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by Nicksil 3y ago
>Does anyone actually care? >This news has come up on HN like four times already. It would seem so, yes.
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by Nicksil 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>first of all, the telemetry is often more useful for PMs to make decisions on what efforts to prioritize vs not, and to assess relative success of launches. second of all, the work that developers and PMs do with this anonymized data is
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>If someone builds a frontend website that you use, do you have the right to not have any metrics gathered about how you use their frontend that they built? Yes, absolutely. That website's code is being executing on my machine, cons
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by Nicksil 4y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35154527
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Why just repost my sourced link? I didn't. As Cyphase said [0], I posted the non-mobile link which many people -- including myself -- appreciate. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35007189
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Probably not
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I know what’s going on, I just don’t care that much. I’m not going to claim to speak for most people, but neither should you. No I'm pretty confident that the majority of people don't know what's going on because why woul
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Most people don’t care. How do you know this? >They don’t care if Amazon, Facebook, and Google know what they are doing online. They opt in to tracking by joining loyalty programs to save a few bucks. Privacy is just not a concern mo
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>"Screeching" in english [...] is typically a gendered [...]. It's not. >You generally wouldn't say a man was "screeching". Sure you would. I've never seen it posed any other way or with any other in
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by Nicksil 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atidarsagene_autotemcel
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Also a good one: Kerbal Space Program 2 Cinematic Announce Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nj6wW6Gsc
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Kerbal Space Program 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer(youtube.com)
46 points by Nicksil 4y ago|7 comments
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Government censorship would be the government preventing anyone from buying or borrowing through any legal mean, and penalizing those who read it. You're describing some thing being outlawed. A government may censor information tha
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>> Witch Trials >> world’s most successful author. >> J.K. Rowling is arguably the most successful author in the history of publishing, with the possible exception of God. > lol alrighty, that is one way to start an art
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>This is a high school library, not censorship from the government. This is a public school. It is precisely censorship from the government.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Duck it https://duck.com
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>No bad thing happened Right, because "near." It's in the title.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I hate that they call this having a "near-collision" >They came close to having a collision What? >but there was nothing like any sort of collision Because "near"
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Xerox PARC
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by Nicksil 4y ago
> [...] now the New York Times [...] Also this: (Note: This is under the opinion section, however.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34176590
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by Nicksil 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Jones#Legal_issues
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>This is what happens when you fire everyone who knows what they are doing and start unplugging random server racks. Has Twitter ever had an outage before the Elon Musk kerfuffle?
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Go see a doctor and/or professional.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I never trusted any of these cunts. I didn't give them my money because I'm not a fucking idiot. How dare you try to assume I wrote my post out of personal anger. How dare you victim blame me in the face of a robber barons. Yo
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>They’re accomplishing every feature except a modern functioning browser. >Eventually Firefox is just gonna be an SVG renderer with “ethical cookie tracking” lol, the Firefox shitposting has become so lazy.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Is engineering the same now as it was before software? The core concepts which make engineering engineering? Yeah. >The group that wants to protect or maintain ownership of the word "engineer" is dependent upon the people w
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Take away the software, and how do the professional engineers work? No CAD. No structural analysis. No fluid dynamics simulations. Engineering was a thing before software.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Please stop posting ChatGPT output; it contributes nothing to the conversation and only adds (a lot of) noise.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>If software developers had a professional oath to do no harm akin to doctors, creating such systems would be professional malpractice. Some lines just shouldn't be crossed. akin to engineers as well.

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