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by barnabee 3y ago
Yeah, I've been following and am interested too. Actually more interested in things like UIs, quick API servers, stuff like that than the AI/ML use cases. The idea of most of the ease and approachability of Python, a proper type
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by barnabee 3y ago
Open is rarely the action I want most often. I use search/typing in a launcher to open documents and apps, or I’m using a command line. Mostly organising things in directories or doing other admin or secondary tasks when I’m in a file
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by barnabee 3y ago
I agree with the sentiment but I’d wager the choices they make are more rational without ads than with, which is all the argument needs.
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by barnabee 3y ago
Nonsense! Throughout history laws have been changed by repeated protest and civil disobedience in breaking those laws. Often it seems likely that breaking the law was the only way to get it changed on any non-geological timescale. Especial
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by barnabee 3y ago
Also not oc, but… Without advertising, “content marketing”, and paid placements/reviews people would buy things when they desire or need them. They’d ask friends, compare specs, and read/watch reviews before determining what to bu
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by barnabee 3y ago
IMO showing advertising itself is unethical and there’s no right to force anyone to see an advertisement, no matter how much some companies would like there to be. Any content you make available publicly is fair game to be remixed, reforma
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by barnabee 3y ago
> Giving prompts to AI not enough for human authorship If, as some predict, everything is soon done by people feeding prompts to AI, a great bonus would be if it all became uncopyrightable. Shame neither is really going to happen.
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by barnabee 3y ago
I agree there’s almost certainly a maximum density above which we don’t know how to make cities livable. London is nowhere near that. The relatively dense parts that suck to live in suck for other reasons or because of poor design (read: la
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by barnabee 3y ago
Probably better to ask ourselves more holistically what good urban design looks like. There are very pleasant and extremely livable high density cities (or areas within them) as well as many example of lower density urban and suburban envir
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by barnabee 3y ago
Cities like London could absorb pretty significant population growth with high quality, high density home building of the right type, in the right areas as long as they also invest in infrastructure and services too. Obviously making up the
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by barnabee 3y ago
1) Housing affordability relates to building relative to growth rate. For a variety of reasons, inlcluding both London's glboal appeal and a fact that it is so dominant culturally, economically, etc. within the UK it's likely this
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by barnabee 3y ago
> Wasm still generates html and outputs it on the screen Sure it can. More usefully to my point though, it can also use any of a number of C++/Rust/etc. UI libraries to render directly to a buffer or canvas, which is in my opin
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by barnabee 3y ago
Most JS frameworks are as bad too! Maybe the issue is that the giant pile of JS mess has created such a disaster that adding Tailwind doesn’t feel like making anything much worse. I can buy that. For what HTML is for (documents, web pages,
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by barnabee 3y ago
I honestly think the only remaining thing I'd need from Go to almost never pick up Rust for a new project is sum types. If there was a NewGo with no concept of a raw 'nil' value (replaced by Maybe<T>) and err, res in
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by barnabee 3y ago
It's a step that is, if not impossible, at least statistically infeasible…
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by barnabee 3y ago
I realise its not how current laws work, but I think the threshold for any large/mature market for anti-trust should be more like 33% than near 100%. There's no need for companies supplying a product en masse to be anywhere near t
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by barnabee 3y ago
I'd strongly welcome this, based on both size and profitability (which should also include money going to salaries above some level per employee, as well as accounting profit, dividends, etc.).
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by barnabee 3y ago
If you use your credit card with an exchange to buy Monero, then use that Monero (from a non-custodial/self operated wallet) to pay for Kagi search (or Mullvad or anything else) you’re not linking the ID tied to the credit card to your
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by barnabee 3y ago
Absolutely! Depending what I’m doing an HP-12C (financial stuff) or a Casio fx-82 solar II (most other stuff). I have one of each at home and in the office.
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by barnabee 3y ago
Really a warrant should be required to carry out any kind of in-depth, prolonged, or otherwise invasive surveillance or investigation into someone. It’s not just which data or where they get it (though surely many types and sources of data
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by barnabee 3y ago
Discovery vs invention
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by barnabee 3y ago
Depends, if the alternative is those laws are changed or removed from the statute books, their existence counterproductive for sure. If the alternative is all the bad laws society regularly bends or ignores outright (suggesting there’s litt
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by barnabee 3y ago
Advancements depend on the ability to change and often break the rules and to protest injustice. With no privacy there’s no civil disobedience and no advancement. Without privacy there’s no resistance to Putin’s regime, or to prohibition (o
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by barnabee 3y ago
Not only is privacy a fundamental right within a society but it is fundamentally necessary to the advancement, and thus long term survival, of any society.
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by barnabee 3y ago
As another commenter mentioned, you don’t have to bike (or walk) so fast you turn up drenched in sweat. But even if you do, since cycling exploded in popularity over the last decade or so, many (most?) offices here in London now have showe
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by barnabee 3y ago
I live in London and can do all those things! Like a decent number of Londoners I own a car. I love my car and I love driving. But I use my car once, maybe twice a month, almost always to leave the city. I lend it to friends when they need
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by barnabee 3y ago
In order of preference: 1. No recommendations 2. Generic recommendations 3. Tailored recommendations 4. Paid ads I’ll always use an ad blocker to aim for (1) anyway, but shouldn’t have to rely on that.
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by barnabee 3y ago
The product is the totality of what you pay for, not just the content of the book unless the terms of the transaction give you full rights to the content of the book with no strings. > Maybe the author doesn’t want to get paid by people
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by barnabee 3y ago
Disagree. Authors either need to sell something people want or get pirated. It seems very obvious there is no moral or ethical justification for copyright/DRM or any other way of giving control over the replication of information. The
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by barnabee 3y ago
> uses your buying history to suggest you books to buy So they do care and intend to use the information to practice psychological tricks and deception to make me buy more things (probably not just books) and also sell it to others who

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