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721.
by esrauch 8y ago
What arguments don't work? The truth is that FSF is primarily a political organization. It is more of a political organization than any other open source foundation, eg they do things like refuse to endorse any OS that distributes
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by esrauch 8y ago
What is the point of the project? What goal does it achieve? There was a gcc frontend/backend clean architecture dispute: some wanted it so that gcc could be used for more things that clang is being used for. RMS argued against it, on
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by esrauch 8y ago
Apple has plenty of non-aligned incentives, they control the store (+30% subscription tax on Spotify, taking down apps that compete with "core functionality"), they don't want you to repair your phone (and planned obsolescenc
724.
by esrauch 8y ago
I don't think the argument is that they are stupid because they cost jobs, any more than the idea that smart speakers are bad because they will cost jobs.
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by esrauch 8y ago
I saw a review that mentioned Oculus discouraged using it while it was plugged in, so even on a flight with outlets you wouldnt be able to watch 2 movies on a 4 hour flight with it.
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by esrauch 9y ago
Coded into our DNA doesn't mean it is morally acceptable.
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by esrauch 9y ago
You are literally looking at what the spec could allow a compliant client to do and then assuming that Google will make an app that uses dark patterns to trick users into doing them when they don't want to (and when it also provides no
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by esrauch 9y ago
The section you have listed is about "you have set a geolocation already, control access to who can see it". Frankly there is no way that Google's RCS app streams your location to any endpoint without an explicit opt in in th
729.
by esrauch 9y ago
Can-do attitude includes making things that were otherwise annoying frictionless and easy through technology. The feature being discussed here is literally the ability to manually press a button to send your location to your contact. With t
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by esrauch 9y ago
I think it is the exact opposite of that. There is some version that can be done with current technology, but the challenges for that version are fundamentally much much more basic than what is discussed here: the article is basically jumpi
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by esrauch 9y ago
I feel like the article is severely overestimating the state of the art and the current capabilities of the "big 5". All of them are working on the most basic fundamental components that are prerequisites to a Primer and every pre
732.
by esrauch 9y ago
Of all of the nusances in my life, having to use light switches seems really low on the list. Is it really so transformative?
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by esrauch 9y ago
Java is also demonstratably not pass-by-value (for objects). It is a false dichotomy to prove it is one by proving it is not the other.
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by esrauch 9y ago
What time would be better?
735.
by esrauch 9y ago
Isn't it just the cost to mint a new coin that has to be proportional? As in, it can cost more than a cent to make a penny but each penny is used in more than one transaction. I understand that the transaction cost is also quite high w
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by esrauch 9y ago
It is trivial both to ban tabs and to bulk convert tabs to spaces in a codebase or presubmit hook. The other direction seems impossible. That means that if you want to avoid a mixed codebase it is far easier to get to and stay at spaces onl
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by esrauch 9y ago
If you find that something shifts and you are almost always starting the second task but the first task is still winning then you are in a state where the solution became extra load for no benefit.
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by esrauch 9y ago
This sounds like it shouldn't work: - If it starts showing you to unusually attractive people wont those people rate you unusually low until you reach some equilibrium? - I would expect any feature determining the top most attractive s
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by esrauch 9y ago
I don't know about that. I was a heavy Digg user when that happened and Reddit was already an increasingly serious competitor when then the redesign killed Digg. I don't see the "next one" that is already starting to ste
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by esrauch 9y ago
It seems that Windows phone would have filled the Android mid-range/licensed niche if Android wasn't already established.
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by esrauch 9y ago
I don't think any SJW would characterize their position is the dictionary definition of regression, and nor would I (despite not characterizing myself as one). Do people you consider SJW really say "life was better before?",
742.
by esrauch 9y ago
Calling them "regressive" seems to be intended as an insult to me.
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by esrauch 9y ago
A zero-length array can't ever be a valid cstring at all since they have to be null terminated. I don't think that is actually relevant to the claim you are replying to, which is about arrays and pointers and not strings.
744.
by esrauch 9y ago
Is there any major bank that doesn't have terms that allow invasive data sharing with arbitrary third parties?
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by esrauch 9y ago
It seems that the reason power laws are important is the frequency of arbitrarily large values, and the implications those have on data processing. Under a definition that strict it doesn't sound useful: imagine the most common degree
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by esrauch 9y ago
Why is it so bad if someone wants to get off meat and their end goal is Quorn?
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by esrauch 9y ago
But "it doesn't" can include things that are both distrubuted with fatter or thinner tails? And if it is normally distrubuted below some range, and then power law above that it also wouldn't be scale free under this pape
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by esrauch 9y ago
This is just called "inbound" and "outbound" for Boston. It is a bit confusing because there is two stops in the city that are as far in as you can go so you can't label the directions this way from there, and you t
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by esrauch 9y ago
AFrame is really pretty similar in spirit to VRML https://aframe.io/
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by esrauch 9y ago
It is difficult for me to see how it would be zero sum. Instead it seems very likely to me that the total amount spent by users online is higher with invasive ads than non-invasive ones: if no ad you see is relevant to you then you are less

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