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by Apreche 9mo ago
The cops made this list. The idea that a smartphone can do everything a Raspberry Pi can do, and more, is a concept so far beyond their level of understanding that the discussion is pointless.
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by Apreche 9mo ago
BX6 r2.0, the motherboard of the first PC I built myself, and still the favorite I ever had to work with.
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by Apreche 9mo ago
Who cares how well the businesses do? Only the wealthy in the US benefit from that. I’ll gladly swap and go to Europe where I don’t have to worry about falling into medical debt if I am unlucky.
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by Apreche 9mo ago
At least they are being honest. If you look at release notes for the past year or so, almost every improvement is related to co-pilot. Thankfully, you can still disable all that garbage and just use it as a text editor.
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by Apreche 10mo ago
If it wasn’t about the money I would be a teacher of some kind. When I’m retired I plan to get a part-time job as an usher at a theater, arena, concert hall, or stadium. Another good option is to get a really low-stress job at a tropical re
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by Apreche 10mo ago
Even if there were viable alternatives, I believe people who chose to use an Apple, Google, or any other account should still have the rights I proposed.
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by Apreche 10mo ago
The real problem is that companies do not offer any accessible, powerful, and intelligent customer support. Even if they have real humans to talk to, they simply follow a script. Those agents do not have the ability to investigate a situati
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by Apreche 10mo ago
This is one of those studies that presents evidence confirming what many people already know. The majority of the bad content comes from a small number of very toxic and very active users (and bots). This creates the illusion that a large n
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by Apreche 10mo ago
It’s not the car seats that are the contraception, it is the cars themselves.
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by Apreche 10mo ago
I know this article is focusing on legal responsibility, but if you are going to consider moral culpability for inaction you must also factor in capability. If a very weak person does not have the strength to perform CPR, they should not fe
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by Apreche 10mo ago
Regardless of which OS is running on the bare metal, I do my development inside of Linux devcontainers.
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by Apreche 10mo ago
There is already a way to completely avoid writing SQL strings in your application code, and it’s not even an ORM. In your SQL database create lots of views and functions. Don’t be shy. There is no limit to how many you can make. Every sing
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by Apreche 11mo ago
Even my tiny little personal sites got hammered by bots. I was very reluctant, but I feel like I had no choice but to go to Cloudflare. It was the only free option, and for tiny little sites it’s not worth paying for a solution.
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by Apreche 11mo ago
Says the people who scraped as much private information as they could get their hands on to train their bots in the first place.
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by Apreche 11mo ago
It’s a sports thing. If you go to some youth sports league, it is common that every kid will get a medal or trophy regardless of which team in the league won or lost. But it also exists for adults. Go to the NYC marathon? Everyone gets a me
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by Apreche 11mo ago
Reminds me of this story from 2021 https://hackaday.com/2021/10/06/atari-st-still-manages-campg... I have also met some people who worked at large old insurance companies. They originally used old mainframes
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by Apreche 11mo ago
> but it's amazing how much the billionares would seem to say the opposite; The Democratic establishment are in favor of maintaining the status quo, which is very favorable to corporations and the wealthy. The Republicans think even
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by Apreche 1y ago
Prior to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) it was mostly illegal to sell dietary supplements that weren’t legitimate. You couldn’t have homeopathy on the shelves at a drug store since it wouldn’t get through FD
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by Apreche 1y ago
Their job is journalism, you would hope they have the skills, but not necessarily. The news business is not making much money, and aren’t paying big salaries. You’re not getting world renowned journalists to do a puff piece on a recently de
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by Apreche 1y ago
> I hope I've demonstrated that it takes almost no effort to perform a basic fact check. It isn't a professional skill. For myself a quick fact check like this is also low effort. Unlike the author, I recognize this is a profes
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by Apreche 1y ago
> School spending did not decline from 2012 to 2022. In fact, it increased significantly, even after adjusting for inflation, from $14,000 a student to more than $16,000. Is this average spending per student? If so, then that is just a c
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by Apreche 1y ago
Private equity hoovers up existing businesses that are mostly well functioning. If they fail, we suffer as those businesses we depend upon fail and disappear. Everything from big national chains to your local doctors office can be destroyed
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by Apreche 1y ago
If someone invoices me, and I don’t pay the full amount in a timely manner, what do you think will happen? Late fees, reports to credit bureaus, collections agencies hounding me, maybe even lawsuits? If insurance companies underpay, doctors
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by Apreche 1y ago
My problem is I can’t do 1. If I could do just 1 I feel like I could slowly work my way up to 2, 5, 10, 100, whatever. Starting at 0 trying to get to 1 feels insurmountable. I have tried all kinds of advice from the Internet. I tried doing
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by Apreche 1y ago
Duolingo did a great job of encouraging me to find a real human to learn from.
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by Apreche 1y ago
I strongly recommend not having comments on your blog at all.
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by Apreche 1y ago
Surveillance isn’t the answer, justice is. You know how women often don’t report sexual harassment and assault? It’s because if they do report it, they will suffer further victimization and their chances at any just outcome are too low. Sam
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by Apreche 1y ago
Exactly. They don’t even question how all this bullying went on for so long without any adults noticing or doing anything about it. For "horrible things, like nonstop" to be going on without anyone noticing or doing anything about
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by Apreche 1y ago
The old web isn’t a platform, an aesthetic, or a technology. The old web is people creating and sharing because they are intrinsically motivated. Everything we hate about the current web comes from extrinsic motivations. Good luck removing
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by Apreche 1y ago
A casino is a machine that transfers wealth from poor, foolish, gullible, sad, unfortunate people directly to the pockets of casino owners.

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