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by II2II 3y ago
While I appreciate the ability to configure software, I also believe that software that requires too much configuration is poorly suited for my needs and will replace it with something better suited to my needs. There is an incredible numbe
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by II2II 3y ago
To add to what you're saying: Quite often something is not obvious or trivial to someone who is examining a piece of code or using a library for the first time because it assumes the person already understands the context. An example o
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by II2II 3y ago
Old games were notorious for that sort of thing. Even though I am quite fond of the ideas behind many older games, I don't play them because many of them are arbitrarily punishing. To give you an idea of what I mean: I loved the old te
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by II2II 3y ago
From the context, I'm guessing they are referring to RAM limiting the dungeon size. Granted, your 8 GB stick would hold many more dungeon maps than a typical floppy.
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by II2II 3y ago
Realistically, these changes won't affect me directly. I pop onto Reddit a handful of times per month to view a local group. For that the website suffices (even though it is horrible on mobile). I will probably be indirectly affected b
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by II2II 3y ago
You could say that about almost any technology, yet we also have to face the reality that every technology has social implications. Take the Internet. A lot of people who were around in the 1990's thought it was a great thing at the ti
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by II2II 3y ago
What is preventing me from walking up to their Tesla and driving off with it?[1] Yes, there are security mechanisms and social norms that would prevent most people from doing that sort of thing. Yet there are more than enough people out the
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by II2II 3y ago
I used to be employed in a community where the vast majority of people collected welfare and did not work. Except that most of the people who did not work actually did work. They would hunt for food, chop fire wood, haul their garbage to th
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by II2II 3y ago
It's an odd situation, but I can see where the sentiment comes from. Poorer communities are usually the target of redevelopment, frequently with promises on how things will improve, only to discover that the promises were hollow down t
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by II2II 3y ago
You have to look at both. Consider a simplistic example: what would prevent the new majority from holding a vote to convert the social housing into market housing? (More realistically: they owners would either lobby to change the agreement
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by II2II 3y ago
I worked as a child and I worked as a teen. These were safe jobs with well defined boundaries that would not interfere with my education. I don't see much of a problem with that. This article isn't about legislation giving childre
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by II2II 3y ago
Twenty years ago, sure. Yet I every time I have the urge to use telnet on a modern system, I have to install it. You may as well install netcat if it is available (and if it is suitable to the task).
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by II2II 3y ago
It is probably best to say the author's advice is not practical and, for most people, not desirable. It is also worth adding the solution is problematic in the sense that being able to understand software from top to bottom is a skill
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by II2II 3y ago
They provide a consistent and simple way to setup multiple toolchains, manage dependencies, and integrate various tools within a popular development environment. While I am not a fan of how everything works, it appears to be the best freely
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by II2II 3y ago
One improvement would be to have their actions reflect their messaging. They claim their browser is about privacy, yet I am tweaking more and more settings as time goes on. Sometimes it is to enjoy the features where they are available. In
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by II2II 3y ago
Apple was a disaster, riding on the coattails of the Apple II, prior to the ousting of Jobs. The Apple III was both an engineering and market failure. The Lisa was an engineering and market failure. The future of the Macintosh was by no mea
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by II2II 3y ago
Yeah, it is a very sad state of affairs when a genuine effort is considered suspect. The thing is, so few students put in the effort and many of those who you do talk to are upfront about expecting a certain grade. It very much taints the e
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by II2II 3y ago
I ran into a situation where a graded component of a course required buying the textbook by the lecturer. It involved an online testing service through a company owned by the lecturer. I raised a complaint with the university pointing out i
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by II2II 3y ago
For nearly half of households, the severance for the CEO represents over 10 years of income. Households, not people. A great many of those people would have never received severance pay of any amount. Of those who do, they would be fortunat
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by II2II 3y ago
> Especially as a teacher, you get used to seeing the, uh, quality of work that gets produced. There was a time when I had to discuss a paper that was too well written with a student. The paper was too well written in both my eyes and th
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by II2II 3y ago
It depends upon what you're trying to achieve. To run software, emulation is great. To develop software, emulation is great. Anything that deals directly with hardware, well, emulation isn't going to cut it. Then there are the oth
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by II2II 3y ago
I don't see this view as being an indicator of a bad attitude. Actions are louder than words, and that is acknowledged in their post. (That said, I do view the implied motive as a negative. The intent of open communication may be hones
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by II2II 3y ago
> If you thought of and executed ChatGPT, or Tindr, or Facebook, before their creators, would you still have the same "ethical" views that you claim should be followed? Do you mean in terms of developing the services, or in ter
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by II2II 3y ago
If someone says, "I'm tired of dealing with X in Y," or, "I can't figure out how to do A in B," it may be appropriate to say Z or C will help. As for outright advocacy, it is poison. In the best case, it&#x27
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by II2II 3y ago
> A good number of people who have grown up with the promise of the tech are pretty well disgusted by what it's turned out to deliver (...) I grew up with the PC and matured with the Internet, being optimistic along most of the jour
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by II2II 3y ago
Performance and security may be my primary reasons for using an ad-blocker, but I must also admit that I would not remove the blocker even if those issues were addressed. On the rare occasion that I have used a computer without an ad blocke
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by II2II 3y ago
> "Paper pusher" type jobs are the most at risk but so are the low end of lots of creative jobs like copywriting, graphic design and even script writing. Something tells me that the low end creatives have a lot more to worry ab
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by II2II 3y ago
I get the impression that attitudes are starting to shift back to anticipation, but I suspect that many people are still leery due to the disruptive changes brought by KDE 4, Gnome 3, and Python 3 (to name three projects that immediately co
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by II2II 3y ago
> you’ve never made a mistake in your future predictions? youve never committed to something you couldnt deliver? I do my outright best not to avoid over-promising, since over promising can cause harm to others. Consider two parties here
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by II2II 3y ago
To be fair, there are behavioual interventions. That said, I do agree that there is a lot of pressure tobseek medical intervention for what are most likely environmental issues.

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