BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I see the words "feature parity". I hope those words are taken seriously. I feel like most Wayland advocates would do well to take those words seriously.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Forcing an export is an interesting idea. But, like, from the article it sounds like almost anything would be a better flow. It didn't even warn that any data would be deleted at all.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
My point is that if improved airport security just shifts terrorist attacks to other places, the overall safety benefit is not as great as it may at first seem.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Right, and we can't get that if the only players are huge companies that face no competition.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I mean there are pros and cons to many things. What I mean by underrated is just that a lot of people say "oh duplication, how wasteful" and don't realize the benefits that may exist in redundancy and diffusion. I think the
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I'm pretty anti-AI but this isn't really anything to do with AI. The same problem would arise with any online service that you use to hold important data. And it's pretty evil for any such service to have a trap "delet
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Have we protected against the motivated terrorist, or only the motivated terrorist on an airplane?
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I seriously doubt that most people are happy with the tradeoffs of safety vs. convenience provided by the TSA. The general idea of x-ray, metal detectors, sure, that's all good. But the stuff with taking off your shoes, small contain
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Duplicating things is underrated. It's good for there to be multiple operators doing basically the same thing. Innovation can happen at the margins. It will be easier, not harder, for EU companies to innovate in meaningful ways afte
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
But in practice in doesn't always give you a choice, because the biggest providers will embrace and extend and start providing things other providers don't. Or they'll just make it difficult to export your data, etc.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
People often mention email as an example of federated communication, but the way email works in practice doesn't entirely live up to that ideal. Good luck getting your own self-hosted email server to send emails that actually reach an
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I agree. I see a lot of comments here and articles out on the web where it seems like people don't realize you can turn notifications off. A large portion of the distraction problem of tech is really a notification problem. Push not
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Start? That's been clear for at least a decade if not a few decades.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Not to mention the problem of bad reviews for one product not getting transferred to a "new" product that is just the same product again with a different listing.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
How do we know they know the job and know what works? How do we know that they define "what works" as justice and not "get convictions"?
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Just as relevant now as ever. This part strikes me particularly: > Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wro
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
> Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention. I'm on board with the general mindset of this, but in recent years and especially since 2020, I've become less and less convinced that it's actu
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
But what undisclosed ties might this study itself have?
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
Well, given what you said, one obvious mechanism is to cap the sizes of these organizations so that any errors are less impactful. Break up every single company into little pieces.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I wish governments had a "pay $100 million if you don't have a human option for all your customers" option.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
> If in a langauge there is one word for 2 different colors, speakers of it are unable to see the difference between the colors. That is quite untrue. It is true that people may be slightly slower or less accurate in distinguishing colo
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
This phenomenon of "sound symbolism" has received a lot of research attention in the last 10 years or so. For a long time it was considered a curiosity at best, and a total red herring at worst, but a lot of evidence is accumulat
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
The relevant part of their quote isn't "more people" it's more people benefiting . OpenAI does not care in the slightest whether people benefit. They want more people to use their product yes, but they don't care
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
100% bullshit. > we’re also planning to start testing ads in the U.S. for the free and Go tiers, so more people can benefit from our tools with fewer usage limits or without having to pay No, that is not why they're doing it. They&
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I stopped using Amazon entirely in early 2020. It's certainly possible.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
The problem is that with the amount of low-quality stuff we're seeing, and with the expansion of the low-quality frenzy into the realm of information dissemination, it can become prohibitively difficult to distinguish the high-quality
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I don't think peak quality is a very meaningful measure. As you say, it turns everything into "if you know where to look".
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I searched this thread for "Tacoma" to see if anyone was mentioning this. (A few other comments had similar sentiments as well.) It's so true. I live half a block from an auto shop that is well patronized by small-time gar
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
> they really, really want to own the entire value chain That is it. That is the problem. Everyone wants vertical integration and to corner the market, from Standard Oil on down. And everyone who wants that should be smacked down.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I don't think we're ever going to be able to eliminate various sorts of harmful desires and urges.

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