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by eropple 3y ago
> Yeah, maybe some of these materials are not as "sturdy" to the touch and maybe they have a shorter life-span, but I am positive they work better and are cheaper/easier to replace. They are cheaper, they are easier to r
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by eropple 3y ago
I get where you're coming from, but frankly: nah. If you are so in-the-rut that you can't switch, say, text editors or IDEs and are compelled to have an Incredibly Normal Day about it, you're probably not actually possessed o
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by eropple 3y ago
It's not even true in the United States. In the Boston area, there are still plenty of those "strong towns" the bloggists go on about. I live in one. My car gets used to go to Home Depot, to drive to visit my parents four hou
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by eropple 3y ago
I know you're goofing on it, and tbh I give more credence to MMT than most folks do, but most folks I know who think about MMT still acknowledge that if people believe they're being taxed to pay for things, they still kinda are.
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by eropple 3y ago
> neither does the organization have to deal with the endless yak shaving over brace style and tool choice I hear you, but an organization that fears this, instead of Just Pick Something And Deal With It, is an organization that probab
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by eropple 3y ago
Are you going to pay the freight for videos you consume, or for videos you post? Which one? (There is no third option.)
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by eropple 3y ago
> Is it possible the metal detectors are actually working and not just security theater? The results have been consistently poor over a long period of time. Just one example: https://web.archive.org/web/20181009074
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by eropple 3y ago
AMD does seem to be trying new stuff with Strix Point Halo, but in-package RAM seems like it'd add new physical challenges that probably need a defined market before they swing for the fences? Because it's not just the memory chip
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by eropple 3y ago
You know that somebody can hold two thoughts in their head at once, yeah? Green power is great! But there'll be limits to how much of that there is, too, and asking if pictures of hypothetical cats is a good use of that is also reasona
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by eropple 3y ago
It can, and I tried this, but in practice we have to change our passwords at my current employer so frequently that I got more irked changing it on the Yubikey (not the least hassle-free of processes, as I couldn't install the Yubikey
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by eropple 3y ago
UPS is up there, too. I still get text messages about an old address on an account I can't log into for...reasons. (Special characters sound plausible! And of course the password reset flow doesn't work.) Wonder if they share a ve
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by eropple 3y ago
Because it's funny.
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by eropple 3y ago
In such a case you absolutely should! At the same time, it makes sense that bsky, as the protocol stewards, might not want to make that pit too easy to fall into.
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by eropple 3y ago
Sure, but that's Scary(tm), because an unexpected viral skeet is going to cost you a lot of money. In this case I'd expect almost all video to be fraudulent--either in terms of pirated egress or in terms of disinfomation scams.
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by eropple 3y ago
By externalizing costs onto server owners, the same way they do everything. It's not a good way to do it, though, and it's worse for Bluesky because it implies that in order to move your PDS (one of the best features of the design
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by eropple 3y ago
I agree with this--and also, again, you have video, if you upload it to YouTube. Or stream via Twitch. Like, you don't need on-platform video. Google makes more money than God; let them pay for the perturbed bits.
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by eropple 3y ago
It's not storage, it's bandwidth. Most system providers, for Bad Reasons, charge a lot for egress; even relatively good ones like Cloudflare have particular payment shenanigans around video. Size uploads could help in that situati
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by eropple 3y ago
Video is also prohibitively expensive outside of Google-scale endeavors and will likely crush both third-party BGSes and PDSes. Everyone doing video is either selling you ads (whether it's in that video or around it), selling you the v
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by eropple 3y ago
> So one thing you could say is, well, every generation says that there were less strikeouts in third day. But there's actually data on this and..... it's true! Almost every decade, from the 1800s through every decade of the 1
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by eropple 3y ago
> If Roe was an actual law, it wouldn't have been overturned. Nonsense and worse words. They aren't originalists, they don't care about the executive/legislative distinction. It's embarrassing farce to pretend
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by eropple 3y ago
> You don't lose your right not to be subject to arbitrary fines just because you incorporated. One: NLRB rulings are "arbitrary" only if you somehow believe that a regulatory body, whose rulings can be appealed to an Ar
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by eropple 3y ago
The line between "IDE" and "text editor" has blurred to the point where I'm not sure they're super useful terms anymore. When I used vim up till about 2019, I had it configured with all the toys to the point wh
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by eropple 3y ago
Thanks for the link! Maybe less thanks for the attitude, though--I'm well-versed in how these tools fail and nothing goes out the door without me evaluating it. (And, for my use cases? Generally pretty solid results, with failures bein
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by eropple 3y ago
Mindshare is part of enterprise sales, yes. I work at a very large company and everyone knows about ChatGPT and Gemini (in part because we for our sins have a good chunk of GCP stuff), but I doubt anyone here not doing some LLM-flavored dev
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by eropple 3y ago
For just blasting a config out, I'm sure there are tons of problems. But (and I have not been to your forums, because...the project just works for me, it's great!) I've had a lot of success having GPT4 do the first-pass trans
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by eropple 3y ago
I'm not saying that the grandparent poster has the right of it, but this is a bizarre objection. Brazil had about a million more square miles of rainforest just four years ago. I'm sure that across the entire planet we could, yann
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by eropple 3y ago
It absolutely is worse than it has been in the "good places", though. Because we have more people, but not more good places.
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by eropple 3y ago
So we're talking about transportation, and I guess I have to ask exactly what transportation infrastructure you then mean? Because the only serious, broad, federally-managed transportation infrastructure I can think of are like, milita
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by eropple 3y ago
Yes, of course! And it's reasonable to think that living in both modest precarity and isolation is worse than living in somewhat more severe precarity; "affordable" places to live are inferior goods! The problem, fundamentall
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by eropple 3y ago
I've seen it but don't have it on hand. Urban prices certainly seem to have disconnected quite hard from suburban/rural ones, but even suburban/rural might not capture it. I grew up in a not-all-that-wealthy town in Ma

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