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by 1attice 2y ago
American take: - UK sociopolitical problems caused by lack of guns - Canada sociopolitical problems caused by lack of guns - German sociopolitical problems caused by lack of guns I think I can complete the rest of the thinkpiece on my own
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by 1attice 2y ago
It looks like it's pulling from the MDN docs for the dataset (the grid and language are identical.) In this case, it's not going to be up to date, because MDN has fallen behind. For example, MDN still lists container style queries
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by 1attice 2y ago
context [also from HN]: https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west... "I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked"
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by 1attice 2y ago
A pity, because they had some genuinely amazing vehicles that ran forever on basically no fuel. They've really fallen down a deep well -- behind on EV migration, ahead on telemetry collection. Enshittification, I think. Hopefully they&
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by 1attice 2y ago
Business idea: independent auto shop that specializes in knocking out telemetry
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by 1attice 2y ago
Interesting -- we appear to have crossfaded; I started with markdown/neovim, moved to Obsidian for card layout (that canvas feature is fire!), and TBH I still use Obisidian in lots of ways, especially for longer bits of writing. But de
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by 1attice 2y ago
First, I'm going to ignore various digital solutions to this problem, because if your ADHD is like mine, you will find yourself unable to take notes on a device that is _also_ your entertainment center, and _also_ your minder, and _als
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by 1attice 2y ago
Commonwealth countries in general (I'm in Canada) had a convenient pathway into Europe by way of EU-era UK. I've lived in several countries at this point, and no, it's not just an administrative task of completing paperwork.
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by 1attice 2y ago
Because you can't boil a frog by starting at 100°C. You introduce the surveillance as a way of mitigating extreme, rare occurrences, like terrorism. You gradually make it common to use when solving major crimes, like murders. Only then
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by 1attice 2y ago
I see a lot of comments on whether this is motivated by geopolitics -- an attempt to deal a setback to China. I have no way of knowing whether this is the case, but in general, I would suggest that this is at least plausible, and, if I am r
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by 1attice 3y ago
This assumes that it's a two-way door. Over the past century and a half, we've moved into vast, anonymous spaces, where I'm as likely to know and get along with my neighbour as I am to win the lottery. And this is important
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by 1attice 3y ago
Said it downthread, but saying it again because it bears repeating: This is a product whose major contributors live in a state prone to very persuasive forms of coercion . Worse, this is a _build system_. Moreover, it's one of the mos
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by 1attice 3y ago
Yes, imagine if we had said the same about Nginx. Now let's imagine now that we're saying those things in 2024, during the first major land war in Europe since WWII, in a context where state actors, if they are not already Jianing
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by 1attice 3y ago
The main problem with AI-gen solutions is validating the solutions. Across all industries, the most automatable jobs are the ones where the correctness of the AI's solution are most easily validated, and the situation is especially a
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by 1attice 3y ago
Why, to you, is that inexcusable? This sounds like market-worship to me. Markets are a useful tool. But like LLMs they can make mistakes. Also, why not put those brilliant young minds to work here instead, rather than give their best years
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by 1attice 3y ago
That's the crux of the problem. 1. You have a country that is, broadly speaking, industrially oriented towards selling raw goods (wood, metals) to other countries, from whom you buy back finished products. It might not technically be m
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by 1attice 3y ago
citation needed.
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by 1attice 3y ago
because koreader on a Remarkable 2 is really good, actually, and is probably not feeding my reading list into a marketing profile which may be purchased or subpoenaed at any time by an increasingly dystopian police state? Whereas a Kindle S
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by 1attice 3y ago
yes, true, but also offtopic? Why are you bringing this up? This feels like 'anchoring' to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect
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by 1attice 3y ago
> Just adding variety reduces the chance of having all the important repos up at the same time. this, sadly, is correct, and the solution you propose is also correct. The only other option would be for the NixOS Foundation to mirror the
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by 1attice 3y ago
True, but irrelevant -- _some packages_, _somewhere_, do depend on xz, which, if built, requires pulling the source from GitHub (see the default.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable&#x2F
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by 1attice 3y ago
Less puckishly: in general, as a movement/culture/economic ferment, we probably should have been more hesitant to introduce a de-facto single-point-of-failure into, like, all the things. I mean, nothing _mandates_ that NixOS packa
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by 1attice 3y ago
Well, there goes `nixos-unstable`
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by 1attice 3y ago
Sometimes things evolve in ways that make us feel a little obsolete. I've been learning NixOS for a few years now, and it would have been impossible without systemd. It's one heck of a learning curve, but when you get to the other
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by 1attice 3y ago
pity
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by 1attice 3y ago
Does literally no one in the US federal government use online dating/hookup services? how is this called PIV. Like, the giggling alone would disqualify me from most jobs
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by 1attice 3y ago
Two things are true at once: 1. Apple products work very well with one another 2. Apple products don't work very well (or at all) with non-Apple products I would propose that these are both necessary entailments of the same principle,
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by 1attice 3y ago
Why is 'AMA' capitalized in this headline? 'Ask Me Anything' divers? like
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by 1attice 3y ago
Done. Thank you for the headsup
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by 1attice 3y ago
Why this shix, over and over? Because modern humans are _lonely_. We yearn to see a reflection in the past that we recognize. But the past and its people are strange to us, missing obvious things, obsessing over trivia. Our ancestors have b

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