish is intentionally different.

    Do I wish fish had existed instead of bash so we had a nicer terminal experience? On the whole, yes. But I also couldn’t be bothered to learn another shell where most of the instructions online won’t be able to help you, and I ended up sticking with zsh.



  • No, you just use a standard technique like word2vec.

    Basically words are considered similar (and embedded to nearby locations in a high dimensional space) if they are likely to be used in the same context.

    And because slurs are used to indicate that you don’t like someone, they tend to occur in the same kind of context.

    So they’re all very similar. This is actual natural language processing being used, but it’s a shit post and the graphics aren’t very clear.





  • so I confuse the number of ounces in a pound quite often, amongst other things

    When do you need to use either of these?

    I know the number of pounds in a kilo so I can understand the Americans when they talk about weightlifting and how much people weigh. I don’t think I’ve ever used an ounce in my life.