BrtByte

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by BrtByte 1y ago
But I think the article's point isn't that Google wants downloaders to work, it's that they tolerate just enough friction to keep power users from revolting, without officially endorsing anything
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by BrtByte 1y ago
It's not incompetence, it's strategy. They want a gray zone so they can maintain dominance without giving users too much official power
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Never thought to suspect Photos itself
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by BrtByte 1y ago
What’s wild is that this kind of bug feels like something that should’ve been caught with even minimal end-to-end integrity checks
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Kind of horrifying. You expect Photos to be dumb and slow, sure, but corrupting files
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Bottom line: nuclear will never be "cheap and easy," but I think there is headroom to reduce costs meaningfully
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Yep, the "nuclear waste problem" is 90% political, not technical
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by BrtByte 1y ago
A lot of the cost isn't the tech, it's the years of delays, endless permitting, and political whiplash
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by BrtByte 1y ago
In theory, you can replace nuclear with a massive buildout of renewables and storage and grid upgrades and overcapacity to handle intermittency. The challenge is that doing all of that fast enough
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Whether you're pro-nuclear or not, this ruling feels like a turning point. For decades, nuclear has been stuck in a weird limbo. Fascinating how youth climate activists are now some of the strongest voices for nuclear. That would'
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Future generations are going to look back and wonder how we let it get this bad while patting ourselves on the back for recycling plastic bottles
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by BrtByte 1y ago
It really highlights that governance, long-term strategy, and actual follow-through matter just as much as the ownership model
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by BrtByte 1y ago
What's worse is how hard it is to create political urgency around invisible decay
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by BrtByte 1y ago
You can't run a critical resource like water purely on market incentives when the payoff for long-term infrastructure investment takes decades
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by BrtByte 1y ago
When infrastructure becomes a profit center, long-term resilience tends to lose out to short-term returns
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Compared to opaque algorithms and AI-generated summaries, Wikipedia still feels like a relatively honest mess
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by BrtByte 1y ago
What makes it remarkable isn't that it gets everything right, but that it's constantly trying to
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by BrtByte 1y ago
The tragedy is that we all rely on Wikipedia, but very few of us contribute to it
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by BrtByte 1y ago
A great example of what's possible when policy actually aligns with long-term sustainability goals
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by BrtByte 1y ago
And good luck getting transparency on those asset transfers or executive benefits. It's all buried in regulatory filings that nobody reads except lawyers and lobbyists
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by BrtByte 1y ago
At some point, the system needs to ask: who should pay for all this demand growth? Right now, it sure isn't the ones profiting from it.
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Also wild how quickly the writing ability fades without regular use
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by BrtByte 1y ago
But at the same time, language and script are deeply tied to culture, identity, and history, so it's not as easy as just flipping a switch
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by BrtByte 1y ago
I think your advice makes a lot of sense for most learners: prioritize the skills you'll actually use, and don't feel guilty about skipping handwriting unless it personally matters to you
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by BrtByte 1y ago
It's like the muscle memory for writing just evaporates, even though the recognition part stays perfectly intact
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by BrtByte 1y ago
I've noticed the same thing (not with Japanese), but even after learning to write in Korean, my ability to handwrite faded way faster than my reading skills. I figured it was just laziness, but it makes sense that reading and writing u
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by BrtByte 1y ago
At that point the todo list isn't so much a plan for the day as it is a daily pre-flight checklist just to make sure no fires are burning in any corner of your life
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Org-mode is obviously in a whole different league, but I think both scratch the same itch for different types of people
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Markdown is a perfect analogy
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by BrtByte 1y ago
But I think part of the OP's point was about deliberately not chasing extra features, even if they're free and

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