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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
The distribution pipeline is invisible because of the open, distributed ecosystem. As soon as a podcast announces it is going platform-exclusive, the pipeline becomes extremely visible for everyone except those already subscribing via tha
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
If podcasting is truly distributed, then by definition it should be able to survive Apple podcasts going away. It's an interesting thought experiment. In what way does the ecosystem rely on Apple's infrastructure? Do listeners on
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Not sure to be honest. A couple of years ago someone at the BBC decided they wanted to push listeners to their app (which has live "radio" as well as shows on catch-up). They chose a few of their most popular podcasts, including T
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Those aren't podcasts, in my opinion. When things I subscribe to become not-podcasts (which has only really happened once - looking at you BBC), I spend a few minutes looking for something new to try out instead. I always have too much
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
How is the 3:2 13" with vertical splits? This is my typical layout. I cancelled my Framework 16 order when I saw quite how big it was was even without the GPU. Would love to support Framework but like your parent comment I think someth
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Whereas FPTP systems are a roaring success?
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
> The resulting fragmentation has to be later recomposed with alliances to form a government, which will go on bickering constantly; I mean what are political parties under FPTP other than alliances to form a government? Bickering is rat
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
> - Representatives can't focus on representing a smaller geographic area, including field offices, outreach, constituent services, etc as easily, because they have to represent a much broader geographic area. There are lots of prac
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
I am also in favour of proportional voting systems. But with a party list system, there can be a perception that the party machine has more control over who gets elected. If a party can realistically expect a vote share of 20-30%, and ten c
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Perhaps I'll seem naive, but surely it only makes sense to judge a tax in comparison the taxes it could replace. Is taxing consumption better or worse than taxing earned income? The total level of taxation is a different question.
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
I don't find planned obsolescence isn't a very convincing theory for something like a blender. It makes sense for them to cheap out to save money, or to not think too hard about design for reliability beyond any guarantee or statu
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Thanks for this link! I wonder why France and Germany have 6 and 8 times as many servers as the UK. Mind you, per capita France and Germany also have way more servers than the USA. Interesting.
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Mastodon isn't a single node, it's a service that runs on many independently operated nodes.
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You can define what your contribution is, right? You can publish any code you like under GPL, with zero further commitments as far as I'm aware. It doesn't have to be working software, it doesn't all have to be licenced the s
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
In a corporate context, is there any risk or downside associated with making a specific contribution to GPL code which doesn't also apply to MIT/BSD? The only downside I can perhaps think of is a strategic one: endorsing the use o
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
> severed the procreative element of the sexual act So by that reading it was only wrong because the understood purpose is the whole arrangement was to give Tamar a chance to have a child, which she was entitled to expect when Onan marri
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Cigarette filters contain plastic.
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
I used to date someone with a nicotine addiction who threw cigarette butts on the ground, or out of the window if driving. Whilst I strongly disapproved of the behaviour, she did not exhibit any of the other qualities you ascribe to litterb
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
The patents for their core IP expired. You can legally sell generic compatible lego blocks now. So to maintain mindshare they have to do licensed movie tie-ins, their own movies and other such stuff. I get why but it feels less timeless tha
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
I mentioned the Mars rovers as well.
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> Initially designed to last five years NASA tech often seems to outlive its initial mission length by a massive margin. The Mars rovers spring to mind. It's incredibly impressive, and almost embarrassing! Surely this isn't acc
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> Good to know for interviews. I was asked to explain idempotency a handful of times, weird as that is. Do you now reply "I've been asked this before, so your question has no effect"?
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Yes, makes sense. Although this was originally a post about output of common command-line tools. Some of these are built on C libraries that you can just use directly. They are usually open source.
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
The complaint is less whether it would work, and more a question of taste. Obviously taste can be a personal thing. My opinions are my own and not those of the BBC, etc. You have a small C program that processes this data in memory, and dum
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
If you have to zoom out to see it though, it's by definition less volatile, surely?
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
Is it these sort of buyers that have a major influence on the price though? (I don't know the answer.) If you buy a large amount of gold on an exchange the physical gold often stays in the exact same vault, and someone just updates an
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
> implies native born americans are dramatically under represented. Isn't London a major location for Google AI expertise? Also, native-born Americans have family origins, and therefore names, from all over the world. (I'm assu
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
That's a common enough error that it's become well-known slang. People are used to it and can figure out the intended meaning by intonation and context. Although it's still one of those things that can confuse folks who aren&
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
I doubt this. Maintaining and developing a competitive browser is serious work, and needs skilled professionals working on it full time, as well as getting stuck in to the web standards process. That requires a level of funding that most co
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by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
These benchmarking results are seven years old, so perhaps it has been. My entirely anecdotal and unscientific impression is that rg and grep perform similarly on Linux (though rg has nicer defaults for searching through source code). The o

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