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by kbenson 4y ago
I think it fairly clearly made a case that in transporting people for slavery we stripped them of a lot of cultural identity, and now a lot of their identity is the lack of a prior one and their prior treatment in our nation, while white pe
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by kbenson 4y ago
I don't know, compassion and understanding and nuanced understanding of individual desires when talking to someone is not what I associate AI with in my mind, but being able to assess sociological and cultural taboos and try to what a
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It's because often your software engineers know software development and just enough administration and operations to be dangerous, and your administrators know operations and just enough software development to be dangerous. Letting t
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by kbenson 4y ago
I wonder how much of it is because people start out wanting to not do anything too big because they feel like they could be confronted about it at any second and that just becomes the norm. Random screwing around is easier to justify as a t
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by kbenson 4y ago
If you build a system that has a high likelihood of breaking the law in normal expected use, and then it's found to break the law, shouldn't we disincentivize that in some way? Is that just blaming the researchers/developers,
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by kbenson 4y ago
Experienced sysadmins see the occasional chatter of problems in logs and emails as the pulse of the system, the EKG hooked up to the patient letting you know how things are going. The right level of logging is usually enough to be annoying
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by kbenson 4y ago
It's not naive to think that may be the case for some or that it happens. It's very naive to think that's the only reason for or result of unionizing, and it was presented as the only ting that matters enough to be mentioned
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by kbenson 4y ago
> less competent/lazier workers That's an extremely naive view of the people a union is intended to protect. Even a minimal amount of research, or even some simple pondering of the situations your fellow employees might find t
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by kbenson 4y ago
The top moderator was changed at the request if stability to someone they had more trust in (but was still a community member and not an employee), and then they convinced that person to transfer. That person identified themselves as a min
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by kbenson 4y ago
There's a difference between possible and being the default. What's being said is akin to complaining about UIs that are mouse centric not having a way to navigate or select controls by keyboard, which is a valid complaint. It
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by kbenson 4y ago
Eh, given the age of the hardware, there are worse ways to distribute an emulator that you want to work on multiple different architectures and operating systems. And if you compile the intensive stuff down to WASM, is probably even easier
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by kbenson 4y ago
The SEC. Oh, who am I kidding. Nobody, obviously.
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by kbenson 4y ago
The context of this conversation is the root level comment noting a Bloomberg article where it's stated it would take them 8 years to move 10% of their manufacturing capacity to other countries from China. Now, it still may be true t
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by kbenson 4y ago
I suspect that as you approach being entirely dependent on on supplier it goes from being a nice lever for each side to being a noose for one. China doesn't want to lose Apple's business. Apple can't lose China. Extrapol
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by kbenson 4y ago
Yes, I was speaking generally. Specific development models have advantages and disadvantages, but those can often be countered by non-development model actions taken to limit those disadvantages. For example, and extremely open developmen
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Ultimately, the long term harm I was thinking of (for the most part) was lots of proprietary knowledge being lost as a developer is lost for one reason or another, and a resulting loss in quality and/or momentum in the project as that
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by kbenson 4y ago
And so does the Linux kernel. There are numerous cases of successes and failures at both ends of that spectrum. My point wasn't to imply that you can only pick one, but that in some cases choices to maximize one aspect can negatively a
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by kbenson 4y ago
I was speaking less to the SQLite situation specifically and more to the general idea of "Could it be that this is precisely because they don't use "modern tools" and accept outside contributions?" and how I think t
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by kbenson 4y ago
Extremely well written and maintained and high quality as of now and having a plan to make sure that can continue in the future are sometimes entirely different things with needs that oppose each other. A single person can develop and r
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by kbenson 4y ago
> The self righteousness of Google, I thought nothing could be worse than Google's hypocrisy. I wasn't very suspicious at the time, but learned to be. My take on this is different though. I don't think it was a case of s
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by kbenson 4y ago
I'm not trying to blame users, I'm saying, regardless of what started the conversation (I could care less about this design), that people should perhaps stop maximizing everything on large displays, if that's something they d
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by kbenson 4y ago
Concessions can and be made on both sides, and expecting to be use ever larger and wider screens and expecting to still be able to maxi my ise windows is reaching an inflection point where it makes less and less sense, so docking point from
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by kbenson 4y ago
So zoom a little if it's a problem? It's a few clicks, or holding a keyboard button and scrolling in most browsers. If it's still easily readable without zooming, congratulations, you've found a site that is easy to ha
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by kbenson 4y ago
> developer-centricity instead of user Hardly. The user centric take is mobile , is the majority of all website traffic and I'm not even addressing at all. What I'm doing is making a case that desktop users actually make bett
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by kbenson 4y ago
> The entire content column is only 600 pixels wide on my 1080p monitor Hot take - we need to get over maximizing browser windows. We aren't often using 14" screens anymore, and neither are we browsing at 480p. We're rap
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by kbenson 4y ago
Maybe I have a biased view of world events, but it feels like there's less respect for joint agreement in the world and less respect for regulation, or allowing regulation the ability to function as designed, at least in the U.S. (and
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My understanding from someone that worked there is that they were aware of it (if not with definitive proof of who) before Snowden, which is why they started their initiative to encrypt all datacenter-to-datacenter traffic.
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Not caring about whether some segment (possibly even a majority) of users can or are willing to jump through hoops to access your site is a valid choice, just like publishing through gopher is. You do you.
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by kbenson 4y ago
All corporations are sociopaths, Google is only different in that they think their success is because of their lack of care about users instead of in spite of it. Sociopaths are good at manipulating people into believing favorable things ab
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by kbenson 4y ago
I mean, yes. That's what I was getting at. It's cheaper to offload your compute to your users. It's probably much cheaper to offload a massive amount of compute onto billions of users. They'll keep doing it until they

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