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by frereubu 2y ago
It does rather feel like the shoe is on the other foot now. Go back a few decades and publishers were the ones rinsing bookshops for all they were worth. Two wrongs don't make a right of course...
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by frereubu 2y ago
https://archive.is/lylvl
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by frereubu 2y ago
Are you accounting for things like free healthcare when comparing wages? (I wish I did't have to say this, but it's a genuine question, not snark). I always wonder when people compare other countries to the US. Edit: I agree that
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Signature moves: are we losing the ability to write by hand?(theguardian.com)
2 points by frereubu 2y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
This feels like a pretty shallow reading of the article and you've fallen into the trap - described in the article itself - that "woke" is "some left-wing thing that I don't like". Whatever your views on trans
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by frereubu 2y ago
I haven't read that, but I imagine I'd agree with most of it having read the precis. My beef was really with the idea that everyone who follows orders in that kind of a system is a "piece of work". I think that's ho
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by frereubu 2y ago
Totally grim, but it put to bed any queries in my mind of "how could anyone possibly end up doing that?" It was really clear how easily unremarkable people just go with the flow until they find themselves doing horrific things wit
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by frereubu 2y ago
Interesting that you'd read that and much more (like me) and had a very different reaction. I came out of it feeling understanding for people caught up in such a cruel system. To be clear, not the stoolies or collaborators, but the vas
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by frereubu 2y ago
Rightly or wrongly, in the UK Albians have a terrible reputation for organised crime, particularly drugs.[0] How is that perceived in Albania, and is organised crime a big issue in Albania? You make it sound like everybody is very trusting
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by frereubu 2y ago
"Love bunker" has a certain ring to it.
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by frereubu 2y ago
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a great read on that subject. (It's very long, but the abridged versions are fine as long as you get a good translation). Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny is also great - a biography
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by frereubu 2y ago
If you're interested in why this happens, try reading some of The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. If the choice is comply or die, fine upstanding morals don't really come into play except in very rare cases. And even
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by frereubu 2y ago
> I have the automatic suggestions turned off. I use a keybind to activate it when I want it. I didn't realise you could do that. Might give it another go. > Copilot uses "all of github" via training, and your current p
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by frereubu 2y ago
When I tried Copilot the "better tab complete" felt quite annoying, in that the constantly changing suggested completion kept dragging my focus away from what I was writing. That clearly doesn't happen for you. Was that somet
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Apple suspends AI-generated news alert service after BBC complaint(theguardian.com)
4 points by frereubu 2y ago|2 comments
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by frereubu 2y ago
I think this is one of those moments where the phrase "don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened" feels appropriate given his rich body of work.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Totally OT, but I love your typo "a la cart". It makes me think of an early 20th century greengrocer with a cart of vegetables and fruit trying to appear more sophisticated by saying he's selling things "a la cart".
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by frereubu 2y ago
This one grinds my gears in particular because there's a common word specifically for that - lessons.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Ah, OK, my bad.
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by frereubu 2y ago
C'mon, don't just paste the content into the comments. The site doesn't have a paywall and from what I can see with a fresh browser window without ad blocker turned on there's no adverts aside from a request for subscrip
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by frereubu 2y ago
Totally on board with your comments on disparagement, but there's been a rash of autism diagnoses in my daughter's school to the point where in some classes 20% of students have been diagnosed as autistic. I feel at that point peo
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by frereubu 2y ago
It isn't an either / or. Expelled children have to go somewhere . So you provide education / rehabilitation facilities where they hopefully manage to get their behaviour under control and can be brought back into mainstream
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by frereubu 2y ago
I thought I read a comment somewhere in all of this where he said that he was actually doing coding, yes, but (a) I could well be mistaken and (b) he could well have been talking rubbish.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Ah I see, I thought you were talking about him personally.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Has he said he was going to pull out of development? I hadn't read that anywhere in all of this.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I'm not really sure to be honest! He could well be thinking exactly what you said, I was just pointing out the flip side of that argument if that is what he believes, because it would be doing a real disservice to the open source commu
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by frereubu 2y ago
Might be an ad - I'm not aware of the author's associations - but Craft CMS, which is linked to, has a free version like wordpress.org
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by frereubu 2y ago
I sort of get what you're trying to do here - an exercise in empathy - but the flip side of this is that he has been made enormously wealthy off the back of thousands and thousands of unpaid volunteer hours on an open source project.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Have to admit, I'm kind of amazed by this question.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I love Safaris too, but unfortunately I handwrite very seldom and the Safaris tend to dry out quite quickly in my experience. I've got the Kaweco Sport, which sends to last much longer, probably because of its tight screw-top seal.

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