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by chefandy 2y ago
Well, what good is a naive misgiving if you don't even use it to haughtily dismiss genuine expertise? I can't tell you how many times I've had developers essentially manaplain my non-dev fields of expertise to me knowing that
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From what I read, he theorized that internal competition was the only way to incentivize efficiency rather than being propped up by the rest of the company. Essentially, made each division compete for funding, which naturally lead to underm
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Yeah. At best, most I've been to over the past couple decades seem to have roving cashiers that went through a program about how to be irritatingly salesy and might know where a specific thing was in their department. Sears was barel
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Anyone that thinks this is completely untrodden ground for copyright should ask an expert to definitely determine if someone's use of something is covered under fair use if it doesn't exactly and clearly satisfy all of the test pr
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So currently, if I Photoshop a picture of Scarlett Johansen into in an ad for my hot dog stand, that would be unambiguously no problem? Nobody's talking about making AI illegal, but some people seem to think it's a get-out-of-jail
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Or any other copyright, for that matter. What if you copied a CC licensed sound-alike knockoff of a pop song, but the owner of the original song's master thought it sounded more like the original? This is just a new expression of an o
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Come on... you know I never even intimated that Mr. Beast is the most unethical entity in the world. Saying that viewership doesn't matter when you've turned degrading poor people into a form of entertainment is obviously a bad fa
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I'm a recent graduate, but also worked in colleges for a couple of decades. Students I've interacted with almost universally blame themselves first when they don't get something. Only when they see many fellow students in the
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Ok, so one of those things is price gouging (the price gouging), which sounds like a problem local to the Australian grocery market. It's obviously bad, but Mr Beast has 12x Australia's population in YouTube followers. The compari
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Not all shady business practices are gouging. I was responding to the statement you made. Selling a product cheaper than your competitors, even if you're using unfair leverage to do it is not by any measure 'gouging.' In the
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You're dramatically overestimating the profitability of selling groceries. Most of the high prices come from further up the supply chain, or other parts of the local economies like rent, utilities, transportation, and labor. Obviously
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A big folly in political movements is completely disregarding their opponents rhetoric. Studying it and discussing it is not the same as validating it. You can't effectively fight what you don't understand and you can't under
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I've been lucky enough to go to schools in which the curriculum was set by someone that that understood what the students needed to get out of the program rather than using their students as a vector to convince the world that they rea
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I imagine this course is more theoretical than practical? And maybe the students already have exposure to rust in other courses? I hope so, anyway. If not, it would be like teaching an introductory web dev course in Elixir. Students would l
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> People do get oddly grumpy when you criticise OpenSCAD Most of us don't realize how much our comfort with familiar concepts affects our ability to objectively evaluate them. Moving from dev to being a tech artist, I see the same e
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Your sample size sounds much bigger than mine.
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Anecdotally, the handful of people I've known that worked in commercial Haskell shops, after the initial honeymoon period intensified by actually finding a paying Haskell dev job , wishes they were using a more practical "happy m
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I've been lucky in that anywhere I've worked, titles like that came with additional technical responsibilities and were awarded by technical managers who actually had a stake in whether or not people were qualified for them. The y
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I don't think it's meaningless even if it's not completely codified. I use the term senior as a way to distinguish someone that's competent enough and knowledgeable enough about the environment to direct technical initia
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I've done branding and identity design in the past, and got university training to do it. I've also worked as a developer and contributed a ton to FOSS projects. That an engineering organization thinks this is a product logo is en
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Yes the CSS debugging tooling that comes with every major browser is incredibly useful.
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It depends on the use case. JS makes browser fingerprinting a lot more accurate. If you're using a VPN, I believe JS can leak your real IP, but I'm not positive about that. There's also a big chunk of zero-day attack surface
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So since the original comment was questioning the necessity of animations in CSS, and JS is essentially using CSS animations for many things, I'd say the answer is yes. It's also a great way for UI designers to use subtle movement
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I'd like to see that too, but time and time again we've seen that: a) laypeople aren't usually moved by privacy violations more abstract than someone physically watching you do something. b) most people aren't willing to
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I think that's the most solid example.
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Sure-- but that structural shortcoming has been a thing for a long time-- I wouldn't consider it a secret vulnerability that Tor was facilitating for US intelligence, as was initially implicated. I'm not in the field, but it seems
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> provided there’s a back door or vulnerability that only (1) knows about. Do you have any examples from existing tools, e.g. Tor, for which that's true? Tor's been around a long time-- surely something would have surfaced at
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It says it blocks ads and other things, too. I imagine the use case is someone wanting this for multiple devices/people so they don't have to set up an extension for every platform/device individually. I have no idea how effe
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Well Jimminy Crispix! Think about the consequences of what you're suggesting. A) Reporting on serious topics takes a lot more effort than recycling news wire coverage and rehashing political argument trends on Twitter. That means havin
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A far more direct consequence of the current situation is that these executives just do whatever the hell they want to maximize their profits at everybody else's expense. Without punishment enough to make it unprofitable, dishonesty on

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