errantmind

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by errantmind 4y ago
I've used GrapheneOS for a while now and have been impressed by it. I'd recommend it to all those who value privacy and security. Battery life is way better now as well.
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by errantmind 4y ago
1. No, because influence and decision making aren't evenly distributed between online/offline personas. Even if they were, it doesn't change human nature, (most) people need a sense of belonging, a group identity. If anything
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by errantmind 4y ago
A lot of the newly popular ideologies start to make sense when you consider: 1. Peer pressure / virtue signalling / peacockery 2. Replacement guilt/shame hitching a ride on the decline of Christian values 3. Disassociation fr
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by errantmind 4y ago
Alright, thanks for the clarification. It looks like they opened it up for particular apps in the last few years but haven't yet gone beyond that.
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by errantmind 4y ago
They could have supported it until SMS was dead and buried. Also, RCS looks to have an upcoming third-party API, so it was absolutely a choice.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Sadly, this was released in the shadow of them removing SMS integration. From my perspective they have really mixed up their priorities.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Are there any examples of large public companies that have reversed course on ads and purged them from their products? It seems once they are in place, they infest and eventually permeate to all levels of the product, like cockroaches. I su
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by errantmind 4y ago
Yes, but based on the available information in the Github issue(s), I don't think it is going to change, although I'd be happy if it did. I believe Zig and Go's adoption is essentially capped with the compiler being this peda
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by errantmind 4y ago
Agreed, but I don't see Zig ever fulfilling that niche either as the compiler is too opinionated (like Go) in ways that are off-putting to a significant subset of developers, myself included.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Linking is often the slow part for large projects. Switching to the Mold linker can help some, but it can still be relatively slow on a lot of hardware. Overall I agree with you though, it isn't slow enough on my hardware to interrupt
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by errantmind 4y ago
How does this compare to Real-ESRGAN?
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by errantmind 4y ago
I didn't frame it anything like that. Ironically, this is what the post is about: uncharitable cynicism. Me saying it is easier to criticise than create doesn't mean criticism is always harmful or useless.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Not always. 90% of criticism is crap too, and that is what I'm referring to.
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by errantmind 4y ago
It is easier to criticise than actually do anything constructive.
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by errantmind 4y ago
* An open and well documented developer API * Removal of phone number requirements. Replace with a lot of added captchas for suspected abusers. * More emphasis on hashtags. Discovery features built around hashtags * E2E Encrypted DMs * Free
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by errantmind 4y ago
Definitely interesting as a puzzle, but personally I'd prefer a write-up on each of these novel algorithms, including what it is and how it works, with complete code. To each their own.
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by errantmind 4y ago
At this point it seems a lot more likely you are projecting your own irrationality and helplessness onto others. Reasoning from correlation alone isn't going to get you very far.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Many people being gullible and herd-oriented doesn't equate to them being forced to consume products. I'm not forced to eat shit. Neither are you. If you disagree please reference the shit I'm being forced to eat, or products
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by errantmind 4y ago
Advertisers force us to do nothing at all. Memes similarly force nothing. This is a bastardization of the word 'force'. Either people have rights or they don't. We don't need the government to pick and choose how individ
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by errantmind 4y ago
It is actively harmful to divert discussion away from all of the information in the well-sourced original publication, regardless of the truth of your statement.
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by errantmind 4y ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is interesting in that it rejects most classical and modern Western philosophy. To find anything that speaks to it in the West, you have to read pre-Plato fragments (Heraclitus), or Nietzsche, or
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by errantmind 4y ago
While I broadly agree with your point, rewarding seniority is at odds with rewarding people based on how good they are at their jobs, from the perspective of incentives. The two are not always correlated and this is often why some companies
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by errantmind 4y ago
I flag all articles that do this and I hope others do the same so we don't waste our time.
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by errantmind 4y ago
I'd say risk aversion and boredom aversion go hand-in-hand. Why even consider taking a risk for an unknown amount of baseline satisfaction? It is a lot easier to dopamine surf social media with proven returns on time, even if those ret
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by errantmind 4y ago
Simply: most everything got overrun with ads. Also, IP law is stifling innovation.
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by errantmind 4y ago
The more time people spend passively consuming entertainment, the less time they spend doing everything else, including socializing. Most everyone I know just sits on their phones, computers, or TVs a good portion of the day. All boredom is
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by errantmind 4y ago
This take lacks nuance, better to ask why software estimation is hard. To name a few reasons: 1. Business pressures to 'accelerate' timelines without understanding the tradeoffs 2. Frequent developer turnover / ramp-up time 3
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by errantmind 4y ago
Why was the title changed from the original?
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by errantmind 4y ago
> unless we are using a definition of "relevant" .. Yea, this is the crux. Using a particular tag in your post is a prediction that people who appreciate the content clustered around that tag will like your post. A good portion
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by errantmind 4y ago
We agree on the intended use of the app being more about passive consumption of a feed of interesting content, not active, thorough exploration of particular topics. I'm not sure why you think the whole hashtag system was trash because

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