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by Pxtl 2y ago
> The only thing that JSON is really missing are comments and trailing commas. I use JSONC for that. It's what VSC uses for the config format and it works. I disagree. Human-friendy multiline strings aren't really optional for
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Honestly I just want government backed digital ID for this stuff. I know the concerns. I no longer care. The benefits outweight the costs, imho. I want to be able to tell a site "yes I'm Martin here's proof either ban me or
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Except you can't just fire the mafioso who threatens you. The board/shareholders can just fire Musk. On the other hand, intimidation/extortion is illegal and the $50B could be seen as the proceeds of that. I'd say that &
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by Pxtl 2y ago
So if the government bugs your car and home but doesn't turn the bug on, is that a search?
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Please just let my link some kind of government-backed ID to an email account and then clients can ask "hey government, is this email account a real human being in your country"? And government can say "yes" and they can
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by Pxtl 2y ago
> I think there's plenty of demand for cheap EVs. But there's a problem with US manufacturing not being able to deliver those. How much of that has to do with the USA's extreme needs for range and size? There are places I&
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by Pxtl 2y ago
He also had kind of a meltdown during the initial period of COVID isolation when his factories were closed too. I think it was that double-whammy: both his trans daughter and the threat of COVID shutdowns destroying Tesla happened pretty
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by Pxtl 2y ago
I agree that that's a problem but this is the wrong solution. Letting the blockee see the blocker doesn't help them correct the record if the blocker has replied to them before blocking. They're still not permitted to reply
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by Pxtl 2y ago
> Next time Democrats are in control he may be looking at an antitrust lawsuit. The rule of law looks pretty ineffectual at that level. Only one of the various trials against Donald Trump got a verdict in the 4 years that he was out of
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Even if it is, Musk won. He got his $44 billion value back through getting premium position for all his government-contractor companies by becoming the President's right hand man. This is reflected in his share values climbing. If th
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by Pxtl 2y ago
If you know the content existed, which in many cases you didn't. Like, most of the time the only time you saw blocked content was if somebody you followed quote-tweeted it (or they reply-tweeted to it and you investigated). Otherwis
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Effort matters. This won't solve a dedicated stalker, but it will discourage a troll who scrolls twitter like a normal person. You're quite right that it's trivially easy to work-around, but if you just use a main account 99%
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Because web. That said, the VB6 drag-and-drop interface was always flawed. 90% of the time you want to lay out controls in some kind of nest of layouts with clearly-defined resize and reflow behavior instead of "drag and drop wherever
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Yeah, "resilience" is my big concern. After Facebook and Twitter, I'm mostly concerned about a social network getting compromised by a moneyed political interest. Obviously I'm a liberal so I have my political opinion
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by Pxtl 2y ago
It mostly seemed to happen on the web client - I tend to avoid "apps" I'd click the "heart" to check my notifications and it would be just a firehose of "picked for you" streaming in. Also iirc it launch
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by Pxtl 2y ago
BlueSky's big killer features that Mastodon fails at: 1) Better (optional) algorithmic feeds. Mastodon's "explore" is weaker than Bluesky's "popular with friends" and "discover" 2) Quote-tweets.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
The loudest complaint I see about threads (lack of hyperlinks) doesn't apply there. Also, Threads seems covered in growth-hacking dark patterns, like the notification/activity screen being flooded with "picked for you&quot
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Reminds me of this meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/w1ve97/virgin_...
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Vehicles per-operator is the important metric, imho. If one operator can supervise a dozen vehicles at a time with only occasional manual intervention then it's still a massive labor-saving tool.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
I can never justify it to myself if the shipping cost is more than 25% of the product price.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Amazon hates Canada (no Amazon music store, no Household plan) so here the tool of last resort is iTunes Music Store (it still exists, apparently).
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by Pxtl 2y ago
They banned cellphones/smartphones in Ontario schools in 2019... but it was a "ban" with no plan for enforcement and no roll-out so everyone ignored the ban. So they banned them again this year. Policy so nice they did it twi
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Here in Canada teachers are paid well but we still don't want to pay for good resources. Anything where money is going into overhead that's separate from teaching students is viewed with a stink-eye. They killed textbooks and repl
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by Pxtl 2y ago
But the jury found him liable
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Once again, big thanks to paranoid "mark of the beast" conspiracy theorists with funny ideas about federal government IDs and digital IDs. We have the technology. "Behind the counter" could just mean a vending machine wi
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by Pxtl 2y ago
You're quoting Tacopina, who is Trump's lawyer. I'm pretty sure OJ's lawyer also said he didn't do it.
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Trump was found in court to have sexually assaulted a woman in a fashion that would fit the layman's definition of "rape", although not the legal definition thereof in that venue. https://apnews.com/article&#x
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Okay, but what about the truth? I mean, if one of Trump's own closest advisors carefully states that he fits the definition of a fascist, is it not fair to call him one? If Trump outwardly celebrates many of the traditional concepts o
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by Pxtl 2y ago
So you expect progressive voters to simply politely ignore the awful things Trump has done, and the fact that his supporters don't seem to care? Short list: Trump has been adjudicated in court as having sexually assaulted a woman, and
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by Pxtl 2y ago
Considering how quickly the Democrats ousted Biden when his mental fitness to lead was in doubt, I don't think it's fair to describe progressives as having a "religious leader".

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