dumpsterlid

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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
They want to get rid of the headphone jack because it is a brilliant bit of open hardware design. You can plug a device with a headphone jack into near limitless devices and that is a problem for profit when you can force people onto blueto
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Yah exactly, the amount of positive interaction I have with people on the fediverse absolutely blows every other online social media platform out of the water. People start conversations with me all the time about really interesting stuff a
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
One of the things I love most about the fediverse/mastodon is that most of the tech people who I think are jerks think it is a failure and don't bother to join. The resulting tech community is way more progressive and kind than mo
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Its pretty easy, just pick an instance of mastodon to make an account on and off you go
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
> Costco has a sign up paying $19/hr to empty trash cans I am getting really tired of people casually talking about jobs like this as if they are easy. Do they require a ton of professional knowledge or skills? Nope. Are they way ha
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
> Working class pay has steadily fallen for decades and economic mobility is near zero. Exactly, so long as this is true, every other discussion about the economics of the working class is a distraction from this
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Photos are now very simple to upload to Dokuwiki. There are a decent bit of themes too, I havent tried creating my own though.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I don't understand why Dokuwiki isn't more popular. It is super easy to use, there are a good bit of themes and plugins that can be installed through the GUI, it loads pictures fine (and has a little picture tracker interface wher
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
In a practical sense, not really.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I agree the New York Times really isn't that great.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
You can't be both condescending towards me for not providing hard evidence of my conjecture and then simultaneously make conjectures yourself without any evidence. You gotta pick one.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"I also think part of the reason" I think you missed me saying this? Also are you suggesting that many people in tech weren't heavily inspired by the scifi they experienced growing up? That seems like a pretty absurd claim.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I dunno, I think Picard season 2 is awesome so far. I also thought season 1 was good too, though not perfect. Also, having the main characters prison break an ICE bus was fantastic, I don't care if it is "too close to home".
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"And the worst part? These gigs do next to nothing for your resume. I worked with college graduates stuck in such positions, graduates with decent and hard degrees. One year turns into two, two into three, three into five...and before
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"It makes it harder to feel sympathy for those struggling: Indeed, repeatedly making wrong decisions has poor outcomes. At 18 it was pretty obvious that in the most basic sense, code = money." It's not the poverty that makes
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"I once got paid almost $1000, in just one day - but that day was 20 hours long, and you're pretty much beat to a pulp afterwards." Yah $1000 for one day is deceiving, how many days after that one day of work are you totally
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
> Or any law enforcement. Please don't equate healthcare workers with law enforcement. Healthcare workers have an astronomically harder job and actually make society a better place.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Failure to pay eventually sends you to prison one way or another when you live in a country with such a catastrophically broken social safety net.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Not to mention people in the US often are just more likely to straight up die from things that should be totally preventable in such a wealthy country, the abnormally high infant and maternal mortality rate in the US being just one example.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"Stross' objections to ST are really along the lines that these questions are meaningless in the sense that the characters' actions are essentially identical to what they would be in a time with totally different technology.&
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I definitely don't object to the "Star Trek is inconsistent with the rules it sets out for its universe argument" but also... it is a massive series so after a certain point I don't care. You don't watch Star Trek f
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Wow this author is so wrong it hurts.... "Star Trek and its ilk are approaching the dramatic stage from the opposite direction: the situation is irrelevant, it's background for a story which is all about the interpersonal relation
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by dumpsterlid 5y ago
The main thrust of Nature Of Order is that these 15 elements of wholeness are itself a quantifiable measure of life, of literally how alive a system is. Christopher believed you didn't design and build a structure and then fill it wi
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by dumpsterlid 5y ago
While Christopher Alexander will be mainly remembered for A Pattern Language, I do think he was onto some really interesting philosophical ideas in his attempt to define life as an analog (as in, not binary) value of structure. He didn&#x27