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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Is the Google Play Store not the overwhelmingly dominant app market on Android? Yes, they are less restrictive and allow the potential for other app stores to exist, but based on market capture of their respective platforms I believe they a
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I thought that was a very poor allegory. 1. It starts with the humans being deathless, and then death showing up. This is not how things are, all life we know of since the very beginning dies. It may well be a "feature" of life in
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Most countries ban guns for everyone, with that being the primary reason. It is not a fragile argument, it is simply a different weighting of values. When I say “ban”, I mean “heavily restrict and track”, which is how I gather we are using
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Yes, and now we are back at the ancestor comment’s original point: “at the end of the day kubernetes feels like complexity trying to abstract over complexity, and often I find that's less successful that removing complexity in the firs
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
While those are big numbers, determining if a company has a monopoly requires looking at the numbers and market share of competing companies as well.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> This is assuming that the dissonance is hurting more than the renunciation. It’s not about “the dissonance is painful, so they seek to correct it by not voting for reduced consumption”. It’s “voting to reduce consumption takes effort,
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Making up a hypothetical relationship between climate scientists and epidemiologists, and using that as your basis to dismiss climate change, does not make sense.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I am not coming at it from a moral view, simply a practical one: I don’t think many people can sustain this dissonance. I don’t think people are very motivated to vote for things that would make them change their daily life. There are examp
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
We’ll be lucky if people blame technology, instead of other groups of people that they are then motivated to take vengeance on. That is what I fear.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
The perceived risk of dramatic unexpected effects is too great for people to consider this before things start getting really bad. We’ll see how people feel in 50 years.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don’t understand these attempts to wave away personal responsibility, and pin the whole thing on corporations. It’s both. We need corporations to emit less, and they are the biggest emitters, and they do what they do for two reasons: 1. T
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I'm not trying to make the point that there is a comparable number of Windows servers to Linux servers, and I believe that going off "number of servers" is of limited usefulness. There are of course going to be far more Linux
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> modern servers run Linux unless there's a good reason not to I think many people on HN would be surprised at how many orgs are using Windows servers heavily, because of their familiarity and comfort with Microsoft, or because som
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
It's a bit confusing to see maintainers of software with permissive licensing getting upset about companies using their software. Does this happen because they didn't really think about the license and its implications when they c
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
But they weren't really working for free, they were working for food and housing, right?
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don't know about every macbook, but I just tried this twice on my 2019 macbook pro and pressing any key on the keyboard (or at least the 2 keys I tried, "f" and "8") will power it on when it is powered off (yes, f
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Large bureaucracy wants people to be as fungible as possible, so that systems can be designed that interact with fungible units instead of complex, multifaceted individuals.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
A reasonable worry is not that America is going to become just like China, Russia, or Nazi Germany, but that it will become a bit more like them in some ways. Which I think would be bad.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Wow, can’t believe I didn’t find this while looking for Lightroom alternatives several months ago. Looks great!
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think this has happened enough times for it to no longer be a “jaded” view, it is the empirically supported view.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
This is my experience. I’d love to see some full streams of people building whole useful apps from scratch with an LLM, does anyone have any good examples?
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
To simply illustrate your point: if you see a computer calculate 1*1=∞ occasionally, you know the computer is wrong and something is causing it to break. If you see a particle accelerator occasionally make an observation that breaks the sta
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Had they the gift of foresight, wolves and wildcats might not disagree with me.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
It's because they are inexpensive, require zero maintenance, zero mess, zero additional equipment needed to maintain and use it. You don't have to understand anything about how it works or is put together. You get to have new colo
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> in our lifetimes Is the key here. We need to think beyond our lifetimes. We should be treating the earth like we're going to live on it for (tens or hundreds of) thousands of years, because I sure as shit hope we (meaning humans)
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I use multiple cursors all the time in Kakoune. Say I want to make a change that is very similar on 10 adjacent lines. I could write a regex or macro that does what I want, which will require me doing that with no visual feedback as I build
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
When humans went brainiac mode, the further away you were from them the better.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don't know the answers to these questions confidently without looking them up, and if you think that means my opinion isn't worth much then so be it. I have no influence on space exploration beyond being a voting US citizen if i
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I can't speak for most people, but I am aware of the size and inhospitality of space, which is why I think we should be be studying and reaching into it now, to give us as much as time as possible to succeed.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I thought that most technically interested folks saw growing into the stars as a worthy endeavor. It is indeed the only way for humanity to survive in the (long) long term. I’m surprised to see that there are so many people here that don’t

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