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by fivre 4y ago
they're robust at generating false positives! i got insta-locked for, i think, signing up using my own email domain, to make an account that shares pictures i took of geese. it took about 4 months to wait for them to unlock it meanwhil
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by fivre 4y ago
The company doesn't want to give anyone a raise. They are not happy to give anyone a raise. Companies do not willingly increase their costs, full stop. You could maybe make an argument that companies may increase wages for high perform
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by fivre 4y ago
No. IAC absolutely absolutely solves problems (repeatability and a source of truth you can put in source control, among others) that GUI management has no good solution for. What OP is getting at is that IAC is often not /sold/ th
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by fivre 4y ago
> If you are a startup, you cannot create a popular app in a crowded marketplace by being scrupulous about best practices. > Match owns almost all of the dating-app market, and they have extremely deep pockets to buy/extinguish c
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by fivre 4y ago
>> How is Twitter supposed to know that the Tweet was made by the OP or was a compromised Tweet? > For starters: it would be interesting to see what IP address the tweet was made from, whether or not it was preceded by a password c
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by fivre 4y ago
eh, perhaps true too often, but i'll still get fighty against it in comments when bored
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by fivre 4y ago
The Federal Arbitration Act explicitly permits. There are a variety of situations where arbitration entirely makes sense: companies may not want to deal with court resolution of contract disputes for efficiency reasons (the courts are slow
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by fivre 4y ago
In what bizarro world are you living where there is a competitive market for ISPs? 2 ISPs at best, via the municipality-granted local telecom and cable monopolies, is the norm for most of the US. Service does not improve because there is no
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by fivre 5y ago
lolwut the job of Netflix is to provide a product its customers want. i don't think OP is in a tiny minority of people who want an option to disable autoplay; it's a desire i've heard expressed quite often. hell, fucking YouT
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by fivre 5y ago
Maybe you can explain one of my long-burning questions: why are non-English tracks handled so inconsistently? I'll sometimes see an English translation, sometimes a transliteration (for non-Latin scripts), and sometimes the original la
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by fivre 5y ago
> Now…that does present a bit of a chicken/egg problem. Because I had just terrible proprioception growing up. Awful. Clumsy as all get-out. Which tends to go along with spectrum disorders. I was much the same way--absolutely abysma
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by fivre 5y ago
You have a very acerbic approach to the notion that other people have developmental disorders apparently borne out of a persecutory delusion that they have developmental disorders solely to declare the way your brain works boring, and brand
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by fivre 5y ago
> Customers actually like stable, responsive, and efficient tools, who would have thought? _Existing_ customers like these things (and they aren't wrong for liking these things). New business comes from the potential customers who w
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by fivre 5y ago
Assuming blockchain (and OpenSea atop that) count as "no middleman, no overhead" and not a new middleman (but it's a good one, because Andreessen Horowitz will make bank if it succeeds) atop technology that requires more ener
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by fivre 5y ago
Wait, so the purported royalty benefit of wrapping this in a contract can be circumvented, but the NFT tech is still good because people who circumvent this kindly send the artist the royalty anyway? Would they not be able to send the same
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by fivre 5y ago
This is a solved problem: you pay them for their work, which is how artists have made money since time immemorial. The degree to which artists can make a living off their art is a function of demand and discoverability, not whether they hav
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by fivre 5y ago
This part of the Cloudflare ToS only applies to cached content. They're fine with simply proxying to your video files.
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by fivre 5y ago
I'd challenge the idea that customer support is _expensive_. Generic customer support requires no specialized expertise: you need knowledge your company's business processes, tooling related to third parties they worked with (redi
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by fivre 5y ago
it's insanely costly _to build bring a plant online initially_ once you're up and running, it's cheap as dirt, just takes decades to pay off the initial investment
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by fivre 5y ago
This approach is inherently unclear. Intent is never completely recorded because doing so is fundamentally impossible--there's far too much minutiae and unwritten context to guarantee that jurists are following intent, and consistency
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by fivre 5y ago
Nobody gives a flying fuck whether the terms are legally accurate. This distinction is entirely already covered in the existing terms of service. People are annoyed that they can pay for something (sometimes an essential identity service),
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by fivre 5y ago
Not OP, but when I tried Wayland way back when, I discovered that libinput didn't let you remap tap buttons, something Xorg does support. That feature is incredibly useful for me, since my touchpad has no physical buttons but does have
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by fivre 5y ago
Terms of Service are universally wishlists of things a legal department may wish to enforce if they are so inclined. In this case, they are not so inclined.
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by fivre 5y ago
Github suggestion comments usually do this pretty easily. You can prompt the submitter to accept a diff. It does have two annoying problems though: - You must use a browser editor, no attaching a diff you generated elsewhere. Anything more
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by fivre 5y ago
if Mozilla did lay out their rationale, it'd be a lot easier to get past lacking UI expertise or being unable to see upsides (while seeing clear downsides). UI changes attract a lot of ire from current users in general--this isn't
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by fivre 5y ago
> someone at Google is probably looking at the results of their A/B test and thinking “Wow, this new feature is great. Look at how many people are using related searches when they can’t find what they’re looking for!” I was under th
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by fivre 5y ago
The notion that people paying for digital assets means that people will pay for NFTs. It's meaningless, though, since the same (massive) caveats apply as when cryptocoins tried to claim they were a viable and better alternative to trad
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by fivre 5y ago
appreciation is a hard thing to come by. joke response, listen to Indiscipline on loop until you like it :D King Crimson flowcharts are a fun source of amusement, if nothing else: http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanmus
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by fivre 5y ago
Modern MIDI controllers are quite flexible in that regard. Stuff like https://roli.com/products/blocks/seaboard-block-studio-editi... https://artiphon.com/pages/instrument1 are designed such
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by fivre 5y ago
damn, the audio wave visualization on the wires in the thing that's like the Bitwig grid editor is just BRILLIANT. probably would be a bit much in a complex finished instrument but that's amazingly intuitive for the building phase

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