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901.
by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, I don't do this. If your service demands my ID, I'll close my account. If you have KYC requirements, I'll meet you in person or find a different vendor.
902.
by _jal 5y ago
Let's hope for can't-connect-to-anything failure modes. The only thing worse than bricked electronic trash is functional, malicious electronic trash.
903.
by _jal 5y ago
So, Sacklerish. (Sacklarian? Desackler-capitalism?)
904.
by _jal 5y ago
Drunks are ordinary because alcohol use predates agriculture. Unpredictable death-robots roaming the streets are pretty novel. I don't think that's very complicated, from a news perspective.
905.
by _jal 5y ago
I get it. I just don't understand why anyone thinks judges should be adjudicating trust and safety issues, why they think that will lead to better outcomes, or why forcing private actors to carry speech they won't want to (which s
906.
by _jal 5y ago
> The legal system needs to step up and own online speach monitoring and removals (I'm guessing you're US-based.) So instead of many poor systems trying to do better, we'll end up with one uniform system working poorly, th
907.
by _jal 5y ago
> I rarely see those profiles going along and having fun sharing time together. I (resident of North America) rarely see kangaroos.
908.
by _jal 5y ago
This is one reason why I always look at how support is handled when choosing software. If I run in to this, I'll go look at the next thing on my list. I'm not trying to downplay the problems you run in to, I've seen all of th
909.
by _jal 5y ago
A less humorous unusual status code is 451. Unfortunately, it probably should be used more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
910.
by _jal 5y ago
Of course not. We all know that there have been no functional improvements to software enabled by processor speed increases since the 8081. Everything since then has been programmers slowly using up their "wait()" calls placed in
911.
by _jal 5y ago
That's kind of his schtick, though, isn't it? To make a narrow argument phrased to imply it demonstrates far wider applicability than it does?
912.
by _jal 5y ago
> They helped in solidifying Rust as a professional language Maybe, but that's only because Rust was valuable enough to them to do so. It also doesn't give them a pass on a takeover, if that is what's going on. (No skin in
913.
by _jal 5y ago
Disabling outbound connections from things that have no business talking to the outside is a great coarse-grained approach. I have a stereo component and a couple other things that I'll periodically allow to check for updates and then
914.
by _jal 5y ago
The best clothes are hand-tailored specifically to fit your body. And yet, most people wear mass-produced clothes.
915.
by _jal 5y ago
Talk about self-referential criticism, this sort of deflection isn't even trying. You could have written this in 1982. Fact is, enforcement has been intentionally undermined, and it isn't the least bit subtle: https://w
916.
by _jal 5y ago
> that 95% of the effort is from vested interests who prefer the status quo The incumbent power structure has both wealth and incentive to resist change. Underdogs usually don't.
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by _jal 5y ago
I have a Win 7 VM that has a set of CAD/CAM tools than runs my little machine shop. It is more valuable to me than most other data I keep, because I'm pretty sure I can't recreate anything like it. I have a clean copy from sh
918.
by _jal 5y ago
Newspapers used to serve the function of establishing a shared set of knowledge about the world to readers. There was a limited range of options, depending on where you were - usually a couple local papers and a couple national ones. Person
919.
by _jal 5y ago
That's usually the wrong question, as people only make greenfield decisions once. If, however, you've been running GHE for years and have it integrated with other tooling and workflows, and your developers understand it, the quest
920.
by _jal 5y ago
Another way of putting this is, you choose to let available opportunities shape your future career. You can do that, or you can choose to exert some control over the process.
921.
by _jal 5y ago
I currently manage an infra ops team. I was a developer for about 10 years. I agree with point 1, nearly completely. A lot of developers could take a lot more responsibility for understanding the environments their applications operate in,
922.
by _jal 5y ago
I kind of agree, in that I think there's a great argument to ban them from anywhere pedestrians are found.
923.
by _jal 5y ago
>can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept So I take it you would be fine with the nightmare version of Apple's phone scanner, continuously scanning your devices for thoughtcrime? After
924.
by _jal 5y ago
I do get being upset about apparent disconnects in criminal justice proportionality; I really do. And the US legal system is brimming with them, even before you get other problems. But I rather suspect campaigning to reduce the penalties fo
925.
by _jal 5y ago
A reasonable point. It is, however, much easier to say it of a service that has a history of flailing around about how and what they want money for than one that has a consistent history of not being surprising.
926.
by _jal 5y ago
One important question to ask yourself is, what happens next time they want more money? Just how much of a hostage are you willing to be?
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by _jal 5y ago
So in summary, you don't like people's choice of research topics, you don't like the media, and you want to suggest that certain categories of research are PR conspiracies, but won't quite do so. Does that have it about
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by _jal 5y ago
Aside from being appalling, this would also serve as an admission.
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by _jal 5y ago
I learned German as a 16-17 year-old exchange student, and haven't had cause to use it super regularly since then, aside from talking to people there. They tell me I still sound a bit like an extremely out-of-date teenager.
930.
by _jal 5y ago
Some MTA lines (NYC) are awful, too. The J comes to mind.

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