Barrin92

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by Barrin92 8mo ago
well anecdotally from studying Japanese for about a year and a half before moving there, it seems right to me, in particular the part about conscious effort not being able to produce spontaneous speech. I was embarrassed how little I could
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
>Why do you want the EU to be more like China I don't want to, but if people like you represent how Americans think, with nothing but contempt for Europe and only obsessed with power, then the Chinese were right about who Americans
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
>Notice how China managed to break free from US tech dominance, no matter how difficult it was They did this because in the Chinese narrative Americans are a bunch of hegemonic brutes and self sufficiency was a matter of survival. Europe
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
>why does the US create so much stuff that Europe doesn't? because the "stuff" in question is social networks who live, as the name suggests, off network effects. To have a European LinkedIn would require everyone in Europ
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
>If you look at this page and are about to crap on it on HN Hundred Rabbits pops up here pretty frequently and people mostly have good things to say, how can anyone dislike them, they're an oasis in a desert full of AI crap these da
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
>This is saying we have hundreds of open source OSes we don't, we have about 3 operating systems that have the decades of hardware and software compatibility that makes them widely usable. They're the most complex and complicat
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
Total household wealth in the US is about ~170 trillion dollars. Those 12 own about 1% of all US wealth. Not shabby for a dozen people but the main issue of American society isn't the handful of people who hit the news but mostly the t
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
the apology for the mistake is fine but it is expected journalistic practice to hand an article to a fact checker before it goes out who will quite literally make sure names, dates, quotes and so on are authentic. I thought of Ars Technica
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by Barrin92 8mo ago
which is why the most famous book in the world of software development pointed out that the long term success of a software project is not defined by man hours or lines of code written but by documentation, clear interfaces and the capacity
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>How will you ban that without infringing on free speech You don't, but the EU doesn't need to care about American ideas of free speech. This is actually in some sense the biggest hurdle to all of this, the psychologically defe
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>What's that, doing actual work rather than labor-of-love open source stuff? except the 'labor-of-love' stuff is what set the editor apart and why real users were choosing it and the 'actual business work' the mo
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>how do you plan to find them? I don't, but I'd expect there to be a hole where they used to be and I haven't seen one, or any concern from the platforms whose income and future depends on those users. So I'd probably
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
I always wonder what the overlap of this economically is. If you can afford all this home surveillance gear aren't you already likely to live in a place that's comically safe? Why are in particular Americans with their gated commu
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
sorry but the source for the wave of discontent is... a new york times op-ed on kids with flip phones? How many of them are there? I think universalizing is appropriate because unlike previous generations there isn't even a meaningful
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
this is already how the EU infrastructure for digital ID works, basically. Using public/private keys on your national id, the government functions as a root authority that you (and other trusted verifiers downstream) can identify you w
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them because that's not how they view it. For most Gen Z users and younger their digital identity already is their identity and they have no problem verifying it b
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>What is money if not a proxy of power? for a lot of people in the newly rich class, a kind of virtual currency best compared to a high score in a videogame. Symbolic and representing status. It's why when they attempt to translate
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
the argument isn't that flat organizations don't work, but that they're even more insidious than actual hierarchies. Zizek gives two great examples of the startup and the modern family. In the startup your boss is still your
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>You can absolutely think it as long as it stops there. If that's the attitude it renders virtually every discussion about the topic moot and the people in question better stop trying to give life advice to anyone else. My wife and
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>What's the plan to avoid a Bluesky-like bubble from forming around Vouch projects? I don't really see the issue, 'bubble', is a buzzword for what we used to call a community. You want to shrink viral online platform
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>I don't want people to switch away from Windows; I want Microsoft to treat its premier operating system like it used to.[...] and Windows 12 is ultimately an agentic AI OS, I wouldn't be surprised if more people stick with a d
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>why then do modern Christians, including evangelicals, dismiss other cultures so aggressively? The vast majority of modern Christians doesn't, the influences of Greek culture are readily apparent in the conceptual language of the N
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
There's a big difference between healthy wants and addiction. The latter involves compulsion and craving. The clearest sign anyone is addicted to something is that they use something precisely when even they don't want to . I&#x2
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
Under GDPR if a company processes European user data they're obligated to make a "Record of Processing Activities" available on demand (umbrella term for a whole bunch of user-data / identity related stuff). They don&#x2
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>Sure, but can you be honest and admit that you don't have any of this yet? Yes of course I can be honest. We don't have any of that. But if I'd sketch out a genuine European future in software to me it would look somethin
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
>and no significant large technology companies I have to do my patriotic duty to remind you that SAP is the 6th/7th largest software company in the world by market cap. I know not as exiting as notepad with AI but they do exist. Tha
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
what I took a bit of offense with is the term "software maccarythism". That's a movement now remembered for an over-reaction to often imaginary enemies. Ukraine is right now fighting for its life in a hot war on our continent
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
if you're going to give in and avoid applications because, like in this case they take a strong stance on Ukraine or Taiwan the hack has literally achieved its purpose. Either silence the author directly or destroy its userbase. Fuck&#
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
as long as client side encryption has been audited, which to my understanding is the case, it doesn't matter. That is literally the point of encryption, communication across adversarial channels . Unless you think Facebook has broken
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by Barrin92 9mo ago
frankly all I have is a TODO.org file and I delete everything that's older than a month because I wasn't going to deal with it anyway. I also keep a bunch of notes in org files. Once a year I delete everything if I can't reme

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