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by handrous 5y ago
What's going on behind the scenes is that very few people don't use an email address with one of a handful of TLDs, and that restricting signups to a known-good list solves some support and a lot of abuse problems. Not saying it j
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by handrous 5y ago
Just tried it in an incognito window out of curiosity. I didn't expect it to be true (if only because results are so variable) but sure enough, the parent accurately described the top carousel of results with photos (a feature I'm
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by handrous 5y ago
My monitor's pretty hi-res and big. How about a 3-column search that's Google, DDG (so, Bing), and Yandex, with a single search field for all three? Bonus points for syncing it up so if I click, say, the "Images" tab on
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by handrous 5y ago
Most updates at least open and focus a tab about what updated. I'm not sure I've ever cared what it said or needed to know any of the info on those, in years of that happening. Some updates also like to pop up messages or bug me
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by handrous 5y ago
True enlightenment is realizing that the Every OS Sucks song is, and always has been, right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPRvc2UMeMI
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm struggling to think of any improvements since Win7. The only thing that might qualify is WSL, but that's still experimental and buggy (yes, I know some people have had success with it, anyway). IIRC Win7 was the one that start
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by handrous 5y ago
That's not a dark pattern, it's just obnoxious advertising garbage. Which is still bad, but a different thing. FWIW this is also one of my least favorite things about FF. What the fuck is the point of unobtrusive background auto-u
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by handrous 5y ago
FF's behavior over the last decade or so makes it seem like about three different and totally unrelated factions/departments/people that should never have been given any power have been given lots of power.
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by handrous 5y ago
It reads like it's the outcome of the Soviets doing this successfully . The US spent resources on a bunch of BS (a full-fledged research program) because the Soviets got the US to believe they were taking it seriously and had achieved
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by handrous 5y ago
There's a quiet and small (there are tens of us! Tens, I say!) group of Americans who aren't so sure de facto direct election of the President is a good idea (in fact, it isn't direct, and wasn't intended to be, but in
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by handrous 5y ago
Yep. For every doctor or nurse with 4+ years of postsecondary education, there are 5+ people with 2 or fewer years of postsecondary education, I'd bet. The lower tiers of nurse only require 2 years, IIRC, and I think those are more lik
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by handrous 5y ago
I'd say the key problem is that our electoral system and the structure of our government are broken in a few very serious ways, most of which are nearly impossible to fix, in no small part because fixing most of them would require at l
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by handrous 5y ago
> Despite what the media and elected/appointed officials are telling you the SARS-CoV2 vaccine is not 100% safe[1] or effective[2]. Who the fuck's been saying either of those things? None of the mainstream sources I've see
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by handrous 5y ago
I think most folks would have more fun with a metal detector and a map of Civil and Revolutionary War military camps and battlegrounds, or even just poking around ghost towns or old farmhouses, than looking for pre-Columbian artifacts, up h
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by handrous 5y ago
And if the spammy, garbage pages now appearing on results page #1 also use Google ads....
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by handrous 5y ago
The plummet began around '08 or '09, to my recollection. It was as if, over a period of a few months, they just completely gave up trying to fight webspam shit. Simply surrendered.
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by handrous 5y ago
The ones in the office do the same. They just spread the day of not-working over the whole week and have the added stress of having to pretend to work some of the time. Though actually it's more like 2-3 days of not working, spread out
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by handrous 5y ago
We could just have 8 weeks of paid vacation by law and not also work 6-day weeks. That's not so far from what other countries do as to be obviously crazy or unreasonable.
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by handrous 5y ago
Any recently-built home probably has plastic water supply pipes throughout. They're crazy easy (so, less and less-skilled labor required, so cheaper) to install, and the material's cheap. Unless you custom-build and pay a lot ex
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by handrous 5y ago
Not having to do any of your own: housekeeping/cooking/laundry; child-running-around (if you have kids); maintenance on anything including even scheduling work to be done; driving; schedule-keeping; filtering (turning down calls
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by handrous 5y ago
I think they do it in pieces to get them to start saying yes to stuff, both to get them on a roll and to have a place to pick back up that's not the very beginning if they say no to something along the way.
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by handrous 5y ago
Well—you can @ their social media manager, anyway. Not much different than "calling your Senator" and getting some secretary in their office. Though I'm sure some do actually use it themselves (Musk seems to, for instance)
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by handrous 5y ago
All I know is that when I find an actual gif it's really easy to save and share, but when I find a "gif" that's actually a video, shit never works right. Keep gifs. More gifs, even. Down with videos where gifs would do.
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by handrous 5y ago
Are CEOs contractors?
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by handrous 5y ago
It's an argument against justifying CEO pay (or returns on capital) by appealing to what's owed due to the supposed risk taken. I'm saying that not just wealth is relative, but (relatedly, yes) so is risk. The risk your avera
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by handrous 5y ago
OK, I think we probably at least mostly agree on the particular thing I was originally posting about—the risk of investments, to the investor class, representing a kind of risk that's incommensurate with the risks ordinary workers fa
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by handrous 5y ago
There's even an interest or social-reward factor to participating in these kinds of things. Working on an open-protocol messaging client for free is a lot less rewarding when the userbase of the entire protocol is 1% or less of all o
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by handrous 5y ago
> Once upon a time, Firefox probably had a normal ratio of privacy-conscious users to privacy-indifferent users. I'd bet a graph of their privacy-focused:indifferent users over time would be U-shaped. Very high before, oh, I dunno,
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by handrous 5y ago
It's creepy. Like someone looking over your shoulder. Before it became normalized, that wasn't a niche opinion. I'm sure it's very useful for developing software. A camera behind me pointed at my screen might be even m
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by handrous 5y ago
1) Save most of the Google bucks rather than spending them on bloating your org to at least 3x the size it has any reason to be, 2) Invest your saved Google bucks, 3) After a few years you can drop Google for a decade or two and coast entir

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