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by cvwright 4y ago
They link to a commercial app for the AppleTV. It’s totally worth the $0.99/month until they get the official Swiftfin version working.
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by cvwright 4y ago
Sure, for sufficiently advanced definitions of “growing up”. Opportunities to push yourself all the way to the limit don’t come around every day. Nor do a bunch of smart, experienced people who are willing to give you brutally honest feedb
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by cvwright 4y ago
You definitely can get that in industry. Or the military. Or lots of places. However I think where you go in industry matters a lot. Doing a PhD at a serious program is more like starting a startup than like writing CRUD apps at a mega
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by cvwright 4y ago
Or it could be both. Personally I struggled, had tons of stress, no time for relationships, and all that. But it was also an intense time of personal development. I learned a lot about myself and a lot about how to work hard and get stuff
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by cvwright 4y ago
I had a few run-ins with fellow academics that went something like what you describe. My main take away from the experiences (plural!) is that the most practical definition of “academic ethics” turns out to be “Never criticize the work of s
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by cvwright 4y ago
If this is the end of FB and Twitter, it can’t come too soon.
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Thank you for illustrating my point so clearly
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Agreed that this is a problem. But there have been calls to violence on Twitter for a long time. Just in Portland, we had 100 days of street violence, a prolonged attempt to burn down a federal courthouse, various attacks on the city mayor
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by cvwright 4y ago
That makes sense. Thanks!
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by cvwright 4y ago
Why is “not subscription software” necessarily a good thing? Don’t you want to be the customer rather than the product?
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We don’t have European comforts because we pay for our own national defense. We also pay for Europe’s defense. We should work out a deal where we continue to provide their security, and they provide our healthcare. Even Stevens.
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by cvwright 4y ago
Those are the most famous people who have been kicked off of social media. I will admit to not knowing the details. The other area you could investigate is the various controversies around Covid.
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Nobody wants to answer this, because to mention a controversial topic is to risk being accused of supporting it. You could look at what famous people have gotten into trouble over. Alex Jones or Kanye West. I assume there have been others
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I think the idea is that it shifts the incentives. Sure, a rich nation state could buy tons of bot accounts at $10 a pop. But is that still the most rational path to their goal? Probably not, because there are lots of other things you ca
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Yes but how many Twitter accounts are truly in that category? One former president has kinda sorta managed it, and he was in the news every single day for years. Who else could achieve even his limited level of success? Maybe Barack Obama
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We were talking about Twitter. Twitter needs LeBron James and Taylor Swift and the latest Kpop stars. It has a sort of symbiotic relationship with world leaders and journalists. But it does not really need people like James Woods and Kevin
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He wrote his best works before most of his readers were online at all. He’s highly culturally relevant, but not because of anything he’s done lately.
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Are you referring to the second It movie? That was based on a book from 1986. Nearly 40 years ago.
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Massachusetts was a power player too, at least in the earlier days
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Brought to you by the same people who spend a lot of money to combat inflation
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I really enjoy working in Swift these days, and async/await has been a huge blessing. But the whole way that Actors were rolled out leaves a funny taste. Apple’s main illustrating example for using an Actor was to update a database. B
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by cvwright 4y ago
Twitter is full of awful people too. They’re just on the other end of the political spectrum.
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What is it about that guy, that makes people unable to stop talking about him? Was it not enough for him to be the top story in the news every day for 4 years?
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by cvwright 4y ago
Because federation is seriously difficult — look at all the effort the Matrix team has put in, and it’s still not quite 100%. Plus yes Signal has a bit of an NIH complex.
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Don’t give them ideas
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Which of course explains why the rest of the Americas have also been so peaceful and prosperous.
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No intelligent person thinks that we got 250 years of relative peace and prosperity by random luck.
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Pretty sure AWS offers that feature too
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I used to have students who would write answers like that on in-class exams. Every answer was at least one full, complete sentence, even for yes/no or true/false. And the “short answer” responses filled all available space when o
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by cvwright 4y ago
Big Tech keeps winning because we all hate our political opponents more than we hate the abuse of our privacy.

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