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by bccdee 4y ago
I didn't change the definition of anything. Racism is bias based upon race, plain and simple. > No real science is performed to test their validity. This is a ludicrous argument. Which scientific experiment do you want me to perform
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by bccdee 4y ago
The article is making the case that black people are being given sun exposure advice catered to white people. That's a pretty basic example of systemic racism. It's not vile bigotry, but it doesn't need to be—it's just
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by bccdee 4y ago
> it annoys me when people expect “The Answer” I don't think it's unreasonable that people expect clear public health guidelines. I don't want to trudge through a thousand pages of research, I want the department of health
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by bccdee 4y ago
What are the advantages of integrating templating and markdown like that? If I'm using markdown with nunjucks, for instance, what do I stand to gain from switching to Markdoc?
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by bccdee 4y ago
Arguably, perhaps, but nobody actually uses those.
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by bccdee 4y ago
Branding. I'm not even joking; everything they do with blockchain can be done cheaper, easier, and just as well without it. They do the minimum they need to to hype themselves up as being "Web3" and that's it.
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by bccdee 4y ago
No cryptocurrency or Web3 platforms actually store their data on the blockchain. That would be ludicrously expensive; it'd cost tens of thousands per gig at least. Relational databases, cloud object buckets, and CDNs are pretty much al
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by bccdee 4y ago
Every programmer should not be re-solving the problem of library distribution just to distribute their library. This is a solved problem; a go-style git repository model is the bare minimum that a language should have.
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by bccdee 4y ago
I think it's simple: People don't want something like Python or Java, which improves on old stuff with a big runtime, and they don't want something like Rust, which improves on old stuff with lots of complicated static checki
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by bccdee 4y ago
So the solution is just vendoring? Vendoring is very clunky—that's why we have package managers in the first place.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Can you give me an example of a PoW-based social network or chat application which has been more successful than conventional alternatives like Mastodon?
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by bccdee 5y ago
It exists to some extent around Linux, because "Linux user" is an identity that some people care about, but I dispute that there are "Windows fans" and "Windows anti-fans" the way that there are Apple fans and
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by bccdee 5y ago
> people that are vehemently anti-Apple This is just it though! You're not describing "Apple fanatics versus Windows fanatics," you're describing "Apple fanatics versus people with an irrational and excessive hat
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by bccdee 5y ago
How exactly is a person going to injure themselves by getting naked on camera? Oh, maybe they'll get hypothermia from the chilly air in their bedroom! I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about. Wouldn't be especially
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by bccdee 5y ago
How is taking nude photos of yourself "ugly and abusive sex"? I feel like you're regurgitating stale anti-porn talking points rather than actually engaging with the topic at hand. A cam girl is her own boss, picks her own hou
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by bccdee 5y ago
Doesn't surprise me at all. The platform upon which the entire web game community was based just disappeared, and "Oh don't worry, here's a radically different stack with much worse tooling that you can learn to use to c
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by bccdee 5y ago
I think the fundamental mistake this article makes is in assuming that bad-faith tactics are non-partisan. It's not as if fake news is coming from equally both sides of the spectrum. It's not as if there can be any equivocacy betw
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by bccdee 5y ago
Not necessarily. It's possible to listen for file updates and respond accordingly on the fly by re-reading the file and updating all your offsets and mmaps. It doesn't even have to be efficient; it's not a common case.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Sqlite replication via litestream has bascially no overhead. It's a great choice if your database only needs to service one client. It sounds like you're essentially arguing that people should always use the most robust data store
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by bccdee 5y ago
I ended up reaching a similar conclusion after I went looking for a todo app that suited my needs. I had very few requirements and I was surprised nothing satisfied them. I wanted something (1) that allows me to attach dates to tasks; (2) t
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by bccdee 5y ago
> There are some games which really just exist so rich dudes can casually meet and show off how much money they spend on some stupid skin. Possibly, but not in the mainstream market. I'm not concerned with some weird niche luxury th
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by bccdee 5y ago
There's an object lock feature which prevents objects in a certain bucket from being deleted before X amount of time has elapsed. This might be able to prevent backups from being tampered with. If that doesn't work, there's a
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by bccdee 5y ago
Right, so the market is being disproportionately swayed by gambling addicts and the experiences which appeal to them. This is not a healthy state of affairs.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Mm, no. Fortnite makes money by selling good to children. They make more money if they create an environment which stigmatizes not spending money, which is a tactic to which children are especially vulnerable and which necessarily leads to
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by bccdee 5y ago
Fortnite's a good example about how your two rules aren't enough, actually. Because of the way the game's designed, it pressures its audience (of primarily children) into purchasing microtransactions, to the point where there
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by bccdee 5y ago
You're describing Diablo 3's famously unpopular and disastrous auction house. Adding resale would just make everything worse — especially if you rope NFTs into it for no reason.
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by bccdee 5y ago
The difference between someone who "dabbles in games" and a professional is that the professional polishes up the prototype and sells it on Steam. The commenter above explained why the state of the industry has prevented them from
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by bccdee 5y ago
Actually there's a strong power law going on with microtransactions. Most players don't spend any money at all on them; some spend a couple bucks on an item or two. The model becomes profitable because of the top 1% of spenders —
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by bccdee 5y ago
> Being "disappeared", at least in Western society, conjures the image of being quietly whisked away from society in an unmarked van > Now, you add in things like torture and detainment I'm sorry, where do you think th
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by bccdee 5y ago
Yes! I back up directly into Backblaze B2 using restic.

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