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by Latty 5y ago
> I don't know what planet the "it wasn't like this in the good old days" people live on. Obviously not always, but often because you are viewing it through the a different lens: there is an unspoken "for people
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by Latty 5y ago
Who gets to decide what the excess is? I'm not saying they don't exist: if I advocate for gay rights, and turns out my employer has a bunch of homophobic customers who get me fired because they don't want to spend money that
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by Latty 5y ago
Individuals make that decision, just as they do when it comes to democracy as a whole. That's the point of freedom of speech: we can't have an authority on the truth. The alternative is you aren't allowed to dislike and ref
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by Latty 5y ago
Of course, it depends on what you view as harmful, and who's opinions you agree with. There is no obvious right answer. Pretending we can say "so this should never happen" is absurd in my view, it implies people have to give
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by Latty 5y ago
> I don't know what Popehat actually wants here. For people to stop calling it "cancel culture" whenever they face reasonable consequences for actions they take that harm others would be a good start. People not wanting to
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by Latty 5y ago
Reminds me of a classic linguistics joke (I assume from a Tom Scott video given where I encounter linguistics the most): A professor is lecturing on linguistics: "In English a double negative has a positive meaning. However, in some la
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by Latty 5y ago
Also up to 4 ARM instances, with 4 cores and 24GB(!) of RAM to split between them.
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by Latty 5y ago
After the backlash to Python 3's breaking changes, I doubt Python will ever do that again, unfortunately.
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by Latty 5y ago
Yeah, can confirm as another Brit this is definitely not true—as of the present day at least. Never heard of this.
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by Latty 5y ago
If you get hot while cooking, induction is the best—all the heat ends up in the pan, not the air around it. Induction took some getting used to, but outside of a few very specific things (mainly stir-fry), it's better than gas across t
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by Latty 5y ago
I'm sure it is at least partially just what you can get away with charging. Single burners are common for students and people with little room for anything larger, often very budget constrained. Cooktops are often being put in as a par
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by Latty 5y ago
Water really does make it obvious. I always used to use an electric kettle to heat water and then pour it into a pan to avoid waiting for it to heat on gas. With an induction hob it's super fast to heat.
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by Latty 5y ago
Implementing string formatting the right way can actually solve this problem, of course. In modern JS/TS, for example, string formatting isn't just used for constructing strings, and it can limit input types as well. This means yo
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by Latty 5y ago
Quoting box office sales while ignoring the fact this was released simultaneously for streaming really doesn't tell the full story.
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by Latty 5y ago
This was true originally, they added support to watch the original aspect ratio ages ago though: https://www.theverge.com/21273476/simpsons-original-4-3-aspe...
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by Latty 5y ago
Are ISPs really doing dynamic IPs for v6? That seems incredibly silly.
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by Latty 5y ago
So routers should inject DNS for LAN devices, that's how mine is set up. Admittedly it can be a small pain with some browsers defaulting to DNS over HTTPS and bypassing the router's DNS, but that's pretty recent and fixable.
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by Latty 5y ago
That article was really very optimistic about NAT traversal, while being very pessimistic about solutions to avoiding memorising IP addresses, which I think says something about their perspective going in. NAT is a nightmare that has direct
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by Latty 5y ago
That seems very hopeful to me. You can attach certificates of ownership that mean nothing inherently and no one has any incentive to respect. I see no evidence of anyone finding a good use for NFTs right now, and all the suggestions I'
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by Latty 5y ago
Maybe a bit glib, but I see this as a good thing: a reason to finally fix whatever process requires you to transcribe IP addresses, which is a pain to do even with v4 ones.
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by Latty 5y ago
OpenID let you have custom auth that you controlled. Basically no one supported it, and basically no one used it. What would make the "web3" version different?
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by Latty 5y ago
Unix filenames are just sequences of bytes, not defined as strings. Most programs parse them as utf-8, but there is nothing mandating that. Obviously that leads to problems.
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by Latty 5y ago
At least when it comes to both JetBrains and VSCode, they can handle one language embedded in another. I'm kind of surprised there are environments that don't handle that these days.
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by Latty 5y ago
The one that springs to mind was the one that changes the contents of the page while it's in the background to a google log in page—very sophisticated and not something most people were prepared to spot, as people think of following a
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by Latty 5y ago
Inherently less secure than an extension that fills the passwords, as it relies on you checking the URL correctly, while an extension will only fill it when the origin is correct, which means you are less likely to be phished (although a se
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by Latty 5y ago
I believe the reason, IIRC, is it's actually doing two DP streams because one isn't enough bandwidth for the full resolution, which you can't do in alt mode where the PC is literally using the pins of the connection as though
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by Latty 5y ago
I wouldn't advocate for laws against urination being "extinct", as the post I replied to did with de-platforming, no. I'd push for toilets, not the ability to piss in the street.
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by Latty 5y ago
Almost all computer hardware is sold within a range of specs, not absolute specs. The silicon lottery is a thing, and what you get could be exactly on the spec or above it to some level. As long as all the providers meet a given spec, if so
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by Latty 5y ago
How is that inconsistent? Just because it's good to have access to something doesn't mean we want it everywhere . This goes for a lot of things. It would be a problem if there was nowhere you could urinate, but that doesn't
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by Latty 5y ago
Would you care to expand? I think my point is sound and relatively simple: deplatforming isn't the problem, the lack of a public square is. Deplatforming is, in itself, a form of protected expression.

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