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by barnabee 10mo ago
To me this sounds like “can you not conceive of some content sufficiently valuable that you’d let someone get you addicted to their brand of cigarettes so you could get it for free” If it’s that valuable, just let me pay a fair price to see
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by barnabee 10mo ago
If it takes an ad for someone to buy something, chances are they shouldn’t buy anything.
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by barnabee 10mo ago
My objection is that Palantir are close to a US regime that if not actually evil is at times indistinguishable from it. Combine that with people like Peter Thiel (who has publicly stated beliefs that are deeply incompatible with free and de
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by barnabee 10mo ago
You're likely being downvoted not because there's anything wrong with having an opinion but because this feels like a low effort comment that contributes little to nothing, and comes across as quite negative and dismissive[0]. Th
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by barnabee 10mo ago
I know people who profitably run algorithms on Betfair, etc. Smart people will treat it like any other “trading” or “arbitrage” opportunity, given half a chance.
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by barnabee 10mo ago
I think ~everyone wants a language that's kind of like Go with a Rusty type system (and maybe syntax), so any title like this gets attention. There's an obvious sweet spot in there.
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by barnabee 10mo ago
I don't see how this follows. London is a net contributor of tax revenue to the rest of the UK, which presumably goes towards, for example, the 17 (non-London) power grid improvement projects listed at https://www.nationalgr
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by barnabee 10mo ago
It depends very much what the company is doing. At my last two places it very quickly got to the point where the technical complexity of deployments, managing environments, dealing with large piles of data, etc. meant that we needed to hire
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by barnabee 10mo ago
Unironically yes? Many artists already work this way. They are on Spotify et al. for reach not because it does anything meaningful for them financially. It’s not like your subscription fee is distributed fairly to the artists you listen t
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by barnabee 10mo ago
As soon as a competitor duplicates Spotify they’ll pay licensing fees or they’ll be pretty quickly shut down. You don’t get a free pass to stream music to people just because you happen to have the file. Spotify itself started with pirated
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by barnabee 10mo ago
> Why is this stealing? It's not, theft involves taking something from someone, i.e. also depriving them of that thing. This may be unauthorised copying aka piracy, but it's not theft.
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by barnabee 10mo ago
I don’t think this is quite true. I’ve seen them do fine on tasks that are clearly not in the training data, and it seems to me that they struggle when some particular type of task or solution or approach might be something they haven’t bee
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by barnabee 10mo ago
Even where they are not directly using LLMs to write the most critical or core code, nearly every skeptic I know has started using LLMs at very least to do things like write tests, build tools, write glue code, help to debug or refactor, et
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by barnabee 10mo ago
They're easy to type on macOS and iOS, which covers quite a large fraction of users
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by barnabee 10mo ago
I don’t “engage” with products that infantilise me and won’t give me the rope to hang myself with, I endure them, and only to the extent I have to.
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by barnabee 10mo ago
Yes. It seems pretty obviously true to me that there should be no legal right to prevent interoperability and no recourse against adversarial interoperability. The right to say "Compatible with X" or similar where X is a brand sho
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by barnabee 10mo ago
> it's also that the regenerative braking means that the tires are dissapating energy that otherwise would have gone to the brake pads or to air resistance This does not seem correct... - Air resistance slows the car without putting
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by barnabee 10mo ago
There are others, Cambridge for one is very big on bikes.
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by barnabee 11mo ago
It varies massively from place to place. Where I live in London, and in many other cities, cycling to get around is massively popular and growing fast. But other towns and cities are much more like you describe. Anecdotally this seems like
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by barnabee 11mo ago
I insist all software I regularly use is configurable (and with very few exceptions, it is), why should Firefox be different?
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by barnabee 11mo ago
You can with userStyles.css
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by barnabee 11mo ago
My recollection is that without the about:config changes there were still unwanted bits of UI like menu items. If that’s fixed then great. As it is I have switched to Zen as it appears more clearly user-aligned and works better for me as a
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by barnabee 11mo ago
I need things I don’t want to use to not appear in the UI. I don’t fill my house with tools and products I don’t want and I’m not willing to have them on my computer screen either.
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by barnabee 11mo ago
You’re welcome. Keep up the great work!
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by barnabee 11mo ago
It’s still a political position to take to not care about things that happen in other countries. (I’m not American either, not that it should matter.)
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by barnabee 11mo ago
> I don't care about ICE one way or another, Which is itself a political position, a privileged one at that
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by barnabee 11mo ago
Sure :) tl;dr: I'm a tinkerer, an idealist, and someone who wants to retain control over my digital life and deny influence over it to the likes of Google, Apple, Meta, et al. at pretty much all costs, and there are absolutely good eno
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by barnabee 11mo ago
I like the direction and keep checking in on it, but while Orion remains closed source there's no chance of it ever being more than a curiosity for me.
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by barnabee 11mo ago
Substack is definitely outside my idea of what “the small web” means (I realise this isn’t well defined and will mean different things to different people, though). It’s a platform and social network of sorts, rather than a neutral hosting
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by barnabee 11mo ago
I hope we can, too. I really hope we don't.

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