GreenWatermelon

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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   Smelting random rocks (with fairly distinct appearances) sounds like a very logical thing to do. I would say it's a natural human impulse to experiment with random stuff and see what happens, that's curiosity. What sound highly im
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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   One of the axioms I go by is that people were never stupid. Our ancestors 5000 and 10000 years ago were just as smart , intelligent and curios as we are today. With regards to metals, I have no doubt someone, be it a kid apprentice or a ma
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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   Fossify Gallery os a drop in replacement with no risk of data siphoning.
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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   And he completely apologized when it turned out he was wrong and made a hasty judgement, 5 hours later. And a single instance of something is hardly a pattern.
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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   Such a blatantly biased and dishonest article. In addition to what others said about TFA, This part jumped out to me: > Specifically, I was sent this commit replacing references to Homebrew from late July. As evidence of Homebrew's
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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   I felt the exact same as you while reading the article. I started reading with an open mind, got a bit confused by the "dongle" joke, which the author doesn't remember but somehow it should be inappropriate. It's equival
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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   I think you're conflating the Engine, Gecko, with the browser, Firefox. The Browser, Firefox, is easy to fork, judging by the multitudes of soft forks a la Libre Wolf, Zen, etc... The Engine, Gecko, however, is hard to fork since it&#x
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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   Steam literally has a section called Hardware Requirements under every game.
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   by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

   `s` is a replace command, so parent is saying "substitute 'anymore' with 'ever' "
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    I can't reply to the parent any more because it's flagged, so I'll reply to you, because I need to get this out. Overtime I gave him so much benefit of the doubt, and steelmanned his arguments because I really respected him a
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    Windows. Windows removed the task bar positioning feature in Windows 11.
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    And then people wonder why China is antagonistic towards the west.
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    I don't think that has changed? Everyone would still complain about someone Talking loudly in a public library or a movie theater.
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    In case you're genuinely confused, the reason for Anubis and similar tools is that AI-training-data-scraping crawlers are assholes, and strangle the living shit out of any webserver they touch, like a cloud of starving locusts descendi
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    There isn't a hint of bad faith in the Parent's comment, it's just a sarcastic tongue-in-cheek way to say that it's not really cool to poison the fuck out of ourselves just because x material is kinda nice for y.
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    And horns. I fuckin hate horns. I swear car horn noises reach into the far ends if the universe, you can't escape them.
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    Imagine a world in which Internet Explorer is the only browser around. That's what would happen without government intervention. Regulations are literally the only thing slowing down the corporate dystopian future.
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    Without regulations (which are laws) Dominant companies would just send gangsters to break up rival businesses. They still do that today, but through different strategies e.g. price dumping, where they operate at a loss in order to squash c
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    > the companies that died because acquiring them was too much of a hassle So it was a shitty non-viable business > the companies that died or never got funded / started because the investors couldn't see and exit path More s
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    This argument does not resonate with me. I'm in my mid 20s, far from being a grumpt old man, and I used to frequent Facebook back in the early 2010s (remember all those games?) What became clear is how the landscape is filled to the br
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    0 One of the greatest companies, Valve, is privately owned. I also respect 37signals, which isn't publicly owned. Those are the two companies that crop in my head when I think "Good company"
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    Forever, until our cursed profession gets an official licensing body like other real Engineering professions. A Civil Enginnee can't sign on a prototype bridge design that then gets built and opened to the public, because any problem m
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    > green flags should we look at as hits that "this company is different"? The only possible green flag os "Did not ipo"
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    I think "natural" here would refer to genuine project rrquirequirements that will translte directly to value to customers e.g. customers demand x features in y time and we don't have enough manpower to handle it. This is natu
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    I don't think hiAndrewQuinn was implying that they'd do so, rather, they (appropriately) assume that a for-profit would try to loophole their way out of any obligation, so they wanted to know how exactly the employees were protect
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    You gave the perfect description of an LLM.
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    Pre-industrial English and German economies did not rely on enslavement of the population, so the fact US economy was built on enslavement just means its elites were rotten to the core since the very beginning, The fact that rich people get
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    I'm looking less at Nations and more at the people in those nations. The richest country on earth, the one with the highest number of billionaires, is unable to put roofs over its citizens' heads, unable to provide them with food
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    > deprive society of greater prosperity for the benefit of a small minority. This already exactly the case. AI won't bring jackshit to anyone except those who're already sitting on too much wealth than any human should deserve.
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    by GreenWatermelon 1y ago

    Well, for one thing, they aren't backed by billion-dollat corporations hell-bent on shoving them down the throat of every man, woman, child, infant, and pet they can reach.