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by dave4420 2y ago
MAD came extremely close to kicking off at least twice during the Cold War (Cuban Missile Crisis and that time a Soviet officer chose to ignore a malfunctioning early warning system). We can’t conclude from the fact that it didn’t kill us t
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by dave4420 2y ago
> leaders across the tech industry have admitted RTO mandates were partly intended to trim headcount It seems like they’re getting the desired result, and not actually backfiring?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Just because we have a cognitive bias, it doesn’t mean that bias is leading us in the wrong direction on every topic. A stopped clock is right twice a day and all that. It just means we have to be more careful when assessing evidence.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Not really. Why now? Why not thirty years ago, or thirty years hence?
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by dave4420 2y ago
What if they switch the simulation off an hour after we notice?
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by dave4420 2y ago
What’s the difference between the free version and the pay version? Anyone know?
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by dave4420 2y ago
I’m pretty sure that law got extended to the rest of the UK a few years later. (I agree with your overall point though.)
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by dave4420 2y ago
If people who want DST can just switch operating hours during summer instead of imposing DST on everyone else, then people who want year-round winter time can just switch operating hours during summer instead of imposing year-round winter t
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by dave4420 2y ago
This will do nothing to prevent captcha solving sweatshops. You will be dependent on AI to assess whether the human on camera is a real human, correct? Why won’t this become an arms race? And yes, this would be enshittification.
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by dave4420 2y ago
The harm is not just half a second to delete an unwanted email. There is also the cost of: seeing that I have an unread email, switching to my email app, and working out that it’s spam. If this gets normalised, it will not be just one spam
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by dave4420 2y ago
If I block every email that contains the word “unsubscribe”, then I will block most automated emails, whether I want to receive them or not. It is not viable as a way of stopping spam, and it is disingenuous to suggest otherwise.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Close the lid slowly, while keeping your eyes in a place so you can still see the screen and the keyboard. The screen will turn off before the laptop is completely shut.
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by dave4420 2y ago
My understanding is that UK chocolate is different from Continental European chocolate in the amount of vegetable fat, so I wouldn’t take UK chocolate as being representative of Europe.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Well, when did you last go on the job market? Big Tech made lots of redundancies after covid, and it’s taking a while for the glut of people on the market to find new jobs. Also… this is a slow time of year anyway, isn’t it?
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by dave4420 2y ago
Yeah, but I wonder if maybe there’s a bug if you load the page bang on the hour. (It was bang on the hour when I first loaded it.) The other two cities were out by an hour when London was out by an hour.
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by dave4420 2y ago
That’s confusing, having them all on the dial at the same angle makes look like they share the same time. (I thought that toggle would show me a more boxy view, like a calendar.)
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by dave4420 2y ago
It gets the time wrong (says it’s 4pm in London but it’s 5pm). Edit: fixed now. I’m not sure that it works with shading day and night like that — day length is different in different places. Maybe colour the city by day/night instead o
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by dave4420 2y ago
They care that it’s not got malware
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by dave4420 2y ago
That’s really what you took from it? I thought it was clear that management was a large part of the problem.
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by dave4420 2y ago
There’s more overhead in calling a BIOS or OS routine than in calling one of your program’s subroutines, and your subroutine can take shortcuts, eg not updating display attributes if your program knows from context that the colours aren’t b
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by dave4420 2y ago
8 bit computers generally weren’t interested in backwards compatibility, so this would not have sped up innovation
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by dave4420 2y ago
I find computers frequently do not do what I tell them to do: “Hey Siri, set a timer for twenty minutes.” “You can’t set a timer for a time of day. I’ve set an alarm for twenty hundred hours.”
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by dave4420 2y ago
Cats have been getting more popular than dogs over recent decades, have they not? But dogs are considerably easier to train than cats. I don’t think there is anything in your thesis.
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by dave4420 2y ago
It’s going to crash hard, isn’t it?
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by dave4420 2y ago
At some point you need to stop asking people on the internet and start asking a good copyright lawyer in your jurisdiction.
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by dave4420 2y ago
You have to follow the provenance. If I own Queen’s Greatest Hits on CD, I can rip that, encode it to MP3/AAC/FLAC/whatever, copy it between my laptop/desktop/phone. That’s fine. If you also own Queen’s Greatest
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by dave4420 2y ago
No. Someone tried that 20-25 years ago (with CDs / music streaming, but the principle’s the same) and got sued into oblivion. The principle being, you don’t have the right to watch the movie as such: you have the right to watch _your c
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by dave4420 2y ago
You go down to the bottom of the pay scale every time you change career. If that means you won’t be able to afford your current lifestyle, then unless you have a good reason for walking away from that career, that’s going to make you unhapp
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by dave4420 2y ago
I would call that portability (data portability, phone number portability, email portability, social graph portability, whatever), and reserve “self hosting” to mean at least operating (in some sense) your own infrastructure.
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by dave4420 2y ago
Bravo!

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