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by burnte 1y ago
> By that definition, all politics is "hate". Passing a law will always take away the rights of a group in some way or other, and politics is the debate of whether or not that's a good or bad thing. Most politics isn'
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by burnte 1y ago
I have a closer knowledge that you think, having been inside Mozilla for a long time. He's not a bad human, but he's blinded by religion. Separately, slavery was mainstream, it was still hateful and wrong. Prop 8 was pure hate pro
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by burnte 1y ago
Yeah, if I want to turn it off manually for literally every site. I don't find that helpful.
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by burnte 1y ago
> Current LLMs just are not as good as they are sold to be as a programming assistant and people consistently predict and self-report in the wrong direction on how useful they are. I would argue you don't need the "as a program
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by burnte 1y ago
Born in Pittsburgh, raised Catholic, pretty darn liberal. We had alter girls in the 90s, openly gay members who had ceremonies in the church, etc. I'm not catholic now but that was a good church in the 80s and 90s.
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by burnte 1y ago
> I have no idea why some interfaces hide elements hide and leave the space they'd taken up unused. UI has been taken over by graphic designers and human interaction experts have been pushed out. It happened as we started calling it
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by burnte 1y ago
> Apple Wallet is in the App store, and the F1 ad debacle directly violates App Store guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ ) It would only violate App Store guidelines if Appl
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by burnte 1y ago
Apple also pushed a notification through the AppleTV app. I thought I had all notifications turned off (I turn off notifications from most apps on all devices, just because you think I need to see your messages doesn't mean I think tha
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by burnte 1y ago
Oracle is a law firm that sells IP. They'd rather control and strangle the name JavaScript than let people use it without their control.
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by burnte 1y ago
Capex and opex are just accounting labels that help categorize costs and can improve planning ability. But at the end of the day a billion dollars is a billion dollars.
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by burnte 1y ago
> It is horrifying to see this attitude take root in my adopted land. Agreed, and I was born here. I was taught we expressly want to reject those things, and now it's all the fashion. It feels like a temper tantrum from a third of t
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by burnte 1y ago
They would have had it custom commissioned so they didn't have to pay royalties.
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by burnte 1y ago
Not being able to eliminate it doesn't mean controlling it is impossible or that we shouldn't try. In any system there will be cheaters, it's how you deal with it that counts. A well regulated economy makes wealth spread arou
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by burnte 1y ago
> Capitalism makes capitalism hard to appropriately regulate. Concentration of capital means concentration of power. And yet many countries have a better handle on it than the USA. I just never, ever buy into the whole "it's to
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by burnte 1y ago
Capitalis does no such thing, the market available to the company does. Every problem people blame on "capitalism" is solvable with appropriate regulation. That's literally the point of regulation, too. Dozens of other countr
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by burnte 1y ago
> Okay, so what's the Western Wall in Jerusalem for? It's a retaining wall, it's a barrier holding back earth, supporting the man-made Temple Hill next to it. There used to be a Jewish temple there, and this wall kept the
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by burnte 1y ago
This is fantastic.
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by burnte 1y ago
> Until now, its origins, function, and historical context remained largely unknown. I'm pretty sure we know its function, though. Walls have one function, to be a barrier.
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by burnte 1y ago
App looks great, I'm on Windows so I can't wait to see it!
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by burnte 1y ago
This is exactly correct. And everything happened exactly as written!
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by burnte 1y ago
I've been wanting a tool that does exactly one thing, keep the bookmarks of Firefox and Chrome synced on my local PC. I don't want collaboration, distributed, cloud first, SaaS, friends, notifications, tags, AI, or anything else.
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by burnte 1y ago
They were told it was a mistake to buy it, they didn't listen, like they never listen. I used to love the organization but it's so resistant to outside input that I had to leave the community about 12 years ago.
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by burnte 1y ago
What I do is take that as an opportunity to state what I'm looking for. I'm well aware they want to anchor, so I start them in the range I want. Turning it on them to reveal budget is one tactic, I prefer this tactic of taking cha
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by burnte 1y ago
The beta version actually updates more often than the release group. I use the beta so I get the updates sooner. It's been rock stable for me for YEARS.
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by burnte 1y ago
Trademark law. They'd have to license the TM to have a product name that leads with another entity's trademark.
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by burnte 1y ago
I'll second you, WSL makes Windows a first class experience because now I can seamlessly have Linux and Windows apps in one laptop. Yes, I could run VMWare Workstation or HyperV, etc, but this is just better integrated.
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by burnte 1y ago
Yeah, splicing is a lot easier these days.
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by burnte 1y ago
Considering the number of fiber splice trucks rolling around I think your supposition is incorrect. Fiber splicing happens thousands of times every day. Fibers break and get cut all the time. Tt's not common in data centers, but once y
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by burnte 1y ago
> Does anyone feel like the biggest selling point of LLMs so far is basically for programmers? Feels like most of the products that look like could generate revenue are for programmers. No, you're in a tech bubble. I'm in healt
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by burnte 1y ago
They're even sending letters to foreign governments "ordering" them to cut all DEI programs. OTHER GOVERNMENTS. Insanity.

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