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by hrbf 4y ago
> Why should I be inconvenienced because a rounding-error’s worth of people made the choice, of their own free will, to misuse a product to harm themselves? I guess I’m not surprised that if self-obsessed people lacking nuance and empath
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by hrbf 4y ago
My interpretation is that Horizon obviously sucks. Bugs have never prevented an exciting experience from being exciting.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Crisis, combined with the pseudo-anonymity of the internet has a tendency to encourage people to show who they really are – and amplify their worst instincts. Unfortunately this leads to the conclusion that many (if not most) of those comme
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by hrbf 4y ago
A German word, “Realsatire” comes to mind. As you might guess from the words alone, it describes something so absurd, you wouldn’t believe it not to be an exaggeration if you didn’t experience it yourself.
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by hrbf 4y ago
How would your client know what other clients have uploaded to other clients?
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’ve tried it before: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux with X and regular as well as tiling WMs. In the end I found no productive advantage to just using Rectangle [1] and LaunchBar [2] on macOS. The system mostly works and enables access to all the
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by hrbf 4y ago
It’s probably impossible to track that with any meaningful precision. Historically it’s the (central) tracker that implements the bookkeeping.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Since when are vaccines or has any medical treatment been about “guarantees”?
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by hrbf 4y ago
Precisely. We need more human care, for ourselves and others, not more software.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Hey, if you’re committed to find specific examples where general ones don’t work, you’re certainly going to find an endless supply of them. I cannot, will not and never have claimed to be able to provide concrete help for individual situati
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by hrbf 4y ago
I get where you’re coming from and empathize. I’ve been in that place for most of my life. I believe the “food and shelter” argument to be a straw man though. My point is not about throwing yourself into destitution or even a situation in w
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by hrbf 4y ago
If you code at a professional level, you are likely of above average intelligence. You are able to efficiently reason about complex systems to some degree. Those two skills alone qualify you for many jobs, especially when you’re willing to
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by hrbf 4y ago
Why?
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by hrbf 4y ago
That’s a superficial argument. Is permanently exposing yourself to a level of emotional stress that results in a semi-permanent depressive state really worth the money? I’d argue that if you have the skills to code, you are well suited for
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by hrbf 4y ago
No doubt. Depression is debilitating in so many subtle as well as visible ways. As parent is currently the most-upvoted comment, I believe it important to ask the obvious questions to maybe start a conversation.
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by hrbf 4y ago
> Sorry, that just turned into a rant at the end. On the contrary, thank you. It’s the very context you wrote about that’s often missing in online conversations. Your anecdote beautifully illustrates the absurdity trap too much well-mean
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by hrbf 4y ago
Wouldn’t the solution be to seek more of the rewarding parts of programming and re-evaluating exactly how destructive to your mental health working in that “professional” environment really is?
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by hrbf 4y ago
The latter part of your reply is important. My experience mirrors yours: the goalposts are constantly shifting. In such an environment you’re always going to find someone feeling offended by any remark. This inevitably leads to corporate go
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by hrbf 4y ago
It was possibly insensitively worded, but the entirety of your now-deleted comment nevertheless hinted at some deeper, intuitive perception. No matter how hard we try to politically correct our speech, some impressions are just rather clear
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by hrbf 4y ago
Unless I’m misunderstanding it, what this study apparently shows is that when a mouse eats unhealthy foods for some time, digestive function changes. An eye-opening result indeed.
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by hrbf 4y ago
This is nonsense. Poland is a NATO member state. If Warsaw was attacked by Russia, it would trigger article 5 of the treaty, effectively declaring war on all member states. If the attack was carried out with a nuclear weapon, there would li
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by hrbf 4y ago
So a group of developers gets their app and accounts banned because they violated the terms of service of a major platform. They built a third-party client for Instagram, fully aware that this use-case is a violation of the terms they agree
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by hrbf 4y ago
Many “content” sites are so annoying to use now that I almost reflexively click the “Reader” view and/or save it to Instapaper. If that doesn’t work, I abandon the site.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Thanks for this. I had originally written quite a bunch but realized it’s rather pointless to do. Ultimately, no matter the stance or argument, it all boils down to the old Tolstoy quote for me: “As long as there are slaughterhouses there w
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by hrbf 4y ago
It’s also a lazy, pun-laden, misreading-the-room way to communicate. People who think of themselves as clever do that. It’s a preaching-to-the-choir style of framing. It undermines the intellectual concepts presented by not making the argum
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by hrbf 4y ago
The main connecting IP was 195.113.175.41.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Storage or not is entirely irrelevant to robots.txt directives. It guides automated access. It must be parsed first and excluded URLs must not be accessed at all.
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by hrbf 4y ago
It was a crawler with the user agent "hgf AlphaXCrawl/0.1 (+ https://www.fim.uni-passau.de/data-science/forschung/open-se... )", operated by the University Passau and Open Search Foundation named on y
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by hrbf 4y ago
While reading, I found the tone to be familiar. Came across “Amazon Swindle”, knew it was Stallman, scrolled to top, confirmed. No judgement on his personality here. I just find those “cute” names and straw men to be real annoying. There ar
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’ve already caught their crawler ignoring robots.txt directives on one of my sites, aggressively indexing explicitly excluded information.

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