TimTheTinker

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by TimTheTinker 1mo ago
Rumors of Firefox's death have been circling for at least 15 years now... somehow it's kept going despite odd incentives and bad corporate decisions.
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by TimTheTinker 1mo ago
uBlock Origin (non-lite) only works on Firefox as far as I know. Brave purportedly has a built-in ad blocker that uses the same lists, but I can't vouch for it personally.
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by TimTheTinker 1mo ago
> now fully-reversed Not so fast. The victimhood/systemic-inequality mentality has a perhaps counterintuitive effect: while on the surface it does seem to help individuals, collectively it perpetuates an underclass. 25 years ago, no
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by TimTheTinker 1mo ago
Bingo. The Democratic Party supported slavery, and they're still at it with modern illegal immigration. This needs to stop.
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by TimTheTinker 1mo ago
Have you ever traveled internationally? Every country I've ever been to especially in Europe had strict rules about how long I could stay. Iceland and the UK in particular. They wouldn't even let me in at London Heathrow without a
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by TimTheTinker 1mo ago
So you don't think there's any difference between - as a citizen , being arrested for trying to leave - as an illegal alien , being arrested for trying to stay Those are literally structural opposites of each other.
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by TimTheTinker 1mo ago
If US citizens can expect that if they write, post, publish, or say something critical of the government they'll get arrested for it, that's the line.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
Try just walking into Mexico and staying there indefinitely. You'll have it far worse ... they don't play around.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
It's less about what they did after arriving and more about border violation itself. Immigration has an official legal process to follow. Why is that so bad? If the law needs to change - fine, change it. But allowing people to break th
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
Be that as it may, observe that the directions are opposite. Planning, attempting to, or helping people escape (not stay) was the #1 reason for Stasi arrests. Specifically, the most frequent Stasi arrest charges were Republikflucht (&qu
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
> I don’t believe those living “normal lives” in East Germany or the Soviet era considered the police to be evil and invasive the way we do today. "normal life" under the Stasi was constant political terror and suppression. The
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
> US has entered its East Germany / late 20th century Soviet era > The social dynamics are the same - the abuses, the selective enforcement, the lack of recourse, the same characters in the roles of various levels of "law en
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
It also doesn't compare with the sheer joy of having a little one who joyfully loves the heck out of you because you've bonded with each other and they feel loved and secure with you -- you've cared for them, loved them unc
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
Didn't old-school blackboard systems sort of evaporate into a modern combination of a persistence layer, a task queue, pub-sub, and bespoke code for evaluating/scheduling/executing tasks? That's not really what I was ref
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
It looks like the "golden hour" may be hardcoded as the hour before sunset. May I suggest updating it to be based on the sun's position in the sky? In high-northern and low-southern latitudes, the sun can stay close to the ho
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If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?(newyorker.com)
6 points by TimTheTinker 2mo ago|1 comments
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
Tangled is a VC-funded Oy (Finnish limited liability corporation, €3.8M seed a few months ago). I searched and couldn't find a published donation route, which makes sense given it's VC-funded. To Tangled -- it's great that th
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I love seeing the term "AI" used in the classic sense. Old AI is full of fascinating developments. Expert systems, A* search, genetic algorithms over S-expressions for creating arbitrary solutions, and SAT algorithms were once tho
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I wasn't advocating a single-layer data model or speaking against common data structures, just saying the structure of the data should follow directly from user goals. Correctness and performance are normally the top user goals.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
If you have control of your data model, design its structure and endpoints around user goals. Then expose that layer as directly as possible in the UI. That's probably a half-decent summary of domain-driven design.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
> One of the most common UX mistakes is designing UI around the underlying data model instead of user goals. It's far worse to give users a false mental model of the system. If the underlying system is complex, but that's out
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I guess I thought integrity was still at least considered an ideal to strive for in the West.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I'm calling my senators and house rep. Holy crap.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I'd fire someone for using Oracle. I'd put it in the employee handbook. I bet Oxide would too.
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
Wait, Oracle sales reps give decision-makers personal kickbacks for buying Oracle?? Stay classy Oracle. Such a banal depth of evil. Why hasn't this been outlawed? I guess companies that knowingly employ such managers deserve to lose
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
What I don't understand is why anyone with half a brain would even venture to touch Oracle with a ten foot pole given that they've had this reputation for at least the last 25 years. Why, people?
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I think free society in general absolutely requires its people to be generally moral and civil. Freedom inevitably evaporates as morality and civility decline. And that's why it's important to go after morally corrupt, uncivil mon
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
I think the point of the lawnmower analogy is to subjectively characterize Larry Ellison and Oracle from the viewpoint of someone who has had the unfortunate experience of having to deal personally with either of them in some way. You fee
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
How many bureaucracies in history have behaved in deeply misanthropic ways, especially when led by misanthropic leaders? Don't underestimate the power of the desire to keep one's job to cause a large organization to behave towards
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by TimTheTinker 2mo ago
"Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand

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