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by jaspax 6y ago
The actual behavior of the protesters seems to match your third paragraph much more than your second paragraph. They got into the capitol building and then... just kind of wandered around. Took some selfies. Stole some memorabilia. Nothing
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by jaspax 6y ago
You can't think of them because they immediately failed , and thus you forgot about them or, more likely, never heard of them in the first place.
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by jaspax 6y ago
...which is exactly what one should expect something called "GNU Social" to be. (not actually the op)
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by jaspax 6y ago
Right-click freeze has literally never happened to me. Check that you don't have misbehaving shell extensions: the most common culprit is a program that adds its own item to the right-click menu but doesn't play well with others a
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by jaspax 6y ago
I could not agree with the author's main point more. Do you know where genuine bohemian living is to be found today? Certainly not in NYC or any other major urban centre. Instead, you need to run off to a dying rust-best town in Ohio a
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by jaspax 6y ago
It's a typo for "put forth the codswallop". In fact, I didn't even notice that it was a typo until you pointed it out, since my brain autocorrected it as I was reading. To put forth means "to offer an opinion; to
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by jaspax 6y ago
Both this and OP depend crucially on the hidden assumption that you have enough money to buy new shoes or a jacket on a whim. Depending on where you are, what kind of store it is, and how much money you have, it may be practically impossibl
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by jaspax 6y ago
That sentence also stuck out to me as betraying a terrible point of view on the part of the author. Yes, inegalitarian traditions live in the community. Do you know what else lives in the community? Friendships and marriages and the park wh
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by jaspax 6y ago
Most anagrams of English words don't themselves look like English words, so anagrams are not really a very fruitful way to find words that this algorithm will accept. The real trick is to use common letter and vowel combinations, combi
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by jaspax 6y ago
Good point; this is in addition to their other missteps and contributes to the problem. The early web was less commercial, so phasing out old results pushes ever harder for commercial results over others.
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by jaspax 6y ago
I don't think that an algorithm "designed to the benefit of the users" is nearly as straightforward as you think it is. We didn't get into the current situation because Google deliberately chose to make their algorithm f
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by jaspax 6y ago
I'll happily bite that bullet: in principle there is nothing wrong with eating gorillas. Or whales, or dolphins, or whatever other non-human species we're projecting onto today.
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by jaspax 6y ago
And good on them! I like whales and I think nations should coordinate to ensure that they stick around, but this doesn't have to mean that we ban whaling forever. As with most natural resources, managed harvest is a better long-term po
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by jaspax 6y ago
What a delightful thing to read. It's so rare in this pandemic to see public health officials actually speaking frankly with a full command of the relevant facts, instead of either rottenly repeating the current consensus or sticking t
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Cancel the New York Times(robrhinehart.com)
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by jaspax 6y ago
Any guesses what tipped the automated system off? Two guesses: 1. The Big Lebowski uses the word "fuck" many, _many_ times, which may start to look abusive to an online system that doesn't know any better. 2. The movie cont
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by jaspax 6y ago
> the profession is becoming more like a real profession So rife with credentialism, just like she said. The day you need a license to write code is the day I start a coding-as-civil-disobedience program.
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by jaspax 6y ago
For the past month I've been working on remaking one of our company's internal apps in ReTool. Retool is definitely "lo-code" and not "no-code": you will need to write a few lines of JS, and more than a few lin
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by jaspax 6y ago
It was also controversial for a lot of reasons that had nothing to do bigotry, such as the way the main character from the previous game was handled, the depressing character arc of the main character of this game, a POV switch that many pl
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by jaspax 6y ago
This controversy is dumb. Trump made some silly tweets. Trump tweets tons of silly things, almost none of which ever happen, because Trump on Twitter is self-promotion and performance, not actual policy or power-building. It's fine t
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by jaspax 6y ago
FWIW, teenagers are unlikely to have a solid grasp of what their actual future choices will be. I know multiple people from high school or college who originally expressed a desire to never has kids, but are now delighted to have them.
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by jaspax 6y ago
There's a ton of work getting the data into the correct format for this API. I, too, would love to have Greek and Hebrew available, but I'm glad that we have at least as much as this.
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by jaspax 6y ago
I derive some hope from the fact that there seems to be an accelerating trend of people doing their online socializing in places other than Facebook, even if they still technically have a FB account. I don't have stats to back this u
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by jaspax 6y ago
What an article. It turns out that, according to the Guardian, what's wrong with WhatsApp is exactly the best features of WhatsApp , namely the fact that messages are encrypted and can't be snooped on and that you can only send m
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by jaspax 6y ago
I strongly approve of this sort of thing. Using dead-simple and human-readable formats is a big win for things like this, even if it isn't architecturally "correct". It sounds like your decision was a good one for the use cas
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by jaspax 6y ago
Censoring foul language is arguably the main thing that we're on about now---with a redefinition of what counts as "foul".
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by jaspax 6y ago
This. Watching a live performance can be way better than watching a video... but watching a live performance over Zoom is usually worse.
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by jaspax 6y ago
If you read the opening section of the article, the writer clearly exposits that more traditional retail stores closed down as the cities were subject to deindustrialization and suburban flight. The dollar stores are what's left. And t
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by jaspax 6y ago
Like others have said, their storage needs are staggering. I would not be surprised to find that YT's storage is bigger than the entirety of Google's web archive, which is mostly text. Possibly much bigger. If YT were not part o
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by jaspax 6y ago
Here's the rub: I strongly suspect that YouTube is not profitable, or is just barely profitable, such that it would be difficult to run as a separate company from the rest of Google. This is even more true for Maps. Breaking apart Goog

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