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by gdulli 1y ago
In the short term progress doesn't look linear, but women can vote, can open credit cards without a husband, interracial marriage isn't going anywhere. Despite the current drama I do believe that in the long term today's cult
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by gdulli 1y ago
These days it takes more work than ever to craft a dumb enough statement to be recognized as unambiguously dumber than what's being satirized. Your effort isn't unnoticed.
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by gdulli 1y ago
> I’ll admit the shipping is pretty addictive. The rest of Prime is pretty meh. It’s a good deal on shipping It's not a good deal on shipping because shipping can be had for free without Prime for $25 or $35 orders. It's a paid
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by gdulli 1y ago
But it's also too big a grift for them not to be a part of. There's no good move so they're just running towards the ball like everyone else is.
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by gdulli 1y ago
I don't understand why we couldn't at least have put restrictions on the advertising like with cigarettes. Following sports just feels slimy now, gambling promotion has permeated every part of the game, broadcast, talk radio, onli
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by gdulli 1y ago
Android Firefox and its various forks (I use Waterfox) have a setting that allows zoom on all sites.
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by gdulli 1y ago
I can't figure out how that makes sense. How could there not still be sigificant demand for a living room console that isn't underpowered from the handheld tradeoffs? As kids keep becoming adults their lifestyle evolves away from
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by gdulli 1y ago
No, it never occurred to me that anyone would care. I don't think many of my bosses or teammates could have named my choice of IDE/editor even after working with me for a while. I'm sure I mentioned it occasionally but I don&
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by gdulli 1y ago
I'd never have worked at a place that mandated a specific IDE. Luckily it's something I never encountered, if it's ever done this is the first I'm hearing about it.
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by gdulli 1y ago
Even for the internet, this is stupid.
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by gdulli 1y ago
I went to a baseball game the other day and kept my hat on during the national anthem. We can ignore whichever ones we want, we just have to accept the consequences for our actions. Other times I'll go along with a social norm I don&#x
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by gdulli 1y ago
The law is not intended to be the final say on socially positive behavior, it just defines behavior so bad the the state has been given the power to punish it. Think of the law as only a foundation upon which to build the real society we ul
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by gdulli 1y ago
> but also went the extra step to mandate that it make us more productive, too. Before you make any decision, ask yourself: "Is this good for the company?"
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by gdulli 1y ago
Where could lawyers be learning this behavior? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/california-b...
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by gdulli 1y ago
You'd also be censored from selling cigarettes in packaging that promises they'll be healthy for your lungs. We live in a world that needs to have rules, it's absolutely unavoidable. The people awkwardly trying to set the bou
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by gdulli 1y ago
SHCP (The Salvor Hardin Compression Protocol)
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by gdulli 1y ago
I thought the title meant the software crashed, but it was the car that crashed: "They didn’t make it out of California without crashing into easily avoidable road debris that badly damaged the Tesla Model Y ... In the video, you can s
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by gdulli 1y ago
All we can do is hope that it's China's population that succumbs first to the mediocrity and decay of offloading their thinking to machines.
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by gdulli 1y ago
I bet the people who were expecting the swamp to be drained feel pretty stupid right now.
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by gdulli 1y ago
It should be the most obvious thing in the world that whether you take a fundamentally welcoming and positive mindset towards people vs. a negative and unwelcoming mindset, the effects of either will propagate and magnify themselves over ti
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by gdulli 1y ago
It's true they may agree in principle that the program needs reform. But culture war isn't policy. The actual policy implementation would look very different when motivated by good faith vs. hating brown people.
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by gdulli 1y ago
To be fair, I didn't think they'd ever sell several hundred of these either.
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by gdulli 1y ago
We invented a summarization/shortcut machine and we're training people off the fundamental behavior and mindset of reading an original source or developing a skill that they could press a button to have an algorithm do. This may b
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by gdulli 1y ago
Seemingly a throwaway joke, but actually made me think about an interesting difference between AI and human content. You wouldn't cringe at LLM output because there's no social context to the situation depicted. You could identify
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by gdulli 1y ago
It feels like piling on to impugn the taste of the community that went ape for NFT profile pics just a few years ago.
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by gdulli 1y ago
> you will eventually end up with a set of tech skills that a kid 20 years younger than you, with no family and so being able to live on lower salary, probably has too. I was this young hotshot 20 years ago. In hindsight, the skills I ha
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by gdulli 1y ago
How long is a piece of string?
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by gdulli 1y ago
Did you stop getting non-compliant spam when that became illegal?
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by gdulli 1y ago
That black man you're referring to was elected President twice, despite his haters. Which does not mean that racism was conquered but does indicate progress since the aforementioned Jim Crow era.
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by gdulli 1y ago
But we made progress away from that and now we've regressed back towards it recently, aided by social media.

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