immibis

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481.
by immibis 10mo ago
half baked solutions often "crowd out" potential better solutions. If something works enough, someone is less likely to make one that works well. Especially when there's a network effect involved.
482.
by immibis 10mo ago
I am pretty confident they only know who has permission to read it right now.
483.
by immibis 10mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does, after all. You might be onto something.
484.
by immibis 10mo ago
idk though, YouTube Premium is pretty good value if you're using it enough to care about recommendation hygiene. I remember the days everyone was begging to have the option to pay to skip ads. Well, YouTube did what we wanted, and now
485.
by immibis 10mo ago
Do they go through leetmanage? You should definitely have a coding task when hiring programmers but it doesn't have to be very big or difficult.
486.
by immibis 10mo ago
My new job title says "senior". It means nothing within the company except a 5% pay bracket or something, but I don't have to tell the next company that. I understand this is the mechanism by which titles result in money.
487.
by immibis 10mo ago
Something that's often overlooked is the time equivalent of money. If the average salary is $50k but you get $500k, you only have to work 1 year in every 10, and that's crazy. Source: got paid 180k and took 2 years off.
488.
by immibis 10mo ago
Nice! We do need more X servers, since Wayland refuses to incorporate essential protocol elements due to religion.
489.
by immibis 10mo ago
No, I did not. Am I now forbidden from using sentence structures that AI has also used? That's not just stupid - it's insane. You know that's not even an em-dash, right?
490.
by immibis 10mo ago
It's on display in the bottom of a locked homepage footer stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'. Footers are very rarely useful and I don't know anyone who habitually reads th
491.
by immibis 10mo ago
Politics is defined as the way a system of multiple agents (typically humans) with conflicting goals, resolves to one outcome. That's pretty much everything. Almost all of economics, for example, is politics. API design is politics. UI
492.
by immibis 10mo ago
So was porn, until the court just decided it hated the constitution...
493.
by immibis 10mo ago
IIRC didn't the courts empower themselves to interpret the constitution? Nothing in the constitution says they can. Of course, since they interpret the constitution, they can just insert an interpretation that says they interpret the c
494.
by immibis 10mo ago
Most modern social media is the latter, but for trash and propaganda, rather than sex. So why doesn't the court apply the same rule that it's okay to check IDs on entry?
495.
by immibis 10mo ago
Why block when you can report to Spamhaus?
496.
by immibis 10mo ago
Ideal and reality are rarely in alignment, and reality is what we need to be concerned with.
497.
by immibis 10mo ago
Wow, a thought-terminating cliche in the wild. Did I say I don't like it?
498.
by immibis 10mo ago
That actually is illegal in some circumstances, for example if the document is protected by copyright.
499.
by immibis 10mo ago
It's no problem if they leak the fact that an FBI office printer was used to print the documents the FBI released.
500.
by immibis 10mo ago
Slavery has never been illegal in the US. The 13th amendment leaves slavery legal as punishment for a crime. The US has the highest rate of crime punishment in the world (higher than places like North Korea), an industry that profits by sel
501.
by immibis 10mo ago
It's not. Routers are expected to be allowed to slice IPv4 packets above 576 bytes. They can't slice IPv6 and they can't slice TCP. However, malicious middleboxes insert themselves into your TCP connections, terminating a sep
502.
by immibis 10mo ago
Reddit is even worse at this.
503.
by immibis 10mo ago
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504.
by immibis 10mo ago
PBS funding has been cancelled.
505.
by immibis 10mo ago
qBittorrent
506.
by immibis 10mo ago
Allegedly the reason nuclear is expensive is that it's expensive to prevent Chernobyl. So I'm asking for a curve relating energy costs to Chernobyls per year. I'd like to read off the curve how many Chernobyls per year would
507.
by immibis 10mo ago
So to be clear, you believe every program that outputs a bulk stream to stdout should be written to check if stdout is a socket and enable Nagle's algorithm if so? That's not just busywork - it's also an abstraction violation
508.
by immibis 10mo ago
Documenting is fine, but the passkey spec author has been recommending blacklisting these so they don't work. It will end in a situation where only the Apple, Google and Microsoft passkey managers are the only way to log into any websi
509.
by immibis 10mo ago
They must be paired with an alternative mechanism, unless you plan to unperson everyone who accidentally drops their phone in a river (this may be the plan for high-security services but it can't be the plan in general) and that mechan
510.
by immibis 10mo ago
What happens if i drop my phone in a river? Am I unpersoned, or is there a way to recover all my accounts? Just phish that flow instead.

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