bigDinosaur

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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
Pass on some of the worst analysis of Iran I've ever read...it's up there with Chomsky on Cambodia on the level of delusion just because 'US bad' or whatever biases the thinking.
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
Genuinely curious how anyone can use iOS autocorrect and conclude that it's not totally shit.
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
Maybe you just aren't perceptive. There's always a % of users that won't notice the most egregious bugs or design mistakes, just like there's a % that's way too sensitive to the most minor issues.
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
Seek sympathetic allies and then contact relevant authorities is probably the best general piece of advice on dealing with any kind of conflict.
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
That's because they've been indoctrinated - Mao was a complete disaster in every way but admitting that is a step too far for the CCP. The cultural revolution was the worst thing to ever happen to Chinese cultural history and conn
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by bigDinosaur 9mo ago
You aren't prompting the React site, you're prompting the LLM.
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by bigDinosaur 10mo ago
A manual test is often an end-to-end test which are notoriously difficult to automate.
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by bigDinosaur 11mo ago
Density/proximity are far better incubators for innovation than people being bored and isolated on farms. Also not sure where the idea that 'freedom' is associated with farms comes from? How free are you if you must wake up a
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
It's not our responsibility to avoid jokes because some people are awful at their jobs and/or idiots. How on earth would people who would send an API key in response to a joke fare against a genuinely malicious social engineering
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
Apparently this functionality was released in iOS 14, which was supported by the iPhone 6S, released in 2015, so any phone in the past 10 years should have support for it. That seems reasonable enough.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
AirBnb has one dark pattern that I'm aware of, that I absolutely despise: the search listings don't display the actual price, but instead the price minus the fees (so not what you'll actually pay). Thankfully some jurisdictio
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
If you implement security protocols in a production app using CSS then you deserve to be hacked and then sued for negligence.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
I find it a big stretch to consider 'ciao' phonetically similar to 'cheers', at least in terms of confusing them which I doubt any English speaker would.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
You can still have kids and not have any dependents. As in, they grow up and move out.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
If single with no dependents this is still very achievable on 4 days a week (and more than doubly so if dual income no kids), and it gets progressively more difficult the more dependents one has, so it really depends far too heavily on the
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
Things like DFS add a lot of noise in the way of seeing the pattern IMO, but then again if you want explicit stack management and that's the pattern you want to see I suppose the iterative versions are clearer.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
"Things change" is not the point, rather that empires always have a secular trend of expansion and eventually decline. I was responding to someone who claimed that historical examples don't prove anything, but this trend is
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
The trend is secular, so fluctuations are not the point.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
Empires having a rise and fall or increase/decrease in power/land is probably the most evidence supported grand narrative of history there is, although the specifics are always going to be different the general problems are perhap
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
Unfortunately in total war situations the line between civilian and not is blurred and not just blurred by the aggressor (as a sibling comment has pointed out). That doesn't really justify anything though, I agree, and something like a
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
What's the moral lesson: if we have a WW3, don't target civilians? What if our enemies are doing exactly that without compunction? What if civilians and military infrastructure are colocated? What if those civilians simply want us
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
Endowments are often earmarked for certain use cases. They aren't necessarily permitted to spend it as they like.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
The number of apples divided by the kilogram of oranges I have is a meaningless comparison and makes no sense, though.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
They do still act like separate organisms, including their own DNA and ability to synthesise proteins. Quinolones are known for being potentially very nasty, that's not 'anti-science'.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality has been noted for a long time. Unfortunately much bigger projects are now affected in ways that perhaps they would not have been in the past.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
That's a pretty major downside to OTP's and certainly not one that can be offhandedly dismissed.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
Obvious potential failure case: Japanese citizens who are travelling abroad.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
They're set at whatever the payment networks can get away with. There's nothing that says that's good for anyone else, although it is very good for Mastercard and Visa.
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by bigDinosaur 1y ago
Curious what's wrong with 'they'?

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