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by coldtea 3mo ago
In general a government can do whatever they can get away with. The rest (believing they can't do this or that, because it's in some constitutional document, or violates a basic right) is sovereign citizen kind of self-delusion.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
This does at best 1% of what the parent mentions. Is that going to hold all your data across all your phone apps?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. Deciding that one thing is more important than another. It's AI slop. Edit: as pointed to me, it says 2018. I'd be damne
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by coldtea 3mo ago
>Isn't the Model. It's the Organization* The slop starts from the title already
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by coldtea 3mo ago
What he said amounts to "you're holding it wrong".
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> I've been paying for Pangram for a long time and have not seen it misbehave even once. How would you know if you just take whatever slop verdict is serves as correct?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
From what I've seen and read it regularly flags native English writing as AI too. Sometimes even changing a few words is enough for it to change the verdict. It's not command of the english language it flags (for native vs non nat
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Those detectors are even more snake oil shit than some early "AI companies" which had people in like India do the actual work. And the obvious absolute test that would prove its shit - millions of books and posts written pre-AI wo
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> As you’ve probably heard a million times by now, the counterargument to not hiring juniors is the question of succession. Who will be your future seniors? As if companies cared that much for the long term? If they did they wouldn&#x27
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Which gets rid of the discussion, but not the problem coding style rules are supposed to fix: Code looks the same, regardless of who wrote it. Which might be more overrated OCD than anything worth it. If you like that, you can add a f
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> The point of the "grammar nazi" bots is to focus on the actual problems: if a bot is deciding about linting, you don't have to waste brain power to discuss it in PRs. And yet, as per the example, the bot force worse lin
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by coldtea 3mo ago
No reason to believe it had. They don't compete on backend infrastructure, nor do they target the same consumer demographics (Apple fans would not be seen dead carrying a Huawei phone). As for them having 5G headstart, without a ban, A
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by coldtea 3mo ago
The double standard is not Apple's, it's preaching "free trade" for decades and when a competitor wins, going for tarrifs and bans
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Why? Is fewer things always better? Doesn't have to be always, it often is however. Imagine how better this would be with fewer things: https://xkcd.com/1987/ > Taking it to an extreme, would having a too
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by coldtea 3mo ago
The unix philosophy pertained to simple composable limited cli tools. Most of which, at least the initial bunch, where written by the same handful of people, too, and one of each only: no several competing programs to awk and grep and cut a
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> Can't we just go back to node + npm + vitest + vite? The mere enumeration shows how bad it is.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> (2) it has a bunch of clearly measurable positive effects. Clearly measurably neutrally and scientifically -- or clearly measurable as measured by supplement company funding studies or cherry-picked by health influencers?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
And those people will be wrong. Besides, there's no shortage of dumb phones and featurephones on the market. We want the same for TVs.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Given that we talk about mostly white European settlers, just the huge majority of native american lands, a good chunk of Mexico, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and several smaller places, areas controlled as "banana republics", Phillipines
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Canada, those oppressors of the natives?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> As for the comparison, I don't think it's fair. The US has not yet invaded its neighbor, Canada, leading to millions of deaths and heavy casualties. Let's not adopt your binary view on this matter. No, just bombed, inva
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Have been reading this for 25 years, even remember 2000s related efforts (also for Gnome). And does anybody remember Chandler? That went well....
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by coldtea 3mo ago
That how it was sold, whatever Schuman had in mind, and increasingly encroached scope that Europeans voted again and again against. The original actual scope was even more limited than a unified market: coal and steel control.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> You need to hook something up to a network, and another device would have similar risks. Another device might not give the free reign for all shitty malware like they do. Apple TV for one wouldn't.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
That's for a general purpose computing platform that a smartphone is. This is for a fucking TV.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
If the courts are almost always sympathetic, does it matter?
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by coldtea 3mo ago
> It seems like the EU in general is struggling badly with how to control internet access. It struggles badly with how to control everything more and more. What was an economic union of markets has become an uber-government that gives m
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Just means they'll likely target the VPNs to give them data directly instead of forcing users not to use them.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Nobody that's pushing it has any incentive for fixing it - and they have all the opposite incentives.
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by coldtea 3mo ago
Yes, because at least that won't be flattering you (not to mention it would be showing the actual garment).

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