dingnuts

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by dingnuts 2y ago
and if you're independent, you're screwed yet again. this is why I buy merch from the artists I love lol
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by dingnuts 2y ago
after awhile the market will adjust and you'll wind up with more options near home, in your neighborhood, instead of downtown. sounds like a win to me
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by dingnuts 2y ago
so report them? this is like complaining that their domains are registered by GoDaddy, or their packets are delivered through the Internet by hurricane electric, or their local power company keeps their lights on
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by dingnuts 2y ago
oh really? according to who? and for what business purpose?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> I don't remember anyone who couldn't pass tests but was really a great engineer. This is just confirmation bias. Either you're in a field where you must have a degree, so everyone who couldn't pass tests simply neve
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by dingnuts 2y ago
an organization that is currently small in headcount but is funded by big VCs is not "little" in any sense -- the VC is big business and each startup in their portfolio is essentially just a subsidiary. Something like SourceHut is
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by dingnuts 2y ago
You might be just describing packet radio, which does exist, but it's extremely slow due to the physical size of the radio waves involved, as I understand it. The frequency of the waves, due to their extremely long wavelength, is very
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Whatsapp is not Facebook, and it's not social media. It's a messaging application. Different thing. I quit Facebook -- I didn't exit every messaging platform. Yes, if you eschew every messaging platform, nobody can reach you.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
people just text me to invite me to things. I don't want to be invited to parties where someone just invites everyone they know on Facebook. if they want me there, they can ask me directly. My social life has not significantly changed
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you know it's possible to get through life without either Facebook or a Facebook alternative, right? I closed my account ten years ago, and I don't have an alternative. After the withdrawal period I stopped caring. My loved ones s
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by dingnuts 2y ago
explain why this is funny
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by dingnuts 2y ago
there's nothing socially repressive about having airline travel segregated into classes of passengers at all, nope, this is completely normal /s I go through the regular TSA line out of solidarity and protest. Fuck the security th
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by dingnuts 2y ago
This kind of thing is required by FedRAMP. Good luck finding a company without ending management software who is legally allowed to be a US government vendor. If you stick to small privately held companies you might be able to avoid ending
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>I can’t imagine anyone would be happy shipping their private personal thoughts to a cloud LLM + unknown backend service provider you're in a tech bubble if you think this. Do you think all the people on this subreddit https:/
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by dingnuts 2y ago
that stuff is all so mundane. imagine if you're a closeted homosexual caught in a photo kissing another member of the same sex, and you live in a locality where that puts your life in danger. imagine you live in a theocracy and someone
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you're kidding, right? everyone I know both online and IRL complains constantly about how big cars have gotten as a result of the CAFE regulations
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by dingnuts 2y ago
how is for overloaded? in other languages you can just do for (;;) { which is the same; while is a redundant keyword
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you used more words but it sounds like your product is a video meeting product. I'm not sure having more meetings with your product will cut down on the number of meetings I have, but I understand why you would rather I have meetings o
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> think of tech that would actually improve my life I think about things like a clothes-folding machine, I think about this constantly, and it's a funny example because apparently the math involved for figuring out how to fold cloth
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's totally irrelevant. there was a wind storm in a region where burying power lines is impractical without wireless power transmission I'm not sure what people want. Where do you put lines that can't be buried or blown over
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by dingnuts 2y ago
excuses excuses spoken like someone who hasn't used Linux in a decade. The experience is much better in Linux than the other OSes these days If you need to use software in Windows for work that's one thing, but you probably don&#x
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you don't need a shiny degree to do the hard stuff, either. you don't know me but I'm a living breathing example of that.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Sure but aren't Legos sort of a mass production nightmare (compared to an auto part) due to the enormous variety of bricks, all the combinations for different sets? and then there's IP licensing for many sets. I'm not buying
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Of all its "members", Jon Haidt was the least voluntarily grouped in with the rest of the IDW. If he was ever a member -- not that that should be damning -- it wouldve been nearly a decade ago. The IDW has not been relevant for ha
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> there is a fundamental lack of understanding about what anarchist philosophy actually is this problem is ever-present among ideologues, and may be one of the ways you can identify a from-first-principles totalizing ideology and differ
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's not possible to dismantle dominance structures. They're evolutionarily defined in our biology and are primordial. If you ban explicitly stated dominance hierarchies, they merely become implicit. Think about "flat" o
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Back in the day, most users were more technical (TFA is about a regular user using DOS, just as an example) so the ratio of contributors to users was higher When a FOSS project gets big now, users show up in the issue trackers expecting the
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Europe's lifestyle is subsidized heavily by the American defense industry and they had better buckle in if Trump wins and starts more seriously winding down America's defense commitments there
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by dingnuts 2y ago
the only guy I've ever known to correctly pronounce SUSE was an older fellow who was, towards the end of the 00s, pronouncing "Ethernet" with a short e, as though it were to rhyme with "meth" anyway, that's why
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by dingnuts 2y ago
my mind immediately went to college classes, which were almost always exactly 1 microcentury perfect

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