ertian

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by ertian 3y ago
Remember when Lance Armstrong got in big trouble for taking performance-enhancing drugs for the Tour de France, and he was lambasted in the media? That might have been right and proper. But years later, I read that of the top 30 finalists t
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by ertian 3y ago
There's a tendency on the Internet to default to negativity, skepticism, and cynicism. It seems worse amongst programmers and tech people. I think it's just a way of demonstrating how clever the commenter is: I can see through t
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by ertian 3y ago
I think better criticism is, well, constructive. "Here's a better way to accomplish what they're attempting", not "That's all crap because I don't like it". And before you can do that, I think you hav
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by ertian 3y ago
My main criticism is just that your whole point comes down to "they did things in a way I didn't like!" So what? They had different personalities or different goals. When I found _why's guide back in 2004 or whatever, at
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by ertian 3y ago
It must have been awful when you were forced to engage with a whimsical community like that. I mean...I'm assuming you were forced, because why else would you harbor so much bitterness over the fact that there were once some people who
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by ertian 3y ago
Canada just changed their immigration program such that they'll accept all H1B holders (working or not) into Canada with a similar visa, but without the requirement to find a job immediately. Something to look into for any Twitter (or
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by ertian 3y ago
If they sold for profit and started putting their changes behind a paywall, that would be terrible. But they're just benefiting from Red Hat the same way that Red Hat benefits from upstream Linux. Red Hat is the one misbehaving here.
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by ertian 3y ago
None of that was all that original... Slashdot had the links & stories with votes and a thriving, nested comment section (although it was curated), and link aggregators were a dime a dozen. And I mean, there was Digg. They put it all to
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by ertian 3y ago
You're right, but if you can do in 30 minutes what used to take a day, then we're going to need a lot fewer writers...
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by ertian 3y ago
Saw a comic in the early days of ChatGPT, I wish I'd saved it: What the applicant writes: "I want this job." How the application is sent: "Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to you today to inquire about the position of bla
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by ertian 3y ago
Why not ? Why is it necessary to use existing approaches, even if they add a lot of incidental complexity? What does it hurt you that Gemini has their own custom markup language that's different than Markdown? You can set up your ow
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by ertian 3y ago
Well...exactly. Working as designed.
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by ertian 3y ago
> This means anyone still using a popular browser like Chrome can visit your sites I think this would be seen as more of a drawback than a feature. If you're trying to build a tight-knit little hobbyist community, random people popp
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by ertian 3y ago
I think you just misunderstand the point. A lot of criticism of Gemini seems to make the assumption that it's intended to replace HTTP and that it's badly thought through for that use. In fact, I think it basically came from a nic
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by ertian 3y ago
Taxpayers got billions in life-saving government information, too. It wasn't for the benefit of Pfizer that the government ran those campaigns.
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by ertian 3y ago
You can figure out statistically if Teslas are systematically avoiding some types of accidents.
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by ertian 3y ago
But sometimes there are legitimate reasons for a car to brake hard, which you'd never know from your position one car-length behind them.
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by ertian 3y ago
This seems to me like a strange and counterproductive attitude. People are fine with Facebook or Google manipulating them and extracting vast amounts of money from them and handing it out to their employees, but get upset when an extremely
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by ertian 3y ago
eshell (emacs' shell) has it's own versions of common shell commands, written in elisp.
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by ertian 3y ago
The Russian army was several times the size of the Ukrainian in troops and armored vehicles. Their air force was even larger, relatively speaking. They've been a major arms exporter for half a century, with all kinds of supposedly cutt
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by ertian 3y ago
Poverty is not eliminated in China, at all. The fact that they lifted a lot of people out of poverty doesn't necessarily mean they can lift all people out of poverty. Nobody else has achieved that. It's not as easy as you make
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by ertian 3y ago
I hope you're right. But it does have to achieve escape velocity. There are lots of interesting open source projects that never quite made it. Jabber/XMPP, for instance: it seemed like it would inevitably take over messaging for a
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by ertian 3y ago
This might be affecting the number of children a couple has (probably is, in fact), but I doubt people factor it in to their decision to have a kid or not. I had absolutely no idea what day care or diapers cost before I had a kid. It's
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by ertian 3y ago
Sarcasm?
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by ertian 3y ago
So you figure people should give even more resources, and their children's futures, over to these people who actively hate them and just hope things will work out, despite all evidence to the contrary? My obligation is to my children.
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by ertian 4y ago
Well, first, mrshadowgoose has a point: I know a lot of people who would love to take a self-driving car but wouldn't got near a bus. But also, while I'd love (love!) to see much better, European-style public transit in US cities,
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by ertian 4y ago
Not to mention, if self-driving taxis were ubiquitous and cheap, people would be far less likely to take their own car downtown--or own a car at all. In retrospect, the idea that there's a car sitting idle in a parking spot right in th
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by ertian 4y ago
If a 2d creature has two orifices, then it's bisected. The two parts of it's body can't be connected without interrupting the digestive tract. It's like saying of us 3d creatures: "the butt doesn't have to be c
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by ertian 4y ago
...Probably better not to point that out, or next thing you know we're gonna have to rewrite damn near every textbook...
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by ertian 4y ago
It's not even a bit surprising they'd miss things like this, IMHO. They do tests with a few (maybe even a lot of) intersections, but there are thousands upon thousands of intersections out there, including some where bushes are

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