argomo

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by argomo 1y ago
That's so dumb... Europe did it with Airbus and they did it with GNSS. Come on Europe, make a smartphone! The hardware's only getting cheaper.
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by argomo 1y ago
I too am considering that. I give up many smartphone benefits in the name of privacy and control, but if open source Android withers, then I'm going to shift to choosing quality and service.
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by argomo 1y ago
To your point: gangs of various stripes pay blood money to the families of fallen members; they also fund or support community programs to curry good favor. My takeaway though is that human societies abhor a power vacuum: no matter what my
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by argomo 1y ago
There's a general principal in regulated businesses that it's best to be above suspicion and below the radar at all times. You don't want to give regulators or opponents (such as competitors or advocacy groups) any ammunition
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by argomo 1y ago
It's extremely easy to perform union with without realizing it. I was working a software deployment at a plant site where we had uncomfortable chairs, so we brought in chairs from the conference room next door. That turned out to be a
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by argomo 1y ago
Author of the comment you're quoting, and it is indeed my roundabout way of suggesting I'm missing something. Clearly, I'm not a knot theory expert, but the way the article presents it makes me wonder what extra nuance motiva
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by argomo 1y ago
Maybe the article is dumbing it down too much, but the conclusion seems unsurprising. Why shouldn't a single unknotting do double-duty in some cases? It feels akin to the classic trick of joining a tetrahedron to a square pyramid: 4 fa
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by argomo 1y ago
If we're assessing the assholeyness of comments, yours aren't coming across all that favorably IMO, but perhaps this conversation is victim to the loss of context and inflection that other commenters have lamented.
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by argomo 1y ago
CGP Grey's "The Rules for Rulers" (on YouTube) may also be relevant here.
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by argomo 1y ago
The swamp overfloweth. How do we cure the intractable corruption of Trump and his administration? Will the nation be worth a fragment of what it was once we do?
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by argomo 1y ago
Stallman was smeared for being uncompromisingly rigorous and objective: https://stallmansupport.org/explaining-events-that-led-to-st... It was all witch hunt from there.
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by argomo 1y ago
It has to be weighed against all the time spent learning, evaluating, and struggling with new tools. Personally, I've probably wasted a lot of time learning /new/ that I should have spent learning /well/.
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by argomo 1y ago
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/what-you-can-do/?form=d...
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by argomo 1y ago
I'm curious how you came to such a universally sweeping conclusion. At any rate, it's incorrect as I have personally observed counterexamples in my professional career.
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by argomo 1y ago
You lack imagination. Two customers with the same itinerary might be quoted different prices not because of capacity constraints but because the platform has inferred that one customer is willing to pay more than the other... that's ex
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by argomo 1y ago
Not just location, but all privacy sensitive API's. The OS should have built in support for segregating location, contacts, calendars, storage, etc. (GrapheneOS does this quite well with storage scopes). As part of this segregation you
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by argomo 1y ago
Ah yes the old "let's make individuals responsible for solving societal problems" bit. Nevermind that the state is sometimes the only entity capable of addressing the situation at scale.
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by argomo 1y ago
First: "Muddled laws give them wide discretion" Second: You are responsible for your actions, even if you're just following orders.
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by argomo 1y ago
Nice take. Don't let the DEI lead-in sway you from reading this observation about tech moguls trying to reclaim their glory days.
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by argomo 1y ago
Still pretty stupid that we as a society have created such a system. We rob the authors and artist of today to pay the estates of those long dead.
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by argomo 2y ago
It's nice that .NET has kept the number of web frameworks somewhat limited. They had the unfortunate ASP.NET Web Forms, than course corrected to ASP.NET MVC (which was solid but had too many API variations during the .NET core era), an
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by argomo 2y ago
No, no, no! Down Larry, down. Bad dog.
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by argomo 2y ago
Reminds me of an old Bruce Sterling quote: "politics pulls us together, technology tears us apart". That always struck me as being directly opposite of our intuitions as technologists. As a species, we need a wider exploration of
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by argomo 2y ago
> Attestation is just a tool. It can be used for all kinds of things and doesn't privilege one side or another. It priveleges the side that designs and uses it. By and large that's going to be the corporations, not individuals
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by argomo 4y ago
Unfortunately, evangelical leaders have promoted this as a sort of magic moment when a human begins. The has resulted in opposition to emergency contraception (Plan B) under the perception that it's an aborticant.
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by argomo 4y ago
I'd add that another advantage of XML is that you get a powerful set of tools that are readily accessible across all "working" programming languages, often provided by first party libraries. Plus a lot of developers (and text
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by argomo 4y ago
Same. My first play thru I just allotted a large space into which to extend assembly lines if needed, then I brought their outputs back to a central spine from which I could siphon them off for input into subsequent assembly lines. I think
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by argomo 4y ago
Probably too late, honestly, but still worth trying. Honestly, FirefoxOS received a lot of flak for not "focusing on their browser", but if it had succeeded it would have been a huge win for digital freedom and privacy.
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by argomo 4y ago
As the saying goes, there are four types of economies: developed, undeveloped, Argentina, and Japan.
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by argomo 4y ago
No offense, but I couldn't get into this piece due to the upfront clutter. Some readers may find it charming, but the privilege comment, the chart tweet, the subscribe button, the references to various novels... I just wasn't find

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