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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Countries like Britain can only do it when they team up as in the EU. The Brexiters are essentially luddites who cannot see this writing on the wall The UK remains one of the world powers and the Pound Sterling one of the reserve curren
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The study is speculation about supposed changes to the algorithm based off of subsequent changes in trends in sheer ignorance to other events that transpired on the dates specified. Basically arguing that correlation is causation and
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. This was further exacerbated because the linked study seemingly ignores what happened on the d
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
For the unaware or the forgetful, July 13, 2024 was the day someone tried to assassinate Trump.[1] I am not surprised that Trump and Republicans immediately garnered more attention as a consequence, rightfully or otherwise. [1]: https:&#x2
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>a site that is called serve the home and deals too often with enterprise level hardware that will never get into someone's home, like $10,000 switches or $50,000 servers. The website Serves The Home Lab , which is often comprised o
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I love how intuitive, obvious, and above all charming that looks.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Whenever we get the inkling to belittle our ancestors, we need to remember that we are nowhere as capable as they were. Men today cannot build the Great Pyramids of Giza or invent Greek Fire, Roman Concrete, or Damascus Steel like the men o
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Social media, specifically microblogging networks like old Twitter, were uniquely effective at delivering near real-time breaking updates in ways that left older news delivery systems in the dust. IRC did it long before some worthless d
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>It’s not a problem of people not appreciating good products - e.g. smart phones rapidly displaced the old “garakei” feature phones in Japan. Japanese consumers clearly appreciated them, just like they clearly appreciate fruit peelers..
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Apple peelers are more artistic license than not to prove the point, but there are other real examples. The chief example are mobile phones, the poster child of Galapagos Syndrome[1]. Once Japan figured out mobile phones they stopped moving
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I haven't seen much hatred. I hate that Intel 16th gen Lunarrow Lake is not Made by Intel , literally no reason to buy from them.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>1. Agree, yes, center-left to liberal bubble. This one.
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>you're in a (center-left to liberal) bubble. This is, after all, Hacker News. The demographic here isn't that different from Reddit's, as much as many would try to deny.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
No, the difference is cultural. Japanese people are very capable, but the flipside of that is they don't need tools to get stuff done. This is why their software sucks fucking donkey arse balls, and I say that as a Japanese myself.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'll bite, I guess: * In deferrence to Boglehead philosophy, hedging bets is a fool's errand because the idea is you lose your money the more you touch it. Make a plan, invest, and then hold hold hold staying the course come hell
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It's the minimize/maximize/close buttons. Inactive windows draw them ever so slightly in gray compared to active windows drawing them in black. Calculator has them in black. As for Powershell/Terminal, assuming the scr
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>On both Windows and macOS, windows are clearly delimited by drop shadows. I disable window shadows with extreme prejudice because I find them visually painful. They obscure something I should be able to see without meaningfully highligh
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>to await a new dawn when someone tries to make metaverses happen again Japan is still trying to make metaverse a thing.
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It has been demonstrated time and time again that the simplest implements of war are always the most effective.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Aren't we at a pretty good place with that stuff, though? Hell no: I can't tell what is and isn't a button. I can't tell specific areas apart from others (no borders/shading). I can't see or use the scrol
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Something I've noticed is I just don't produce or collect "I was here" type memorabillia, compared to people from older generations like my parents. Photos and videos? Nope, I don't even have a camera aside from the
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Many of the devices affected do not fit any reasonable interpretation of the term “legacy”. I'm really just going on a tangent rant, but I don't like that the word "legacy" has been associated with negative connotati
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Countries recognize standards broadly along two avenues: * Internationally recognized standards organizations, such as ISO (literally International Organization for Standardization). Republic of Backwoods and Kingdom of Flyover can't r
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Look son, the only way we're gonna get anything done is abstracting the abstractions so we can actually get some abstracted code running on the abstracted abstractions. That means we need 128 gallonbytes of abstracted neural silicon to
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If corporate were to ask me to find differences, I honestly couldn't tell them other than that one is White and Red while the other one is Orange and Gray.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Do your job as a parent and you don't have to control them 100% of the time.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>How do you The same way as with everything else: Do your job as a parent.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If the early internet had a voice it was definitely his, "You got mail!" is iconic. I'm a sad panda hearing that he passed. Rest in peace, and thank you.
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Godwin's Law actually predates the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum Whatever the law might be called, the result is the same: The vapid use of words as fallback insults leads to the wor
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I don’t know what facts you’re basing this on but the US military action abroad is not correlated with higher standard of living in the US. Wars lead to disturbed movement of people and goods, massive loss of lives, destruction of goods

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