Affric

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by Affric 3y ago
Right, aside from friction for users, spammers will attempt to find ways around any system you implement. They are malicious actors. I don't think protecting a system against malicious actors is trivial.
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by Affric 3y ago
You say that but the financial barrier to entry for using Facetime and iMessage mean I have not once received spam. That's a real feature in the modern day. Apple are by no means perfect but over pretty much every other service (shout
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by Affric 3y ago
No, thank you. You got me interested enough to practice my Greek and look it up.
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by Affric 3y ago
Athlon was amazing.
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by Affric 3y ago
It got extended due to the war in Ukraine
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by Affric 3y ago
AI will be defeated with sarcasm.
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by Affric 3y ago
The crazy thing about Twitter is how ugly the rebrand is. I have seen bad rebrands in my life: Far too fashionable. Totally unnecessary. Reactionary. But I have never seen a company go from good branding like Twitter had (easy on the eyes)
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by Affric 3y ago
chatGPT it’s a terrible (truly, it’s punishing) writer but that should not always be the case.
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by Affric 3y ago
I like Phil but around the table this morning with a few working/publishing scientists they all disagreed with his assertion that this paper has done more harm than good. Consensus was that this would lead to more people interested in
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by Affric 3y ago
No, can you see? It would be far better for the copyright system to exist wholly designed for profit and us fighting to destroy it rather than one part of the system being designed to benefit a children’s hospital and us still fighting to d
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by Affric 3y ago
My understanding is that deaf people far prefer signing. For deaf people it’s easier to both sign and to read signs than writing. Language emerged from gesture and it’s these people’s native form of communication.
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by Affric 3y ago
Regardless it’s touching that it made you think of Bram
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by Affric 3y ago
Ah good thing we dodged the psy-op where they were trying to convince us that Manhattan was out of the reach of the little guy.
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by Affric 3y ago
I haven't seen it applied out of the context in which Doctorow has used it... but I have only seen it on Hacker News.
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by Affric 3y ago
If one was designing a European aircraft manufacturer from the ground up one would not choose the Airbus model… but that’s not what happened. They were all going to require state subsidy, presumably the total subsidy is less than if each st
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by Affric 3y ago
This is a bad faith comment. The new territories had a 99 year lease and in 1997 had more than 2 million Hong Kongers living there. About a third of the population.
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by Affric 3y ago
Doctorow actually defines it pretty wonderfully. It doesn’t just mean “bad”. It’s a name for the process that happens to VC funded businesses.
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by Affric 3y ago
> The concern I have revolves more around the US work culture. Employees tend to switch company frequently. It’s not just cultural and it’s hinted at in the second part of your comment. Lack of regulation in employment means you’re penal
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by Affric 3y ago
Mike, thanks for homebrew and thanks for being so active in this thread. Homebrew is a great project and has been an incredible help for me.
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by Affric 3y ago
You can get 32MB L2 cache on an Intel i9 13000k and maximum size of a compiled Linux Kernel appears to be around 8MB. I am not going to pretend I have any idea because I have just googled these numbers but it seems to me that an amount of c
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by Affric 3y ago
Sure, but often the costs of high prices of inelastic goods are externalised. People excluded from housing, banking, energy, education, and health markets necessarily turn to various anti social activities which create costs for society… an
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by Affric 3y ago
Even further Apple's commitment to TSMC allows the financial certainty which permits the kinds of capital expenditure that TSMC makes to their bleeding edge nodes. Apple are not altruistic but their actions are a big part of enabling t
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by Affric 3y ago
Even if I use neovim (some great plugins) there are better modals out there now (helix is cool but I hate some of the differences from Vim) Vim is the editor. Vim is how I type. Vim is how I code. Vim is how I think. Made a donation to ICCF
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by Affric 3y ago
This is highly cursed. Hardware manufacturers of the 90s have a lot to answer for with regards to binary prefix units.
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by Affric 3y ago
Austrália has the largest rooftop solar installation in the world and our fixed feed in prices are 100% a subsidy. We have the ability to price energy in half hour intervals for almost every installation in some parts of the country and are
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by Affric 3y ago
There are opportunity costs to decreasing production. There are points where you are achieving economies of scale for your suppliers that allow you to negotiate lower prices. Scalpers could be seen as a perverse source of marketing. I am no
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by Affric 3y ago
Reading this paper they’re pretty restrained. They got zero resistance but didn’t get everything they were looking for. This material is fascinating and I love the interest and good debate it’s generating. Sometimes it feels like we missed
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by Affric 3y ago
On reflection I think I have read too much into this one small quote inside the article.
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s easy to say “I was a three year old and did not deserve this” but this is what happens in a total war, 3 year olds are rarely the primary targets of bombing but when the scale of conflict is so great their moral weigh becomes a roundin
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by Affric 3y ago
Well said. Shame is making a comeback in a big way with restorative justice. Hopefully enough of us get there so we can see meaningful change.

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