JohnFen

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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Flying is much worse in pretty much every way, not just from the '60s, but even from a couple of decades ago (and it wasn't that great then). Flying is so unpleasant now that I go to great lengths to avoid having to do it. Yes, it
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I disagree with the characterization that "music stopped mattering". Maybe it stopped mattering so much online or if all you're looking at is mass-market commercialization, but in general? It looks as alive and important as e
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
True, but I may as well just use a different, actually lightweight application instead.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> just to note the police are allowed to execute people even not in self defense. Only if they reasonably believe that the suspect represents an immediate danger to the public. And even then, they're expected to use the minimum amou
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> The picture this is trying to paint is that she was completely innocent and was shot for no reason. No, the picture is that the shooting was unjustified, not that she was some uninvolved bystander. > The only reason ICE had to get t
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
To paraphrase Einstein... show me someone who has never failed and I'll show you someone who has never tried anything new. Failure is how we learn. It's a good thing, if not always pleasant, as long as we take the lessons from it.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> you're hanging out with friends. Talking. Laughing. The moment one person checks their phone, everyone else follows. In my social circle, anyway, this doesn't happen. It's considered incredibly rude to check your phone w
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
...and the destruction of Notepad and Paint for my uses cases is nearly complete. > Notepad now also comes with a welcome screen designed to help users discover the appțs newest features, a dialog that will appear on first launch and can
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
There's a common practice in the US of letting shoplifters "get away with it" while compiling detailed records and evidence of their crimes. The idea is to let them keep stealing until their accumulated thefts cross the dolla
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> Loves agents more than humans I would recommend people avoid companies that say things like this. If they want you to deprioritize people, they're also deprioritizing you.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I think we have bigger fish to fry. When you're surrounded by too many urgent problems, you need to triage.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I think your final questions can't really be answered by people here. They take actual market research. As a very strong rule of thumb, though, the reason why people may use a thing when it's free but not be willing to pay for it
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> It simply describes the recognition of material as "AI-generated". That works as a good definition for me. Whether or not you want to call it "slop", anything that helps to filter out AI-generated stuff could be hel
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> you often end up with someone getting over excited and bidding more than the next buy me now price for the same product. I don't find auctions exciting or compelling, so I doubt I'd get overly excited about bidding. I'd
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
But what you are legally allowed to do and what you can do without the cops retaliating are two different things. If I were a tourist in the US just looking to enjoy a vacation with a minimum of risk, I'd avoid recording the police, or
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> For some reason, auctions with more bidders seem to attract more bidders, whereas auctions with zero bids seem to go unnoticed. Huh. I'm a "buy it now" guy and filter out the auctions, but maybe I should start looking fo
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
That was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. For my use case, it rendered Notepad unusable.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I know a couple of doctors and they both told me the same thing (this is likely dependent on exactly where you are): the amount of time they can spend with any given patient is less than 15 minutes. In practice, they have to "rob peter
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
This is the way, in my opinion.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
What I've described is also pretty much the way this worked for all software back in the day.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
True. But a whole lot of that loss of the human element isn't about AI one way or another. It's about doctors being ridiculously overworked.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> At some point, the business model changes: subscriptions are introduced, and features people already paid for disappear or become locked behind a new paywall. If this happens, trust is immediately broken. They have taken away something
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
There's a trust problem for that use case, though. I don't have a primary care physician because in the area I live in, there are no doctors that I can find that are taking new patients. Regardless, I wouldn't want any of my
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Why would they care about Notepad++'s impact, though? Nobody is deciding whether or not to use Windows based on Notepad. For some of us, Notepad was most useful in its original form and Notepad++ was not a good replacement. But at leas
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I honestly think that the ability to shove updates out live is one of the worst things about software these days. Well, the ability to do so isn't bad, but the way companies actually do it makes it bad.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> Tabs and auto-recover are welcome additions They were very unwelcome to me.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
That's a patently absurd reason (although I could totally see it). They could have just renamed it rather than destroy the value proposition of Notepad.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
There's probably some truth to that. The tragedy is that every time that cycle repeats, respect for the US, and US power on the world stage, declines more. It's already going to take decades to repair the damage done, and total re
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> Is there a technical reason to prefer one over the other from a data security perspective? The rule of thumb would be to prefer the OBD data. The most secure data is the data that is never even exposed, and OBD exposes less than a smar
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Exactly so. I also read that statement as being functionally equivalent to "if you aren't already successfully in the space, then there's no point in bothering". That's the exact opposite of what we need for a healt

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