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by Vegenoid 3y ago
I'd be interested to see usage stats, as I'll bet the discrepancy there is way larger. I have a number of non-technical friends who own a laptop, but use it once every few months, or longer, because the things they used to need it
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
I don't agree. You should only do things that benefit the team if they are done out of a true sense of cameraderie, and pure desire to empathize and solve problems? Not everyone has natural empathy, and people who don't have it le
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
> Everywhere I’ve ever worked, “important computer-related stuff” has been done on computers with large monitors and external keyboards. Geek Squad is not IT support for businesses, it's IT support for consumers. Consumers definitel
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
> If I had to estimate, I'd say no school currently pays more than 25% of tuition on actual teaching. Is this based on anything at all? Any direct experience you have, any sources? I don’t mean to be rude, and I don’t expect everyon
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
The phrasing of 'a hard truth' makes it sound as if it is inevitable, and those in 'CEO circles' are simply bystanders to the phenomenon. Why is it that the purchasing power of CEOs has drastically increased, while the p
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
> That's closing the barn door after the horses already left. I don't think that's quite true - maybe a couple horses got out, but this was caught early and did not get to infect very many machines because someone complete
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
I'll bet many of them simply wouldn't want to.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
If there is a larger shift to companies paying for the software they rely on that is currently free, it's not going to be companies paying open-source maintainers, it's going to be companies paying other companies that they can si
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
Can you explain what aspects of the open source philosophy were exploited, and what possible mitigations might be?
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
I was wondering the same, and it seems like the only way it makes any sense is if you think that you really are on to something, and you want to make sure that nobody beats you to the punch. So you fudge the numbers and publish it, hoping t
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
Personally, I find 3-finger drag to be a dream. I have spent many hours happily using a MacBook this way, and can’t imagine how I’d want it to change.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
If there is a community that is interested in taking care of it, can they not fork it? It seems better for the primary maintainer to continue working on it if people are willing to pay for it, than to stop working on it entirely.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
This is just how language often works. A term is co-opted and becomes increasingly associated with more things. Rarely are people able to reverse this process, so to narrow the associations requires a new term.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
Agreed. The abundance of powerful organizations that commit great harms for personal gain, both now and throughout history, makes it very clear that capable people do this. It is very hard to put myself in their shoes, and contort my brain
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
I think it has been empirically demonstrated that lapses in regards to the control and use of nuclear weapons can occur without the destruction of humanity. (I am not an AI doomer, nor do I feel that nuclear weapons are not dangerous/s
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
> Realizing the desired outcome a company may desire isn't dishonest. Being agreeable enough to play the game by the rules isn't dishonest. Answering in a way that is not consistent with what you truly feel or believe is dish
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
As far as I’m aware, we have no method by which to prove something is conscious. Self-awareness and consciousness (by which I mean qualia) are different. Many believe that self-awareness implies consciousness, but I’m not aware of any metho
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
They may even be justifying their budget, or receiving larger budgets, due to how many times they “have” to respond with lots of manpower and expensive equipment.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
- Believe that we will be able to create a true AI, with self-consicousness? To believe this with any kind of certainty is no different from believing in deities.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
> I love FOSS software ... the vast majority of it, it only does the most basic tasks possible and, with few, rare exceptions, gets abandoned or obsoleted when the developers decide that it's not worth their time to work on it anymo
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
> 13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine. Is this not how pretty much all modern cars work?(that use push-button ignition, which I think is almost all of them?) It’s how my 2010 Toyota works - if the engi
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
If you want to use Word, then that's great, but when you start saying what other people 'should' be doing then they're going to speak up. > writing should happen in "word processing software" Writing should
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
The point is that most people just aren't that engaged with politics, period. Most people who aren't voting aren't complaining about who is getting voted in.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
Yes, my monitors when I had them were on arms - they wouldn't work great in my current setup due to its density, and the things I've put around the desk. I certainly could make adjustments to accommodate a monitor - I just don&#x2
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
From an "I own this land and want to make the most money off of it" standpoint that makes sense. From an "I live here and want my community to be enjoyable and beautiful" standpoint it makes less sense.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
I see headsets like this as a way to have multiple, large, monitors that go away as soon as you aren't using them. After having a big dual-monitor setup for years, about a year and a half ago I got rid of them and work with just my lap
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
> Restricting social media use is tantamount to brainwashing? I don't see the connection. The idea is that social media exposes kids to viewpoints that they wouldn't otherwise be exposed to, so parents who want their kids to be
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
Especially ones that do not have their name. As someone who has heard about Kagi, but not actually visited their site or used it, I had no idea they had a dog mascot. If I saw one of those shirts in the wild, and I hadn’t just read this pos
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
No, the recipient determines if it is harmful. Malice is characterized by intent.
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by Vegenoid 3y ago
Before anyone tries this, doing this without first checking with security/facilities would likely be grounds for “disciplinary action, up to and including termination”

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