II2II

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by II2II 5mo ago
Yeah, and lot of people assume that something doesn't exist because they aren't personally aware of it. Quite often there are people who are willing to serve those who don't make mainstream choices. Other times, it means that
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by II2II 5mo ago
Yet that human complexity was often created to help us deal with natural complexity. Nature is indifferent. One year may produce an overabundance that the hunter/gatherer may take advantage of, yet the next year may be opposite and peo
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by II2II 5mo ago
I enjoy soldering, and like your comparisons. Yet I certainly don't blame the author for highlighting how unhealthy it is.
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by II2II 5mo ago
It's more of a case of the boy who cried wolf than it is of denial. Too many people see something they don't like, imply a nefarious motivation without evidence, then expect everyone to agree that it is corruption. If there is cor
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by II2II 5mo ago
One can also look at distinguishing what is important to what is unimportant to a particular person. Personally, I look towards functionality over aesthetics. That isn't to say that I will completely disregard aesthetics, but I have ce
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by II2II 5mo ago
I can't speak to that specific example, because I'm unfamiliar with the US highway system, but plenty of people got lost in the bad old days. At the very least, if you missed a turnoff, you would have to re-anchor yourself on a ma
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by II2II 5mo ago
It is reasonably safe to say that people find it funny because of the absurdity of the situation, while realizing that it is not funny for the person who has been declared as dead.
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by II2II 5mo ago
> It’s irritating enough that new linux installs want me to add accounts. I don't quite understand what you are saying here. If you're talking about setting up an account to use the system, it's the same idea as setting up
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by II2II 5mo ago
Most modern software uses .config, and I suspect the holdouts are due to cross-platform support issues. Windows may have it's own equivalents, but they are radically different from Unix. Developers may not want to deal with those diffe
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by II2II 5mo ago
> Someone here on HN used the term "cloud terminal" for modern electronic devices, and I think that is a very fitting name for phones and tablets. Not really, at least not in the case of Android. We have been able to install (a
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by II2II 5mo ago
> We're entirely curating what she's watching and I'm just not that concerned. That is likely the key element, along with being the reason why the guidance suggests no screen time before the age of 2. Some parents know wha
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by II2II 5mo ago
It has been a while since I've played interactive fiction, so I can't make a specific suggestion, but modern games seem to be better at keeping the directions consistent (or at least providing clues when they are not). As others h
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by II2II 5mo ago
> While it’s annoying in the moment to pedal around a parked car, I’m fine with it. Personally, I'm fine with it too. Problem is, a lot of motorists are not fine with that. Whether I get stuck on the road because the bike lane is cu
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by II2II 5mo ago
I regularly see more motorists run red lights in a given day than I have seen cyclists run red lights in a decade. Cycling is sufficiently common in my area to state outright that, proportionally speaking, more motorists run red lights than
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by II2II 5mo ago
First of all, the walk would rarely be more than half a block. Bike lanes go down a small number of streets, so one can usually unload on an intersecting street. Not ideal, but ... ... bike lanes are not the only thing that creates this iss
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by II2II 5mo ago
If I had to make a guess: the incorrect domain was transferred by mistake. Remember, the person who the domain was transferred to was trying to recover a domain. The employees went out of their way to avoid giving the domain back to the rig
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by II2II 5mo ago
Different people have different tastes, or balance the good and the bad of the different eras differently. Personally, I prefer the Internet of the 1990's. Part of that was the novelty and excitement. That led to a lot more experimenta
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by II2II 5mo ago
> If anything, my work on 90s site archival has taught me that the web has always been a place with a lot of dark places, and the narrative that the old web was some sort of pure innocent place that became evil is not matched by evidence
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by II2II 5mo ago
I've never been a big buyer of new books since they were always kinda expensive. That was especially true as a child. It is still somewhat true as an adult. The place where I notice the greatest change in price is in the used end of th
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by II2II 6mo ago
> Not just that, getting unpaid labor. That's peanuts. I dedicate far more time to locating goods on the shelf then toting them to the cashier than I do ringing in the purchase. You don't see very many people complaining about
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by II2II 6mo ago
> no one is insisting there are can only be one or two products per category. Then maybe people are trying to convince themselves. All that I can really say is that a lot of people pipe up to defend the titans when alternatives are sugge
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by II2II 6mo ago
They said that it affected less than 3% of Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets. I wonder how that number would change if they only considered Kindle e-readers? I suspect that the disposability of tablets distorts that number significan
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by II2II 6mo ago
If you can afford it, that is wonderful. For those who either cannot afford it or who don't need its features, then be happy that the competition is stepping up. They get the software they need. You get the software you need. I've
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by II2II 6mo ago
The point of the talk is it is non-trivial to detect those dependencies. It looks like most of the time was spent discussing Python. I suspect that is because it is possible to create software without an explicit build stage, so you would n
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by II2II 6mo ago
The toilet seat ad was well targeted (you have to read somewhere). More seriously though, print advertising was able to target readers based upon the demographics of the publications readership. They didn't track people across their on
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by II2II 6mo ago
> It’s pretty artificial in general; in “real life” you have the ability to go around online and look for sources. Sort of. In real life, you are expected to have immediate knowledge of your field and (in some environments) be able to p
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by II2II 6mo ago
Part of the purpose for evaluation is to provide feedback. I'm not going to claim that the form of feedback is great, but it does offer motivation to improve. The other thing that feedback feeds into is credentials. I realize that some
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by II2II 6mo ago
I don't downvote those comments, even though I have a serious problem them. These comments are little more than a witch hunt. It is clear from the language being used: "it's obvious", rather than providing evidence. When
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by II2II 6mo ago
I agree that it is nice to have the option when you don't need the quality. It is also nice to have the option when you are trying something new and don't know if you want to invest in quality. Yet the article goes further than th
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by II2II 6mo ago
Yes, I get it. It is inconvenient for legitimate uses. The problem is that our devices leak too much confidential data. Privacy was mentioned outright in the article. Safety/security was alluded to with an example, which is something t

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