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by aronpye 6y ago
How is the issue not bloated websites? You can easily create a text only website in HTML which is compatible with every existing internet capable device. All technology can be misused, it isn’t necessarily a problem with the underlying tech
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by aronpye 6y ago
How is introducing yet another new technology, incompatible with what everyone else is using, any better than just creating a minimalist static HTML website?
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by aronpye 6y ago
AMP is the main reason I switched to DuckDuckGo from Google. Webpage rendering often used to break on iOS, in particular scrolling where the page would just go blank.
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by aronpye 6y ago
TLDR Don’t re-write from scratch, refactor instead.
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by aronpye 6y ago
Soon it will be the American flag itself because someone somewhere will find it offensive. It’s not hard to imagine how it will go down, the American flag should be banned because something something slavery, something something oppression,
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by aronpye 6y ago
Unless and until we start regulating cloud providers and social media companies as utilities then these issues will continue to present themselves.
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Heated seats as a service? BMW wants to sell car features on demand(arstechnica.com)
24 points by aronpye 6y ago|15 comments
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by aronpye 6y ago
Agreed, creating work arounds for non-standards compliant websites just eliminates the motivation and incentives to be standards compliant in the first place.
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by aronpye 6y ago
Good privacy is not based on trust. Even so, this incident is even less reason to trust you.
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by aronpye 6y ago
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. At the end of the day, your privacy policy is just a bunch of words with nothing to actually prevent you from abusing the data collected. Instead of us relying on DuckDuckGo to act ethically,
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by aronpye 6y ago
Because one does not simply exit VIM.
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by aronpye 6y ago
You tend to get what you pay for.
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by aronpye 6y ago
Has it crashed for anyone yet? I tried using Windows Update and it hung, it’s Windows 98 alright.
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by aronpye 6y ago
Mostly agree with all the points, but you should still be careful not to construct an echo chamber for yourself by only allowing what you like to see / read and banning everything else.
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by aronpye 6y ago
It’s not just that function, the C file is over 2300 lines long. It’s hard to tell where one function starts and another one ends in that mess
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Stop Preparing for the Last Disaster(fs.blog)
3 points by aronpye 6y ago|1 comments
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by aronpye 6y ago
TLDR: We often prepare for a future disaster based on a past disaster happening again, which is rarely the case. This is because of availability bias, I.e. a recent event is more fresh in our minds so we’re more likely to think it will reoc
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by aronpye 6y ago
I mostly agree, but there is nuance to these types of things. For example, is everyone who worked in Nazi Germany a criminal?
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by aronpye 6y ago
I agree that a trial by jury isn’t always required. But when punishing individuals, there should always be due process. In any case, any action taken should be evidence based and properly investigated.
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by aronpye 6y ago
Nope, but you should judge individuals on their individual actions
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by aronpye 6y ago
If you are proven to have aided a killer by providing them with weapons for example, that is accessory to murder. Maybe everyone in that organisation is evil and corrupt, but you cannot just assume that and apply summary judgment without du
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by aronpye 6y ago
Being a member of a criminal organisation does not make you a criminal by itself, that is called guilt by an association and has been used by tyrants throughout history to justify oppression and killing without cause. You are only a crimina
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by aronpye 6y ago
Ostracising someone from society solely on where they work without looking at their actual actions is implying guilt by association. A tactic often used by authoritarians. Everyone in a civilised society has the right to a fair trial withou
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by aronpye 6y ago
I’ll grant you that HTTP and HTML technologies did come out of CERN, but access to clean water and a sewage system amongst other things is what lifted you out of poverty. It’s no good having access to cat memes if you’re dying from dysenter
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by aronpye 6y ago
It’s called priorities, so yeah. Do you care more about people or about discovering super symmetry?
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by aronpye 6y ago
Actually the washing machine and basic sanitation is what has lifted a large part of the world out of poverty, not high energy physics.
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by aronpye 6y ago
In order to stop pollution we need to invest money in an alternative, you simply can’t stop the economy to prevent pollution, Covid-19 style, forever and expect society not to regress to pre-industrial revolution. Hence, in order to fund an
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by aronpye 6y ago
My point is, if it isn’t clear, is that scientists who think the world is being put in danger by climate change shouldn’t be requesting or otherwise accept money that would be better spent combatting said existential threat. To accept money
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by aronpye 6y ago
People, myself included, can often focus too much on the planning / organisational type of things rather than just getting things done, I.e. Just do it TM. You can end up procrastinating by reading up on stuff meant to help you stop pr
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by aronpye 6y ago
If you can, get another job. Don’t work for that kind of company. If you can’t leave or demand better working conditions then you’re virtually a slave.

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