imron

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   by imron 4y ago

   Thanks for all the work you (and other mods) do to keep things balanced. I think for the most part it's been working well.
2. 242.▲
   by imron 4y ago

   Thanks for the correction. It still achieves my objective of less Twitter drama on the front page.
3. 243.▲
   by imron 4y ago

   I flag almost everything I see, but I am just one vote. If it’s substantive it will have enough in the other direction that it doesn’t matter. And it’s not like I have an army of bot accounts continually refreshing and flagging. I’m just us
4. 244.▲
   by imron 4y ago

   Agree. And substantive things (like this piece of news) make it through.
5. 245.▲
   by imron 4y ago

   The front page doesn’t need 5 posts from random people talking about how they’re moving to mastodon and boy isn’t toot such a weird name for tweets. Likewise it doesn’t need continued speculation about what Elon really meant when he posted
6. 246.▲
   by imron 4y ago

   > Has dang or anyone talked about why that might be? I’ve personally been visiting new and flagging all Twitter/mastodon posts I see (i started doing this after getting sick of all the Twitter/mastodon posts hitting the front p
7. 247.▲
   by imron 4y ago

   Google already fixed the problem from their end
8. 248.▲
   by imron 4y ago

   Likely this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591224814597189633
9. 249.▲
   by imron 4y ago

   > As long as something is “fast enough” (and the benchmark here is pretty low), most people won’t specifically choose a fast app over a slow app with more features. The author chooses to use all sorts of slow software. Speed won't
10. 250.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    Of course you’d pick the former. You can’t save the world from a jail cell, and just think about all the people you’ll be able to help sitting on a cool billion, by the beach in a country with a no extradition policy. It’s the altruistic ch
11. 251.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    Good point! Where is he these days and how is his life going?
12. 252.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    I'm not bothered by my call quality, which as you noticed is fine, I'm bothered by all the other people speaking (sometimes quite loudly) on their calls while I'm not on a call :-)
13. 253.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > The hard part will be editing code with your voice too The hard part will be open plan offices. It’s bad enough that so many meetings are now zoom/teams and proximity to coworkers means you end up hearing their side of their meeti
14. 254.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    Zawinski's Law
15. 255.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    Nitter is best Twitter.
16. 256.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    I'm recalling a week ago when he said verified accounts that impersonated others would be suspended. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587853006699401216#m
17. 257.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > I'm calling bullshit. Rust has excellent FFI support so this statement is about as controversial as saying there is no great difficulty integrating a 900k+ lines of C code from and in to C++.
18. 258.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > When I see things like this, the first question I have is why? My default assumption is three letter agencies surreptitiously adding back doors.
19. 259.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    A credit card is tied to your ID through your bank or other cc provider. If you abuse the rules your payment account and your Twitter account will be banned [0]. Maybe you have more than one CC, but keep playing shenanigans and you’ll event
20. 260.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > Also the ave. salary is going to be way more than 100M/yr/employee. I find that very unlikely! (but that’s because you made a typo)
21. 261.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > because they choose to spend all that excess revenue on R&D; And what do they have to show for it?
22. 262.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    And you downloaded the sgi stl.
23. 263.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > official policy change Can you point me to the official policy? Because last I checked, official policy wasn’t determined by media outlets quoting anonymous sources with knowledge of the situation, who may or may not have their own axe
24. 264.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    Make it easy. Payment connects you to a payment identity. Ban payment identities that fraudulently pretend to be someone else on their name and profile.
25. 265.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > And so we [SpaceX] have to focus completely on staying out of bankruptcy. We cannot afford any distractions.” Looks like Elon got them to build it for free.
26. 266.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > in the 1930s Food has changed quite a bit in the last 90 years , especially the prevalence of processed foods and food designed to trigger various taste responses.
27. 267.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > or why the Chinese government would find it especially useful. Let’s say you’re an individual that the Chinese government doesn’t like too much - perhaps you protest too loudly about things like Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang, or Tibet. P
28. 268.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > Why is VSCode eating their lunch? Remote development extension that makes development from remote machines, VMs, docker containers seem like it's your local machine. I switched from CLion to VSCode for this, even though CLion is g
29. 269.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > Forget what VSCode is doing. Except for remote development extension. Do that. It's the killer feature of VSCode.
30. 270.▲
    by imron 4y ago

    > What now? vim + billion plugins? Just vim :-)