betagammaxyz

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   by betagammaxyz 2y ago

   Lol. That's up there with the [1-bit Bloom filter]( https://www.xkcd.com/2934/ )
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   by betagammaxyz 2y ago

   It's hard to make this point without a normative argument, but by analogy to land, a company is not only the land but also the workers laboring on it. It's reminiscent of serfdom. The serfs are attached to the land, and they own v
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   by betagammaxyz 2y ago

   There's not much to stop what you describe, other than the trust you place in a native app when you install it. Super common experience to have to give superuser access once during an installation process, and most bets are off regardi
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   by betagammaxyz 4y ago

   Path dependence -- just like the default 80x24 character terminal window size that goes back to the VT100 of 1978. A curious historical hangover. GUI defaults are obviously less consequential, though.