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by chii 1y ago
> most people don’t care. it's not that they "don't care", but that they dont know this is an issue that needs to be cared about. Like privacy, they didnt think they need it until they do, but by then it's too la
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by chii 1y ago
> you could just have done ... i disagree with this particular example - it's actually a good use case for being a utility maths function in a library. I mean, the very `min()` and `max()` function you used in the illustration could
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by chii 1y ago
> need carbon collection on all combustion engine why not simply centralize the carbon collection and synthesis in some area (preferably where the sun shines a lot), then pipe/transport the resulting hydrocarbon fuel to where it is
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by chii 1y ago
> In a true monorepo ... ideally yes. However, such a monorepo can become increasingly complex as the software being maintained becomes larger and larger (and/or more and more people work on it). You end up with massive changes - wh
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by chii 1y ago
This is what it means to let someone else own the platform for your computing needs. Stallman was right, and nobody ever listens until it's too late.
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by chii 1y ago
> but they are free to walk away and pay nothing. not so for a service which holds your data hostage (unless 'walking away' means you're also able to walk away with your data).
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by chii 1y ago
This is really interesting - because it means the "randomness" is different between the text and the background, and when you zoom out enough, the eye can distinguish it?
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by chii 1y ago
You've just described separate programs that happen to be bundled together (in the same jar presumably). Each invocation of the jvm requires that you specify the class for which a single static main exists. The other classes containing
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by chii 1y ago
All of these things you've described are actions taken by someone that has not had a deep think about their code and organization, architecture and patterns. It reeks of inexperience, and/or pressure to get shit done without needi
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by chii 1y ago
> not blame YouTube/Google for those things it's because everyone but you have something to gain in that transaction - google got paid ad money, the advertiser presumably got some value in exposure. Therefore, you, for whom the
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by chii 1y ago
> violating YouTube’s TOS google cannot violate their own TOS.
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by chii 1y ago
> These are typically not blocked sponsorblock would like a word with that!
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by chii 1y ago
AMD probably don't have chinese state backing, presumably, where profit is less of a concern and they can do it unprofitably for many years (decades even) as long as the end outcome is dominance.
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by chii 1y ago
the feudalism model required that it be enforced with violence. As a peasant, you are not allowed by your feudal lord to move (migrate) away. This is not so for internet. You can _choose_ not to shop at amazon, search with google, or watch
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by chii 1y ago
the owner of the AI software and hardware, then the user of said AI (who captures the remaining surplus that the AI owner doesn't/can't capture).
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by chii 1y ago
and one day, you're gonna get a knock on your door, and some law enforcement officers will ask you very nicely to install a backdoor or a wiretap onto your tor exit node.
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by chii 1y ago
> ironic if AI actually ended up destroying economic activity that's not destroying economic activity - it's removing a less efficient activity and replace it with a more efficient version. This produces economic surplus. Imagi
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by chii 1y ago
zero of those failures are of a technical nature. The fact is that they fail is not evidence that leetcode interviews fails to select for high quality engineers.
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by chii 1y ago
They might be pro-crypto, but you're not in their group of special people allowed to anonymously own it. You have to use a wallet service owned by someone in that group, so that you're always under control.
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by chii 1y ago
> the market would rather watch ads no, netflix wants more income, and by having a product be ad supported, they can try to earn more. The "market" is not a person, and doesn't have "wants".
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by chii 1y ago
and netflix used to think they dont want to show ads either.
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by chii 1y ago
Making it free to normalise the idea that you need to be registered to develop for windows. I say don't bite.
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by chii 1y ago
> cameras on 100% i hate the idea of camera on 100% of the time. I am not presentable when WFH. That's the point. I might also be on the toilet - which otherwise is dead time!
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by chii 1y ago
> unspecific vibes that it must be bad if employees like it I read it as the feeling that they know somehow that the employees are not putting in 100% of their attention at home on the work assigned. And i do believe it to be true - lots
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by chii 1y ago
I also find that they block incognito mode a lot too - esp. on android when you use a hacked client like revanced (less so in the browser, but i use firefox and have seen incognito mode causing youtube to block you from viewing without logg
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by chii 1y ago
> so a few oil countries can squish some extra money so none of the users of those oil, who paid for it willingly, had any responsibility at all then?
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by chii 1y ago
> Why haven't we collectively emphasized the creation of new tools to reduce boilerplate and grunt work? i think it has. How much easier is it today than yester-decade to write, and deploy an application to multiple platforms (and h
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by chii 1y ago
> that replace jurisdictions/authorities without any enforcement with sanctioned violence, this is merely symbolic. It's why so much scam happens with the NFT space.
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by chii 1y ago
the economic angle far outweigh the technological angle.
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by chii 1y ago
why is there unlikely to be mine-able uranium deposits? It's not like there's some geological process on mars that strips it away (presumably).

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