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by dwb 2mo ago
If you ever thought “prediction markets” were a good idea, you should leave economic judgement to other people. Go take up gardening or something instead. It’s a hack reference at this point I know, but it’s Idiocracy-level stuff.
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by dwb 3mo ago
I really hope you’re joking, but it’s hard to tell on here!
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by dwb 3mo ago
I can certainly see the appeal of number four, but on more than a couple of systems I've worked on, it would have blown up the amount of data stored in a fair proportion of tables for very questionable benefit. It's a good techniq
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by dwb 3mo ago
Your dislike of music videos in general has meant that you haven’t had the interest to discern the good from the bad. There are plenty of high quality music videos. It’s like someone saying “I’m not really into classical music, it sounds al
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by dwb 3mo ago
I mean yes, cars are absurdly inefficient for a lot of trips. America’s addiction to cars is kind of funny.
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by dwb 3mo ago
Certainly where I live, rents are many times that, yes. If landlords really were just charging cost plus a modest profit (despite that I really object to any profit on housing) I wouldn’t be outraged.
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by dwb 3mo ago
No, too reductive. Rent-seeking is when people manipulate a situation to charge money without providing value themselves. Landlords are rent-seekers to the extent that they don’t do much, they mostly just own property - typical rent is many
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by dwb 3mo ago
Why do you think that? What knowledge/leaning do you have that would add weight to your opinion?
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by dwb 3mo ago
They appear to be “coming soon”. While I’m sure there’s a lot of interesting stuff they say, I too hope that the exclusively male and white selection of lecturers (and presumably philosophies!) is an artefact of how young the site is.
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by dwb 3mo ago
The author meant “wary”. You would never say “I’m weary of…”
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by dwb 3mo ago
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wary
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by dwb 3mo ago
For sure, I agree.
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by dwb 3mo ago
Right, I see. That is the traditional behaviour but there’s lots of apps that don’t do that, and closing the last window does also quit the app.
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by dwb 3mo ago
That is not true, when you close apps on macOS the process(es) really are finished, just like on Windows or Linux.
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by dwb 3mo ago
The same reason that you don't do a full shutdown every time you walk away from your computer. I don't really believe that you don't understand this.
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by dwb 3mo ago
Just had a quick look but I like the look so far. I’ve been thinking along similar lines for ages but never quite got around to making something. I very much support any effort to make remoting less dependent on the archaic character grid.
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by dwb 3mo ago
Glad to hear it!
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by dwb 3mo ago
I don’t think dismissing direct democracy as “fucking stupid” is the kind of constructive commentary this site is after. It’s a complex issue and I wouldn’t advocate for it claiming it would fix everything, but in the representative democra
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by dwb 3mo ago
You are using the same logic as those who kept the franchise restricted to the property-owning class. Parent is rightly mocking you for it.
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by dwb 4mo ago
Sorry, no, but I’ve been using the latest DeepSeek model for personal stuff and it’s pretty good, way cheaper, and can be used in Claude Code directly.
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by dwb 4mo ago
I get enough of this with a pre/post tool hook that takes a jj snapshot and teaching the agent about `jj evolog`.
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by dwb 4mo ago
I hope it’s an improvement on their current PR review code scanning, which alerts on code that only looks possibly vulnerable in isolation, without looking at the context. I guess I assumed it was an LLM being extremely lazy, but maybe it’s
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by dwb 4mo ago
Only? It was half your comment. The point is that the amount of "real use" (I think we can all guess at a good-enough definition) of a phone without WhatsApp in a country where it's pervasive is not enough for most people. An
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by dwb 4mo ago
We're talking about governmental document-like websites with relatively simple forms here, not your particular legacy web app, there is no excuse for not getting them right. Gov.UK did. Plain HTML, used in a straight-forward way that i
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by dwb 4mo ago
The point of a UI library is to interface with users. If it totally fails to interface with a subset of users then it is obviously deficient to some degree. It is callous and foolish to dismiss offhand users who rely on assistive technologi
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by dwb 4mo ago
You are not a representative user, at least in a country where WhatsApp is dominant.
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by dwb 4mo ago
Sorry, I don’t buy it. There’s nothing “expert-tier” about plain accessible HTML, and with LLMs, there’s even less excuse. I’m not primarily a frontend web engineer and I can manage it.
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by dwb 4mo ago
My point is that websites are particularly amenable to being cheaply built in a fast and accessible way. I would say classes of, say, macOS apps are similar. Government certainly should be insulated from at least the market pressures that p
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by dwb 4mo ago
There are types of software for which I’d largely agree with you. Websites are not one of them: it takes effort or incompetence to make them slow and inaccessible.
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by dwb 4mo ago
Maybe some of us direct our curiosity in more worthwhile directions, and have already figured out our worldview with regard to situations like this.

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