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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I don't think any of those are direct causes, the day to day realities of the world trend harsher as we look back at older generations. I will grant that they are indirect causes, in that the way adults process the issues among themsel
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>What explains the epidemic of teen depression and suicide? When the go-to theories this guy mentions are are cyberbulling, drugs and alcohol, I've got a problem. Either he's not being honest about the current theories, or show
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>boiler plate views [] on SV with no real insight. Judging by only this article and the author's n+1 article, I get the expectation that the contents will be not-wrong but not-far-enough. The "boiler plate views" as you p
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
The article makes me suspect (and the n+1 piece only raises my suspicion that) this is all very Valley-approved criticism of the Valley. The new cultural train chasing the old one out. All the new ground I've read comes from places th
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I think the act of bringing postmodern tools to the debate was a way of playing the "I win" game by turning the conversation into inescapable morass for those that weren't accustomed to that kind of debate. Whatever the &quot
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
As long as the worlds greatest surveillance system continues to be given deliberate access to the plaintext, I will continue not caring about HTTPS for websites that don't have users logging into an account or submitting forms.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
If you think about a very popular federated system called email, it's pretty easy to see why the local controlling body is not only fine but in some cases a very desirable property. And the "scale" argument for email centrali
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I'm a bit lost. Which of these is this advertisement claiming: - Without their route planning, latency is introduced by packets spending too much time in a device while it chooses which route to send them? - Without their route plannin
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>I've lost maybe two days of work because of package server outages [...] For the clients and employers in question, this was acceptable downtime. Even if the downtime is fine, I don't find it goes over too well if framed as &q
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>While porn creators belonged to tightly connected subgroups, they were linked to the rest of Tumblr’s network “with a very high number of ties,” and their productions “spread widely across the whole social graph.” In other words, they w
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>in my education through grade 12, most everything was filtered through a compassionate lens. The phony compassion delivered by public schooling taught me to be nihilistic. I think that's what the parent poster was getting at. It w
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
> Can someone share the reasons why systemd generate so much hate ? A handful of improvements came tied to a bunch of new constraints and limitations that were not mandatory to get those improvements. This annoys the people who deal in
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I see it too. It's like the correlation vs. causation error, but less rigorous. More like coexistence vs. causation. Now that you've caught this trend, you'll start seeing the more generic form of it everywhere.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>"older white male" shorthand to point out that we need to structure society and the economy in a way that protects all people from burnout and provides access to the tools and treatment to recover from it to all. That "sh
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>He is too radical, so radical, that we cannot understand him, he is out of Overton window. My introduction to wikileaks was when it was first covered on slashdot, before any leaks with any relevancy to me. At that time the stated missio
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
How big is "modern" these days? I have a multiple 22" 1920x1080 screens instead of one huge one, and after making the font as small as is still comfortable at my viewing distance I get 202 visible columns in maximized VS Code
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
Not often. But when you're implementing something that needs a lot of iteration, a test case that you never commit can be a good alternative to copy-pasting statements into REPL. Then as it comes together you can just clean up that g
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
99% of people building at "scale" are borrowing bragging rights from a large company they happen to be employed by and/or tools they use while doing zero novel work unique to the size of their deployment. To say that these pa
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
We're not talking about inalienable rights. That's implied in the title of the linked post. If you don't care about "good"/"bad" decisions and just care about the legal bounds, just say so and dismis
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>I expect Uber to care a lot about privacy. Uber cares about the confidentiality of their business records. They will continue to not give a single fuck about privacy. There is a difference.
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>“We’re not looking at the data. It’s just machines and algorithms doing this work,” said Mr. Tan. That's still looking at it. When are we going to stop letting people get away with this lie?
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
So, it's a boilerplate generator that you'd use instead of a library providing an abstraction layer?
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>Because it would be awesome to charter small flights from an app to jump to a nearby city. I doubt the cost of a pilot's time alone is a big enough factor to meaningfully change the number of people with access to chartered flights
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>I feel like we could easily get there before we got self-driving cars, if we wanted to. The environment has shown quite clearly that we don't want to. We'd probably already have it if we did. The safety design of aviation rel
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
If you think his associates were fucking children or involved in the prostitution ring, just say so. If you don't think that, well then we do have to hem and haw about how much guilt by association they carry. Because for a lot of peo
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
I think qt widgets (not-qml, it's different and I haven't used it) uses XML without many of those problems. Layouts are trees of widgets. Layouts are themselves widgets so repetition in the tree can be reduced. You use XML, C++,
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>I’m confused when people in my generational cohort say [...] Talk to them, and you'll realize they don't know what the fuck they mean either. To generalize from my conversations, by "capitailism" they mean some amalg
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
There's multiple factors at play, and the everybody-must-go-to-college bandwagon is certainly a big one. I'd add a second one. It used to be the case that you could hire programmers without screening based on degrees. But that wa
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
>All I know is it has something to do with Monica questioning some new CoC changes (pronoun-related) and then being fired for "violating" the CoC before it was even ratified. Pretty close. Monica blogged a timeline if you want
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by forgottenpass 7y ago
That's the trend these days. Tomorrow everyone on Hacker News and Twitter will go back to chiding IT departments that want the ability to test software changes before they get deployed, or have the ability to roll back.

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