JasonFruit

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by JasonFruit 3y ago
I immediately started thinking of Puppy Linux when I saw that. My first Linux, d'aww...
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Sweet.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I've often wished that more vehicles were available in these highly visible colors. I really don't like driving a gray van on a gray road in the rain.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
, burning your mouth on the first few in your haste.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Add Microsoft Access to that list — it was crazy, both good and bad, what semi-tech people did with it.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I looked at a couple comments. They are in fact copying Reddit comments to HN, and it seems to have been a mildly successful strategy for... what exactly I'm not sure.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
The problem is evaluating quality before purchase. There's not a great way of expressing the sorts of factors that differentiate between good and bad LED bulbs that consumers can easily understand, let alone anything to encourage diffe
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I guess the idea is, why would you long tail when you can Pareto Principle?
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
If what you're saying is true, then the argument that this is inappropriate to democratic societies is also undermined: what rights the people have are entirely determined by what their democratically-elected overlords grant them. The
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
A minor-seeming terminology quibble that has far-reaching effects: the chat control proposal does not belong in human society. People in democratic societies don't have different rights than those under other political systems; eve
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Absolutely great! It makes https://antiwar.com work better than the actual website.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
That'll git ya a necktie party sure as shootin'.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
This is a generic argument that could be used anytime a negative word is deployed. "That's just the world we live in, and they might not be able to help it, poor dears!" It's so soft it's difficult to find a hard
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Exactly my reaction. Yes, it's important to exercise self-control with your phone. Yes, there's a time and a place. No, don't trust likely-looking strangers with something that gives access to so much of value.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
That may not be what GP was talking about, but that should be a separate post. I've never seen those lithographs before, and it's like having Picasso explain his work personally, with demonstrations. Amazing. I've never fe
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
This is really it for me. I don't mind having a touch screen; I just want to never have to use it while I'm driving.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
All true, but the throwaway account indicates that they correctly predicted the reception.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I think we're in agreement on this. It's true that the best classical music has great depths to be plumbed, and some of it requires an understanding of the techniques and intentions of the composers, but there's still plenty
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
One place it doesn't work is razors. I've never been so happy with expensive razors and cartridges as I am with my simple, cheap handle and double-edged razors. But then, I do spend the few extra cents each for the good blades,
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I think this is the last thing people need. Do you really expect me to listen to 36 hours of lectures before I am able to appreciate art music? Listen to the music! Then, if you hear something that clicks with you, and you want to learn
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I think you are probably correctly identifying their argument. I think there's no contradiction between recognizing that there's little you can do about national and international matters, and being concerned for the welfare of th
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
This seems like the least sqlite-like possible thing. Immediately, it makes me ask if sqlite is the right tool for a job that involves Google Sheets. But I'm sure it fills a very particular need for some people.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I can't help but think you're making a lot of not particularly charitable assumptions about people who opt out of online culture in this comment.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
You know what? I'm fine. It's easy to think what you see on the Internet is real, but it's not; at most, it's only part of what's real. There's a huge segment of the population that doesn't reveal itself
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
My bet is that OpenAI, for all its dominance right now, won't be a sole provider long into the future. Being banned by them early won't be a lifelong handicap.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
As the rabbis say, "May this day come quickly and in our time!" Except maybe not the whole destroying the Earth with atomics part.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
People want their eggs and milk privately, but when the shopkeeper steals their money and runs away, they want the police and the courts. That's not really inconsistent.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
Is "I have a magnet in my finger!" the new "I'm vegan!"?
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I remember when Puppy Linux's (on-disk) size limit was 50MB. There's a reason you don't use, "Is it tiny?" in twenty questions.
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by JasonFruit 4y ago
I mostly agree, but there are a few notifications I really want, most particularly battery and device status notifications. If you have a mechanism for that, you might as well have a mechanism for whatever other notifications might be of

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