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by Vegenoid 2y ago
There is significant middle ground between "do it without asking" and "ask about every single thing". A reasonable option would be "ask if the device can send anonymized data to Apple to enable such and such feature
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
You never have food or drink that was stored or served via plastic containers? How? I ask seriously - how do you live your life to entirely avoid this, while also not living a life so separate from society that you are drinking tea made fro
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
It’s the classic tradeoff of freedom vs. security. It’s the biggest reason I can’t foresee myself storing substantial amounts of cryptocurrency. I just want to hand my hard earned money to a financial institution and not have to think about
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think that “meritocracy” is not such a useful concept in the realm of art, where there are not good objective measures of what makes something have “meritocracy”. I think you’re on to something with “consolidation/centralization is b
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I agree. I have left streaming services, and rely on purchasing digital downloads of albums to obtain music. I am very into a niche subgenre of electronic music where many artists don’t have their music available on streaming services. I pa
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
There is also little evidence that the strain has any effect on the pharmacological effects of cannabis, beyond the amount of THC per gram of flower (potency). Although it can greatly influence the smell/taste, which is meaningful. How
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but generally car break-ins are much more frequent than muggings. And bringing a bag of expensive equipment into the bathroom is almost certainly less risky than leaving it somewhere, whether i
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think that it depends on what you mean by “people”. My hypothesis is that the average person today is better at learning than in the past, for the reasons you stated, but that there have been people as good at learning as the best today f
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don’t understand how people underestimate it so badly when we have so much history we are taught that demonstrates it. History makes it abundantly clear that it is a regular occurrence for large groups of people to collectively believe th
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
My wife loves Storygraph, and has said that she thinks they give away too much for free and need to put more value behind premium.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Unfortunately, as someone with a wife who works as a software engineer, it is rather unsurprising to me.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I don’t know of any public transit that has a mobile app as the only way to prove purchase of some pass, they all have a physical card you can obtain. Maybe yours doesn’t, but I doubt it.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think you’re way off - I don’t know people making that much, but I do know several people who are well capable of that, and have literally embedded NFC tags with their own data in 3D printed things they’ve made. They’re making <$100K (
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Does iOS not have pretty robust parental controls and locks? I ask this seriously, to see if any parents have experience locking down iPhones against a motivated adversary (their child) within the last few years.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> The default configurations of most terminals includes illegible color combinations This hasn’t been my experience - while I’m not familiar with a wide breadth of terminal emulators, all the ones I’ve used have a default black backgroun
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
What combinations can be assumed to be legible? I think if a terminal user has their colors configured so that some of the 8 ASCII colors aren’t legible on their background, that’s on them, with the exception of white and black. It seems
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> Also why specifically boring explanations? Without referring to anything specific about this case, things usually have boring explanations because what makes an explanation boring is that it is expected and empirically likely. “The mos
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> So you think the military and intelligence has technology that is so secret they won't admit to it It’s more like “does not have to disclose anything so chooses not to”. When you are in the long game of keeping your information an
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Why would one believe that US intelligence agencies have no information about extensive reports of drone activity near military installations? Given that this has been happening for a couple weeks now, and the military has said “these are n
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I interpreted your statement as “the Pentagon has assessed the drones and determined that they did not originate in the US or any other nation”.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> are assessed by the Pentagon yesterday to not originate in the US or any other nation To be clear, they stated that “these are not US military drones”, and that they have no evidence that they are from a foreign entity or adversary, wh
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
It is not useful to spam this comment repeatedly under different people who question or disagree with many worlds. Pick one place to make your case.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
To the reader: if you haven't before, take a stroll through the YAML spec to see what people are talking about when they bemoan its complexity: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/ Then take a look at the JSON spec:
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I feel the same, so I simply block its network access (via LuLu), and it works just fine that way. I wish it was open source so I could hack on it and so development could continue - it's a really cool idea and works pretty well.
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> A private file repository with a closed source license is in-facto different than a private file repository with an open source license. Yes, and "in-facto" is not the same as "de-facto". De-facto means "descri
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I actually think it is good for kids to have exposure to: - entertaining themselves - working/providing for themselves - having to do things that they don’t want to do - being told no, and dealing with unfulfilled desire All with balan
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> has now been booted from the organization To clarify, Roman claims that he has had some permissions revoked from the Organic Maps organization on Github in response to this. Alexander Borsuk stated that he "will return access if w
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Another reason companies hire juniors is because they cannot find/afford seniors. The demand that stems from this reason will increase over time when companies are not hiring "enough" juniors (because if we aren't hiring
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I am unsure how ai-generated art gives you additional time to restore your tractor?
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Yes. The people who can use these tools to dramatically increase their capabilities and output without a significant drop in quality were already great engineers for which there was more demand than supply. That isn't going to change s

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