Arainach

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by Arainach 5mo ago
Chromium is open source. As such it needs to be hosted via a publicly accessible stack (Git/Gerrit) so that external contributors can use it. Size has nothing to do with it.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. > The loudest ones are not aligned with eachother. Their efforts to influence public opinion will neu
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by Arainach 5mo ago
You're not describing a world of freedom and opportunity. You're describing a world where anyone with money can do whatever they want without consequences. The good ideas do not usually win. The loudest ones tend to win. The wors
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by Arainach 5mo ago
> Anyone can try to push public opinion in a specific direction, but someone else will simply go the opposite way. There would be no moderator or algorithm to artificially boost one type of noise over another, so we would actually get a
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by Arainach 6mo ago
> It is, but it’s the only way for a company to succeed and scale over time This is absolutely not true. It never has been at any point in history. Not even CEOs would claim such a thing until the 1980s, and they were wrong then as now
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by Arainach 6mo ago
If the passkey can be stored in the password manager, then there's no second factor and what's the point?
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by Arainach 6mo ago
"9-5" jobs in America are anything but. Since the popularity of smartphones people are reachable 24/7 and employers are taking full advantage. Hourly employees have it even worse. When your schedule varies week to week and e
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by Arainach 6mo ago
That doesn't help if my machine (with only a few USB ports) gets stolen/lost with the token in it. It doesn't help if some of my devices only have USB-C and some only have USB-A. It's absolutely more annoying than lett
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by Arainach 6mo ago
No, the value prop is a streaming device with a clean UX not filled with ads. My phone (which is not an iPhone) has nothing to do with it. Apple TV is a far better YouTube device than Google TV. It's also the best device for Plex, Ne
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Apple is always surprised that non-Apple devices exist. See: the permanent undismissable red icon to "finish setting up your Apple TV with your iPhone"
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by Arainach 6mo ago
That was merely the first occurrence. Elsewhere the article says verbatim "Phish is a band".
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Asking others to explain things without doing a single search of your own is lazy, as is not reading the article: > Phish is a band that rewards you for staying in one place for a long time. The jams are long. The compositions unfold. &q
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by Arainach 6mo ago
The top search results for "Phish" and "Down with Disease" show Phish the band. There is no ad hominem - writing a comment asking someone else to answer that question for you without doing that basic step is lazy. The ar
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by Arainach 6mo ago
It explicitly says "the band". All the context in the first paragraphs is about the music. It absolutely clarifies. The rest of the article talks about listening to the music, watching them (or wanting to watch them) in concert
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Sentences 5 and 6 of the article, top of the second paragraph: > That move is Phish fans in miniature. Someone cared enough about the song and the bit that they rebuilt a piece of pop culture around the band.
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by Arainach 6mo ago
The ability to quickly graph functions and see them visually is an enormous aid to learning. Similarly, for various topics like statistics the ability to operate on a dataset is beneficial. Doing all of the raw arithmetic that goes into C
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by Arainach 6mo ago
The levels of support are radically different. Compositors, window managers, UI frameworks, and apps all have mixed and inconsistent levels of support such that the overall experience is that you simply cannot rely on using a Linux system
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by Arainach 6mo ago
A lack of functionality is the point. You don't want a full CAS or Internet search results available, or many students will just take the easy route and not learn anything. Neither teachers nor school districts have the time or resou
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Who says they're not advocating? Who says they were aware of this before today? Extend this to other disciplines - if everyone who cared about security resigned every time leadership pushed to rush something out without proper testing
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by Arainach 6mo ago
So far we have an Anthropic bug and what seems like an AI-generated "no refund" response that is hours old, not days or weeks. We have no official corporate comms backing this up, we have no real insight into any internal escala
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Not in the slightest. There is robust discourse and vocal objection to bad actions at companies such as Microsoft (I used to work there) and Alphabet (currently do). It may not always change the course, but it has absolutely played into d
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by Arainach 6mo ago
If anyone with principles quit the moment a company did something bad, you'd be left with only people who are cynical and/or bad and/or sufficiently indentured to be unable to push back against management, and there would be
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by Arainach 6mo ago
There's a fundamental power imbalance: if you do this to any service, they will likely ban your account. So the monetary reward has to be enough to merit moving all your data and workflows off them in advance and never using them agai
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by Arainach 6mo ago
Who said anything about USAID? DOGE eviscerated all sorts of agencies. At this point I no longer consider you to be arguing in good faith. I'm done here.
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by Arainach 6mo ago
> Musk received 0 benefit from DOGE. Besides eviscerating all the regulatory agencies enforcing rules against his companies and huge amounts of private data from all sorts of agencies?
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History is full of actual talented people screwed over by capitalists.
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by Arainach 6mo ago
> I won’t deny he created his own fortune from PayPal. I'd deny even that. He made enough dumb decisions that he was forced out and got rich primarily because of other peoples' good ideas/decisions.
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What metrics or experiences lead you to that conclusion? I've used basically all of the major operating systems for 30+ years and I cannot stand macOS. I use a Mac as one of my work devices, and off the top of my head: * Basic things
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by Arainach 6mo ago
There's nothing "more direct" - the different APIs for different languages call into the same underlying library, and most of them are more accessible and easier to work with than C++. Z3 is presumably written in C++ for perf
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by Arainach 6mo ago
You learn how to use tools to solve problems and what kind of problems those tools can solve. Using a database or 3D Printer isn't bad because you don't learn anything about the internals.

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