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by TheBicPen 1y ago
The problem with leaving both dimes and quarters is that you'd need dimes for any price that's a multiple of 10c but not 50c. Getting rid of dimes would make it so that every price payable with cash is payable entirely in quarters
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
How does DNS work with a setup like this? I assume that ISPs generally don't want people hosting servers on residential connections.
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
Are you sure? Supporting 802.11ac in 2012 is pretty amazing considering that the standard was finalized in late 2013.
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
Unlimited line length results in poor readability, and is a UX failure on large monitors. Limiting the number of characters per line makes the text easier to read. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234578707_Opti
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
Opt-out telemetry is the only useful kind of telemetry
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
Just like any other public service paid for with public funds?
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
Capital G "Gamers", if you will.
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
The kaboom already happened on user-generated media platforms. YouTube, Facebook, tiktok, and so on are flooded with AI-generated videos, photos, sounds, and so on. The sheer volume of this low-quality slop is because AI lowered the barrier
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
You're seriously comparing a single advertisement to crimes like murder? Crimes that land you in prison are generally crimes that even children can understand are wrong. You're using "extremely poor decision" for 2 wildl
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
That's supply and demand I suppose. As demand for lightning dwindles due to a decreasing number of people actively using devices with lightning ports, the price will tend to drop. That's not an invalid reason to prefer lightning o
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
With so many things being cloud-based, moving to a new device often just requires logging in. See how easy setting up new devices is on Android and iOS. On the desktop side, the GNOME online accounts feature is pretty good at getting you mo
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to 1) check the size of the documents directory and the existing NTFS partition on windows and 2) if the existing partition is < (1/2 the disk size - the size of the Linux installation), give
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
> You can be free to modify the game client, but you aren't entitled to play with others using it. For a multiplayer game, I'd argue that playing with others (even if you're restricted to private servers, not that most gam
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
Very confused about this point: > Passwords, Face ID, Touch ID — things that supposedly nobody but you can replicate, but which don't prove you're physically near a given device Password, sure. But the other 2 surely prove that
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
The argument in the post that copyleft licenses are freer seems handwavy at best. In a literal sense, obligations are restrictions on freedom, so yes, copyleft licenses are less free than permissive ones. Whether or not the overall benefits
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
So what's the issue with introducing explicit syntax to do exactly that if you want to? A safe default does not preclude you from opting out of safety with a bit of syntax or perhaps a compiler flag.
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
"want" is different from "will consume if offered". Arguably, the definition of "want" that most people use is one of higher-order desire. E.g. a drug addict wants drugs, but doesn't want to want drugs. Pe
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
No notifications? Depends on what your definition of "asking it" is, but having to explicitly do an action to check for notifications and even phone calls seems counter-productive for a phone.
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by TheBicPen 1y ago
Communicating to elected officials that you will not vote for them if they continue their current behaviour is not anti-democracy, it's the main feature of democracy. You are actively participating in the democratic process by doing so
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
Grounding entire fleets of aircraft when a safety issue is discovered is completely normal, and that's the way things should happen. Remember when the MCAS issue was discovered on Boeing 737 MAXes after 2 fatal crashes? They were all
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
Do you think bodily autonomy is absolute? Your comments seem to imply that bodily autonomy is the only relevant thing to consider when discussing patient care. The world doesn't work that way. Believe it or not, a doctor won't amp
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
At some point you need to accept that there are sufficient hoops necessary to jump through to disable security that no one would accidentally do it. If you really think that security is so paramount that no level of compromise is acceptable
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
How does connecting to a smartwatch enable spam? None of the comments here explain in detail how that would happen. The messages still get sent through an iPhone and through Apple servers. It's not like Apple is giving up any control o
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
But the licensing fees effectively introduced a price floor onto lightning cables. Apple's implementation having issues is a problem because other manufacturers could produce a very cheap alternative, but they would be unable to sell i
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
Scrolling is very laggy on mobile. I really don't like this trend of hijacking the scroll feature.
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
I agree that storing recovery codes is a pain point, but they're fundamentally different from passwords in that you don't need to use them for each login. That allows you to put them in cold storage, whether that's an encrypt
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
Sure, but that's irrelevant to the question at hand. In a discussion of cold game theory, morality doesn't apply. I'd even say that explicitly excluding morality from the discussion is much of the point of boiling a scenario
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
Say what you will about the current situation, at least there is no nuclear arms race. I'd say that's a pretty big distinction.
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
This reads like a piece of defense propaganda. "Undoing the 1990s decision" - should we really return the US defense industry to cold-war levels? The world has changed, and the threat of outright war with the US is dramatically lo
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by TheBicPen 2y ago
I have no horse in this race but it seems to me that you're not understanding their point. JJ has a different workflow that doesn't have a concept of a staging area, for one. The fact that you don't need to make a WIP commit

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