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by bambax 1y ago
Social anxiety is what happens when the effort to appear acceptable to polite society feels overwhelming -- and pointless at the same time.
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by bambax 1y ago
Most comments seem to agree with the article, and I don't quite understand why. People have been manipulated since forever, and coerced before that. You used to be burned or hanged if your opinions differed even a little from orthodoxy
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by bambax 1y ago
> This is kinda like Amazon retargeting you with alternative toasters after you just bought a new toaster. Most people think this is stupid. Well, the most likely cohort to buy a new toaster is a person that just bought one because they
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by bambax 1y ago
That's not my experience at all: https://i.imgur.com/JXAJMNh.png Searching for Midjourney finds Midjourney with direct links to sections of their website. uBlock Origin blocks ads. All is well.
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by bambax 1y ago
Yes but the joke is moot, because on the web, you can't really make text non-selectable (you can try, but it can be defeated extremely easily). In an app, undoing that is pretty much impossible (or at least, above my pay grade). This i
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by bambax 1y ago
Where you get confused is with the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship.
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by bambax 1y ago
The difference is, slavery is supposed to be over? And freedom of speech is supposed to be the law of the land?
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by bambax 1y ago
The US obsession with "security" is striking (not least in IT). I recently realized it has its roots in the fact that Americans are invaders and slave owners. They have this constant fear of being killed in their sleep by the peop
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by bambax 1y ago
It's also interesting if the comment comes from a US person, given that the US are primarily responsible for the political situation in Iran.
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by bambax 1y ago
> in federal pounding-in-the-ass prison Ha ha ha, it's so funny and harmless to make fun of people in prison, because they all deserve it, right? And the US is a free country? Sorry but this just makes me incredibly angry.
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by bambax 1y ago
Nothing earth-shattering but quite true nonetheless (or it may be the reason all this is common knowledge is because it's true). This made me smile: > Harvard philosopher Christine Korsgaard It sounds like a honorific title to out
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by bambax 1y ago
Or you can discard them right away. I'm not the police, I don't investigate strangers.
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by bambax 1y ago
What is the point of "testing" something that everyone knows doesn't work and only exists because a serial liar said so? If Musk says you will survive a fall from a 90-stories high-rise... don't test it.
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by bambax 1y ago
This is probably a good thing for nations providing the bulk of high skilled labor, namely India and China. Their best and brightest will tend to leave less. Much has been said about Trump, but his main quality is this: he's a foot-gun
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by bambax 1y ago
This sounds true but isn't. " The program should accept one parameter as a number, and output this number multiplied by two " is a spec. input a print a*2 is a program. But: why do that? why multiply by two? what d
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by bambax 1y ago
Happy user of yt-dlp for years. It's not just an app, it's mainly a Python library, so it can be scripted from a larger Python app, which is super useful. Had never heard of Statcher, but it seems to just be a gui front for yt-dlp
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by bambax 1y ago
I have always wondered why Google didn't buy Sun? They propbably were at the time (and probably still are?) the biggest corporate users of both Java and JavaScript (which, of course, don't share anything beyond the name).
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by bambax 1y ago
> Assouvissez votre créativité sans changer de page > Have a question about what you're reading? Ask Gemini. It uses the context of your open tabs to provide relevant answers and explanations, keeping you focused. In France s
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by bambax 1y ago
For some reason, I really hate when websites use "my" or "I" instead of "your" and "you"; it feels patronizing, like they're trying to help us understand what's happening. Also the example g
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by bambax 1y ago
That was also the case in NYC, and that's why there are so many long tunnels: each company tried to reach customers where they were.
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by bambax 1y ago
Indeed it is, I don't know how I missed it the first time!
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by bambax 1y ago
This is insane. Never saw anything like it. One minor nitpick: zooming the map is very slow (maybe Leaflet is not the best choice?). And the main station in Paris is missing: Châtelet-Les Halles. Other than that, incredible work!! Amazing.
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by bambax 1y ago
Tried a mock application. Got this at the end: > Thank you for your application. We will contact a select group of applicants in the coming weeks. If you are not contacted, we’d love to have you apply for the next cohort. They can&#x27
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by bambax 1y ago
YC tried this at some point. Just hire white guys that seem "bright" on paper but can't come up with any idea whatsoever, see where it goes. Spoiler: it didn't go anywhere. The story on HN is still here: https:/&#x
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by bambax 1y ago
Their economic model is also based on trying to come up with new content all the time (hence podcasts), because once people realize they mostly listen to the same songs over and over again, they will resent the cost of a subscription. This
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by bambax 1y ago
Yes, Navidrome is great! and very lightweight. It's your own private Spotify, and has various players on each mobile platform. Recommended.
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by bambax 1y ago
I've ever owned an iPhone and probably never will, but I very much like smaller, lighter, thinner. For a device that stays with you all day, the less cumbersome the better, no?
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by bambax 1y ago
Works for me.
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by bambax 1y ago
In France I have yet to go to a waiting room with a TV with the sound on; I think people would get upset. I went once to a dentist with a TV above my head (sound off); I refused to sit in the chair until it was turned off. The assistant sig
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by bambax 1y ago
Hit F5, buffering gone.

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