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by jl6 8mo ago
I strongly suspect that most of the things we now know to be problematic were also known to be problematic to the ancients, but were thought still to be worth it for their rewards. That’s pretty much where we still are today. Nobody likes
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by jl6 8mo ago
Nothing absolutely precludes malfeasance, but SAP is a European legal entity, answerable ultimately to European law. Microsoft and Oracle also trade in Europe through European legal entities, which are theoretically also bound by European l
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by jl6 8mo ago
The European sovereign tech trend isn’t exclusively a benefit to OSS. SAP must be anticipating a significant windfall of Oracle refugees.
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by jl6 8mo ago
I don’t think there is a material difference between goals and votes. A vote in a safe district isn’t wasted; it contributes to that district being safe. The difference is the perceived drama of being the final straw alongside all the rest
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by jl6 8mo ago
“Fell off the back of a truck” is a euphemism for stolen goods; it’s not so much about quality (indeed warez releases are often stripped of ads/launchers/annoyances, rendering them very high quality).
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by jl6 8mo ago
> … which means that less than 5% of Americans will truly be deciding who's in control of the House Something about this framing seems to undersell the efforts and influence of the other 95% of voters. If a soccer match were tied 6-
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by jl6 8mo ago
Just iPhones sold in the UK then perhaps.
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by jl6 8mo ago
Thanks. So this is not going to lead to user-replaceable batteries on iPhones.
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by jl6 8mo ago
iPhone batteries are already replaceable, albeit most people have to pay Apple to do it. Does this count as replaceable under this mandate, or is there an expectation that batteries must be replaceable by end-consumers on their own? Any req
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by jl6 8mo ago
Am I reading this right… they tampered with an archived page and then changed it back? How do we know? Is there another archive site that has before and after proof?
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by jl6 8mo ago
Although exercise is the only one of those three that anyone can do immediately, right now, for free. There are barriers to obtaining therapy and medication which may be insurmountable for many.
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by jl6 8mo ago
Ah but if we are considering near-infinitesimal probabilities, we should metagame and consider the very low probability that our understanding of cosmology is flawed and light cones aren’t actually a limiting factor on causal contact.
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by jl6 8mo ago
Despite “post scarcity” still being infinitely far away, we have moved towards it. A lot of things still suck, but a lot of things would be miraculous to a time traveller from 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago. Unfortunately, the hedoni
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by jl6 8mo ago
If it’s true, then good for Apple. Pausing feature development to clean up tech debt is healthy. I worry that they’ll realize a 5% efficiency saving and then immediately spend it on a 10% inefficiency feature and sell the net result as “onl
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by jl6 8mo ago
I guess it didn’t want to rule out the existence of ultra-powerful water jets that can wash a car in sniper mode.
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by jl6 8mo ago
It’s not just pure value analysis, it’s a lack of confidence that the money will go to the people that deserve it.
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by jl6 8mo ago
One day, it will matter. Not even Google can escape the consequences of infinite growth. Kryder's Law is over. We cannot rely on storage getting cheaper faster than we can fill it, and orgs cannot rely on being able to extract more val
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by jl6 8mo ago
A nice video about robophobia: https://youtu.be/aLb42i-iKqA
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by jl6 8mo ago
Oh great, so is this how Apple forces me to downgrade from iOS 18 to iOS 26?
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by jl6 8mo ago
It is important to realise that the current pricing mechanism is not an accident, and has some non-obvious benefits that need to be weighed against the obvious drawbacks. Clearly other mechanisms exist, which might solve the obvious drawbac
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by jl6 8mo ago
Joyce did work as a schoolteacher. Maybe he would have written better books if he hadn’t had to do this.
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by jl6 8mo ago
> Ireland began the three-year trial in 2022 Did anyone take a note of what kind of output the artists produced? Was any of it any good?
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by jl6 8mo ago
Of all the externalities under discussion, I think land use is a very minor one.
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by jl6 8mo ago
Fond memories of the Confetti Factory screensaver from After Dark.
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by jl6 8mo ago
https://www.racfoundation.org/media-centre/study-sheds-light... I imagine there’s something of a bathtub curve where young (under 25) drivers have higher accident rates due to some combination of inexperience and immat
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by jl6 8mo ago
640K ought to be enough.
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by jl6 8mo ago
What is now a good source of aggregated population statistics?
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by jl6 8mo ago
Social media use can be fine for people who are well-grounded grass-touchers in their everyday life, but this grounding comes with maturity and typically isn’t found in younger people, for whom abstract online spaces can be powerfully disso
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by jl6 8mo ago
Ahhh, collaboration via Visio. Those were the days!
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by jl6 8mo ago
Teams, Sharepoint, Exchange, and OneDrive seem to be connected by a maze of dark twisty integration passages which no single human has mapped fully.

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