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by guraf 3y ago
Testing git, which was a stated goal, could have been done locally. It's obvious that the author is lying about that part, he only wanted to push GitHub to its limit, but he did say git: > I decided to see how many commits GitHub (a
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by guraf 3y ago
Apollo had just over ONE million users. Only 540k of whom were active. And significantly less that paid the fee needed to be able to post. And most active according to whom? People keep saying Reddit is committing suicide. Do y'all tru
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by guraf 3y ago
There is, it's called File History and it's built in. I think it's been available since Vista. Like TM you need an external or network drive to use it. Unlike TM it's not very intuitive and Microsoft doesn't do much
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by guraf 3y ago
An offshore drilling platform costs about 250M to build and deploy. It is not funded by tax payers and it starts paying for itself after a few years (they extract $250,000 worth of oil per day on average, up to double that). I don't un
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by guraf 3y ago
> Wonder how scalable the code base really is. Are you for real? This isn't an hypothetical codebase. This is slack, used by millions of people. I get it, they're using boring tech, but come on.
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by guraf 3y ago
It's been posted a dozen times already today https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals... So much for being "hacker" news.
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by guraf 3y ago
I could understand the outrage if someone typed a long thought out comment and just signed "sincerely, fuck spez" as a mild protest and it got removed. But that's not what's happening. The removed comments were just a va
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by guraf 3y ago
Source?
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by guraf 3y ago
And yet somehow he always looks like he's slowly dying of a serious disease.
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by guraf 3y ago
You're probably right, but a closer analysis that includes externalities will likely be dismissed as being too inconvenient to the narrative. Just look at ethanol. Several studies now show that it's actually much worse for the env
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by guraf 3y ago
From the other stuff in the url I'm pretty sure OP just copied the link from an ad to Amazon, not created their own affiliate link (which would be crass but par for the course in the techbro hustle we live in I guess)
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by guraf 3y ago
The alert isn't raised by traditional SMART, it's done by WDDA [1] and my understanding is that it's not controlled by Synology. You could still blame Synology for supporting WDDA, if you really wanted to shift blame I guess.
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by guraf 3y ago
Most of what you said is true but I think what version_five was getting at is that many people who claim to be neurodivergent nowadays do it because it's trendy. Yes, it's incredibly offensive and people who are actually on the sp
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by guraf 3y ago
> The NSA thing is the only thing I didn't check out You might want to check again because your post is full of inaccuracies. From signal being on f-droid to their backend being relevant to security, you got almost everything wrong.
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by guraf 3y ago
Wikipedia also has employed developers.
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by guraf 3y ago
They made millions by showing their ads instead of Reddit's. Shutting them down will bring back most users (get real, not many will quit altogether) to the official app and will be served Reddit's ads, so Reddit will get the money
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by guraf 3y ago
Barely anyone will be affected. Redditors are being used as pawns by the third party devs in their fight to maintain their free loading existence. Which was easy, social media is good at riling up people for made up reasons. Reddit has seve
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by guraf 3y ago
> third-party apps users (and old.reddit's[1] ones) also tend to be the most prolific users Can you give a source for that? I see this claim repeated but upon examination it seems to be a complete lie. Happy to be proven wrong.
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by guraf 3y ago
The mods are reopening because they don't want to lose their powers. They know that if Reddit found new mods, the users probably wouldn't notice or care.
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by guraf 3y ago
Namecheap is known to drop "problematic" users without notice and their website is filled with dark patterns. I was banned with no explanation around the time they banned all Russians customers. I have no ties with the country but
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by guraf 3y ago
> Took me less than an hour to register and get comfortable with Lemmy. Do you really not see the problem? For Lemmy to face any hope of becoming mainstream your statement should be "less than 5 minutes". Maybe that barrier to
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by guraf 3y ago
The secret is D's existence.
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by guraf 3y ago
I don't think you are wrong per se, I've seen first hand that dismissal or even censorship of FBI crime stats. But even though the data is truthful and I wish we could discuss it, it's hard to deny that the goal of the poster
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by guraf 3y ago
Yeah you can easily host a phpbb or vbulletin or whatever still exists these days on a single dedicated server (ovh or hetzner) and be able to serve 100k MAU for about 50-75 USD/month. Hell, for less than 10k MAU you can still get away
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by guraf 3y ago
I imagine TNR also provides convenient subjects for veterinary interns learning surgery.
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by guraf 3y ago
> Zero cats should be allowed to exist in NA? Zero non neutered cat should be allowed to exist in North America, correct.
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by guraf 3y ago
I have read the linked post and they seem to be only saving links, possibly titles, but not comments or text posts? Reddit's value is in the discussions (the links are usually shared on all social platforms, so that's the only dif
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by guraf 3y ago
I know CloudFlare is an increasingly popular bogeyman but that's like blaming the Linux kernel for dropping your request to a website after its owner added a rule to block your IP... CloudFlare does tell users of their services how the
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by guraf 3y ago
Discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36215914 Turns out the user was spamming. Shocking, I know.
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by guraf 3y ago
Serious question: why or how does a developer in a developing nation end up selecting macos as a platform? And after that deliberate choice of hardware why do we assume they couldn't afford the $99?

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