AnIdiotOnTheNet

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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
I don't think I can agree with this take. > He assembled the top talent to produce the best products that pushed our experience with technology forward. Assembling top talent is something a lot of people could do, what made Jobs spe
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
You underestimate the amount of urban men who have been marketed into believing that owning giant truck they don't need will make them more manly.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
On the one hand, I feel like most people just do a job because, like me, they have to so they can have food, shelter, and medical care and it has nothing to do with their passions because only a privileged few ever get to align those things
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Empiricism is only one of the tools that can be brought to bear on our understanding of reality. Clearly it is not complete on its own, since its reliance on objective measure leaves things like consciousness (that is, the philosophical exp
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
There are alternative hypotheses like Eternal Inflation, and Blackhole Cosmology. Mathematical Universe hypothesis would have our existence merely be one expression of consistent mathematical laws, all possible variations of which exist in
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Nobody wants to start because of how easy it is to be taken advantage of, and we live in a world that favors the predators. We watch trust get taken advantage of every day. > You may be surprised how well people respond, if you just star
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Some day people who only ever took econ 101 and decided that they therefore understand completely how a complex set of interrelated systems work will realize that they're suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect, but apparently it won&#x27
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Not at all. It is very common for businesses to buy up domains like this and redirect them to themselves so other people can't use them.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
This is just the broken window fallacy. Creators can still get paid for their work through Patreon if people find it valuable.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Personally, I think copyright itself is a completely unnecessary concept in the information age. The original idea was to promote creative works by authors by providing a limited term right to be the sole publisher of a work. This was impor
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
That's completely normal. Rocketry and especially parabolas feature prominently as themes in the book, and the structure of the narrative itself is part of that. The beginning is chaotic, and I think even the fact that many readers wil
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Gravity's Rainbow was supposed hard for me to read I thought COVID might have permanently damaged my brain. The whole work has this meandering dream-like quality that only achieves some semblance of a normal narratove for a few moments
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Perhaps there is some confusion because I used "overprovision" when the appropriate term here is "overcommit", but Windows manages to work fine without unix-style overcommit. I suspect most OSs in history do not use unix
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
We live in a society that worships wealth because it uses wealth as its sole metric for basically everything. Intelligence, success, worthiness, importance, etc. Those on HN are, if anything, more prone to this than elsewhere because of the
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Can a modern distro really be used without over provisioning? Because the last time I tried it either the DE or display server hard locked immediately and I had to reboot the system. Having this ridiculous setting as the default has basical
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Anyone at Microsoft with integrity left a long time ago. All that are left are those willing to implement stuff like this because it pays the bills and don't really care enough about users to even bother with malicious compliance. It&#
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Largely what Windows advertises is Microsoft stuff. Ubuntu copies a lot of terrible ideas from Microsoft and this is just another one.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> Given the age of the workaround it will never be fixed Man, there are so many of these. Not just in FOSS but software in general. What makes it annoying in FOSS is the fact that developers would rather rewrite everything in rust than f
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
No, most software is straight-up pessimized. Computers are so ridiculously fast nowadays that optimization really is unnecessary in most cases, but developers have somehow managed to make such poor decisions when building software that the
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> Being afraid to have small talk with people isn’t introversion, it’s a mental problem. It's a societal problem. Too many people invade our attention constantly to try and sell us something, whether that be a product or service, a
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> Oof, that's a damning statement. Is there evidence this is a real thing? Depends on what you mean by evidence. Several HNers claiming to be or have been Microsoft employees attest to the designers at least using Macs. To my knowle
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
But a C64 already fits that criteria and costs a lot less than $500. The FPGA that runs the video, the SD card controller, and probably a few other things are more powerful than the entire rest of the device and certainly not understandable
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
The problem isn't putting people out of work, that's the whole point of technology. The problem is that the gains are concentrated into the hands of those who own capital instead of distributed across the society of people who act
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
So this sort of thing never really made much sense to me, because you could emulate this entire thing on a raspberry pi for significantly less than $500. Can anyone who is enthusiastic about this explain the appeal?
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> For example in movie adaptations of known franchises changes are made just for change sake so that the writers can show off how smart they are. That's hilarious considering how bad the average writer seems to be these days.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Honestly I don't think Microsoft cares about Windows, or to the extent they do care they'd rather people not use a Desktop computer at all. Almost every decision since Windows 8 has been to the determent of the user experience on
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
Well yes, of course. What else would you expect? Art has to find an audience large enough to support it or it fails. Same as it ever was. The great thing about game dev is that you have low barriers to entry and the entire internet is a pot
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
> This is not true. A monopoly can also be held accountable by the shareholders. A monopoly can also be held accountable by the market. Ask any cable company, for example. The monopolies in question are utility monopolies, none of these
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
....it doesn't require examples, it is simple logic. I assert that: 1) A monopoly can only be held accountable by the government. 2) The government can only be held accountable by the people. Therefore, if the people wish to hold the o
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
And yet the upstream developers themselves never incorporated the change, it was entirely because an unnecessary third party middle man made unnecessary changes.

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