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by callalex 2y ago
One of the main reasons you put up with the annoyances of tuple-based storage like DynamoDB is because you want extremely high availability that simply cannot be provided by one computer in one physical location.
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by callalex 2y ago
The way this is phrased implies that PFAS materials are used as an essential ingredient in face masks which is just completely false. The reality is that things like bearings in assembly line machines are lubricated with PFAS materials. As
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by callalex 2y ago
That’s not true: for example the US government (CIA) in the past century has also been funded through shady drug deals. This isn’t fringe conspiracy stuff either, they freely admit to past activities and have shown no willingness to change.
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by callalex 2y ago
watch/mac/iOS are all the same platform just with a different window manager.
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by callalex 2y ago
That can be taken out by a particularly unfortunate shovel or truck though, and isn’t sufficient to run a business on.
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by callalex 2y ago
The cartel charges pretty high fees for those.
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by callalex 2y ago
>So why isn’t this already an issue in the status quo? Didn’t this just happen to Xhitter? Their ad revenue has dropped like a brick.
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by callalex 2y ago
I don’t think there’s one simple and satisfying answer, it’s a complex system. The only simple broad-stroke answer is that the government is incredibly powerful so violent uprising/revolution by the working class is essentially impossi
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by callalex 2y ago
This historical fact is brought to you by McDonalds™! flash flash flash
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by callalex 2y ago
There is a balance to be struck though. For example where I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, there are millions of people whose commutes are objectively faster and cheaper on the BART train, but the vast majority of commuters still choos
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by callalex 2y ago
The “competition” associated with the MS13 “artwork” that covers up stop signs and street names in my neighborhood sure seems to involve a lot of guns and human rights violations.
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by callalex 2y ago
What word would you use in your native language to mean 1) historical document/artifact that was created later by a liar 2) A written signature on a document trying to impersonate someone who didn’t actually read and approve of said do
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by callalex 2y ago
(To those that might dismiss this as snark, look up the definition of currency. And if you find that adventure interesting follow up by reading the excellent book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari for an easy read
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by callalex 2y ago
Calling Apple small and insignificant in 2001 is just…not factually accurate. As someone who lived through that time I don’t really know what the most useful citation to provide you would be. If you knew what a computer was, you knew what A
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by callalex 2y ago
I have a hard time feeling bad for someone who can be that uncritical before spending $1000. At that point the buyer is clearly looking to spend money for good feelings, not artifacts, so they probably actually got their money’s worth.
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by callalex 2y ago
True but it’s unclear how much the performance difference is from Qualcomm delivering value vs. Qualcomm destroying competitors’ value through blatant patent trolling.
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by callalex 2y ago
This is also easily defeated by throwing the device into a foil bag until you are in a room with a faraday cage, or just a remote location without cellular service.
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by callalex 2y ago
What about all the disabled people that you are silently rejecting? They don’t typically have it in them to make as much noise as your one idiot customer but please be aware you are actively harming them.
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by callalex 2y ago
Tools used for art often get irrationally preserved for the sake of it. For example I have had a conversation with more than one person (well 2 but still) who believed unironically that the wiring inside vintage guitars and amps must be coa
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by callalex 2y ago
Can anybody help me understand why browsers even allow disabling paste? It’s such a universally hated and ableist function. Why can’t the browsers just force a fix by…not supporting this “feature”?
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by callalex 2y ago
>I'd prefer for it to work as USB stick like other ebooks do Have you tried Calibre? https://calibre-ebook.com/
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by callalex 2y ago
That’s not such a given. There are a toooon of deep pockets in this space already and absolutely zero path to profitable products for any of them.
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by callalex 2y ago
Protesters a few generations ago figured out that you can grab a nearby dumpster and set it on fire to cause even more disruption to an intersection. The fact that it still doesn’t happen very often demonstrates that not every threat is wor
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by callalex 2y ago
But they already put the effort in to build it. So why not let everyone use it?
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by callalex 2y ago
Egohotz is brilliant in many ways, but taking him at his word when it comes to working with others has been a mistake since at least around 2010. This is well documented.
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by callalex 2y ago
You’re looking for logic. The only logic is “when a sucker buys WorldCoin, sama bank account go brrrr”. That’s the whole logic.
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by callalex 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
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by callalex 2y ago
“Cloud Computing” “us-east-1 down” This gave me a belly laugh.
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by callalex 2y ago
The iPad that came out today finally made the switch. iPhones made the switch around 2016. It does seem odd how long it took for the iPad to switch, but Samsung definitely switched too early: my Galaxy Tab 2 suffered from screen burn in tha
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by callalex 2y ago
In the hardware world, last year’s large has a way of becoming next year’s small. For a particularly funny example of this, check out the various letter soup names that people keep applying to screen resolutions. https://en.m.wik

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