caslon

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by caslon 3y ago
Companies aren't people, and it's embarrassing that society's first response to a corporate dispute is to anthropomorphize them.
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by caslon 3y ago
Why is it scummy? Hiring people to produce goods or services and compensating them based on the value of their knowledge and abilities is sort of the entire value pitch of capitalism, and it's unlikely anyone would have moved over to A
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by caslon 3y ago
Micropayments on the internet don't work. Payment processors charge 30¢ per transaction, plus a percentage. We are not in a system that allows for micropayments to work. You list a very famous content creator. On the other hand, the
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by caslon 3y ago
Why do they need more performance? Hardware gets faster all the time, and the most popular implementations of the most popular programming languages have so much low-hanging fruit you can get a 10x improvement by rolling your cat on the key
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by caslon 3y ago
There is no loss of data on either side. It's not stealing. Your argument is like saying that a picture of the Eiffel Tower is stealing. Nothing is lost from copying.
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by caslon 3y ago
A tall person would likely have to lean over more, and on average, will tend to have bigger hands. A small, geeky-looking person, on the other hand, is likely to have smaller hands. Why we wouldn't be using a robot for such a delicate
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by caslon 3y ago
It's not taking, though. It's copying. Monks used to write books out by hand. If you were to go to a monastery, and copy a book line by line, you will have taken nothing at all. Nothing will be lost. It's not taking, it'
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by caslon 3y ago
That's indeed the source of my username!
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by caslon 3y ago
Fair enough. I probably went a bit too hard into flamewar argument style with my reply. I hope you have a good day!
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by caslon 3y ago
The minimalist presentation style is in itself marketing for all of these. The "Moral Philosophy" cover isn't set that way for any actual constraints, and what I presume is a set of initials or an abbreviation in the first is
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by caslon 3y ago
How does that follow? "We treat these people poorly" isn't synonymous with, "Gee, I'd really like to be treated poorly."
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by caslon 3y ago
Respectfully, I disagree strongly with you. Apple isn't serious about inclusive design in hardware. Their software UX leads are some of the most brilliant figures in the fight for accessible computing, but their hardware is almost
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by caslon 3y ago
A pirate didn't steal content, though. Nobody lost any content! There was no transaction involved. Piracy isn't zero-sum.
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by caslon 3y ago
In terms of raw calorie count, which is the major contributor to the American obesity crisis, french fries probably pale in comparison to a sandwich, while being dramatically more filling.
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by caslon 3y ago
India has a billion and a half people in it. In proportional American numbers, less than five thousand people watching the cartoon.
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by caslon 3y ago
I have no solutions for safer, but a relatively accessible solution for the literal interpretation of warmer is vulcanized rubber hot water bottles. Relatively little power/heat/energy requirements, but prolonged warmth. https:&#
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by caslon 3y ago
I use X11 because I wrote a terrible usermode hack a decade ago for a niche (<2000 units) piece of hardware that gives incorrect EDID information and needs a handshake to turn itself on, and haven't tried to port my hack to the post
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by caslon 3y ago
Wayland already works, and is great for a lot of use cases; it's the default on distributions like Fedora, and has been for a while. It has nice things. For 90% of users, it's better than X in most ways that matter. Similar, but
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by caslon 3y ago
> Heads up! This data is likely out of date or inaccurate now that Reddit has decided to kill the open ecosystem that existed around Reddit. I don't earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it'd cost me
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by caslon 3y ago
Intel actually did a lot in the last decade. Skylake alone was a massive improvement over the previous generation. AVX-512, countless open source projects—not to mention Optane, which was one of the most radical innovations in hardware in y
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by caslon 3y ago
Learning one language is hard. Only 46% of American native English speakers have above a 6th grade reading level. 20% are functionally illiterate. https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/
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by caslon 3y ago
AltStore doesn't require "rooting" (which is the wrong term in the iOS ecosystem, too, which is jailbreaking) anything. The Chinese stores definitely didn't: You could grab them from Safari, and they installed themselv
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by caslon 3y ago
Apple's market share in the US is 39%. Even if they were the primary source of applications for that 39%, 39% of a market does not a monopoly make.
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by caslon 3y ago
Programming requires creative thinking. Coding, historically, was a lower-paid, unskilled position. You may think this is redefinition. It's not. This is how both terms originated. A "coder" did the unskilled gruntwork of i
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by caslon 3y ago
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding, here. You can sell Steam keys on other platforms. Plenty of developers sell Steam keys on Itch, for example. You get to keep 100% of the revenue from an off-Steam Steam key sale. 100%! The on
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by caslon 3y ago
> Sure, the plaintiff may not agree with Valve's 30% cut berceuse they find it too steep, but unlike the iOS/Android marketplaces, Valves is not a monopoly marketplace in the PC space. There are other competing marketplaces the
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by caslon 3y ago
What's wrong with that? A person isn't obligated to have an open source maintainer care about their opinions on where their project should go, even if it can be helpful for them to consider objections. Especially when the opinions
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by caslon 3y ago
A big portion of what people use Calibre for is parsing, converting, and generating HTML. The epub file format, in practice, is zipped, poorly-specified and poorly-generated HTML. It is far from an exact science, and minor improvements to t
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by caslon 3y ago
Not a typo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK_Scene_Graph_Kit
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by caslon 3y ago
Suicide is a science. It's hard to get a successful attempt, and without proper information people mess it up and end up more miserable than they started. Fascists tend to survive longer than the victims of their policies.

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