KyeRussell

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by KyeRussell 3y ago
I mean…using desktop Linux in the first place is already an incredibly harsh qualifier. macOS and even Windows (+ WSL) are no doubt serving the needs of many people that need a *nix environment for their work, and eating into the percentage
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Back when I was a desktop Linux user, a very sizeable portion of the other people I knew that used it weren’t “software engineers”. They were ‘power users’. I don’t think that my experience was all that atypical.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
No. You’re wrong. You by all accounts appear to be in such a bubble that you can’t comprehend these things meaning less to other people than they do to you. This reasoning is incredibly incredibly dangerous and there are countless very co
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
I wouldn’t call this cynical, I’d call it incredibly naive. Notwithstanding the fact that we are still feeling out what LLMs can and cannot do. When are established players quick to move? When does disruptive tech NOT have to fight back aga
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Nobody has heard of the vast majority of companies? Hacker News just spends an outsized about of time talking about the same 6.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
This reasoning unfortunately just invites the same sort of silly American exceptionalism that we see everywhere else.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Even in ‘07, Apple had a track record for doing things right, not doing things first. Current-day Google churns out sterile, uninspiring products, and kills them. If your argument is “this company is going to act out of character and do som
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Yes, we saw your other comment stating the same thing. You are doing a whole lot of tea leave reading with basically zero visibility, which I can’t really reconcile with how absolute you’re being with your language.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
The classic Gen X parent “over-medicated child” scapegoat is stimulant medication for ADHD. It needs to be said that the reality for better or worse is that compared to other psych meds the efficacy is pretty damn high, and the entirely
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
And? MDMA very realistically shouldn’t be lumped in with cocaine, heroin, etc. Hell, opiates as a whole! Just based on the effect profile and typical usage patterns, I baselessly posit that one is more likely to be a daily marijuana user th
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Oh please. Survey 100 random non-US residents and I’ll eat my hat if the majorly don’t say that US gun policy is absurd. The typical American argument is that the US is exceptional and that the views of “these damn foreigners” don’t matter.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
That’s incredibly generous. The VPN industry is deserving of its bad reputation. Collecting user data in clear contravention of their TOS. Using hacked boxes as VPN endpoints to get people onto residential IP ranges. And whatever else. I’m
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
So you’re suggesting that law enforcement take someone at their word? I understand that some people are more less clued in than others, but your snarkiness really misplaced. The VPN industry is notoriously shady, and that’s not just code fo
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Oh man! DVD Shrink. I haven’t once enough about that in the past…15 years, at least.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
So, which of these criteria were contrived, and which were left out, all to make this fit into “CRISP”?
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
This doesn’t change anything about the comment that you’re replying to.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Tell that to the scores of kids that have come up not understanding a filesystem because they just…haven’t needed to, in large part because they grew up using Chromebooks, happily. Stop conflating yourself with a “normal person”. It’s quite
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Okay. You’ve immediately alienated all but the smallest minority of users to draw a distinction that most people just flat out don’t experience.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
You are misattributing the cause. It’s not because they’re web-based, it’s because they aren’t *really^ Word, Excel, etc. I’ve shot myself in the foot one too many times with the web-based Office suite. There’s a reason there’s a nice big b
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
“SvelteKit is too complicated, it doesn’t even have this thing that would certainly make it more complicated!”
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
More important? Or more famous?
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Let’s not conflate America’s “democratic process” with the democratic process. Your silly FPTP voting system is barely the tip of the iceberg.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
That’s absurd. It’s inside a video game. It’s all make-believe and inherently non-transferable, unlike an ebook. What would any afforded “ownership” actually mean in practical terms?
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
That makes the name Atari a classic gaming name. You’re ignoring the actual headline to try to nerd snipe.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Nobody that “does science” says “do science”. This just feels like you’re advocating for some nebulous form of “real work”. Check your priors.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Wow! You really showed…”some people”!
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Uhhh, “is this box poppable” is a whole lot less subjective than this.
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Don’t conflate “allows the owner of the means of production to extract the most surplus value” with “market efficiency”. This sort of shit has negative economic and societal consequences. I’m sick to death of naive tech bros thinking that e
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
Sorry but you’re taking such an elitist tone about this whole thing, and it’s completely unjustified. The only reason yo see this as different is because you’re feeling sour and contrarian about the AI hype. Take that away, and it’s an incr
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by KyeRussell 3y ago
The people that are making these silly distinctions aren’t the ones making meaningful buying decisions. And if they are, they’re very bad at their jobs.

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