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by flukus 7y ago
> If the answer is the latter, then why aren’t we replicating that mechanism across other essential goods like food and clothing? We do/have. Water, electricity, phone services (and other communication), roads, child care and and wh
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by flukus 7y ago
Yes. It seems to breaks up the list and my brain doesn't seem to process it as being alphabetical for some reason. Only a minor issue though compared to the search being so utterly broken after so many years.
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by flukus 7y ago
> How is that not a stable ABI? Because it's an ABI with several severe constraints, especially around the more OO features and templates, plus the solutions introduce even more abstractions: https://community.kde.org&#x2
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by flukus 7y ago
Let's say 12 hours? I've had it last longer than that but in the scenario I'm thinking about there would be rolling blackouts on the order of hours, not days.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Best case, you can have a canned food party once this clears Also frozen food. Even in worst case scenarios it's hard to see the grid going down for long periods, assuming raw coal/gas can keep arriving or your country has a
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by flukus 7y ago
It's hard to tell the scale of it, especially as an outsider but I've read a couple of articles like this one: https://www.techinasia.com/chinas-ecommerce-robots-delivery . Once the dust has settled many might not
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by flukus 7y ago
I'd assume they purposefully reached out to as many as possible, otherwise it just becomes an insular circle jerk. The people currently using the language will presumably have far fewer issues with it than people not using the language
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by flukus 7y ago
If you want to burn down a structure then a molotov cocktail is a lower barrier to entry and requires less access than this candle would. And if you have the access necessary the a remote control kids toy plus some fuel would be almost as e
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by flukus 7y ago
Cookbooks and cooking shows already fill that need in a much better way.
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by flukus 7y ago
We had a similar one in stores around me but they've since disappeared. The biggest problem with being in store is that it only saves you about 5 minutes of walking around the store to gather the ingredients and it costs a lot more. Th
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by flukus 7y ago
Seen the same working with hospital datasets. We only used them on site (office of third party provider, not the hospital) and anonymized them, but from what I now know about fingerprinting our anonymizations wasn't strong enough and i
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by flukus 7y ago
But that's the problem, we have more stuff but lower quality of life. And even if you sacrifice the stuff you can't live on 1985 wages. I'd gladly sacrifice a smart phone and streaming TV to live in a large house with 3 kids
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by flukus 7y ago
I was thinking the same, an off timer could be handy. But you can solve this with a timer and a lid, no need for IoT at all. It feels like we're turning into Wall-E when so many people are too lazy to light a candle or flick a light sw
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by flukus 7y ago
> Using the word “raise” when talking about financing via debt seems inappropriate and very start-upy. They've been around for 9 years, they're just a company now.
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by flukus 7y ago
And you lose the ability to quickly change settings in a text editor, to have multiple settings files, to have tiered (system, local, project) settings files, to version them in source control, etc. Instead of learning ini, josn and xml you
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by flukus 7y ago
With 10 minutes of reading (and I suspect anything less than many years of study) I can't find out what the hit rate is. How many stories do they have? How many describe verifiable events? A single story that happens to correlate to a
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by flukus 7y ago
Are you looking at how you preserve the preferences too? I neither love nor hate the UI, which probably means it does a good job of getting out the way, but my one bug bear is things like when I turn off sub-titles they get re-added on the
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by flukus 7y ago
> Rest of Canada has a points based system but is being played by low skilled workers. Same in Australia, so many "skilled" workers that are driving taxis, driving uber eats, working in 711, doing tier 1 tech support, etc. It&#
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by flukus 7y ago
Even then it could be horrible on bad roads where it doesn't get a chance to skip ahead. It's also a lot harder to change a CD while you're driving than a tape. And until CD burners were around you couldn't do mixed tape
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by flukus 7y ago
I think you've identified the root cause here. The single point of failure for the business was it's reliance on a tech giant and it's fickle algorithms. Even if google were perfect that's a precarious position to be in.
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by flukus 7y ago
> Just last night I listened to something on NPR about CAPTCHA v3, which doesn't involve checkboxes nor pointing at parking meters anymore. It samples page activity and interactions by the user and supplies a human-likelihood score
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by flukus 7y ago
I don't think design-by-committee is the problem, it's more the makeup of the committee. They're all mostly academics, compiler experts, c++ experts and trying to chase some sort of purity. The committee needs someone that re
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by flukus 7y ago
They kind of sort of do via tax. The tax helps pay for the infrastructure that allow their employees to get to work, along with contributing to a healthy and educated workforce. If they paid directly I think it would result in a two (or mor
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by flukus 7y ago
For lovers of anime and hard sci-fi, Planetes is a very good series exploring the issue: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816398/
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by flukus 7y ago
> and then hearing "Use floats for money. All of our customers do, and if we don't you'll create needless friction for them." Until a competent customer doesn't, then you've got to explain to them why your c
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by flukus 7y ago
Through the joys of expensive real estate I don't have the luxury of separate rooms but personally I've never found it that important. I have a desk that is almost exclusively used for work that seems to fill the role, but even th
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by flukus 7y ago
The someone in question were inexperienced devs fresh from a bootcamp. This is a recipe for failure in every industry from making coffee to making spacecraft. Perhaps software is somewhat unique that we don't appreciate experience.
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by flukus 7y ago
Many countries have state funded news organisations, BBC, A(ustralia)BC, DW, etc. It's a tried and proven model but many will here will be ideologically opposed to it.
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by flukus 7y ago
How many paywall sites have half decent forums/discussions? It seems like that's the sort of thing they could leverage to drive their subscriptions, kind of like how the letters to the editor section used to get used. At the momen
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by flukus 7y ago
Absolutely. They are perfectly entitled to put their content behind a paywall but they want to freeload off the open web driving traffic to their sites as well, they're parasites. Might also lift discussions standards (pot meet kettle)

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