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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Twitter closed API access long before musk arrived. It used to be fully open. I think perhaps they were trying to make the API a little less useless, but it would never return to its full glory (maybe for data ingest, but certainly not read
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
I walk most places and when I don’t walk, I take the train, which has steel (and not rubber) tires.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
SWEs will happily tell you that their profession is such a highly demanded activity and they don't need a union because the pay/benefits are so excellent. However, I think this comment highlights the fact that swes are not some pr
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
I have thoughts and feelings about a lot of this, but the part that stands out to me is LE folks intentionally working with agents out of their jurisdiction to circumvent the laws in their own jurisdiction. You want to talk about unethical
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Of course Marin got an exception.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Combination of 2 and 3. The business changed. Streaming was more or less a solved problem for Netflix. They needed money for content, not expensive engineers. Ted is co-ceo… you can see where the priority is.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
From what I've heard, Netflix has really diluted the culture that people know of from the Patty McCord days. In particular, they have been revising their compensation structure to issue RSUs, add in a bunch of annoying review process,
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Interesting. Windows 7 is a number of years old, but doesn't feel that old in the grand scheme of things. It feels sort of crappy that those users are no longer able access the titles they paid to access.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
People like to compare CRISPR as scissors or cut/copy-and-replace, but people should think of it more as 'find and replace all'. in that context, it's much more understandable why the tool has drawbacks.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
social media for us was chronological timelines of content our friends produced. Not... waves hands whatever the f*%k this is.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
I'm the opposite. I cannot stand Apple's productivity software, and I get irrationally mad when something tries to open those.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Anyone who has done a programming contest, advent of code, etc knows that the language doesn’t matter so much as your algorithm. Yes, the language can bring a nice speed up, or might give you better control of allocations which can save a l
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
I think that’s a more interesting question. I’m not sure how to do it, but I think that finding a way to stop the reproduction of copyrighted content is probably the missing piece. If there was a monetary penalty for reproduction of copyrig
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Well, copyright law has literally everything to do with reproducing content and has nothing to do with consumption of content. So I have to disagree. Copyright doesn’t stipulate the terms of your consumption of media. Sure, people can write
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
That’s rose coloured. Maybe people were more intelligent, but even 10 years ago people would absolutely flame each other in GitHub issues on public projects.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
no, but with a shitty laptop it can be hard to be a good developer. having dull knives will make cooking experience, slow, dangerous, and unpleasant. having a boat-car will make it difficult to practice any sort of skilled driving. it'
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
didn't itunes let people convert their pirated music collections into legit paid ones? except they did a bad job by replacing tracks that sounded similar and then deleting the original.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
The US government needs actual anti spam laws. In Canada, it’s not legal to start sending someone emails because you happened across their email, purchased a list, or someone bought something from your square store. Marketing emails must ha
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
I always thought the pretenses for this lawsuit were extremely thin. Now that I see GARM was shuttered as a result of financial pressures from the lawsuit, I believe this was this was actually the goal all along. It didn’t matter that the r
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
I see many, many tech people take an extremely simple position on a topic contrary to general knowledge. Then they say something like 'I believe in strongly held beliefs, held weakly'. I'm so bored of debating people with opi
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
it means the same as it always did. net neutrality as you describe it didn't draw a distinction between "end nodes". Everything that has a wire connected to it is a node. The wires are the edges. Some nodes transmit or receiv
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Do sharks not have any way to metabolize or pass these things? Usually bioaccumulation refers to things that STAY in an organism. For example, vitamin c does not bioaccumulate. Microplastics do.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Comparing opioids to caffeine is also not a particularly convincing argument... Is your comment satire?
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/noaa-pro...
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
This is the only reasonable outcome... you can't deny some people justice just because other people think it's fine. The sacklers have done immeasurable damage to the country. All of their wealth should be removed. Their foundatio
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
protip, store your compost (with bag) in the freezer. not only will it not smell, but your bag won't degrade until you go and take it out.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
probably because it's was boosted to popularity by game of thrones, a nerd tv show.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
It's so good, every time I hear that apple has added essential functionality, I'm just like, 'about damn time'. The customizations don't have to be used if you don't want them.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
This has been the bane of my existence since switching from android. Even using the google keyboard doesn't seem to help. I have no idea how the text input is so bad on iphone--maybe it's my own fault for not being familiar with t
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
it took something easily readable and straightward and transformed it into something nobody is going to read. Is that really better?

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