Hasu

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by Hasu 2y ago
"When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your vie
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by Hasu 2y ago
> I don't think anyone is arguing in favour of bribes for either local or federal officers Not here, but six Supreme Court Justices have done exactly that.
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by Hasu 2y ago
Eating ice cream instead of stale bread is absolutely play, just like running around on a soccer field is play even though running is a survival skill.
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by Hasu 2y ago
They didn't walk web 2.0 back because web 2.0 won so completely that web 1.0 sites are noted for being quaint and charming callbacks to an older era. Web 2.0 was "social web", wikis, AJAX requests, and the move towards SPAs.
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by Hasu 2y ago
No, it isn't. I use AdBlock and generally when I allow ads it's because I have no other way to pay someone who made something I appreciate. I am happy to pay money to remove ads, but it would take a lot more money paid to me to ad
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by Hasu 2y ago
react-testing-library isn't the "official testing library" for React, it isn't made by the React team, and testing library provides testing libraries for other frameworks. It's just a change from an outdated, unmain
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by Hasu 2y ago
> With crypto we are surely getting to spitting distance of advertisers paying users directly to look at ads instead of paying Google to organise the web such that users look at ads. Who would take that deal? Getting paid $.02 in some cr
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by Hasu 2y ago
> They're retreating for now, but make no mistake that Recall will slowly trickle back into Windows under another name. Not even that. It's still coming, under the same name, just not as soon for everyone.
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by Hasu 2y ago
The headline is correct. I have seen people believe that "indefinite" means "permanent", but it just means "undetermined". It is delayed, but we (and perhaps Microsoft) do not know for how long, so the delay is
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by Hasu 2y ago
Even if everyone in the company magically complied with the wishes of the legal department, they would still have work to do. Defending the company against frivolous lawsuits and incoming regulations, suing competitors and other bad actors
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by Hasu 2y ago
Among devs? That may well be the silent majority. Among normies? I don't think so.
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by Hasu 2y ago
There is a bigger story here - who uses iTerm2? It's gotta be like 95% developers, right? If your most technically capable users, who are usually the MOST excited about new tech, are the people who are ready to burn down the world to s
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by Hasu 2y ago
> kayktn I cannot figure out how to pronounce this in one syllable. It looks like it should be pronounced "caked in".
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by Hasu 2y ago
Maybe for you. I'm terrible at starting projects and the beginning of them, but I love getting all the pieces in place and getting the product/feature to a production-ready state. It's easy and natural for me. I used to work
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by Hasu 2y ago
Yeah I've been running Windows and Linux for years (I only use MacOS if my job makes me and pays for the machine), and I just spent the weekend setting up Linux on my former Windows machine. There really isn't much of a reason to
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by Hasu 2y ago
Yes, that's the point of the quote, but the point of the poster you're replying to is that wasting half your budget would be considered gross incompetence in any other department. "Half the lines of code I write are useless,
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by Hasu 2y ago
> This forced, radical change motivated only by fear feels like Google+ all over again. Or New Coke. A year ago everyone was trashing Google for being ahead for years on the science of AI, but completely failing to productize it. "O
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by Hasu 2y ago
In the US, artists don't get to 'allow' for covers or not. The words and composition of a song are covered under a mechanical license. The recording and performance is covered under a different license. Under U.S. law, the me
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by Hasu 2y ago
He's talking about a statement from Jerry Buldak of Sears from the article he's quoting himself in: https://stratechery.com/2016/walmart-and-the-multichannel-tr...
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by Hasu 2y ago
The purpose of the risk team at OpenAI was to prevent the destruction of humanity. I think you definitely want people who have that responsibility to "wield their authority like a whip without regard for business value". Now, whet
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by Hasu 2y ago
Only on Linux - on MacOS and Windows, you have to do virtualization for containers.
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by Hasu 2y ago
> In areas with decriminalized hard drugs, drug usage dramatically increased. It has a direct impact on the lives of the users, and also secondary impacts on the lives of everyone around them and/or has to deal with them. Absolutely
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by Hasu 2y ago
> What's the measurement for success? It's not "the number of people who try hard drugs", which isn't a particularly interesting or meaningful number (lots of people, including myself, try hard drugs but never
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by Hasu 2y ago
> It’s just another layer of crap that moves smartphones one step closer to being as ridiculously complex as Windows PCs. So, useful computing devices? I'm for anything that pushes this plastic toy towards being a real tool.
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by Hasu 3y ago
Gmail absolutely has ads. Maps has ads. YouTube has ads. Meet doesn't have ads but does have a paid version. > Their search is still best with no challengers of note. Kagi has better search. It's a paid subscription, and by mar
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by Hasu 3y ago
(more spoilers) I thought the ending where you build the project points that out - everyone dies anyway. Edgar was always going to kill all the humans, he just had to joke about it beforehand.
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by Hasu 3y ago
FTC antitrust is not part of the DOJ. The antitrust division of the DOJ only got $255m last year, not just to fight Apple, but to fight _all_ antitrust cases and run the division. Apple made $97b in profits last year, and reportedly had a l
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by Hasu 3y ago
It's not a problem for the end user to be unable to pick which browser they want to use? Speak for yourself, I would consider being forced into a single browser choice a huge problem, to the point that I will not buy a device that does
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by Hasu 3y ago
The alternatives to "awful" include adjectives other than "good".
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by Hasu 3y ago
You've posted this a couple times here, but it's just unsubstantiated accusations on reddit. There are also several, equally unsubstantiated, claims to have found information that she is who she says she is. That thread is very we

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