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by dogleash 3y ago
>> We offer features for you to ensure no one is recorded without their consent. > it is fundamental to the product experience Without speaking too much to the underlying implementation, could you at least: Clarify if "fundame
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by dogleash 3y ago
Nah dog, I'm good. I'm not young, eager and naive anymore. "Growing the team's skills" and "working towards company goals" are siren calls. I know how to swim in my own lane.
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by dogleash 3y ago
I'm not so convinced a LLM remixing all the tutorial blogs its ingested is a meaningful quality step above those tutorial blogs themselves. Earlier this year we had a linux task that was above the normal complexity my team deals with.
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by dogleash 3y ago
It's always a treadmill finding the 'good' version. W10 on our domain with the right group policy was perfect, never saw a Microsoft ad after disabling cortana & weather on a new machine. In the last month or so XBox not
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by dogleash 3y ago
> What makes you feel that a union wouldn’t represent your interests? They definitionally don't. Unions represent the union's interests. It is the design intent of unions to represent an amalgamation of their members. That&#x2
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by dogleash 3y ago
Mr Burns answers the phone "Ahoy-hoy" because Alexander Graham Bell proposed that as the greeting for answering.
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by dogleash 3y ago
> I felt back then that this community had a very unhealthy relationship with the quality of their software and the work of security researchers. I suspect a Network Operators mailing list is going to be full of people trying to keep pro
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by dogleash 3y ago
You're rationalizing. You don't think anyone gets into the position in the article without rationalizing do you? A huge chunk of the article was spent on rationalization.
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by dogleash 3y ago
7Zip - the tool not the format - is about as unobtrusive to use as it gets, supports every archive format we deal with on a regular basis, has a very tolerable license and provides better feedback than explorer's zip. It also handles
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by dogleash 3y ago
The state space doesn't have the conveniences that linux and language tools leverage, that's why I wanted to see them try to advance the field beyond what we have now.
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by dogleash 3y ago
> A colleague was joking, "I guess even Microsoft itself isn't able to manage local Python installations on Windows…" I've been waiting for Microsoft to solve package management on Windows since I played around with d
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by dogleash 3y ago
> It's just the dictionary example of what you get when software developers start coding without adult supervision. git was originally explicitly a VCS core for anyone to build on. Remember the "plumbing vs porcelain" day
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by dogleash 3y ago
Nope. The media has been pretending the internet is real life (so they can write lazy articles) for so long that they've forgotten it's not.
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wiki: >Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or
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by dogleash 3y ago
> I suspect they arrived at this through a series of A-B tests And based on the article, they might be using user frustration as a indicator of success: > A workaround I’ve stumbled upon whenever this happens is to select a business p
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by dogleash 3y ago
There are so many things collecting telemetry, nobody has the capacity to understand the data-points and business use case of every piece of software they interact with. There are two practical options: 1) Roll over 2) Reject as much as po
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by dogleash 3y ago
Your explanation relies on the idea that any nudity in movies is exclusively for the purpose of gratuitous titillation. I don't think that's true, nor does it explain the decline in portraying the non-physical intimacy in relatio
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Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it (2021)(bloodknife.com)
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by dogleash 3y ago
>Devils Advocate ... "Devil's advocate" statements can be useful as a thought experiment in exploring a topic by generating something new that prompts others to make the counterargument explicit. There's a lot of arti
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by dogleash 3y ago
> What we really need is some kind of Hippocratic Oath for Software, that we all agree to and can collectively use to resist this shit. Not going to happen, but one can dream. Why spitball about a "Hippocratic Oath" when the AC
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by dogleash 3y ago
As creators, it’s our job to care about these things for the benefit of users BECAUSE they’re laypeople.
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by dogleash 3y ago
> Ideally I’d like tools like git to eventually be replaced by CRDT based approaches. CRDTs would let us use the same tools to do pair programming. CRDTs also handle complex merges better (no self-conflicts like you can get with git). An
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by dogleash 3y ago
> I think DNS is something few people take the time to learn I kinda agree and think DNS one of those technologies where you can go an entire career without picking up more than bits and peices here and there. Those things gains a sense
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by dogleash 3y ago
> People think that ad blocking is the worst we'll lose. Either people will complain that the tangible example is narrowly scoped, or people will complain that the topic is abstract nerd bullshit will no real-world meaning, it won&#
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by dogleash 3y ago
> it's just a lack of consequential thinking Googlers tend to trust google, even when its readily apparent tool/system design obviously puts them in a control position above anyone else in matters that extend beyond their own
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by dogleash 3y ago
> You seem to be assuming Google is an extremely well connected organism with vast coherency: each limb knows what the others are doing, they are working together in close fashion, & doing things for ulterior motives. Nah dog, you&#x
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by dogleash 3y ago
> The point is that legacy admissions have always been an egregious injustice. To whom? Anyone who would have been accepted to CMU or Pitt but for the legacy apps will be accepted to another school and still be able to get a high quality
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by dogleash 3y ago
> As a method for choosing a language, doesn't this just inherently skew to the smaller and more simplistic one, which may not necessarily be the best for all tasks or over a longer run where the techniques of the more involved lang
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by dogleash 3y ago
There's a beginning of an idea here, but this article quickly degrades into faffing about. The author is opining on various cultural touchpoints and weaving narrative. But it's all rather disconnected from what happened to the in
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by dogleash 3y ago
> You normally wouldn't run your word processor at 800x600 either. Why not? My 2nd monitor is portrait. The window manager tiles are ~1080x630. I have Word open in one right now. Right above the tile with the browser I'm typin

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