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by jawns 3y ago
I worked for a US media company that forced us to use a half-baked CMS from a Norwegian software company, with no apparent provisions in the contract for updates or support. The CMS was absolutely terrible to work in. Just one small exampl
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Yes, we throw a lot of the normal rules out the window in an emergency. However, to me (and the law), an emergency is "someone is going to die or be seriously injured, and imminent intervention is needed to prevent that." I know t
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Why should IA get to attribute to itself the inventories of closed public libraries that had no association with IA? What if those libraries wanted to engage in their own digital lending? It's like the difference between short selling
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Full disclosure: I am an author, and some of my books have been lent by the IA. I strongly opposed the IA's uncontrolled digital lending at the start of the pandemic. I thought its "Emergency Library" was very clearly illega
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It did strike me as ironic that the article is about ruthlessly automating to avoid paying QA engineers, and it uses AI to avoid paying illustrators.
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Temu, in particular, operates very much like a gambling app, with the clothing and other products dangled as prizes. Yes, you can purchase them directly -- but there are ample avenues through which you are tempted to get them for even more
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How do authors make a living by giving away all their work for free?
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The user experience from the friend's perspective is ... getting an unsolicited chat message from a bot, with no way to know who sent it on their behalf, or what will be done with the information provided? I'm guessing conversion
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Even your "more fundamental" examples are just scratching the surface. I know you're a Chief Technology Officer not a Chief Product Officer or Chief Sales Officer, but if you're not already getting an earful from prospec
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I am surprised that lack of control and customizability over the frontend is being billed as a feature. I've built multiple internal tools like those in the example section, and even with a solid framework like react-admin, one of the
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One of the contributing factors here is that we keep calling these "social networks," but that's not really what they're being used for. If you look at an average user's feed, it probably breaks down into 30% tradit
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Regarding the author's recommendation against using 404: The author says it's ambiguous, because it could mean the route is not found, or it could mean the requested item is not found. Some people use 204 to indicate the latter:
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I have sympathy for vulnerable people who might find themselves in a police precinct to either report a crime or seek other assistance. But preventing a person like Reyes from recording does nothing to resolve the privacy issue. Anyone who
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You're right. Police and government officials routinely describe First Amendment auditors as attempting to bait law enforcement and public servants, intentionally provoking them into violating their rights. But baiting is when you ent
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There are many First Amendment auditors out there, and I agree with you that a good number of them purposefully attempt to provoke a reaction or get under people's skin. But I've watched dozens of Reyes' videos, and that is n
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One of the key points this analysis fails to mention is that Reyes is an independent journalist, publishing content of public interest about government transparency, so the First Amendment implications extend not only to freedom of speech&#
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It describes him as an agitator, but if you watch his videos, you'll see that he is not obnoxious or confrontational in his approach. He attempts to film in the least disruptive, respectful way possible. Yes, when police officers att
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We, the public, who are unwilling to fund quality journalism, have ourselves to blame for this. Granted, the ad-driven business model that enabled print newspapers to flourish in the 20th century made it easy for quality journalism to be su
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Companies and government agencies routinely hire PIs to follow people receiving disability benefits to gather evidence that might indicate they're not as disabled as they attest. You can bet that if they're willing to track people
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> Meanwhile, the banks who funded Musk's acquisition are getting antsy. More fleeing advertisers means more lost revenue and more likelihood that the bonds held by the financiers are unsellable. This paragraph links to a related pie
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Yes, that's correct. Companies originally flocked to Delaware because it was relatively easy to incorporate there, and then the volume of registrations begat the volume of case law, which begat more registrations because of the favorab
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I'm a longtime Delawarean and in my past life as a journalist I wrote about why the state is such a corporate haven. The short answer is that companies incorporate in Delaware to mitigate risk. The slightly longer answer is that the De
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Phone numbers have become the de facto version of "Internet stamps" for identity verification. They are near-ubiquitous on a per-user level, but hard to accumulate without significant cost. (Unlike email addresses.) But the down
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Based on the photo included in the article, what they're calling an infotainment system is actually two separate components, one of which appears to be taking the place of a traditional dashboard. If that's the case and there&#x2
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Prediction markets and bookmakers really strongly expected a Clinton win in 2016. Irish bookies were so sure Trump would lose that one firm began paying out to those who bet Clinton even before the election. And we all know how that turned
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Albert Einstein in 1914 composed a message for his wife that was a little less forward-thinking: https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/02/einsteins-misogynist-manifest...
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Yes, this message from the founder sounds very heartfelt and earnest. But if he truly could not anticipate the many ways that this service would be abused, and in fact the ways it is especially attractive to people with bad intentions, then
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I have worked at places where local development was more painful than cloud development. Some of the factors: - Local dev required spinning up a number of resources, each of which needed to be regularly updated manually, while cloud dev env
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This Bloomberg piece says essentially the same thing as the Business Insider article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-10/americans...
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This chart is hard to interpret, because it's depicting the change in a ratio over time, without necessarily showing the trends of the underlying measurements. Thankfully, there's another chart that's linked from the first ch

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