JohnFen

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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Wow, that answer could not have been more condescending. The title of this post is editorial. The question asked was "Do FAANG developers look down on non-FAANG developers?" And while the answer doesn't literally answer that
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But in the absence of a reliable signal (which I doubt this is anyway, so I'm speaking hypothetically), lots of people will get their work dismissed as AI-generated when it isn't.
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Non-lethal weapons are also torture devices, in this case extremely convenient torture devices that are being handed to an agency that seems fairly eager to torture people.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
According to them, they're tracking Wifi + Bluetooth identifiers. And yes, for me this means that I've graduated from just putting my phone in airplane mode when I enter a store (to avoid the trackers too many stores have started
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True, but that's unavoidable. The population literally can't keep growing indefinitely, so that demographic shift in inevitable. It's just a question of when. The logical thing to do is to find ways to soften the impact of th
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Cars themselves got a lot better in many ways, and a lot worse in many other ways. In my view, the overall balance of those two has decidedly tilted in the "worse" direction.
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Fair enough. For me, these tools drain too much of the fun and joy out of software development. I'm not leaning into it at all. If my profession requires me to work in a way or under conditions that actively make me unhappy, the only r
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
I'm skeptical of the 92% figure as well (I'd guess that 60-70% of people have forgone advisable medical care at least once), but there's no question that a large percentage of people in the US avoid getting medical care becau
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What's wrong with buying the standard length (which doesn't require special processing by the supplier so doesn't suffer from the minimum order size or shipping delays) and cutting it up yourself?
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> Or lying through their teeth regarding the justifications for this relaxation of regulations? It's this. The purpose of getting rid of regulations is to help further entrench oligopoly and benefit large corporations and the very w
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It's because the "natalists" are pushing the issue for political reasons. They've made it a culture war thing. A declining birthrate is actually a good thing, not a bad thing.
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Medical care in the US is insanely expensive, but also -- at least in some parts of the country -- it can be difficult to get at any price. Good luck finding a doctor that is taking new patients at all in my part of the country.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Maintaining detailed, personal records about you is the primary purpose of affinity programs for any company. Staying far, far away from them all is well-advised.
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If the police stationed officers constantly at major intersections doing that, the outcry would be no less than having cameras do it. Also, if it's the police, at least they're part of the community and people can monitor and have
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> especially being scared by the expressions on the zombie seniors sitting in front of the slot machines shoveling quarters in. It's not just seniors. I used to date a woman who worked as a cocktail waitress on the floor of a major
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Doing good deeds does not absolve anyone of their bad deeds. > How does your judgement apply to folks who attach their altruistic efforts to the funding and reach of a big company? If it's getting the company to fund your altruistic
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> let agents create their own clearly labeled public profiles How is that useful?
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Yeah, that's absurdly awful. But, to be honest, new cars became unacceptable to me years ago anyway, when they started phoning home.
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That's not the definition of "funding". "Funding" is setting money aside for a specific purpose. When that money is spent doesn't enter into it.
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If you work for a company, you are enabling that company's practices. If those practices are bad and you are aware of them, then continuing to work there means your hands are dirty too. People have, of course, every right to make such
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
That's a serious oversimplification. A CEO doesn't have any duty to maximize profit at all costs. "Shareholder value" includes quite a lot of things that aren't directly about that at all. Often, the way to optimize
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Oh, man, I sure hope not.
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No automatic updates is a desirable feature for me, not a problem.
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In terms of flavor, seedless watermelons are very inferior to the seeded varieties. I wonder if the same is true of these blackberries and cherries?
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What's a "griefer"? How can they mess you up based on your prompt? I don't understand what you're talking about here, and the video doesn't work without having an account, so I can't watch it.
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I used to just put my phone in airplane mode whenever I entered a place of business, because of the trackers too many businesses use. Now I know I actually need to put my phone in airplane mode any time I'm out of the house. Or maybe i
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And the crime of just living a normal life without the constant surveillance threat and constant threat of inappropriate police attention. In my view, these systems are themselves a very large threat to the public.
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Everything about humans is still evolving.
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> when news sites change articles, without any indication, without any differences and/or old version linked somewhere? I take that as a strong indication that the news outlet is not to be trusted.
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I'd happily pay for news if there were a way to do it without feeding the data collection machine. Physical newspapers have been effectively killed. Physical magazines have been effectively killed. That means the only way to pay for ne

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