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by CivBase 2y ago
Alternatively, the popularity and disimination of butter throughout the culinary world is largely due to how easy it is to preserve and use in environments which are ideal for humans. If not for that, it might be a more niche product.
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This did not start with Trump and is not unique to Republicans. Trump's rehtoric is just a symptom.
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I can trust that a higher level language will produce the correct assembly code. I can trust that a garbage collector will allocate and cleanup memory correctly. I cannot trust that an AI will generate quality code. I have to review its out
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by CivBase 2y ago
The "consumerism" mindset is a luxury created by a strong economy and high upward mobility. An unfortunate side effect is that as repair & reuse became less desireable, so too did repairability and logevity as features. Now th
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by CivBase 2y ago
Excel is made for spreadsheets, not databases. Microsoft already has a database application in Access.
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Don't stop at hardware. If the software runs locally but connects to a server for some non-essential or non-functional feature, it should continue working after they shut that server down.
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But that's litterally not what capitalsim is. Calling that "capitalism" is no better than calling all regulations "communism". It just serves to poison conversations on the subject.
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by CivBase 2y ago
> Isn't capitalism great? Does "capitalism" now just mean that businesses can do whatever they want? Consumer rights are awful in the United States, but that isn't because our economy is capitalistic. It's becaus
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by CivBase 2y ago
I first learned programming from a "C++ For Dummies" book my parents bought me. I wasn't familiar enough with the subject to find something reliable online and there were no classes on programming at my school. It ended up be
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by CivBase 2y ago
Chrome and Android are particularly interesting to me. What would splitting those projects off from Google possibly look like? Both are open source projects with "ungoogled" options available, but those options are nowhere near as
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> So if a business mode is successful, regardless of whether it’s actively thwarted competition or acted anticompetitively, it should be regulated? Yes. If a product becomes essential for participation in the economy and lacks substantia
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by CivBase 2y ago
When you're a part of a duopoly on a product that is necessary for participating in the modern economy with as much friction as iOS has for switching to the only viable competitor... what makes it so fundamentally different from the we
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by CivBase 2y ago
"Identity theft" is just fraud, rephrased to make us the victims instead of the defrauded companies. That's why SSNs are still such a big deal. Why fix the problem when you can just make it someone else's problem?
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by CivBase 2y ago
You and I may not want notifications, but a lot of people do. > Does the subscriber content get delivered through Patreon? Yes. Many of creators deliver media content through Patreon. Announcements, updates, Q&As, early access to reg
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> Why does patreon need its own app? Notifications. Performance. Responsiveness. Bandwidth. Offline access. And a lot of users simply find apps to be more convenient than browser bookmarks. I use the web interface for Patreon, but I can
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by CivBase 2y ago
When I think of "AI" as a feature, I think * Nondeterministic * Untrustworthy * Uncertain * Marketing buzzword * Gimmick * Probably requires an external service or expensive hardware * Probably collecting my data If other people g
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by CivBase 2y ago
Iowa. I don't know the details, but I assume the solar panels were leased. My friends don't make a lot of money, so they're pretty limited in what they can afford up front. IIRC, the panels would have added around $10K.
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Reminds me of an recent instance where some friends wanted to buy a house, but it had solar panels. The solar panels couldn't be included in the mortgage and my friends couldn't afford to buy them outright along with the downpayme
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by CivBase 2y ago
Didn't they start saying "source first" instead of "open source"? What's wrong with that? Nothing about their current licenses stand out as unreasonable to me. Even though their licenses aren't technically
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by CivBase 2y ago
You don't think anyone would have ever analyzed the network traffic coming out of a Mac Book with Wireshark?
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by CivBase 2y ago
Trusting Apple not to break the computer I paid them $1k+ for is very different from trusting Apple to not hoover up and sell my personal data (or let it get stolen).
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by CivBase 2y ago
The new US Intel fab isn't scheduled to be completed until 2025, so it's a bit early to start labeling it a failure. Are fab workers even part of the Intel layoffs? And why bring up Nvidia? They outsource all their chip production
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But boneless wings are basically just chicken nuggets - cuts of chicken off the bone or scraps of chicken melded together and breaded. It's not like they figured out how to raise a chicken with no bones. The opportunity for quality con
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by CivBase 2y ago
I understand why CEO salaries are high. It's essentially a bidding war among companies. What I don't understand is the lack of responsibility CEOs are expected to take when things go wrong.
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They were valued near $100B prior to this incident and even now their valuation is north of $60B. Even if they were held financially responsible for all $6B in damages - which is definitely not going to happen - that doesn't seem like
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I wonder how many of these tribe would actually prefer to remain isolated if they knew about the rest of the world.
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I can be proud of my country and the good things it has done while also recognizing its failures - both past and present. Pride can be a good thing, so long as it is not from ignorance. Pride can create expectations which drive improvement.
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Too late for me. I tried switching to Linux years ago but failed because of the awful state of NVIDIA's drivers. Switched to AMD least year and it's been a breeze ever since. Gaming on Linux with an NVIDIA card (especially an old
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I think it's pretty optimistic to expect either of those will be realized in a couple of years. If Apple does release a v3 in that time (big if), I'm doubtful it will amount to more than a minor iteration on the first gen model. I
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> What's the rationale behind releasing yet another half-baked product? I suspect they're attempting to build up an attractive package for business customers, competing with the likes of O365 and G-Suite. There's probably

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