LinXitoW

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by LinXitoW 2y ago
I agree that profit driven companies will never ever care about the morality or the safety or the social impacts of their choices. I don't think, however, that "publishers would use disabled children slave labor if they could&quot
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Until the obviously detectable cheaters like spinbots get INSTANTLY banned, I don't believe for a second they've "tried everything". If hackers have to limit themselves to behaviour that looks like real skill, it's
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
IANAL, but this seems more like a classic temper tantrum thrown by a big corp over reasonable legislation. They could offer an API for security relevant scanning for EVERYONE, including their own antivirus software. But that would make the
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
If I ask my repository (backed by an sql db) to get a user, there might be 3 different scenarios I'm interested in: - Technical problem (like connection problems) means I don't know what's in the db - No technical problem, bu
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Almost all criticisms of monopolies comes from the abuse they enable. On an abstract level, a monopoly is the best option, because it removes so much extra cost, and has the ultimate scaling factor. Like early Netflix with it's seeming
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You're comparing apples to sofas, in my opinion. The issue with monopolies isn't just their existence, it's their active efforts to keep their monopoly and the negative effects this has on the customer. Apples monopoly hurts
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
People choosing the better product is not and has never been a monopoly. It requires active anti-competitive actions to maintain that monopoly that makes it a monopoly. At least, that's the way I've seen people speak of monopolies
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How can you call any of that "punishment" or anti-competitive? Steam offers the far superior platform, in every possible aspect. Every thing you've said is them OFFERING (not FORCING) better solutions to things. For example,
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
In the context of pollinators, our pointless want of animal products is a far bigger factor. Something like 75% of farmland is used for animal AG, which only provides x<<75% of calories and protein we consume. Honey comes from a farm
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If companies want the nice parts of being "a person", they should also deal with the bad parts of being a person. Financial fines are not enough. Though I'm not sure how we'd build a jail cell for an entire company.
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No, it's still a range, the difference is simply that a good manager would plan such that Christmas is at the very far end of the range. Bad managers will plan with the optimistic end of the range, and then expect crunch time from expl
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
From my very limited exposure to virtual threads and the older solution (thread pools), the biggest hurdle was the extensive use of ThreadLocals by most popular libraries. In one project I had to basically turn a reactive framework into a o
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
So you've never been screwed over by an online-only product becoming horribly shitty, or incredibly expensive? To me, the ability to counteract any insane company policies is a big reason that the ability to self host is incredibly imp
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But you'd need other data to prove (or at least strongly suggest) that the data isn't representative. You can't just say "the data COULD be unrepresentative", then just use some random guys anecdotes on the internet
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
245032701. The first number I ever memorized, and likely the only number eternally burned into my mind.
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
"Species" is, in and of itself, a man made construct. To define your own morals by an arbitrary distinction isn't just simplistic, it's downright dangerous. It wasn't long ago that certain people were considered &qu
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
WE should keep the history of the world in mind. How things shake out when people say "there's too many people". Who gets killed first? Who gets involuntarily sterilized? WE should consider that in the equation of "overp
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Rgenerative AG is BS. For example, they'll talk about how they sequester CO2, but fail to mention that after 10 years, the ground reaches a limit, from which point forward it produces far more CO2 than our current meat production. They
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by LinXitoW 2y ago
Just because you can adapt to verbosity does not make it a good idea. I've gotten used to Javas getter/setter spam, does that make it a good idea? Moreover, don't you think that something like Rusts ? operator wouldn't b
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
That's irrelevant if the the resource usage is already far beyond what is sustainable. If you take on a lot of debt that you can't pay back every single year, claiming that you're going to stop taking on new debt is not the w
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Well, because more and more farms are being bought up, making farms bigger and bigger, and reducing the amount of "hard working, honest small family farms" everyone likes to imagine they get their food from. There is no reasonable
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
They are, more and more. They richer a country becomes, the more they demand meat and animal products, the more they overconsume resources relative to provided calories/protein. And who cares about India, when we're already screwi
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Hmm, if there was a movement that organized around ending animal ag, and they called for individuals to stop consuming animals, would that not count as working towards systematic change? Conversely, all your examples also require individual
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
The simple issue is that in the calculation "amount_of_people * amount_of_consumption > carrying_capacity", only one of them is easily advocated for in an ethical manner. We have a loooooooong history of measure taken to reduce
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Considering that alfalfa production is drying up the Colorado(?) river, wastefully and destructively producing feed crops at home instead of importing them is not the win you think it is.
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grass fed or grass finished? Because if they graze for a bit, but then still have to fed a ton of feed crops to fatten them up fast enough, it's a distinction without a difference. In the end, all versions of beef production remotely p
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Which is an efficiency not required by us at the moment, and a mode of production that couldn't cover even a percent of the entire current or future meat production. Our problem isn't tetris with land. We have way, way, way more l
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
There's a bunch of old people that have kids that also very clearly don't give a damn about preserving the world for the next generation. Should they also not be allowed to vote? Hell, I would bet that childfree people are more li
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
For me, faster typing isn't about saving time in total, it's about reducing the time between thoughts. Typing is a manual process that hinders my thinking, so the faster I can dip into and out of typing, the faster I can get back
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Obviously ADTs are probably just a standin, but I think they are a feature absolutely every language ever should have. They are also not very expensive, esp. runtime wise they're (afaik) equivalent to the clunkier solutions (like class

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