LaGrange

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by LaGrange 7y ago
> That is to say, a mainstream phone’s production is so optimized and streamlined, that the weighted average environmental impact of making 10 more (e.g. iPhones) is significantly less than the weighted average environmental cost of maki
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Except not. Cookies (and just generally browser storage) for authentication and other purely functional needs are fine without any disclaimer nonsense. Of course folk get creative and declare Google Analytics "purely functional."
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by LaGrange 7y ago
"Users don't care for privacy," has been said to me so many times, justifying questionable decisions. This blows such a huge hole in that it's silly.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> A cabby can easily be on the way to pick you up, find someone on the way and never let you know. ...what? That sounds really unlikely. > cabbies never let you know if they're not coming in my experience. Well, that's oppo
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by LaGrange 7y ago
I actually don't want an edge-to-edge screen or FaceID, though, and 5S is already a bit bigger than I'd like. So no, it's not a clear upgrade. I'd probably grin and bear it, but it does feel like people don't sell p
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> My work bought me an "upgrade" to the XR, as my SE is starting to show some battery issues. I got my 5S's battery replaced super cheap literally downstairs from my apartment. I suspect I might end up doing that again, th
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Same in Slovenia, yeah. Call, wait 15 minutes, cab shows up... or not ...I had that happen _once_, and: > at least they tell you immediately if the driver cancels. ...exactly that happened. Amazing, it's like they ask you for y
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> predictable waiting times, ease of finding cabs in remote locations, ease of payment As someone who used call cabs in various Polish towns and suburbs since early 2000s, is claiming this was particularly bad is short memory or is the U
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by LaGrange 7y ago
...because it is different? If you're a small fry, you hurt fewer people, and any claims that it's a survival necessity are at least plausible. It's also quite likely that people you hurt are actually worse than you, as is po
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by LaGrange 7y ago
You are trying to convince me that ethics are important. I already believe that. You perhaps might try to convince me that companies care about that, but you started off with a bunch of counter examples.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
The situation remains the same: Jargon file is bad.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Caring about ethics is too old fashioned for software "engineering," reputation is maintained by someone else, software developers tend to think the law happens to other people and HAHAHAHAHA. ...that's about it.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> So you know one guy that quit over having and ORM instead of using SQL... do you have any idea how many quit due having to deal with thousands of lines of SQL string concatenations because some genius that also hates ORMs decided to do
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> There is a lot of English-language media to study, and a lot of people speak English to practice with This is so important. While I've at some point knew both Dutch and German well enough to hold a basic conversation or read artic
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by LaGrange 7y ago
As a trans woman, I’d rather they did. Even if they don’t get fired, at least I know it’s not safe to come out. “Don’t ask don’t tell” is a tempting policy, but that’s how you end up surrounded by TERFs when something inadvertently outs you
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by LaGrange 7y ago
The idea is that you have a dev cluster _per developer_. I've ran with something similar way back working for a certain notable Perl shop way before k8s/Docker became popular, and I have to say it has a lot going for it, especiall
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Jeff needs a good art director. Nah. I mean, I want Jeff to have a good art director because I find the visuals distracting and a bit unpleasant part of games I otherwise might enjoy, but it's pretty clear he doesn't need one
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by LaGrange 7y ago
It catches way too much. IPython, black and the testing libraries are _not_ a part of my actual dependencies and shouldn't be installed in production. A good UI for a dependency manager at the very least distinguishes between dev and p
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> Reading more of your comments in this thread, and in our interaction prior; I've determined you're an extremely bitter person. ...I went extremely bitter just from reading this sentence.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Judging by the replies in this thread, I fully expect someone to show up and explain that the soil is in fact perfectly sane.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
She 's a PhD that literally teaches the stuff, and you're the person who couldn't even be bothered to read the mini-bio, not to mention the references at the end.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
I mean, if you present rent control as something that just happens in isolation, as the last policy ever, then sure, it wouldn't work. Otherwise you might have to confront the idea that government might, say, establish rent control _an
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> On the other hand I am not blowing dev and qa time on learning/developing tools to replace curl/jq/browser/text editor. Is your turnover so high that learning a single tool is a significant portion of employee costs
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Nginx is probably my fav of the surviving-and-thriving ones. It still remains very distinct from Apache, but calling it simpler would be a large stretch. Projects like qmail discovered the reason in a somewhat _harder_ manner. And yes, I&#x
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by LaGrange 7y ago
In my experience, every technology focused on building a "simple" alternative to a long-established "complex" technology is doomed to discover exactly _why_ the other one became "complex." Also spawn at least f
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by LaGrange 7y ago
Office is fine? I mean, yes, it feels "non-native," but there's not much left that feels "native" anymore. The concept is as dead as brutalist architecture. And it's not sluggish at all on my 2015 MB Pro.
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> After dealing with Microsoft’s subpar effort in porting their apps to Mac you won’t find too many people who will enthusiastically install another MS product on their Mac. Subpar effort in porting? They've been excellent for somet
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> No-one ever says "We spend billions on Football; let's spend it on poor people instead", or "We spend billions on the music and film industries, let's shut those down and instead tax everyone for the average en
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by LaGrange 7y ago
I don't know what you are referring to here. Care to elaborate? You make assumptions about individual user's consent from whatever bulk experiences you might have measured. Either that, or you didn't even measure anything and
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by LaGrange 7y ago
> From a regular user point of view, it would be acceptable It would be not, stop pretending acquiring consent from a statistical model counts as acquiring consent from the actual user. Thing you wrote may make it acceptable for you, but

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