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by dandellion 9mo ago
Maybe that's the way it is in the US, because the country is run by corporations. But in the rest of the world we don't operate like that.
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by dandellion 9mo ago
He should be careful, a third reading and he might start to enjoy it.
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by dandellion 9mo ago
Can't you just put your phone in a shielded bag, and take it out if you need to use it?
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by dandellion 10mo ago
> there's no single desktop metaphor I use both Linux (home) and Mac (work) and I don't see one in Mac either. Also over time Linux has been getting more consistent, and Mac less.
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by dandellion 10mo ago
Around 2018 I used a Mac at work and a Dell XPS at home and I had zero issues with the trackpad on the Dell. It was a bit smaller than the Mac's, but I actually preferred that because it was so large I'd sometimes move the mouse
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by dandellion 10mo ago
I think it's too early to make that call, considering pax romana lasted 200 years and we're not even a 100 into us hegemony.
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by dandellion 10mo ago
Well see how it goes, but announcing the game without showing anything doesn't look like a good start to me.
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by dandellion 10mo ago
The world police was never really there to stop tyrants, the evidence is that they'd conveniently look the other way whenever they benefitted from it, and they would even put tyrants in place when it suited them. They did stop some tyr
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by dandellion 10mo ago
Wow, the truth is stranger than fiction.
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by dandellion 10mo ago
Makes IBM look really bad. Do they also force people to bow when the CEO of IBM enters the room, and address them as sir or your highness?
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by dandellion 10mo ago
In my last two phones I had to replace the battery 2 and 4 years in. One because it swelled, the other because it couldn't hold charge. Both cases I got a few extra years of usage from the phone. I'm in the EU, and I support this
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by dandellion 11mo ago
They're fourth now. Video games are first, then books, streaming, then cinema, and music after that. If I'm not mistaken.
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by dandellion 11mo ago
One I can think of is that setting up your own company is a pain in the ass, and working as a contractor almost never worth it. I'm in Spain, but I think it applies to many Euro countries, which actually is another one, the exact laws
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by dandellion 11mo ago
I don't see the need for a note in this case because what was there wasn't wrong, there's plenty of evidence that supports it. It's just that the tone they used that was inadequate and very rude for no reason, so they ed
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by dandellion 11mo ago
> It’s difficult to pinpoint when exactly the decline started. October 5, 2011?
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by dandellion 11mo ago
He has my admiration, I wouldn't have been able to write an article like this and resist the urge to end it mid
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by dandellion 11mo ago
Even if you consider a car a general purpose technology, Tesla displacing GM is a car displacing a car, so it's not really an example of what you're saying, is it?
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by dandellion 11mo ago
Bullying is not convincing.
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by dandellion 11mo ago
That sounds like the same thing, with extra steps.
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by dandellion 1y ago
Well, as a foreign English speaker I have to thank you for calling me over-educated in grammar above and beyond fluency in a language that is not my own. But aside from that I can tell you that those sentences are either written by AI, and
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by dandellion 1y ago
Even if Stallman had only given given us Emacs and we ignored everything else he has ever done, he'd still have given us more and brought more people involved in free software than this new crop of MBA/communications degree CEOs t
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by dandellion 1y ago
Same, I've using GNOME for a long time and haven't switched yet out of laziness and being busy with other things, but the next time I have to upgrade my laptop I'm giving KDE a spin, I'm tired of GNOME replacing useful f
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by dandellion 1y ago
I suspect the average computer user is significantly smarter than the average phone user. The reason is that I've never seen a really dumb person using a computer, but I've seen plenty using phones. That might (or might not) be re
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by dandellion 1y ago
I we're doing bad analogies my mom's open source duck recipe has been around for hundreds of years.
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by dandellion 1y ago
They take people for idiots. This can work a few times, but even someone who isn't the brightest will eventually put two and two together when they get screwed again and again and again.
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by dandellion 1y ago
No, it's a profit-seeking measure.
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by dandellion 1y ago
Wow, the new one is disgusting.
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by dandellion 1y ago
Inconsistent performance and frequent lies are a crucial part of the role, really? I've only met a couple of people like that on my career. Interviews go both ways: if I can't establish that the team I'll be working with is c
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by dandellion 1y ago
All the comments of AI writing code and making PRs remind me a lot of all the promises about self driving cars. That was more than 10 years ago and today I still don't know anybody that has a car that drives itself. Will AI write usefu
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by dandellion 1y ago
Unless it also cures cancer a more likely outcome is that people who get the treatment will just stay young until they get cancer and die. Also, as I understand it cancer also slows down in old age, so staying younger could mean faster canc

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