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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I’m saying that actually-free services and sites have no budget for promotion and become very hard to discover when drowned out by tons of ad-supported options, which drives down use, which discourages participation in improving them which
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I think odds are high a lot of these posts are by staffers. The posting volume is bananas, even granting that he spends a lot more time personally online and watching cable news et c. than any prior president, I don’t think there’s any way
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Yes, we both accurately located and linked to the "page not found" page. That gave me a good, actual LOL, thanks for that one.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
That's not wha the designation means. You're looking for some interpretation of the term that makes this not a contradiction, and such do exist to be found, but those aren't the correct definition.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Ugh, sorry for the broken link, I even pasted the same string into a new tab to make sure it worked because I thought the period at the end looked weird, and it was fine. Dunno how it got mangled. [EDIT] Oh man, yours is like that too? WTF.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure you (and others) are trying to apply some kind of guess at the "supply chain risk" designation, but it means something specific. Here's the term defined in an official context: https://www.acqu
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
> In corporate America A lot of corporate America contracts for the military in some capacity (it's a giant piggy bank and if you jump through a few hoops you get to siphon money out of it, so of course they do) and assuming this
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Trump's associated "Truth" ("Truth Social" is the name of his risible fake-Twitter and they call Tweets, "Truths" there) that preceded this: https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/36981
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Actually-free gets suppressed by free-with-ads. We don’t know how much the truly free hobbyist-volunteer ecosystem would pick up without competition from ad-supported options (often with deep pockets for advertising and promotion, plus mono
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I’ve got a popcorn reserve at hand to watch the show when the massive security breaches happen and people start freaking out. And/or a lawsuit gets discovery of a company’s LLM history and it’s every bit as awful for them as we all kno
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
You’re gonna want to look at today’s news out of the Boy Scouts. Short version: the US military provides some funding to the scouts. Hegseth threatened that funding to push the scouts to roll back LGBT-friendly policies, and they’ve caved.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
It's been so weird to watch over the decades as team sizes, budgets, and timelines have exploded even as we've abandoned once-normal things like native GUI applications as too hard in favor of "more efficient" webshit.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Correct, one of those “fun facts” of public policy is that (at least in the US) taxes and other fees, including on fuel, paid by heavy commercial trucks don’t come anywhere near paying for the damage they do to roads. The rest of us subsidi
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Not so long ago, they were just a ~75%-odds tell that the user was typing on a Mac.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
I picked it up from Salinger. I find that if I can't eradicate parenthesis by some other means, or if it's more effort to do so than I want to spend, em-dashes usually replace them without doing any harm and aren't quite so u
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
> Democracy has unfortunate failure scenarios, make a note for history books and system design lessons. Vote better next time. Major problems with the US system have been known for a long time. It's been regarded as basically obsole
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
That figure for "disposable income" doesn't include tons of effectively-mandatory spending.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Weird, I regard a far-superior UI as the advantage for physical books (with ebooks winning on just about every single other front).
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Read the Attention Is All You Need paper. Did it for me. "Oh, that's all it is? OK, cool, that'll be nice to have around once the hype-morons move on to the next thing."
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
In the last week or so my company has enabled some kind of Microsoft spam bot in Teams that posts several useless messages nobody wants in meeting chat-channels, burying messages from humans and generally making everything worse. It's
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
The global effect at my company is that we fired a bunch in the US, hired a bunch in India, and are probably gonna do the same again in a year or so, if I'm reading the tea leaves right. We're heavily pushing "AI" but
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Large companies are often very bad at organizing work, to the tune of increasing the cost of everything by a large multiple over what you'd think it should be. Most of that cost wouldn't be productive developer time.
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
Yeah, my semi-informed WAG for the core cause of many of the ills of our current situation is that we're wildly over-capitalized. The "trickle down" focus to put more of the "pie" on the investment side (setting asi
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by bubblewand 7mo ago
It’s a pretty low dose, doesn’t exactly send me into space—heavy users might need 10x or more that dose to even feel it—just enough to make my brain shut up so I can fall asleep. I think a lot of folks who have a bad time when they try it s
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Same as the “MongoDB is webscale” crowd.
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
I use gummies, ~4-5mg THC (ideally with some of the other TH- chemicals in it), deliberately kept my tolerance low so it doesn’t get more expensive (and I almost only use it for sleep, purely “fun” use is maybe a couple days a year). Take i
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
Have we considered that broad deployment of Markov chain text generators with a relevance-correction mechanism bolted on as expert systems is in fact a really stupid thing to do?
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
A parent with a certain temperament, which seems to overlap substantially with the sort with stupid expectations and demands, and a lot of time on their hands (which, ditto) can be extremely annoying, raise hell with the media, get the scho
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
> (Why do private equity firms want to be in this business? Because the 59% that don't fail often generate very good returns.) The way they limit their own exposure to risk seems to increase the odds of the targeted business complet
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by bubblewand 8mo ago
This behavior is present in plenty of families that don’t have the kinds of pressure on them that you’re describing. It’s not really connected to that (and needing to reach your kid instantly at 11:00AM on a Tuesday isn’t that common a thin

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