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by byecomputer 6y ago
Having teachers drive to work to talk in front of a webcam is an obviously unnecessary move and a waste of time. They don't need a vague justification, it's pretty evident why this is a non-starter.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
far in the future, distant peoples sifting through sand to find the one with the key to plenty: the Apple cryptographic signature
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Everyone knows it's a drug. It also has a handful of applications in medicine, but so do a lot of drugs. Doesn't mean it's for everyone. As a recreational drug, the societal and personal harm associated with consuming marij
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I don't think that's it, either. I think it's that the word "ganja", in United States parlance, is sort of puerile and gets uttered ironically more than it does unironically. I think that most of us not caring about
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Really, universal problems that all large corporations and bureaucracies are vulnerable to. Overlaps or gaps in responsibility (breeding plausible deniability), lack of communication, and management issues (hence dysfunctional incentives) a
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by byecomputer 6y ago
The birthday problem involves random people with unrelated birthdays. This is like two not-random siblings both calling in sick in the same week. The case of two large Google outrages where the whole service gets conked has much more potent
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by byecomputer 6y ago
They could always try asking me if I want to be tracked, no code injection necessary.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Perhaps not aficionados ... polar bear jail is a complicated solution to a polar bear problem. The ethics of their incarceration is left as an exercise to the reader
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by byecomputer 6y ago
My dad's house is on Wikipedia, and we didn't find out until half a decade after he'd bought it. Reason being it's on the historical register, nothing spooky. But, boy, was I jazzed to see a picture of the house I was si
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I think it's understood that controversial topics and current events on Wikipedia are subject to manipulation. But I don't think TPTB are committing payroll to influence my opinion of "Ben Franklin" or "Norwegian Fo
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Wikipedia hasn't been tainted like everything else. I can spend all night reading Wikipedia, and it's way more interesting than most content online. All they do is ask me for $3 every once in a while, and while I'm actually
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Having to circumvent your own extension policy that prevents tracking in order prevent the tracking you were doing is not the best way to look competitive.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I suppose, but I don't want to download it, so I won't. Much like I wouldn't try to delete Bonzi Buddy by downloading the Bonzi toolbar. This is just a JavaScript block (for now) but I have no idea what it means internally an
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I appreciate the tip. GNOME 3, which I understand had a rocky start, has been honestly the most intuitive and usable desktop I've had yet, so I can't say I'm in the market for now. But it's always fun checking new things
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by byecomputer 6y ago
"Download this browser extension so we won't track you without consent" isn't a very good proposition no matter how internet literate you are. I'd argue that the very concept of internet literacy is broken if any of
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Browser extension? Equivalent to being told that all I need to do in order to get someone to stop following me is to let them in my house one more time
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by byecomputer 6y ago
In my little world, I don't need more than perhaps a few windows at attention simultaneously, and working out how to space them when it does happen is pretty breezy. The physical metaphor of dragging stuff works for me, too, and—while
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I don't wanna do-si-do, it's not a big deal. What I meant wasn't some pointed or venomous criticism, it was more or less, "The best laid schemes of mice and men / often go awry." That's all.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Threatening it as consequence of non-payment is, though. The nature of blackmail is weird, it gets written about a lot.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Good for you guys, I'm glad you stuck it out. Real quick heads up, though, small typo on the homepage: "...@joesmith.33mail.comwill be" ('com' and 'will' are smushed together)
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> 5 years after acquisition Similar timeline with the Vine acquisition and subsequent dismemberment, except Twitter announced Vine's discontinuation after 4 years rather than 5. > and NOT retire the technical debt? I would be sur
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I made guesses because you took an incongruously dark read of my comment that seemed more reflective of internal disquiet than anything I said. I'll respectfully ask that you refrain from being hostile towards others based on assumptio
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Fair enough, I got the impression that the user who called me snarky was gaming the rules to get my comment deleted, so I was a bit annoyed. After the first page, their comment history is mostly sarcastic and demeaning remarks, so it was cl
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Huh, on my desktop there isn't—thanks for pointing that out. My tablet uses Opera; I guess it doesn't support something about those links, but I'm not sure what.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
That's injecting a lot of malicious intent into what I said. I don't think making an unreasonably dark assumption about someone's intent is a good reason to treat them with hostility.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Anyone else find the link underline CSS to be distracting? My brain sees it as a strikethrough due to it being high up like that, sort of messes with the reading flow.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Also fine with payrolling a call center that schedules haircutting appointments and restaurant reservations when Google Duplex shorts out—but clearly that's a temporary stopgap for a new technology, unlike the quite finished Google Pla
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I totally agree. The different and sometimes complex ways people are good at some things and bad at others is a reality that actually exists. The idea of playing mind games in order to act less self-important seems... kind of self-important
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Record-breaking regulatory fines? Baked into the budget. Picking up the phone? Unfeasible, can't be done.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
That makes sense to me. Organizing and documenting feels a lot more creative for me than the wtf-am-I-doing orienteering-type stuff. My attitude can definitely come down to, "Okay, either me and the computer get square, or me and the p

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