drngdds

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by drngdds 7y ago
I thought I was having a stroke looking at that title until I realized that "yawning" also means "wide."
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by drngdds 7y ago
It's hard for me to imagine that the world would actually be a better place if you couldn't post the lyrics to a song without paying the rights holders or getting sued.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Are there any ICO-backed projects that didn't overpromise and underdeliver (or not deliver at all)?
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by drngdds 7y ago
"We won't tell you how our filter works but we pinky promise we're not extorting you!" Not sketchy at all
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by drngdds 7y ago
Plants aren't sentient, so I think most vegans would be okay with it if it didn't contain whole sentient animal (like a salamander) at the time. (But there's no Grand Council of Veganism that makes such judgments, of course.)
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by drngdds 7y ago
The problems with the JS ecosystem probably could have been solved in a way that doesn't involve every nontrivial project dynamically downloading thousands of transitive dependencies by god-knows-who. It's not like package reposit
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by drngdds 7y ago
>Immediately after the site launched, users had created death pools — or assassination markets — on famous people. >Augur's user numbers dropped off sharply after launch in 2018: from 265 daily users in early July, to 37 on 8 Aug
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by drngdds 7y ago
The price indicates that that is not the case
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by drngdds 7y ago
>I know being expandable is important here but I am stunned by the fact that an iMac Pro actually comes with better SSD and Video Card for less money and you get a screen to boot! I'm guessing it's just price discrimination. Pe
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by drngdds 7y ago
I wouldn't want to work 100% remotely, mostly because of the loneliness they talk about. But I would probably take it over my current situation of working in an open office 100% of the time, because open offices are a special level of
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by drngdds 7y ago
I'd just call it "asking the wrong question."
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by drngdds 7y ago
Is it just me or is the XY Problem really poorly named? It's unlikely that anyone could hear "XY Problem" for the first time and have any idea what it means.
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by drngdds 7y ago
I agree, there's literally nothing more Nazi-like then not wanting to interact with neo-Nazis
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by drngdds 7y ago
>it doesn't seem like Purism is going outside the standard faire here. This isn't true. Most online communities at least ban outright bigotry and the Librem CoC does not. Banning harassment isn't the same thing.
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by drngdds 7y ago
It's hard to actually make money as a free service on the internet without being evil and/or really annoying
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by drngdds 7y ago
Is there anything like a self-hosted alternative to Mint? The automated balance and expense tracking is really nice but it's obviously a security and privacy nightmare.
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by drngdds 7y ago
There's also seemingly useful articles that end up being content marketing!
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by drngdds 7y ago
>You're asked to deliver a feature that would take 4 weeks to implement without tech debt in two weeks. Well there's your problem. How is that inherent to scrum?
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by drngdds 7y ago
I don't disagree, but this is a simple point and all the math language doesn't really add anything to it.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Yeah, I don't think we really need a hundred Modern Frontend Bad articles every week
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by drngdds 7y ago
>But there is no constitutional right to harass others or live-stream violence. Pretty sure the Supreme Court would disagree with you on that one, bud. They aren't fond of adding new categories of unprotected speech. See Trope #3 i
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by drngdds 7y ago
>Gmail’s spam filtering is just a pretext for passing all email through a machine learning system It can't be just that. Spam filtering makes email in general much more usable, and Google of course wants Gmail to be an attractive
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by drngdds 7y ago
"Graphics cards doing statistics"
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by drngdds 7y ago
With any luck, animal-based meat (as opposed to lab-designed meat or plant-based imitations) in general will suffer a similar fate.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Here's a crazy new financial model for you: make things and sell them for money. Snark aside, independent artists already do this with Patreon and digital music services.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Calling podcasts Objectively Bad is very silly, but it's weird how people talk about them as though they're this original innovation of the 21st century (the most exciting and significant one, even!) when they are literally just p
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by drngdds 8y ago
Good start. But if Facebook really wants to stop making the world a worse place, they should shut down.
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by drngdds 8y ago
"What can be done to keep these drugs off our plate?" The simple solution is to stop eating animals.
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by drngdds 8y ago
It sucks that we got DRM-free music downloads a decade ago but it just stopped there. If you want to download a TV show and watch it on any device you want (which would solve this problem), your one option is piracy.
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by drngdds 8y ago
>Or don't post things that you'd be embarrassed to be associated with? I can't predict what will be embarrassing or harmful for me to be associated with in ten years. The only way to be (sort of) sure would be to censor ev

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