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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Oh, absolutely. I'm all for building smaller phones. If I could get a Pixel 3a new today, I absolutely would be using that. I'm just saying that GP is being a bit disingenuous in setting this trend at the feet of Google or manufac
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> all Android phones (last I checked) being phablet-sized Major manufacturers, Apple included, keep making phones bigger; it's frustrating. However, I think it's a bit unfair to say that, for instance, the Pixel A-series (which
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
People are allowed to write fiction. The page is clearly labelled as such (the fourth word on the page is "fiction"!) and qntm is a relatively well-known fiction author. If anything, posting it to HN is the issue.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
It's worse for competition, yeah. If I want to start a music streaming service, I'm evaluated not on the quality of my service but the fact that I don't have a deal in place with these carriers. If it's technically feasi
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
The traditional Linux-bashing post, which is effectively (to my mind) countered by the traditional response, which is that another indie dev found [1] that most of these issues were not Linux-specific. That is to say, Linux users don't
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Yes, correct.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Given that people are already firing real human workers to replace them with worse but cheaper LLMs, I'd argue that we're not talking about a competing technology, but that the competition is simply not firing your workforce. And,
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Sounds like a good thing. Those companies will either pay their workers what they're worth, or hurt for talent.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
What a weirdly incoherent headline. Why not, "Smoking is Dying Out, Except in Germany", which is an actual sentence that conveys the same information in fewer words?
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I dunno. I've met most of my friends, including a lot of people in my local area, via the Fediverse, long before these recent waves of migration. Numbers are a lot less important than real connection.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
The short term solution is making A/C very accessible and reliable. The long term solution is no longer putting huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. It is imperative to do both, no matter the (e: monetary) expense.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> Dismissal of these thoughts may be the safest course of action, lest one finds themselves either burdened or enlightened by further contemplation on the subjects at hand. Setting yourself up to reject any criticism as a symptom of the
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Comments here are wild. There is a very serious problem; the solutions to the problem are known; powerful people are preventing those solutions from being implemented; people are angry about that; anger motivates those people to do progress
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
That you dislike it when people use incorrect but clear language does not mean that it invalidates their point.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> I expect better from a publication as “woke” as Scientific American. This strikes me as a prime example of "woke" having lost all meaning. What would it mean here? Having an orientation towards truth? Giving a shit about mino
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
It mentions it in one sentence and then caveats it with saying oh but they're crazy and irritating. It then moves on to talk more about how we're all doomed. It's just unnecessarily negative.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
As with all (and especially self-identified) doomer literature, this piece stops just before the important realization: you can't do it yourself , but you can do it with your community . Our lives are going to get worse. Many people
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I dunno, the ancients did an awful lot of sitting around. At least the rich ones.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
In my opinion, this misses the point that cheap, year-round, exciting, and well-covered tournament play is one of the best advertisements for Magic that Wizards could possibly invest in. That was the whole reason the Pro Tour existed to beg
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I wonder if there might be some structural problems in American labor policy that incentivize this kind of behavior
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
But... you have. A small one, probably not one that'll have much of an impact on either of you, but it is a social interaction.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I am a DAU of the Fediverse because it's an easy way to see what my friends are up to and tell them what I'm up to. I also use it to follow "celebrities", such as they are, in the Rust world. By contrast, I have a Twitte
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
That is not the same thing as systematically eradicating the institutions of power that allowed the atrocity to happen.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I didn't say that. The question was, what's the difference between the relationships between the Nazis and the contemporary nation of Germany, and the Americans who committed crimes of imperialism in the 20th century and the conte
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
The Nazi government was overthrown and its ideology outlawed. Not so with the United States.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
No. As I said, I'm not advocating for plain text only emails, just simple ones.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Ah. I think the difference is that when I send emails, I do so to communicate information, rather than to elicit people to buy a product.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Fair enough. I fully support hobbyists making email clients do fun tricks.
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I don't understand the insistence on building "beautiful" emails. I'm not the kind of person to insist on text-only e-mail, but I do think it's ridiculous to spend lots of time and money making e-mails that look lik
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> Compare ActivityPub to email. You don't get Google saying "we are going to block everyone with a Hotmail account from sending emails to Gmail users or receiving emails from Gmail users, because there are a couple of Hotmail u

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