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by II2II 2y ago
The server side component aspect is a serious flaw with the directory. Updates, well, that has always been an issue with perpetual licenses and is quite often out of control of the software vendor. Just because the license is perpetual, I d
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by II2II 2y ago
While the directory is a good idea, the FAQ did not address the one question that immediately came to mind: how is software that requires online activation handled? I've been bitten by vendors who offered perpetual licenses before, onl
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by II2II 2y ago
I don't think you can draw that conclusion. With respect to Internet trash, the only real metrics are (along the lines of): how many eyes can you captivate, and how long can you keep them captive. There is no real incentive to encourag
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by II2II 2y ago
> Coder, programmer, software engineer call yourself whatever you want, the point is to make a computer do what you want it to do. The distinction is important because how you make the computer do things is important in many cases. At on
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by II2II 2y ago
While it does come off as self-entitled, it is worth considering that there are a lot of people in the world who are competing for our attention. Sometimes legitimately, sometimes not. Even in the legitimate cases, it is enough to overload
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by II2II 2y ago
My parents were quite tolerant of my devil worship[1], but they did tell me to hide my BSD Unix books when religious relatives visited. [1] I think they knew Beastie was a harmless computer thing, but they also thought the moon was the size
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by II2II 2y ago
I think it is a combination of factors. Mathematical pedagogy is legitimate if the end goal is to train mathematicians, so yes it is geared towards those who think in the abstract. (I'm going to ignore the comment about very smart, sin
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by II2II 2y ago
In my case, it was by chance. I had a slide rule in high school. It was more of a novelty item by that point in time, only one of my math teachers even knew what a slide rule was, but that didn't stop me from figuring out how it was us
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by II2II 2y ago
> I got my hands on an old C64 a few years ago and fired it up. I tinkered with it for about 10 minutes and lost interest. It just felt lame, a complete waste of time. (...) Contrast that with my love of older cars. I love finding old ca
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by II2II 2y ago
Don't get me wrong: as a piece of advertising, this is one of the few I would be willing to watch again. On the other hand, I am left asking: what is the point? It is not as though there were many venues where you could enjoy the vibra
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by II2II 2y ago
There are plenty of links on other pages that lead to functional websites of various vintages (the keyword being vintage). Just go to https://www.mcmordie.co.uk/ and start exploring.
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by II2II 2y ago
> Sure, but early web pages were quite rudimentary. A simple tool that allowed adding links and images would have been enough to start with. I'm still not convinced that would have helped maintain a decentralized web. For one thing,
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by II2II 2y ago
I prefer to calculate with numbers, and don't pay much attention to superstitions around them. I don't gamble, nor much pay attention to conversations about gambling, so I pretty much ignore any mention of lucky numbers when such
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by II2II 2y ago
While I have never heard of someone referring to 7 as a lucky number, 7 is the most common sum of two rolled dice. So I can see how people would regard it as a lucky number. Along the same lines, I assume that someone who mentions 42 as a r
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by II2II 2y ago
There is a difference between being prepared and being a prepper. Having the means to receive outside information is being prepared. Listening to it day and night because you think your government is out to get you is being a prepper.[1] [1
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by II2II 2y ago
It works under Firefox. That said, I don't know how reliable the predictions are. My SWR is packed away at the moment.
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by II2II 2y ago
I'm seeing similar attitudes in my country and am disgusted by it. It mirrors and reinforces the isolationist attitudes that we are seeing in the US. We should be looking outwards in an effort to diversify our options and strengthen ou
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by II2II 2y ago
It seems as though analog doesn't mean what it used to mean. It seems as though it is a stand-in for physical these days. The physical thing you make may be analog, yet it could very well be digital. The important thing is the product
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by II2II 2y ago
Thank you for the interesting bits of history. I never knew about the planned phase 2, or the other attempts for a more distributed web. I suspect the reasons why it never caught on were much simpler. Most of the early adopters were very en
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by II2II 2y ago
It depends upon what Y is. If X and Y require age verification for in-person purchases and age verification is required to purchase X online, it is reasonable to assume that age verification for Y will follow. Some may call that a slipper
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by II2II 2y ago
> Of course they caused a ton of damage to trees around the trail, though whether that's good or bad depends on whether you were attached to those trees or not. I've encountered relatively few people who were concerned about th
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by II2II 2y ago
There is nothing wrong with expressing one's concerns. Problems arise when governments allow the concerns of NIMBYs to override the greater social good, allow NIMBYs to stall the decision making process, or fail to cerify the legitimac
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by II2II 2y ago
I can definitely understand the need for real names from the perspective of people managing a project, along with someone vouching for those people. But managing a project is different from using the product of that projects. I very much do
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by II2II 2y ago
I was in middle school in the 1990's, in Canada so the legal bit wouldn't be all that different from the US. We had welding, machining, and all sorts of power tools. That said, the teacher used their discretion while deciding who
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by II2II 2y ago
A lot of young children will have accidents because they forget, or don't want, to go to the washroom. That's true even if it is urgent. (They either don't know what their body is telling them, or they are fearful of washroom
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by II2II 2y ago
The first thing that stuck out to me (emphasis added): >> When I plead with my direct reports to please comply with the company policy of in the office 3 days a week Someone higher up is the decision maker here. They are acknowledgi
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by II2II 2y ago
> Is it really so hard to imagine the struggles of someone who doesn’t have any of the benefits listed in the post? Yes, it is hard. While you can break down the struggles to analyze them, actually understanding their emotional impact is
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by II2II 2y ago
> Part of the uphill struggle for these forks is convincing people their brand is trustworthy. Agreed. I recently installed one of the forks, appreciate how it defaults to the privacy related features that need to be manually enabled in
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by II2II 2y ago
> If Mozilla would have solely focused on Firefox and Thunderbird we could be in a better place right now. I have no idea what the motivations of Mozilla are, but it is important to remember that many players in the industry faded away s
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by II2II 2y ago
> What FOSS operating systems (and not even Linux specifically) offers is freedom to choose. But the effort of using some alternatives can be significant. True. On the other hand, Linux (the kernel) does provide the foundation. You can r

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