flenserboy

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by flenserboy 7mo ago
vague laws are put in place so that they can be used selectively to punish particular victims while letting friends through the nets
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by flenserboy 9mo ago
Crash the PC market, & then disappear down the drain. Fascinating business plan.
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by flenserboy 9mo ago
Of course they did stock buybacks instead of using their mountains of cash to lock out the competition or keeping their powder in reserve. Brilliant!
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by flenserboy 9mo ago
I think many more would be on to Pages if they realized it was more than a simple WP. It's especially great for personal use, where there's no non-Mac sharing needed — there's no simpler layout program out there, & the ty
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by flenserboy 9mo ago
reminds me of some of the old Beagle Brothers one-liner games. it's easy to forget that something this simple is still fun!
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by flenserboy 10mo ago
the worst possible future for Apple, & perhaps for us all.
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by flenserboy 10mo ago
ok. it isn't as if there's been more than a handful of movies worth watching which have been made in the last 10 years. consolidating catalogs of at-best-mediocre platforms isn't going to make things any better or worse.
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by flenserboy 11mo ago
Quite. The last thing I want is opinionated software that might mess with the end product of whatever I'm working on, searching for, etc. Digital computing has the capacity to give us complete predictability, & those in charge of b
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by flenserboy 11mo ago
numbers often quoted in favor of statins use relative instead of absolute risk. when seen in absolute terms there is little case for statins except in some possible particular cases. they also do little, if anything, when it comes to life e
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by flenserboy 11mo ago
1. there is no longer a market for certain sorts of software, whether due to market dominance (Word), or the likely market size being too small to bother with. 2. FOSS has dropped into Code Reuse Mode*, & getting out of that is going to
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by flenserboy 11mo ago
Can't wait for it to be AIs arguing back & forth with all sorts of unforeseen consequences arising. We have much to think through, & strong, simple rules to put in place, or things are going to get rather out of hand.
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by flenserboy 1y ago
but it still should happen. every project (of a certain size) should have at least 1-2 programmers whose job it is to make the code faster & smaller. frankly, this could well be the best use of AI on code — not to generate it, but to us
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by flenserboy 1y ago
behavior will only get worse once people figure out that enforcement will either be entirely selective (based on the friends of whoever controls the programming) or entirely arbitrary. people will wish for anarcho-tyranny.
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by flenserboy 1y ago
that, & how well does it cope with Perl?
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by flenserboy 1y ago
corporate charters should be treated as the tools they are. such businesses do not exist without being tied to a particular set of laws in a particular jurisdiction.
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by flenserboy 1y ago
Apple had a chance to bring back taste when they got rid of Ive, but missed it entirely. The overly rounded windows, the weird amount of blank space, the lack of clarity in general — the only thing that makes sense is that middle managers b
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by flenserboy 1y ago
the tipping point came when boolean searches no longer worked. from that point on search results on Google have been what they want you to receive, not what you ask for. (it could also be argued that the real end of Google came when the lon
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by flenserboy 1y ago
yep. the whole purpose of this is to stop people from communicating with each other, and only consume approved vetted sources. they'd probably prefer to keep tech out of people's hands entirely (why would serfs need that?!?), but
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by flenserboy 1y ago
LVT is envy written into law — "how dare someone use what belongs to them in a way which doesn't benefit me?!?", whether individuals or groups are speaking. It also puts a wonderful tool into the hands of decision-makers to r
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by flenserboy 1y ago
Very cool! Thank you.
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by flenserboy 1y ago
Has anyone tried this for command line applications? This could be a great way to develop some very specific/corner-case tools.
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by flenserboy 1y ago
Your position is clear: if responsible governments (lol) punish platforms for what commoners post on them, platforms wishing to survive will, sensibly, not allow commoners to post. Moderation is not enough, as unapproved things will alway
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by flenserboy 1y ago
Yours is an argument to entirely wipe away user content and corporatize the whole of the Internet, a return to the days of TV and Radio. Where, in your world, could citizens find a platform willing to allow them to share their opinions, cre
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by flenserboy 1y ago
Pandoc is your friend for this and many other use cases.
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by flenserboy 1y ago
it's not a right, but it shouldn't be impeded. google does everything it can not to give actual search results — the terrible AI slop at the top, page after page of ads, & the elimination of the long tail, where reality was on
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by flenserboy 1y ago
the funniest part here is that if G+ is part of the reason, they still don't understand why people didn't want to use it, making any decisions which follow wrong &/or misguided. while I'm not terribly in favor of b
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by flenserboy 1y ago
good question. that would not be an easy problem to work out.
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by flenserboy 1y ago
fair. but something similar could be done via a terminal-friendly packaging system — one directory, one location for everything application-related. it's not so much the drag-and-drop I'm drawn to as it is the clear location for e
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by flenserboy 1y ago
it should have been drag-and-drop only from the start. I'd gladly hop on to a Linux/BSD distro which would be clean & consistent with this.
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by flenserboy 1y ago
Quite fond of kpfonts. As much as I use XeTeX because of OpenType, I find myself going back to PDFLaTeX so I can get the benefits of Microtype. I tried some of my docs through LuaTeX, but the results, while fine, were still inferior to the

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