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by kbelder 1y ago
My hot take is that browsers should never have enabled you to specify an exact font. The web would be much better off if it was accepted that the server could only suggest how the content is displayed, not control it.
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by kbelder 1y ago
Gawker was a horrible blight, though.
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by kbelder 1y ago
>Seems like maybe he was good natured but susceptible to the influence of the environment he grew up/lived. We all are. Not just Grandpas, but all the way down to current kids. It's just less obvious for the cohort you'r
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by kbelder 1y ago
Yeah, happens all the time.
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by kbelder 1y ago
I think it may be that they don't care about porn, but will performatively censor it sometimes in order to forestall actual government legislative action.
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by kbelder 1y ago
At that point, wouldn't they just use a different egg? I'd expect that to be far less costly and less risky than this treatment.
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by kbelder 1y ago
>it's pretty easy to believe your own experience over even a well-constructed "randomised controlled trial". In my youth, I would have argued this was bad. Now, I tend to agree. Not that studies are worthless; but they a
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by kbelder 1y ago
Should we be wary of any productivity gains? Should be looking for ways to work slower? I can go back to just one monitor.
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by kbelder 1y ago
>Brexit helped push the UK on the same path. The EU has mastered the "global (often faceless) ruling class". No Brexit needed for that one.
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by kbelder 1y ago
Easy solution: Don't let them vote. I kid, I kid. Just channeling my inner Heinlein. There is a conversation to be had about perverse incentives, though.
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by kbelder 1y ago
Any number of large companies are doing it without being sued, with no better justification. They company is just scammy and going after people too small and scared to resist. It kind of irritated me that he immediately capitulated in a ca
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by kbelder 1y ago
My coworker took down our site briefly by removing an html comment that said "don't remove this comment".
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by kbelder 1y ago
At least you're practicing what you preach.
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by kbelder 1y ago
"For example: let's agree for the sake of argument that a newborn has moral rights, and that gametes do not. It doesn't make much sense to give the fetus moral rights only based on its physical location, therefore at some poi
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by kbelder 1y ago
A hypothetical future robot may. Right now, anything with the strength to wave a heavy stick is a threat to be around.
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by kbelder 1y ago
You can certainly ask other people to carry your weight. The problem is when you start to force other people to.
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by kbelder 1y ago
We pretty much know the answer to that question. Everything universal... that everyone needs to purchase (rent, food, power, etc.) will raise in price to eat up the UBI. It will reach an equilibrium where, to make ends meet, you will need
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by kbelder 1y ago
At this point, my rule of thumb for laptops, phones, and tablets is the thicker the better. I avoid anything that is specifically being marketed as 'thin'. What an anti-feature.
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by kbelder 1y ago
In C. S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength", a character observes that no parent would ever let people experiment on their children, but they will happily send their children to an experimental school.
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by kbelder 1y ago
There's probably many other 1 in a 1,000 year events that haven't happened in many thousands. It's really hard to reason about infrequent events, especially post-hoc.
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by kbelder 1y ago
In 2024, charitable giving in the US was $592 billion. $392 billion of that was from individual donations. The US is a rich and (despite all you may hear) generous country. If 1% of our donations went to Ukraine, that's not a number
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by kbelder 1y ago
If you're working with local LLMs, why do you care about cost?
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by kbelder 1y ago
It's not. I'd put most addictions in that category. And instilling discipline in people is a good thing that benefits them in myriad ways.
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by kbelder 1y ago
He supported prop 8, which was about same-sex marriage. It passed in California; the majority of voters agreed with Eich. I disagree with Eich, and opposed the proposition, but his position was the normal one at the time.
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by kbelder 1y ago
>Right now, if you were to take away Google's money, Firefox would not be able to compete with Chromium and Safari. It would die. I think the only way for it to prosper is to take away Google's money. I firmly believe it could
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by kbelder 1y ago
In fairness, they do say this later: "Past detections of impacts on gas giants have mostly involved Jupiter, where dark impact scars or heat signatures were easier to detect. Until now, Saturn has eluded such direct visual proof."
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by kbelder 1y ago
>IME Linux kernel development is a somewhat toxic place. I think that's why it's healthier. A bit like the human immune system.
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by kbelder 1y ago
Refusing to use a platform is a concrete action. A post complaining about other people using that platform is bit performative and a bit rude.
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by kbelder 1y ago
I'm sorry to do that to you, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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by kbelder 1y ago
"Need" may be overstating it. Those things certainly all seem to have helped, though.

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