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by caslon 6y ago
It's actually a perfect and terribly perceptive analogy. He's right! Like Rockefeller and Carnegie and his grandfather before him, he's made a load of money and made the world a worse place while doing it, all the while not e
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by caslon 6y ago
The fact that they bit the onion with Adequacy is really, really funny.
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Early LISP(funcall.blogspot.com)
4 points by caslon 6y ago|0 comments
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by caslon 6y ago
The Web already does that. So does...all of computing! Hacker News is an English site. Billions of people do not speak English! Hacker News, therefore, has not succeeded in its goal to...be a place for sparking intellectual curiosity in Eng
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by caslon 6y ago
Plain HTML has a million attributes, isn't actually what any website is made of (this one even has spacer gifs), and isn't actually used in a semantic fashion by anyone (find me a page using <summary> and I'll show you
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by caslon 6y ago
This thought process is something I think is a common misconception with how cults work. A machine to autogenerate cult-ish nonsense isn't needed. Humans are already incredibly good at doing this on their own. Not only this, but anot
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by caslon 6y ago
Despite (in my opinion) missing the point & also leaning a bit toward "yay heterosexuality!", what that poster said wasn't exactly insinuating anything bad about any other group. When a child has a parent that's died
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by caslon 6y ago
A suicide doesn't mean your life wasn't lived wisely. He was suffering from a clinically-diagnosed depressive disorder, was told to stop taking antidepressants by his own doctor, and was recommended to try electric shock as an alt
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by caslon 6y ago
HTML already isn't meaningfully accessible. Gemini will still be an upgrade, because there's much less to spam screenreaders with, by virtue of being effectively just a hyperlinked document layer. I think accessibility is critic
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by caslon 6y ago
I was clarifying, since the above poster was using question marks.
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by caslon 6y ago
Why would anyone post something boring on a photography site? There's a bar for quality on flickr; it's not twitter.
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Gabe Newell on Valve's Brain-Computer Interfaces(youtube.com)
2 points by caslon 6y ago|0 comments
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by caslon 6y ago
Courts are already unelected legislators; the least they could do is enforce the Constitution.
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by caslon 6y ago
In which case the problem is with the government ( that already supports French symbols, mind ), not with the person hoping to have sensible support for names.
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by caslon 6y ago
> No reason besides the fact that Unicode characters can cause countless errors in legacy systems downstream. All systems worthwhile have been using UTF-8 since the 1990s. There is no excuse for legacy systems handling business applicat
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by caslon 6y ago
I'm generally not in favor of preserving any sort of non-computing history, but in this particular case: > she discovered B.C.'s registry doesn't permit characters that are not part of the Roman alphabet. It makes sense.
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by caslon 6y ago
A handful of services automatically show diffs. reddit only really deletes stuff, it doesn't care about changing them.
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by caslon 6y ago
Why not, if they had it in their terms of service?
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by caslon 6y ago
Everything on reddit is archived roughly as soon as it's posted. Any manipulation can therefore be spotted just by looking at an archive.
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by caslon 6y ago
Everything on reddit is archived roughly as soon as it's posted. Any manipulation can therefore be spotted just by looking at an archive.
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by caslon 6y ago
Everything on reddit is archived roughly as soon as it's posted. Any manipulation can therefore be spotted just by looking at an archive.
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by caslon 6y ago
Why does he have this special functionality the other admins don’t have? He wrote the site's first version, and co-wrote the (modern) Python version. Lots of things stay in place in legacy systems.
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by caslon 6y ago
To be fair, nobody has an edit button on any Google Groups post anymore. Nobody has any buttons on them, in fact. Also, when it happened, he also pointed out that most reddit admins weren't able to do this.
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by caslon 6y ago
GNOME has, unfortunately, been on this train before macOS was; when Big Sur came out there were many threads on other sites pointing out how strange it was that macOS seemed to be taking after GNOME 3.
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by caslon 6y ago
What's the harm in such a pointless joke? It was silly, but it's not like the meme subreddit he did it to was a super serious one like AskHistorians is.
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by caslon 6y ago
He's been remarkably open every time he's changed user content (once with a post in 200...7? I think, and the single time he edited comments). I don't like reddit, and I don't like spez for other reasons (downgraded from
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by caslon 6y ago
It was a single time, and in a way that was an obvious joke (literally just regex to switch his name with mods' names). It's not exactly heinous, what he did.
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by caslon 6y ago
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/global-2020-funding-and-exi... Global VC Report 2020: Funding And Exits Blow Past 2019 Despite Pandemic Headwinds
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by caslon 6y ago
"give money" This isn't what happens. SV worked fine before there was money there, they'll work fine after. No VC is going to stop throwing money with conditions at people in the Valley, because they're not stupid,
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by caslon 6y ago
I did read the article. I'm still 100% confident that it's just a way to get people to leave.

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