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by dtech 2y ago
While this sounds fun and satisfies our justice reflex, the only person you're "getting back at" here is a low paid call-center worker who you're causing stress by missing their targets and tanking their metrics, who has
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by dtech 2y ago
Same rule has been in place in the EU for a few years, such a godsend. Before there were still a lot of places where subscribing could be done online, but unsubscribing required a registered letter.
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by dtech 2y ago
The machine argument also rings hollow to me. This same argument could be made for a scanner + printer that does some transformation - changes colors a bit randomly or something - I'd be having a hard time convincing a court the result
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by dtech 2y ago
Encryption tries to make the payload look like noises, but the wave patterns are still very much represent standardized symbols.
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by dtech 2y ago
I fail to see how this is relevant, if anything it's evidence of harm. Those people notoriously had rotting teeth [1] and probably a myriad of other health issues (many unrelated to sugar) [1] https://www.thevintagenews.com&
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by dtech 2y ago
Isn't aspartame used 99% of the time in sodas? Despite decade-long doubts, afaik studies have always failed to find convincing evidence of it being problematic.
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by dtech 2y ago
95% of the world uses Celcius without problems because they're used to it. You'd either also be fine with it or you belong to a sub-5th percentile which couldn't figure it out, take your pick.
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by dtech 2y ago
I also haven't gone to a library recently to read the Iliad, that doesn't mean I'm ok with all copies being burned.
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by dtech 2y ago
Apparently working together with Apple is extremely difficult because they are so controlling and demanding, and that is even without the cultural and timezone difference, so I doubt it's viable.
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by dtech 2y ago
most of your comment is irrelevant because you assume Apple would be calling a external API, while parent means is external calling Apple API to register subscriptions. Then if you have concerns like yours you can stay within Apple ecosyste
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by dtech 2y ago
Wouldn't RNA be the RAM and DNA be long term storage? Most of the work and "decision making" - at least in current organisms - is done by proteins.
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by dtech 2y ago
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by dtech 2y ago
Wolves are much more social than zebras, which is advantageous in domestication. Zebras live in herds but it's much more free for all than a wolf pack.
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by dtech 2y ago
There's relatively little economy of scale in placing solar panels (compared to other energy sources). A lot of the scale advantage has already been achieved by mass producing identical panels.
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by dtech 2y ago
Up until the early 00's specially designed components could get more performance/$. Now it's impossible to beat commodity SoCs on that front.
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by dtech 2y ago
The sun is literally shining brighter, in that it produces more energy
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by dtech 2y ago
It is not relevant for the study cited in the article
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by dtech 2y ago
which is completely irrelevant for the context of this specific change: automatically picking up annotation processors. If you don't like the (generated) code of a lib don't use it.
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by dtech 2y ago
Private APIs have been starting to be restricted in previous versions already, requiring command line flags like add-exports=jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api
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by dtech 2y ago
No, and it won't. Checked exceptions were explicitly removed compared to Java, and most people view them as a mistake (including the Java 8+ ecosystem e.g. streams). Try is a bit better and Kotlin has a bit of that with Result + runCat
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by dtech 2y ago
Refusing seems like a weird thing, why not value them at $0 (i.e. pretend they aren't part of the comp). That's wise for anything not already public anyway.
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by dtech 2y ago
"long time" here means several times longer than it will take for all stars to go out, so that's kinda an understatement
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by dtech 2y ago
mobile internet and smartphones were the real gamechanger here, which were definitely not linear. They became viable in the 2000's, let's say 2007 with the iPhone, and by late 2010's everyone was living online, so "decad
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by dtech 2y ago
There's one thing you're missing here, and that is as women make up a larger percentage of an occupations' workforce, the wages start to go down with it, which is what happened or is happening with e.g. doctors and teachers.
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by dtech 2y ago
We're talking about cryptographic shorthand here for which it seems perfectly fine. You might as well complain that not all message senders are called Alice.
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by dtech 2y ago
TS narrows union types cases based on conditionals like "if" (called discriminated unions in the docs in the past), and supports exhaustiveness checks. How do they differ in functionality from sum types?
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by dtech 2y ago
Take that to the extreme and you get WASM, or it's predecessor asm.js It's also what JITers like V8 internally do, you'll get major performance hits if you do weird dynamic things.
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by dtech 2y ago
I'm sure they do a lot of R&D. They built their own CPU for goodness sake. But there's diminishing returns, at some point the ROI for the next candidate investment isn't good enough to make it a valid choice over a buybac
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by dtech 2y ago
I think you're making the classic mistake of thinking that because your on-ramp isn't available anymore there are no on-ramps anymore. I read an extremely similar comment two decades or so ago about a dev saying that no-one would
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by dtech 2y ago
The standard answer is taxes, backed the existing monopoly on use of force by government. If we've gone so far that governments cannot stand up against private robot armies then that's not an option anymore, but the point is not t

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