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by gtowey 3y ago
GDPR in Europe is what started it all. The law says that you must get explicit user consent for all kinds of data tracking. However it doesn't say how that should happen. The annoying banners are completely a decision the industry has
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by gtowey 3y ago
I make it into granola. It really doesn't take very long and you can vary the flavor to your liking. Or something like oat flour pancakes. You can even make a bunch ahead of time, freeze them, then reheat in a toaster in the morning.
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by gtowey 3y ago
My problem with it is when private entities are allowed to boot your car. One time in Berkeley I parked in a parking lot and walked across the street to pick up some food. I was gone 5 minutes and when I returned there was a boot on my car.
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by gtowey 3y ago
The name is a reference to the TV show Futurama. I don't think it's declaration of politics.
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by gtowey 3y ago
Agreed. There are a lot of really smart engineers at these companies. No doubt about it! They often have to pioneer solutions to challenging problems, which have downstream benefits for everyone else. I do wonder though if we will look back
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by gtowey 3y ago
That's a false dichotomy. Language models will always confidently give you answers, right or wrong. Most humans will know if they know the answer or not, they can do research to find correct information, and they can go find someone
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by gtowey 3y ago
It's not communism, it's a new form of feudalism.
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by gtowey 3y ago
Basically, the more popular a topic is, the more its search results are infested with SEO spam. Even in technical realms this holds true. One of the huge disappointments of learning JavaScript/typescript recently is how terrible and sp
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by gtowey 3y ago
While your statement is probably correct, I've not known anyone who talks about CICO as anything other than "diet and exercise". This is why the absolute statement is a problem, it narrows they way most people think about the
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by gtowey 3y ago
The thing that gets me about the author's statements is the assertion that things things are 100% true. If you said that these things are generally true, but have exceptions to these rules, then I would be more likely to agree. But I d
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by gtowey 3y ago
My 2 cents is that it's because anyone who tries to convince you that themselves getting rich can somehow save the world is already deep into narcissistic sociopath territory.
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by gtowey 3y ago
> This is a common misconception. > The wages are slave wages to the first world economies, but not to the developing world. I know of this rationalization, but I don't agree it makes things ok. Look at the Foxconn debacle where
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by gtowey 3y ago
> We can have higher employment and cheaper prices than we have now if we literally reinstate slavery. Agreed. And companies would do it too if they didn't also need us to buy their products. It's basically what has happened to
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by gtowey 3y ago
Developers were afraid it would become a tool for Oracle to monetize and trap people in their ecosystem. That never really happened and they have actually done some really good development work on it.
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by gtowey 3y ago
My experience says that PG wins in the SQL language feature department. However IMHO MySQL still wins in operational efficiency and performance. These are things that only start to matter when you scale your database and most people never
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by gtowey 3y ago
This is the most direct explanation. The blog post avoids talking about this at all, but I'm guessing that's to keep the post informative and not let it degrade into a database flame war. As a MySQL DBA for the past 20 years it w
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by gtowey 3y ago
Google calendar is actually terrible for people with focus problems. Or at least I haven't found a good way to manage its alerts in a helpful way. For one, basically all alerts are the same. Meaning there's no good way to make no
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by gtowey 3y ago
This article is pure corporate propaganda. Walmart isn't good for small towns no matter how you look at it because they turn entire small town economies into a line item on a gigantic global multi national's ledger. And once done,
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by gtowey 3y ago
Zelle is crap. It was created by banks to skirt regulations which make them responsible for fraud. It exists to make things worse for their customers which is why they pushed people to use it so hard.
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by gtowey 3y ago
> Not that this would justify it, but I'm curious if it even works. I would think that's one of the primary concerns here, is that we can pretty much guarantee that it doesn't work. Then end result would turn hiring proce
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by gtowey 3y ago
And schools are just a subsidy for the textbook industry. Regulation & incentives are literally the tools governments have to shape policy. It's a start, but moving the needle on issues can be hard, slow work -- especially when it
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by gtowey 4y ago
That oval office replica was the entrance to the office. The reason they gave publicly was that since it was people's first impression they wanted to make it grand. And since the admin employee was the first person to greet visitors,
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by gtowey 4y ago
> especially when starting a new project that will be worked on by a large team. This alone is what makes me love go. It makes working with a team on shared code less of a hassle than any other language I've used. To me, that'
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by gtowey 4y ago
> California is NIMBYism at its worst: the far left opposes more housing, the far right opposes more housing, and the center is sick of traffic from more housing. It's the banality of evil. It's not that homeowners are conspiri
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by gtowey 4y ago
> You can't frame a house at home in the shower I beg to differ. I only do building as a hobby, but the amount of time I spend thinking about how to build things in the shower is pretty much the same as with my tech job. Again, it m
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by gtowey 4y ago
Sea anchors are deployed from the bow of the boat and meant to hold it more or less facing into the waves. Drouges are deployed from the stern and meant to slow the boat down as it travels with the waves.
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by gtowey 4y ago
> But if you’re not as wealthy, saving money might be more valuable to you than having a room cleaned daily, or having a really nice tv, or a great mattress, etc. The problem is that without regulation there is little incentive for busin
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by gtowey 4y ago
> But... as far as I'm aware he didn't hide any of this from his investors. They just handed over the cash no questions asked until the grift got too blatant (I think it was the trademark ownership/name change that was the
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by gtowey 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand the perspective that people like Neumann have anything admirable about them. All he has "discovered" is the one of the oldest lessons in the world -- it's pretty easy to sell something when you
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by gtowey 4y ago
"Free speech" has become a hot button issue because for the first time in history, oligarchs are in danger of losing the absolute control they have had over media and communication throughout history. What they actually want is t

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