JeffSnazz

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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> they explained how they believe that the US will never regain what it has given away, in the last couple of decades. Sure we can. It requires pivoting into stealing or otherwise replicating China's insane level of industrializatio
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> that's to start improving the grid and increase the use of EVs. Notably, one of these needs to occur before the other.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
No, not at all. What's the use case outside of graphic design?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> It’s already the case with GDPR. This doesn't matter much when emails are sold and sent from outside the EU/UK. This would probably need to be a protocol-level adjustment to ensure consent before contact.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Doesn't really matter when emails are sold on an open market outside the EU/UK.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Man I wish no private corp was allowed to contact you without an opt-in. Would really make email useful again....
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but there's not evidence in the linked paper that this is the only trigger for lupus, just a possible single one.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Tbh I would prefer static pages over a spa by a factor of about ten. Way easier to work around the service provider to get a decent experience.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I don't see apple making something like this but maybe I'm just not seeing the demand.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Well if you build them elsewhere you're not going to do much about the unhoused population downtown. That just leads to using police violence to forcibly segregate by class.... Anyway, housing is kind of fucked so long as americans con
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> One things cities do wrong is trying to house homeless people near downtown. It's pretty critical to build housing where there's actually need, or it won't do much.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
What's wrong with building properly dense public housing?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
These are the styles the company's accused of stealing, right?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I can't say I've ever used one click purchase or next day delivery, but I'd argue prime is a great example of enshittification, not a positive customer experience. The service is effectively subsidized by the USPS and the cus
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Yea I guess I'm not sure what people envision when they say "amazing"—having an online store might have been revolutionary in 1994, but not by 2004, and certainly not by 2012. What set them apart was just inventory.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I'm honestly confused how many people run into "nothing but counterfeits" and others never see any (or maybe the counterfeits aren't actually worse quality so this goes unnoticed)
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> I love how Amazon has gone from customer obsession to the lowest of the lowest common denominator. Maybe I'm misremembering but I don't remember this halcyon time where amazon was able to distinguish themselves from competito
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> This thing is large and likely loud enough to be useless in any real warzone that we have nowadays you realize we still use planes in combat right
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Our love of floating signifiers and words with multiple or contradictory definitions.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> against well-defined knowledge bases, as a sort of anti-hallucination measure. Given that humans don't have anything resembling well-defined knowledge I'm somewhat confused why this keeps coming up as something desirable.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
The idea is that you'd build it into whatever command-line parsing tool you use. Presumably this would be runtime-specific. And yes, the entire point is to escape the terminal and rely on native interface constraints (e.g. disabling&#x
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I get the sense that Boeing has been zombified by finance suits. Is there any truth to this?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> E.g. I wish banks and credit cards had a pseudo SSH terminal that I could run text commands to list transactions. Really, it'd be nice if they offered any upgrade from the 80s beyond a smartphone app. How does the rest of the wo
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
With all these command-line parser libs, I'm surprised there aren't more libraries that automatically generate a graphical interface for them. Would be super useful for e.g. ffmpeg, cc, curl, etc. Especially for people unfamiliar
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
I don't understand why these are worth casually distinguishing, but good to know.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> You definitely do want backups in the same location as production if possible to enable rapid restore. This is a distant second priority to ensuring any reliable backup.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> companies usually are a detriment to society Companies are all we have for a society in this country; decades of liberalization, mobile work forces, and commodification-as-identification have ensured that.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> There is nothing wrong with buying and liquidating a company. Um, I disagree—there's a lot wrong with that mindset.
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
Not even QEMU can manage it? I imagine it's slow of course, but I'm a little surprised that there's simply no solution. Is this a driver issue or something?
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by JeffSnazz 3y ago
> Growing the economy isn't inflationary. It is if you provide a route to citizenship for ~16M americans, many of which are not making minimum wage. > Rich people don't contribute to inflation as much because they have lower

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