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by danaris 10mo ago
Well, exactly. Unfortunately, the time to be having these conversations was 40 years ago. But you know the old saying: the next best time is right now. It is, sadly, a near-impossibility that we could get decent antitrust under the curren
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by danaris 10mo ago
I see the white line on Safari, and also on Mac Firefox. No idea what the line means—it's not present in any of the reference images.
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The difference is that, in many places, the gas taxes are specifically earmarked for road maintenance. Of course, a better solution would be to pass legislation properly funding road maintenance from the general funds, and raising income
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by danaris 10mo ago
Where, for reference, Safari shows an image that matches the first one listed—meaning, at least in theory, that it fully supports ICC profiles.
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by danaris 10mo ago
Rooftop solar is getting cheaper, easier, more efficient, and more reliable every year. If you live in an area that is poor enough that this is not an option, it loses power frequently due to weather, and no one in power cares enough to fix
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by danaris 10mo ago
I have heard that the name of Kentucky derives from a "cane-tuck"—a copse of river cane, a kind of bamboo native to North America. (My only source for this was someone who had learned of the existence of river cane in their Kentuc
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by danaris 10mo ago
If you're saying you don't need privacy , then that implies some things about how you expect to be acting. If you're planning to also be very careful about not revealing anything about yourself and your activities online,
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by danaris 10mo ago
The longer you rely on anonymity for your privacy, and keep leaving tidbits about yourself out there, the more likely it becomes that anyone interested in breaking that anonymity can do so.
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by danaris 10mo ago
No: they're based on a specific set of lies he was sold back in the 1980s. There's a particular guy (I'm afraid I don't recall his name) who has been banging the tariff drum and claiming that they're some kind of ec
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by danaris 10mo ago
Whether or not that's true economically, the idea that what Trump is doing will affect that in any positive way is, at this point, not merely ludicrous, but actively in denial of reality. He is blatantly cutting spending on the many
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by danaris 10mo ago
No, they absolutely will not. Those factory jobs are, to a first approximation, gone for good. Either they are being done by humans in other countries that not only have a cost of living less than 1/5 of ours, but also have massive s
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by danaris 10mo ago
> Overseas students are not immigrants. > It is in the United States best interest to retain the best students Yeah? Tell that to the US government. As it stands, foreign student enrollment has dropped precipitously year-on-year. The
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by danaris 10mo ago
I don't know the figures for large universities, but at the small liberal arts college I graduated from and the one I've worked at for the last 15 years, the average figure for "full pay" students—which, as the name sugg
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by danaris 10mo ago
I really wish people would stop trying to gaslight all of us into believing the current crisis is just business as usual. Yes, previous US presidents told some lies. Yes, previous US presidents and politicians had some unsavory associ
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by danaris 10mo ago
It's not about politics; it's about ideology. They want poor(er) people to hurt, so that rich people can have more. It really is as simple as that.
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by danaris 10mo ago
> 40% having significant THC in their blood is a stunning statistic no matter how you look at it. Yes, it is a stunning statistic. So much so, that in itself it makes it worth questioning the results of this study. If 40% of fatal cr
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by danaris 10mo ago
While I do not commonly ride in cars driven by people outside my family, my experience has been quite the opposite: when I do ride in cars with older people, they buckle up as a matter of course, while when I ride with younger people, they
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by danaris 10mo ago
Or the people who are disappointed were listening to the AI hype men like Sam Altman, who have, in fact, been promising AGI or something very like it for years now. I don't think it's fair to deride people who are disappointed i
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by danaris 10mo ago
Well, yes . If the cable falls out of the server (or there's a power outage, or a major DDoS attack, or whatever), your users are going to experience that before you are aware of it. Especially if it's in the middle of the nigh
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by danaris 10mo ago
> IMO Maria has fallen behind MySQL. I wouldn't chose it for anything my income depends on. Can you give any details on that? I switched to MariaDB back in the day for my personal projects because (so far as I could tell) it was bei
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by danaris 10mo ago
> I want my lawyer armed with LLMs to not do that. The only way to guarantee that is to have a lawyer not armed with LLMs. We've seen dozens of examples already of lawyers doing exactly that. (Some of them have then doubled down
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by danaris 10mo ago
If we need regulation of "this harm", then what we need to be regulating is the social media networks, not the children (and adults!) that use them. We need to be banning algorithmic feeds. We need to be banning promotion of h
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by danaris 11mo ago
> The reason why IE 6 kept haunting us all was because later versions were never available on Windows XP. First of all, according to the IE Wikipedia page, that's not true—7 & 8 were available for XP. Second of all, this ignores
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by danaris 11mo ago
I'm choosing to leave a job in tech in academia after 15 years. If I wanted to, I could stay here until I retire (in another 20+ years), barring the complete destruction of the university I work for. The position I'm moving to is
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by danaris 11mo ago
While this is true, the first such betrayal came in 1976, with Buckley v Valeo. This was (AIUI) the US Supreme Court decision that established the precedent that money counts as protected speech. So much of the rot that has occurred since
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by danaris 11mo ago
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. I am not remotely misremembering, and I'll thank you not to tell me what's happening in my own head. IE 6 stood stagnant for years , while the W3C moved on without them, and there was no new
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by danaris 11mo ago
Unfortunately, in America, at least, that would be likely to lead to a lot of lawsuits—lawsuits that should be shot down under the SLAPP category, but it takes enough money and time just to respond to a lawsuit that many people would be
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by danaris 11mo ago
But this is part of the problem with crimes and enforcement in the modern age: sure, I might have only wasted a few minutes of my time. But I'm just one of hundreds or thousands of people who were tricked into wasting that time, by t
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by danaris 11mo ago
> drags the web behind by many years But this can only be by comparison to something. And Apple is very good at keeping Safari up to date on the actual standards. You know—the thing that IE was absolutely not doing , that made it a
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by danaris 11mo ago
The only way you can possibly view Safari as "the modern day IE" is if you consider the authoritative source for What Features Should Be Supported to be Chrome. You should probably think about that for a bit, in light of why I

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