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by lolinder 2y ago
And again I ask: why is my hypothetical the exception proving the rule while their hypothetical is sufficient to prove that they're right? Make an argument in favor of regulated media producing better outcomes or don't, but all I&
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Regulated media doesn't produce perfect outcomes, but it does produce better ones. You just throw this out there as a statement of fact without backing it up beyond citing one hypothetical failure mode of a free market for media
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by lolinder 2y ago
I'm a big JetBrains fan, but this distinction is just silly. If you look at the way that JetBrains IDEs are packaged, the differences between IDEs all come down to extensions —which are enabled by default, which are available to insta
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Demanding this level of security from software provided at no cost that relies on open contributions is wholly unreasonable VS Code isn't some kind of hobby project by a couple of dudes on laptops with nothing but the best interes
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're correct, I'm using the IPA as a proxy for the audio data they actually use, but it's a decent proxy. I'd have linked spectrograms if I could find them, but in general sibilants come out very heavily in the audio d
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by lolinder 2y ago
> An Apple spokeswoman blamed the issue on phonetic overlap between the two words, and said the company was working on a fix. I don't envy the spokeswoman her job, but this is hilariously off base from a linguistics perspective: * &
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're really reading too much into this. It's an interesting fact that I hadn't heard before, and I appreciated OP sharing it! And from what it sounds like that's exactly why OP shares it: because it's an interesti
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by lolinder 2y ago
Splitting the developer and the packager doesn't inherently reduce the chance of a malicious update any more than using a VPN reduces the chance of being snooped on by an ISP. All it accomplishes is change who you have to trust to no
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yeah, that has been my understanding, but I couldn't find a citation for that right away, so I didn't want to assert it confidently. But I've heard the same thing.
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by lolinder 2y ago
OP is not out of touch, OP is literally saying that this is happening and that it is a bad thing.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Just a few counterexamples from the top of my head: Destroying currency, altering passports, reproducing copyrighted images. These aren't counterexamples, they prove the rule. A US passport literally has the text "this passpo
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yeah, my sense in following this is that farmers have had a far bigger impact than consumers. I see your $70,000 car and raise you a $500,000 tractor that's core to a farmer's livelihood.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Have you looked over the data that OP is providing here and determined that it doesn't meet your needs? Generally it's polite to avoid scraping if you can help it, so I'd start by considering whether OP is already providing w
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by lolinder 2y ago
This is a very refreshing take. Our current intellectual milieu is largely incapable of nuance—everything is black or white, on or off, good or evil. Too many people believe that the AI question is as bipolar as every other topic is today:
825.
by lolinder 2y ago
I didn't weigh in on the merits of OP's argument, I'm clarifying what that argument was for the parent commenter, who apparently believed that the OP thinks Europeans don't use the internet (assuming they commented in go
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by lolinder 2y ago
Yeah, and that's great! Where that's an option I'll definitely go for it. I'm just uninterested in spending money on a book that has DRM, regardless of how easy it is to bypass. I think it sends the wrong message.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> Kobo's store does have DRM, but it's easily bypassed by Calibre See, but that's not actually the same thing as DRM-free. It's adversarial interop that's temporarily allowed to work, but if said interop become
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by lolinder 2y ago
I really want to find a good way to buy DRM-free ebooks. Libby was great early on and is still fine, but at least in my library system the wait times for a lot of titles are measured in months. I know some people make this work by just ha
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by lolinder 2y ago
Assuming that you commented in good faith and legitimately didn't understand: Their point is that OP likely underestimates the effect of their particular filter bubble on their perception of the universality of the discussion and senti
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by lolinder 2y ago
Alternatively, some people on here complain and others on here say it's just business, and those are two different groups of people.
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by lolinder 2y ago
A large percentage of HN's population doesn't live in the US, and many of those of us who do have other ways of keeping track of what's going on. Threads about DOGE on HN are not useful, they're almost always just flame
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by lolinder 2y ago
Can we please not DOGEify every comment thread? I know that it's on a lot of minds all the time, but we have a whole spot on the front page effectively reserved for DOGE 24/7, and I'd like to see literally anything else in
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by lolinder 2y ago
> There are solutions to the egress problem that negates needing to push that down to your users. Please do elaborate on what those are! There are always lots of comments like this providing extremely vague prescriptions for other people
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by lolinder 2y ago
I like Podman's solution: all images must be fully qualified, with even Docker Hub images requiring a docker.io/ prefix.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> It just sucks if it wasn't part of your earlier accounting. I generally agree with you, but to be fair to the complainers, what sucks is that Docker didn't make it clear up front that it should be part of your accounting. I
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by lolinder 2y ago
You need to provide better arguments than telling your interlocutor to check sources. This is just FUD unless you have concrete facts to share that make him wrong.
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by lolinder 2y ago
It's not hysterical, it's very well reasoned and actually persuaded me, someone who's decidedly centrist.
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by lolinder 2y ago
> having our judicial branch become openly partisan A lot of the decisions that have been flagged as "openly partisan" are just the Supreme Court saying exactly what you're saying: the executive branch and judicial branch
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by lolinder 2y ago
> tends right rather than left like Devereaux I just feel the need to clarify that Devereaux is barely left-leaning. He keeps his politics pretty firmly out of his blogs for the most part, but when he does break out politics he'
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by lolinder 2y ago
Same is true of the RSS feed! No summaries, just the whole thing. I do prefer to go to the blog because the blog handles footnotes better (hover works on desktop to show them in a popup, and tapping on them works correctly with the back but

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