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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Capital-A atheism is a dead fad. It was a few years of people loudly dunking on something that that was safe to dunk on. The overall culture found them grating and insufferable, even to other atheists. Over time we swung to the point whe
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> The cuneiform texts of an ancient Mesopotamian people should, in theory, hold little interest to an arts and crafts vendor based in the midwestern United States. Why shouldn't it? People with money buy artifacts and art of note.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> Or is this shower-type thought safe to chuck in the receptacle of non-sensical but good sounding ideas Regardless of veracity, having an answer is reductive beyond the point of utility. Like, yeah, it's reasonable to infer that so
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Current? Derby Line/Standstead has been fucked since Bush 43. The library access was cold comfort after all the other changes "because terrorism." Yeah, it's discouraging that it too is now gone. But if someone wants to
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> Would ads be better? It has ads. Did you forget to turn off your adblocker? Or are you talking like even more ads?
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Have you considered instituting a formal quality system? I'm not even saying that it's an alternative to or incompatible with licensing, but there are off-the-shelf standards for software process and quality you can download and
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Jenkins is cron with bells and whistles. The result is a pile of plugins to capture all the dimensions of complexity you are likely to otherwise bury in the shell script but want them easier to point and click at. I'll hate on jenkin
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
A few minutes of spitballing what implementations might look like create a number of problems that appear to make the idea a nonstarter. You should have a real proposal that explores the possibility space, say what the key requirements are
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
For that to work, a website has to push a mirror into that alternate system, and the scraper has to know the associated mirror exists. That's two big "ifs" for something I'm not aware of a standardized way of announcing.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
>What's surprising to me is that established companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) would resort to Stop defaulting to expecting honor from businesses. Unless you're clutching pearls for dramatic effect, any surprise at all is an i
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
I've always been sus of the autopen. It's just authorized forgery. The times I've heard about it has been the president traveling, but in the age of printers and scanners, the autopen seems strictly worse. Coming home with
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
In case you're ESL, you're downvoted because in this context "I swear" means "here comes some anecdotal evidence" and not "I promise this is true."
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> But what she discussed doesn’t feel like it’s very substantive beyond what could already be deduced or observed. There is still value in having a primary source for it. Even if it's not news to you. Even on HN when you see an ind
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Aren't the Cooperation and Foundation exactly those separate buckets?
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
How embarrassing.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
When I visited in the 90's I remember conversations mentioning seeing the signs and trying to delay the inevitable end. Whether someone sees that as dooming or prescient is probably a matter of if they moved in before or after 2005.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
>Is that a proprietary HTML extension? No, of course not. Web standards are whatever google decides they are.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
>Loath as I am to give 4chan credit for anything positive I love the fact we have somewhere unambiguously lowbrow on the internet. It's fun to watch how highbrow places talk about it.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
>if no matter what the result, we can always just say "the candidate who won could always have won given the forecast" - what are we really adding to the conversation here? When the "upset" candidate wins, it will hav
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> Who doesn't want their Amazon packages delivered sooner? Scanning through my recent orders, 90+% of them could take a week to arrive and I wouldn't have noticed, much less minded.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Yeah, just fire them outright. Very little of this article reads like an honest or grounded attempt at reconciliation-or-fire conversations.
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
This isn't about how to handle difficult employees, it's about how to polity guide them out the door. And once quit/fired you can tell yourself they were a lost cause. Are there any good resources out there about how to actua
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
Child rearing requires parents to expend resources on their kids that the economy would rather have for itself. Capturing someone's undivided labor and their limited capacity to truly give a shit about anything in the world are great
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
I recently found out about the 'kas' tool that tries to be a better version of the hacky scripts we all write for this. Here's a link to an example YAML config to give you a taste: https://kas.readthedocs.io/
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
I agree that vendors should upstream, but into packages that are upstream of even the distros. It's not like x64 where the same binaries can support multiple systems. My product OS can't even boot on the chip maker's devkit
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
My plex server was down and my lazy solution was to connect directly to the NAS. I was surprised just how much I noticed the responsiveness after getting used to web players. A week ago I wouldn't have said web player bothered me at
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
>to put up with shit like this that doesn't even happen in industry? The C-suite never bring in hatchetmen? What world do you work in? > Sure there are sometimes mass layoffs that are handled pretty badly in industry, but not th
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
> it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power I can empathize, but I can't feel indignant about it. Not any more. For years and years I've watched people warn about the centralization of power by tech comp
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
People often can't see past their own hostility when figuring out what a system 'does'. And now they have have a clever sounding way to pretend that they're describing a system with detached reason, not just describing
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by finnthehuman 2y ago
>the claim from Fedora is Who cares what they claim? Flatpak was invented specifically to route around finger wagging distro maintainers. Fedora has OBS in their native repos. They can go apply all their opinions to that copy. And if the

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