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by akersten 6y ago
> I kind of feel like that's going to have to be the outcome at some point in the near future -- in fact, as soon as really convincing yet nasty deepfakes of senators and representatives start making the rounds and spreading on Face
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by akersten 7y ago
Just spitballing, but it's probably the size range where the difference between one and two physical platters is whether they use SMR or not. A cost-cutting measure.
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by akersten 7y ago
Completely different. ISPs are often a government granted monopoly. You can't just up and start one to compete, so it makes sense that they must be neutral. It's not a free market. Anyone can start a YouTube clone, and if enough p
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by akersten 7y ago
Luckily they offer web-based versions of the software, so I use my browser as that lightweight VM :)
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by akersten 7y ago
It's pretty easy to understand this operation exists as part of an ongoing campaign to sow discord in the West. What better way to divide a nation than to encourage and exploit an existing polarization, rather than doing the dirty work
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by akersten 7y ago
No, I haven't overlooked that, it's just not really relevant. You'd still be paid if the norm for a salaried position were a 16-hour workday, it wouldn't make it any less exploitative. In that scenario, you couldn't
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by akersten 7y ago
> I ask because the current 40-hour schedule was fought for in the early 20th century specifically because it worked out to 50/50: 8 hours for work and 8 hours for “what we may,” each day (allowing the final 8 hours for sleep). The
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by akersten 7y ago
Debouncing is a useful concept in software design too. Many UI elements are all too eager to emit hundreds of state update events (like a slider) as the user is finalizing the input they want - but you wouldn't want to send 100 AJAX re
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by akersten 7y ago
Behavior like firing the IG overseeing the program? https://apnews.com/cc921bccf9f7abd27da996ef772823e4
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by akersten 7y ago
Why are we building this shit into the browser? Did we forget what user-agent means? I really don't want my browser to be running a consensus algorithm for doubleclick, or whatever the hell the turtledove proposal is. This article make
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by akersten 7y ago
> Section 230's supporters constantly push hilariously insane narratives about it's importance, suggesting that without it companies would be inherently violating the law any time one of their users violated the law, Can you ex
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by akersten 7y ago
Yes, that's the point of 230. It doesn't make anything legal that wasn't before, or illegal that was legal before. It simply assigns the responsibility of illegal content to the party that created it. Which is just a reasonab
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by akersten 7y ago
> Section 230 is a failure because Section 230 removes any financial incentive for platforms to moderate responsibility. What in the world does "moderate responsibility" mean? It's their site, they get to decide what goes
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by akersten 7y ago
> Can’t both practices be wrong? and an abuse of their market position? Sure. But my point is that no one is railing Kroger for putting their cheap pasta above the DeCecco. So it's hypocritical to call out tech companies for doing w
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by akersten 7y ago
> "best" (most on-topic) results according to an impartial computer algorithm. Any algorithm looking for the "best" result is inherently partial to something . Best result in terms of most recent, most local to you,
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by akersten 7y ago
> What is a similar measurement for information? Grocery stores only sell physical goods; they don't, for example, determine what medical information you see, or what information about political candidates you consume... those are t
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by akersten 7y ago
Can someone explain to me how this is problematic? If you go to a grocery store, you will see store-brand items promoted too. They will be cheaper and possibly more prominent on the shelves than name-brand items. They might even be in disgu
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by akersten 7y ago
> Would there be some sort of uproar if people found out that Firefox had special optimizations for common websites, for instance? There was a comment on this site a few days ago that claimed Google was being anti-competitive by hard-cod
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by akersten 7y ago
> Or you let people try to moderate them, have them filter out 95% of the garbage, and don't punish them for the 5% they inevitably miss. Yes? That sounds great? That's how it currently works today?
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by akersten 7y ago
Hey root_axis, I see you pop up pretty frequently on threads like this where people really don't understand the consequences of forcing companies to host speech and removing their legal protections if they decide to moderate. Personall
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by akersten 7y ago
How could a court possibly correctly deduce whether someone has forgotten a password? They can't. That's why we have to say that you cannot be compelled to produce a password, because the alternative is that you go to jail for f
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by akersten 7y ago
> The problem with this new territory is exactly the unsettled issue of whether providing a password is testimonial and protected. I can see no possible correct answer than "yes, absolutely, it is testimonial." If I may take so
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by akersten 7y ago
You bring up a lot of valid considerations for designing software at scale. In good engineering, these known unknowns would be considered during the design phase. If the argument is that those items weren't considered, that is definiti
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by akersten 7y ago
> This seems like a cut-and-dry case of getting caught in monopolistic behavior. The code is right there. ??? Is "Darn, their browser only gets to track me on their own websites; if Google were playing fairly, they'd send the t
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by akersten 7y ago
Maybe my SQL's a little rusty, but isn't a left (outer) join between voters+precincts and (that)+party going to create a massive table with a bunch of nulls inserted? (And, how do you know they're primary keys, and that any o
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by akersten 7y ago
Holy shit. Not only is that one of the worst-performing SQL queries I've ever seen, the fact that it's being emitted as part of an error message, and clearly not parameterized, is absolutely shocking. Did a little digging. This[0]
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by akersten 7y ago
Yep. The article even smugly tries to boast about how they're adults and understand these things : > We haven’t needed both arms yet, primarily because we have the advantage of steady paychecks and the lack of strict bedtimes at
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by akersten 7y ago
Every time I see a fiddly fix like this where we're changing a buffer counter to a postfix instead of a prefix increment, I always think "why are we doing this shit ourselves?" We should have standardized a C API to safely re
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by akersten 7y ago
Even the title of the bill is so infuriatingly patronizing and un-American. "You want to stay out of jail? Why don't you EARN IT by letting us snoop in on your customers?" Disgusting.
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by akersten 7y ago
Occam's razor would indicate that those too-good-to-be-true cables by a no-name Amazon seller are probably not genuine.

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