Ajedi32

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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Median purchasing power has increased by 12% since 1979 (data doesn't go back to 1975) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Okay nevermind, I just checked and none of my git repos are being backed up; just the working copy. That's pretty awful.
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
I'd be really curious to know why that's working for you and not me. I just tried restoring and none of my .git directories were included; just the working copy. I tried with both the web and desktop restore tool. There's no
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Well, I checked and it looks like none of my .git repos are backed up. All attempts to restore only restore the working copy. -_- I'm not sure why it was working for the person in the comment I linked.
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
I don't think Android is "dumber" or less capable than Windows. In many ways the application sandbox actually gives owners a lot more control over their devices than a less locked down OS would, allowing them to restrict wh
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
FWIW some other people in this thread are saying the article is wrong about .git folders not being backed up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47765788 That's a really important fact that's getting buried so I
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Getting rid of Windows in favor of an OS with a proper application sandbox like Android would solve so, so many security issues, but that's not viable in most cases because so much software depends on the outdated user-based permissi
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Thanks. Silently ignoring .git folders would be much more egregious than not backing up cloud drives in my opinion. The latter is at least somewhat understandable, though they should have been more transparent about it.
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
Yep, and having location data is really useful for organizing said photos. I think it's really neat Google Photos lets you see all photos taken at a particular location. One of my pet peeves is when friends share photos with me that we
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by Ajedi32 6mo ago
I'm guessing they changed the default behavior from "include metadata" to "strip metadata" so now any app that wants metadata has to request it explicitly, and any older apps which don't know how to make such a
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
It is an unreasonable burden to ask the impossible. The technology to create an AI incapable of hurting people if misused or blindly trusted literally doesn't exist right now. It'd be like holding a builder liable for their brid
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
> That's an endorsement of what the tool outputs as advice That's not even close to true! Even if you've been living under a rock for the last 5 years and didn't already know these models are not reliable, pretty much
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
They're a global issues advocacy organization. "Their target audience" is everyone, or at least it ought to be if they're doing their job right. Ignoring people of any demographic or political persuasion would be a serio
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
13 million impressions a year isn't enough to be worth copy-pasting a few posts from Facebook?
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
Their logic for why they're on TikTok and Facebook seems sound to me, but doesn't that same logic apply to X? I kept waiting for the explanation but it never came...
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
AI harvesting your garden doesn't destroy the garden though. It's like calling piracy theft; in the digital realm those types of analogies quickly break down. I also personally still feel like posting reviews on Amazon is a public
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
Nobody is denying it's relevant, that's why it's tracked as part of the CPI. All the goods and services measured by CPI are a "staple of American middle class", that's why they're on that list in the fir
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
This feels like a false dichotomy to me. You can find meaning and connect with other humans over AI music no differently than you can over music written by a celebrity. (And vice-versa, you can listen to music written by a human and just en
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
The manner in which the school got the website taken down was via an authoritarian nightmare, so it's not exactly a false dichotomy in this case. If not for the authoritarian nightmare the site might still be up. Though it's adm
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
"C:/Program Files" is still the recommended place to install programs, and it requires admin privileges to write to. Some programs (ab)use C:\ProgramData for that purpose instead and therefore don't need admin privliges.
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
DMCA is a pretty good model for this sort of thing IMO. You take down the post, notify the poster, and if the poster wants they can have you put it back up and tell the original complainant "sue me". If you don't follow that
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
IIT Delhi is in India so I'm not sure what the law looks like there, but yeah a university physically stealing an adult's phone and deleting his personal photos would definitely be illegal in the states. I wonder if Delhi is the e
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
Yes it is. CPI already takes those things into account. If you ignore all other living costs in favor of just looking at those three things because they're the things that are going up the most then you're not getting an accurat
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
Except in this case we're commenting on a thread about the middle class getting wealthier, and you implied that's a bad thing because, in isolation, the middle class getting wealthier increases inequality. (Apologies if that'
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
I guess I would just disagree and say that having money makes you "economically enfranchised" by definition. That's why I'm talking about CPI. If you ignore CPI in favor of solely looking at who can afford to buy real es
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
> inequality is a hard thing to do good experiments > the papers struggle to get good data Note also that I'm specifically talking about inequality in isolation ("as long as it's caused by the rich getting richer and no
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
Yes, if you cherry pick a few things that are disproportionately going up in price and say inflation should be calculated based solely on those things then you can make the numbers look worse. Or the reverse if you cherry pick things that a
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
The term you're looking for is "real wages". Obviously I'm not claiming that someone making the same nominal wage in 1980 as they do now in 2026 is just as well off. That would count as "getting poorer". US med
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
That's just another way of describing a scenerio where the "poor are getting poorer". Focusing on the share of the pie ("inequality") is a red herring, if the poor are getting less wealthy in absolute terms that&#x2
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by Ajedi32 7mo ago
That's fair, batteries are somewhat useful for peaking even in a world powered 100% by fossil fuels so there's some infrastructure that can be shared. And even on a cloudy day solar output isn't 0%. But I'm skeptical t

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