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by aeturnum 4y ago
> * it is a set of skills both people in the process of friendship possess and need to practice to make things work* I think this is another example of the idea I am trying to critique (and warn against). This suggests that "the pro
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by aeturnum 4y ago
IMO this is the #1 takeaway: > I was trapped in a ‘normal’ mode of conversation - making small talk, being inoffensive, feeling aversion to being weird, respecting where I thought other people’s boundaries were. If you want something e
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I also use a Synology with Time Machine. It does seem pretty functional, but I regularly run into weirdness associated with it (some backups fail for unclear reasons, sometimes I can't ls my /Volumes directory while the TM backup
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> The change will not be driven by animators, but by people hiring animators that decide to cut costs by not hiring them. I have no doubt that management hopes that they will be able to cut costs through AI! My doubts come from the fac
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I'm curious - what you think of as a good example? I think of C++ templates & macros, which I would not describe as arising from restrictions?
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I'm really interested to see Jai in the wild, but I have to say I find the Jai v.s. Rust comparison here...unconvincing to say to least. It's particularly funny to be excited about "being able to do anything during compilat
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I mean, it's intentionally vague - but considering the source and his social network, I suspect the idea is that PG's trusted source has knowledge of some forthcoming challenge to the fundamental axioms of the current crypto ecosy
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by aeturnum 4y ago
You don't! But that's exactly the problem - you don't need signal at all . All the important messages that you get are gonna come through another platform (SMS, whatsapp, weechat, etc [depending on where you are]). So, now t
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by aeturnum 4y ago
If you uninstall signal w/o exporting your SMS and MMS I believe they will be gone forever.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Very much agree on the edits as long as history is preserved. Same for the clients - it would be nice to be able to send history from client to client (or even just have cross-client backup loading). Personally, I would like a long press &#
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I'm still extremely disappointed in Signal's choice to drop SMS support, which feels like a key adoption vector to me. However, I'm glad to see that they're still building privacy-first versions of popular social network
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> Microsoft Linux Man, what a time to be alive! Who would have thought it. Edit: who's extending, embracing and extinguishing now?!
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Signal has repeatedly been audited[1] so there's more reason to believe the protocol has the capacity to be secure than other options. Obviously if you believe the company is actively subverting their goal, you should use your own fork
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by aeturnum 4y ago
The reason they aren't 'firing' or 'terminating' anyone is that they are seeking to avoid the appearance (rightly or wrongly) that the people being impacted are at fault. The company is changing direction and that n
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think describing it this way misses an important implication. It's not a singular third tactic - it's that AIs generally lack the ability to recognize actions as being outside or against their training, meaning you can manipulat
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by aeturnum 4y ago
None of these suggest you shouldn't use signal - or that it's not meeting its goal of secure communication (except the last one I suppose). Signal is not without flaws as you say, but if you have a phone number and can access a bi
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by aeturnum 4y ago
To me, this discussion is very similar to the discussion around "defund the police": should we lead with the unpopular thing that people will have to accept or should we lead with the goal? My sense of why this framing is popula
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> Organ donor status basically gives them permission to harvest your still-beating heart. The 'ticking clock' scenario you outlined makes no sense and now you're just spreading scare mongering.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Why would your organs become less 'fresh' if you are stable but appear to be in a vegetative state? I understand being worried about people taking advantage of disabled (perhaps temporarily) folks - but I don't think there&#x
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by aeturnum 4y ago
There's a moral justification of wage labor which argues that the business takes an outsized chunk of the profits from an employee's labor because they are also bearing the risk of hiring and costs of business. I see this as an ex
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> TLDR it's not "damning" -- geeks inside Google are much the same as geeks outside. They're just taking a paycheck. Without pretending to know enough about the circumstances of any individual person, I hope you ca
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by aeturnum 4y ago
> the life of people making money from tourists is similar everywhere I think, what I am getting at, is that this sentiment equally applies to every industry. You will find similarities if you compare any two tourist areas. You'll
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I think my point is that these adjectives are not "better" - they are different. They mean different things, which you might also mean, but aren't good "drop in" replacements.
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by aeturnum 4y ago
I guess that's why I said called it strange. People live in tourist towns. The people there are real people with real lives (that involve a lot of interaction with foreigners). There's no reason to avoid those places if you want t
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Absolutely agree! I 100% think that, if you're not from somewhere and you've heard of a thing to do - there's a good chance that's because there's advertising money behind it and you're going to pay a premium t
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by aeturnum 4y ago
This is such a strange article. I too, in general, avoid starting with "pre-packaged" experiences when traveling. My most memorable experiences were only possible because, like the author, I travel light and don't plan too
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by aeturnum 4y ago
On one hand, I think this kind of service can help people expand their vocabularies. On the other hand, there's a downside risk of replacing unimaginative writing with confused writing. "very + fragile -> feeble" is absolu
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by aeturnum 4y ago
Just to add to the frustrating elements of this shockingly bad decision: In my friend circle, at least, it's common for people to go in and out of using Signal. They might have had it on an old phone and forget to install it on the new
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by aeturnum 4y ago
You're right that there are many messengers available and Signal will, at best, be one of many that people juggle based on who they are contacting. That's why it was a huge advantage that, on Android, Signal could replace a SMS cl
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by aeturnum 4y ago
So, here's an example of what is confusing me: > 37% greater pixels-per-inch. And 1.3x larger color gamut > Full-color mixed reality, with resolution 4X higher compared to Quest 2 How can the resolution be both 4x higher and have

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