eropple

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by eropple 3y ago
So we should exclude Blackberry users? Like, tongue in cheek, but until the mad weirdo took over, Twitter was no less effective and open-access readable than an app , while requiring zero engineering effort from organizations that don&#x27
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by eropple 3y ago
Generally speaking, by trying to communicate with people in ways that they will read.
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by eropple 3y ago
Who's going to think of going to a website when under stress when they already have channels they go to and expect to be populated? Convincing people to return to websites for this kind of thing is boiling the ocean.
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by eropple 3y ago
This is wishful thinking, though. The people that governments want to reach are not on Mastodon. Moreover, they're not going to be for a lot of good reasons. To inform the general populace, you go where they are.
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by eropple 3y ago
Huh - looking at screenshots, you're right. The spacing is wrong and the glyphs are narrow, as per the sibling comment. TIL. It's close enough for web crimes, though.
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by eropple 3y ago
I think it's pretty dang close. I wonder how much of where it's not quite there is modern font rendering.
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by eropple 3y ago
> I'm not sure I agree. Eventually your garage is totally full of exactly the right tool for some job or other and you can't find anything because there's tools in the way. Frequently it means you can do the thing at a
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by eropple 3y ago
Adam Savage is also creating content , and you have to nod to the people most likely to be consuming content at times.
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by eropple 3y ago
> Probably the main reason people typecheck js with jsdoc annotations is because they don't want a TS compile step. Right, I agree--because it's slow. Like AFAIK the tooling roundtrip is why Svelte/SvelteKit made the cha
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by eropple 3y ago
The projects that are using JSDoc for typings are doing so because they are way, way out on the edge in ways that stress Typescript compilers. They're doing weird stuff. It isn't a recommended path unless you absolutely need it;
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by eropple 3y ago
Can you see off-instance replies to a post yet? How about quote toot? Thse are unfair questions, because I know the answer to them, but it demonstrates why Mastodon is unfit for the kind of chatter that Twitter excelled at and Bluesky is tr
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by eropple 3y ago
"Deviant" is, in this context, almost certainly a code word for "trans". Own what you mean. Be bold.
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by eropple 3y ago
There are plenty of invites going around. I've been on Bluesky for about a month now and have gotten half a dozen invites. The thing that is, however, making Bluesky a genuinely pleasant place to hang out, even despite its size (it&#x2
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by eropple 3y ago
There surely are. They don't, however, have the name recognition, the comparative availability of people who know how to deal with it, the ecosystem of vendors to sell you extensions, or, yeah, the sales function to push it at larger c
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by eropple 3y ago
As opposed to the everyday case with AMD, where you have adventures all the time?
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by eropple 3y ago
Is that true when we take into account environmental externalities? I am not an expert in this field; I know that many forms of mining are capital-B Bad for the environment but I don't know how salt mines impact the area around them.
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by eropple 3y ago
> You don't have rule of law when "civilians" make their own in the street and the State giving up the monopoly of violence. This is true. This is absolutely true! But that cuts both ways. Can you explain to me how, give
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by eropple 3y ago
"Likely to run them over"? Please. Is it possible? Sure, I guess. Did it happen? No. Do you execute somebody for it could have happened? Well, I mean, I think officers of the peace shouldn't do so regardless of country. &g
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by eropple 3y ago
Which of those are convictions? Which of those convictions are capital offenses? Get out of here with this "he was no angel" stuff.
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by eropple 3y ago
Of course. Your point is a good one. But police in France aren't being dragged by cars when they stick an arm through the window, so I was accepting the implicit move in framing.
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by eropple 3y ago
Sure, no problem! Let's sound it out, just for you. If the choice is a dead cop or a dead fugitive , a dead cop is the only moral choice that can be made. That was easy. And it's true and it's right, too. The police are no
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by eropple 3y ago
Were they shoving their arm through the window? Did they need to do so? Is their safety more important than that of a civilian? These are leading questions, because the answer is obvious: if the choice is a dead cop or a dead civilian, a
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by eropple 3y ago
> The problem is you can vote people out. But the same two parties remain. Calling them "the same parties" is close to hiding the ball. Those parties have shifted and diverged in multiple directions over their history. See th
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by eropple 3y ago
And that's fine, it's a choice you can make (we do not put the duty of being an informed and engaged citizen on the body politic), but it doesn't make what you said true . Just true for you . It's not at all uncommon f
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by eropple 3y ago
Further, it's literally in support of "well, it's okay to kill him, he was probably a bad egg". Which...is certainly something you can believe, but it makes you pretty awful to do so.
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by eropple 3y ago
> Outside of elections you are pretty impotent as an individual. This is untrue, in most parts of America at least; there are more levels of government that affect you than national ones and I find that folks who make this claim genera
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by eropple 3y ago
Gotcha. Zelle having problems certainly sounds like Zelle. I wouldn't use it if you...paid me. That doesn't seem like theft, though.
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by eropple 3y ago
Steals? How so?
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by eropple 3y ago
OnShape is pretty good, but I tend to think even hobbyists should be allowed to have private designs. That's a really weird and uncomfortable limitation that keeps me from recommending it to other people.
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by eropple 3y ago
So I mean, I'm from New England, and maybe this is just a cultural thing, but I think that well-treated pine looks really nice - a golden hue from an oil-based finish, plus pretty brown knots. I don't love the table design here, l

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