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by _jal 5y ago
Ah, OK, gotcha. sprintf for a better tomorrow.
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by _jal 5y ago
So then why not Y100K? Does preparation become pointless sometime after 8,000 years from now, but before 92,000 have elapsed?
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by _jal 5y ago
Really? GH Enterprise definitely verifies GPG.
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by _jal 5y ago
> A conventional war several thousand kilometres away shouldn't affect me Think of it as sort of akin to the very early days of COVID-19. There were far more unknowns than known facts, it immediately became politicized which poisone
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by _jal 5y ago
It really depends on whether or not they choose to meaningfully go after their offshore assets. Krugman wrote a useful discussion of the topic: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/opinion/russia-ukraine-sa
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by _jal 5y ago
I believe they're referring to the part where they send all your writing to a HugeCo with a voracious appetite for information about its users and a weaselly, mutable privacy policy. (Anyone remember when FB was caught sending itself u
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by _jal 5y ago
That and the primary colors are about the only things left of the days when they were a likable company.
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by _jal 5y ago
Now build that in downtown LA explicitly for housing homeless folks, and let us know how your permitting process goes.
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by _jal 5y ago
Given that property rights usually end up trumping human rights in US law, DMCA'ing revenge porn might work better. I wish I were joking.
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by _jal 5y ago
Look for 'pcre' on the label. Accept no substitutes and you'll be fine.
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by _jal 5y ago
The inevitable problem for the copy writers for this sort of thing is that the correct choice is always the one they're discouraging.
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by _jal 5y ago
Whatever else you may think about the relative merits of forfeiture[1], white-collar crime or disruptive occupations, it is not difficult to distinguish a disruptive occupation from white-collar crime. Also, my understanding is the Canadian
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by _jal 5y ago
> we need a completely new experience for the next generation I mean, at some point, if you're (say) using some insane amount of storage, you're going to pay for that. I would agree that getting alerting right for billing-relev
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by _jal 5y ago
If he does that enough, I wouldn't be surprised by someone taking some self-help measures. Gas tank donations are one common approach, as is helping aesthetics by removing those unsightly air valves on tires.
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by _jal 5y ago
Agreed. Visually, it is... fine, I don't care that much and the iconization of everything is probably just trend chasing. And personally I don't care too much about theming, but either it should be supported, or not. But it is so
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by _jal 5y ago
> Everything no matter how niche is presented as an emergency A phrase I heard recently for this is "Klaxon culture", and it seems to fit. Effectively, what used to be called information warfare, which was mainly practiced on e
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by _jal 5y ago
I was on the mailing list the day the paper was released, and played around with the original PoC. Lots of us thought bitcoin was dumb back then. Lots of us still do.
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by _jal 5y ago
My family moved to the rural South when I was 11. I was never accepted, my mom finally was after about 20 years. Part of it for me was that I think a bit differently and want different things than most other folks. But a bigger part was tha
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by _jal 5y ago
Apologies. Intent was humor, not fighting, but I indeed should have realized that would flop.
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by _jal 5y ago
Tangent, but using the DMV as a horror-cliche anchor is very state-specific. I have experience with DMVs in six states. Five of those have always been perfectly fine, nothing to complain about. If I'm competent enough to get my paperwo
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by _jal 5y ago
It is only strange if you assume their love of free speech is sincere. If you look at it as a cynical strategy, it makes perfect sense. A very good test of peoples' sincerity in this territory is to first see how well what they claim o
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by _jal 5y ago
> but it does seem like a waste of human energy Legal processes are enormous wastes of human energy on what are usually negative-sum games. In only humans could cooperate.
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by _jal 5y ago
Why does it need to? You are not Amazon. In the unlikely event you become Amazon, you will be able to rearchitect. Trust me, Amazon did.
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by _jal 5y ago
One easy, but indirect, fix would be to remove the legal special casing that exempts credit reporting companies from libel laws. That would force a number of other changes, and I think they would mostly be positive. Those whose businesses d
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by _jal 5y ago
They are not fully-aligned goals, and autocomplete should not be given equal consideration on par with human clarity. If you want nice autocomplete too, that's fine, but if there is a tradeoff, human understanding is the primary concer
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by _jal 5y ago
Designing languages around autocomplete is like designing toilets for better toilet paper dispensers. The language should be right for human understanding, not automated mad-lib generation.
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by _jal 5y ago
Jargon is inevitable. Have you ever listened to an investment banker in their native habitat?
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by _jal 5y ago
Totally. This took the place of clickbait that could have made me feel insecure while generating a fraction of a penny for some private equity group. Where's the civic mindedness today?
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by _jal 5y ago
I've never owned one. I very occasionally toast bread in the broiler.
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by _jal 5y ago
Those are also over the top, but comparing text editing to violent sexual domination is well past the American taste for absurd overstatement, and just comes across like a silly, blinkered person overly absorbed in their little drama. It wo

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