Ajedi32

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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Yeah this is basically my take as well. The problem with not having eminent domain is that without it, for any project of sufficient size you'll end up with ~100+ land owners who each individually have veto power over the entire pr
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Devs can pretty easily implement this on their site using the BeforeInstallPromptEvent.prompt method. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web... Though of course... > This is not suppo
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
It's not that hard to install. The website can just have a button you click to trigger an install prompt: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web... But of course... > This is not
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
> Rights are not inherent properties of facts, they're concessions between people. We're getting pretty deep into philosophical territory now, but I disagree. Human rights, to the extent they exist at all, are necessarily inher
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Unrestrained democracy, yes. Tyranny. People need to understand that having a majority opinion does not inherently give you the right to impose that opinion on everyone else. Such impositions must be done with extreme hesitancy and restrain
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
It worked great for the last several hundred years. The problem is that as government keeps expanding to control more and more of our lives, every decision it makes it necessarily imposes on everyone, whether they agree with that decision o
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
> I can also vote out my government. You can't. Not if you're in the minority. Tyranny of the majority is still tyranny. You what you as an individual most certainly can do is stop using Roblox. Not ideal, but way easier th
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
I've seen cases where it was done well, but unless you're willing to invest great engineering effort into making sure it's done well, the built-in version (which already has had a lot of engineering effort put into it) is
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by Ajedi32 3mo ago
Yes, for every time a bug like this is discovered and reported, there are probably hundreds of times when someone else just gave up or found a work around after much frustration. I'm frequently astonished by how terrible and buggy mode
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
Usually in OSM there are several different ways to map things, to varying levels of detail. (E.g. As you discovered, you can just tag a road as having sidewalks, or trace out the actual sidewalks themselves.) Generally, as long as the infor
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
Sort of. It was added in 2023. ( https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/pull/5373 )
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
Yeah a lot of these features exist, they're just very fragmented, which given that the OSM community is already pretty small makes it almost impossible for them to reach the critical mass necessary to actually be useful. You can go loo
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
Usually if I need to add a footpath I use the "Create new track recording" feature to trace out the path with GPS, then come back to it later on desktop. Adding paths is pretty awkward to do on mobile, especially since there'
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
StreetComplete lets you place trash cans and benches too (among other things) using the "Things" overlay. IMO Every Door has a much more complicated UI, though it's also more of a full featured editor than StreetComplete. (Th
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
> there continued to be people who decided what got built The distinguishing feature of capitalism is that the people who decide what gets built are private individuals in competition with each other, and incentivised by profit to meet t
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
I'd quibble with that. Capitalism is a choice, market dynamics are not. E.g. The Soviet Union successfully outlawed capitalism, and in response market dynamics made their country collapse.
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
Okay, if that's what you meant then I don't think it's pertinent to this specific situation, since false advertising laws passed by the legislature already exist. They just need to be enforced. Speaking more generally beyond
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
What exactly is the problem with the IETF publishing a standard that's theoretically weaker than another standard? They're not forcing anyone to use it, right?
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
> The overturning of the Chevron doctrine removed the ability of the government to do many kinds of proactive enforcement. How does stopping agencies from making up their own interpretation of laws do anything to prevent proactive enforc
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
Wouldn't that fall under existing false advertising laws, if you're putting fake/altered images in the listing?
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
I think it's unreasonable to post anything on a public forum and then expect to be able to control who reads it and for what purpose.
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
The vast, vast, majority of AI training data is not books. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more text on HN alone than every book in the history of mankind (most of which are also no longer copyrighted).
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
No, public data is not generally written by "experts expecting compensation". By the way, I don't expect you to pay me for this comment. You can just read it for free. You're welcome.
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
So now I have to get permission from the government to browse the web? And they can revoke that permission at any time? And we need a great firewall to block citizens from communicating with foreign websites that don't comply with this
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
The same system that blocks kids from downloading the Pornhub app would also block them from downloading the "Chrome but without parental controls" app.
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
There are a lot of things to like about the web as an application platform. The security model is a big one for me. There aren't many other application platforms out there where you can just download random apps off the internet and ru
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
I think the intended use case is for things like "give my music player access to my music library" or "open a project directory in this IDE", which wouldn't work well if every app were confined to its own directory.
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
All of them, unless they're also on the list of examples to exclude (like the Downloads folder). I think the point is that as long as the user is sharing things on purpose and not by accident, it should be allowed. Selecting the root o
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
Yes, I think this modern trend towards storing user data in app/website-specific databases instead of in files has been bad for consumer freedom. Files are naturally portable and provide a interface for inter-operating with competing s
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by Ajedi32 4mo ago
> I don't keep my secrets in system directories Root of the home directory is also excluded. But obviously yeah, nothing's going to prevent you from giving a website access to your .ssh directory if you explicitly select it. Pe

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