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by jrajav 2y ago
I couldn't say stupid but I could say there's a whiff of bad-faith arguments in the air... But of course the direct answer is that throwing the full faith and credit of the US (that is, in showing earnest and steady effort to pay
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by jrajav 2y ago
And yet they still regularly hold Bandcamp Fridays (0% commission) and haven't shown any signs of reducing or locking down functionality. The acquisitions are certainly worrying in theory, and it's worth keeping a close eye on the
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by jrajav 2y ago
You just explained the headline. Netflix has successfully weaponized edge cases for profit - the "success" part crucially hinging on surviving the initial news cycle and coming out the other side with their reputation intact. The
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by jrajav 2y ago
Yeah.... no. Why audio-nerd forums were ever so infantile as to brand themselves with "muff" and "slutz" isn't much of a big mystery, but we haven't lost anything of value by seeing those 'cute' names
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by jrajav 3y ago
Very curious what your unique definition of 'computationally intensive' is, that manages to not include one of the most significant computational workloads worldwide, both in terms of absolute volume and impact on human productivi
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by jrajav 3y ago
And why exactly is it that we aren't continually having this debate over skilled workers building and maintaining road infrastructure? Firefighters? Police officers? Postal workers? I truly don't understand how we have many succes
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by jrajav 3y ago
If anyone at any company judges an engineer who crafts code that is easy for other engineers on their team to immediately pick up and start work on as more replaceable, that person is hopelessly incompetent. That would normally be a basic s
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by jrajav 3y ago
Yeah, there is a particularly sour taste to this case, even if it is legally sound - given how utterly broken and opaque Youtube's DMCA takedown process is, and how Bungie have themselves taken advantage of it. It feels a lot like Bung
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by jrajav 3y ago
Nothing about "vaccines linked to autism" ever looked bad. It was one study with sample size n=12, widely and firmly discredited, then used as the basis for a huge epidemic of motivated anti-intellectualism. Whatever the amount of
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by jrajav 3y ago
I'm honestly curious what the real meat of the objections to this were (I never heard much about this sticking point). Why would you want duplicating coverage anyway? Is it not strictly better for any consumer to only be paying for the
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by jrajav 3y ago
Get out of here with the "my team" / "your team" nonsense and the trolling in general. It's perfectly possible to make your point with reason and civility instead of cheap, shallow jabs, and if it isn't, w
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by jrajav 3y ago
That's not chai tea, that's chai tea flavored syrup.
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It should also be really obvious that there are many ways to prevent these problems at the source. We can ramp up regulations on pollution to be much, much stricter than they are now, and give them real teeth. We can combat overseas polluti
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by jrajav 3y ago
Just to support your point, there are many professional digital audio products used for recording that quite literally run on USB 2.0. For instance, this well respected interface that supports 32 channels in and out up to 192khz: https:&#x
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by jrajav 3y ago
I found the link interesting, that is why I clicked on it and upvoted it. Perhaps some of us here are interested in good UX design, particularly for hard-to-get-right areas like dense data tables. What satisfies your intellectual curiosity
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by jrajav 3y ago
How many cycles do we have to go through of "oh, recklessly dumping this substance into the ecosystem probably doesn't have any ill effects, and you should prove it does before being such a negative nelly"? Just once, I'
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by jrajav 3y ago
> The only type of bug that static typing reduces is the sort of bug you'll find by running the code. This is a pretty solid argument in favor of static typing, then, unless you somehow have a test suite that exercises every possibl
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by jrajav 3y ago
Golf takes gear, course access, and above all large amounts of free time. It's certainly not something almost anybody can afford to do. Access and the time to commit are things those with higher economic status often take for granted w
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by jrajav 3y ago
There is a reproducibility crisis in many fields where people tacitly assumed everyone else was doing their due diligence. Many basic assumptions about confounding factors, confidence values, etc are still being criticized and revisited. Yo
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by jrajav 3y ago
Copyright holders already have control over who is legally allowed to view a work that has been made publicly available. It's the right to distribution. You don't waive that right when you make your content free to view on a trial
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by jrajav 3y ago
Artists getting paid little is a function of how easy it is to capture the value that artists create, and how willing other people are to do that capturing - not how valuable their work is. Artists definitely want to get paid and do not wan
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by jrajav 3y ago
This is a little ridiculous. There are flaws with copyright law but making money from creative work would be even less viable than it is now if there were no disincentives at all to blatant plagiarism and repackaging right after initial cre
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by jrajav 3y ago
The obvious solution is #1. Tip credits were a greedy and completely unnecessary policy from the start that should never have made it into law. Removing them again will undercut one of the main reasons everyone still feels obligated to tip
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by jrajav 3y ago
The point was that it's arbitrary, not hard.
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What kind of precedent is there for this pattern working successfully, long term, in any industry? 'Review companies' get sabotaged all the time if they were ever reliable at all. I sure wouldn't want to rely on one for medic
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by jrajav 3y ago
I fully agree with the sentiment, but Svelte does not seem like a natural leader on that front since their version is a JS superset. Already a bit off the map for interoperability. Solid's attempt feels more promising since it's b
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by jrajav 3y ago
The flipside of this is that in React you are paying the cost of active vdom all the time, even when it doesn't pay off by optimizing large batched updates. In Solid, you sometimes have to optimize for some eager updates, true. That wi
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by jrajav 3y ago
Reddit gating NSFW content with login is pretty obviously a play to increase signups and therefore engagement. Making scraping less feasible might just be a bonus, but attributing the whole thing to that is a stretch.
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by jrajav 3y ago
Respecting a single real person's basic requests about use of their own image is "politically correct" now? It's worth considering at what point your knee-jerk reactions have gone off the deep end on the other side.
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by jrajav 3y ago
Most servers have something like an announcements channel. Muting everything but that is the equivalent of subscribing to an events / other big news mailing list for (Discord-centric) communities, these days. You'll only get notif

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