mcv

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by mcv 6mo ago
Yeah, crippling your website in order to force users to download an app that may be able to access for of a user's data, is a clear sign that there are people you don't want to do business with. There are several sites I use regul
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by mcv 6mo ago
Yeah, * asterisks * for italic has always felt wrong to me. I can understand underscores if slashes cause confusion with file paths. *bold* and _italic_ would have been better.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Why would that not be a bad sign? The US declared victory several times, but clearly Iran still has plenty of firepower to shoot down planes, and probably also ships in the Strait. If the US is incapable of preventing Iran from shooting shi
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by mcv 6mo ago
And airplanes. They also pay no fuel tax, as far as I'm aware. Or at least it's rare; it requires bilateral agreements to tax fuel.
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by mcv 6mo ago
At the moment carbon is still getting subsidizes for 100 billion per year. I'd love it if they taxed it by that amount.
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by mcv 6mo ago
They really should end fuel subsidies. We're paying taxes to promote fuel use. That's a really bad use of our taxes. (Some are apparently already being phased out, but others are not, from what I understand, and they've gone
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by mcv 6mo ago
Why is JavaScript running in a page even allowed to know what extensions I have? Is this also what sites use to see I've got an ad blocker? Just run everything in a safe environment that it can't look out of.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Anti-cheat systems that rely on rootkit-style undermining of your OS will indeed not work on Linux.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Doesn't Cachy support all of the DEs? Use it to try them all. (I don't know how CachyOS handles it; EndeavourOS lets you pick the DE on login.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Exactly. I don't think there really was a clear separation between work and not-work back then. It's just life. Consider wild animals: do they work?
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by mcv 6mo ago
It might be worth noting that the number of direct deaths caused by Chernobyl is very low (2 perhaps?). But there have been hundreds of thousands of birth defects in its wake. The survivors of nuclear war would have a really bad time, but h
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by mcv 6mo ago
Unless it's a very limited nuclear war, it would probably destroy the world as we know it , but that's a vague and flexible concept. It would likely destroy countries, societies, our way of life. Many people would die, but humani
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by mcv 6mo ago
Most hunter-gatherer tribes had exactly that: time to just be. Their lives weren't governed by this rat race to always move up. Except for the harshest circumstances, they probably worked only 15 hours a week. Of course their play was
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by mcv 6mo ago
The issue isn't whether it's true, but whether it's plausible. Could someone lose access to everything because of something like this? Obviously it's stupid to keep all your data in one place, but lots of people do it, a
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by mcv 6mo ago
> > You may stop using Copilot at any time. > That's an odd thing to include in a ToS. Maybe it's the only Microsoft product for which that's true? (It certainly feels that way, sometimes.)
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by mcv 7mo ago
I'm clearly way too polite to Claude. Also: // Match "continue" only if it's the entire prompt if (lowerInput === 'continue') { return true } When it runs into an error, I sometimes tel
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by mcv 7mo ago
I really just discovered after many decades that you can still just select text and paste it with the middle mouse button just like you could in the Solaris days. No need for any keyboard command. Even better is that it's a separate cl
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by mcv 7mo ago
I completely disagree. I've got a laptop with a touch screen, and it's occasionally very useful. It's rarely my primary input method, but when you're not constantly using the mouse, how often do you lose track of where t
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by mcv 7mo ago
It's not uncomfortable and inconvenient. There are many times when it's much more convenient to reach for the screen than to reach for the mouse or touchpad and carefully move the cursor. Touching the screen directly is much more
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by mcv 7mo ago
That's only an argument against using it as the primary interface. There have been many, many times for me where it was so much easier to reach for the screen and touch a button, than to reach for the mouse and maneuver the cursor over
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by mcv 7mo ago
I've always seen the stock market as a mix of mass hysteria and pyramid scheme. With actual value underlying it of course, but actual stock values are frequently irrational.
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by mcv 7mo ago
Unibody Macbooks had excellent build quality (except for their vulnerability to spilled drinks), but were very repairable. I don't see how build quality and repairability have to be opposites.
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by mcv 7mo ago
I've heard "They're losing money" since the 1990s. About Amazon and nearly every other tech company. The strategy is always: * Build something useful * Give it away for free to get people exited * Convince investors that
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by mcv 7mo ago
Yeah, but surely you can see that this is completely the wrong way to accomplish that. Attacking a country is more likely to unite people behind its leadership. The US has tried this kind of regime change-though-bombing before, and it never
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by mcv 7mo ago
How is this particular oligopoly the result of overregulation?
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by mcv 7mo ago
Worse than I could imagine? I imagine that bots might destroy the internet. Not just the internet as we know it; I mean make the internet completely unusable to any human being.
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by mcv 7mo ago
Lots of people did see it, but politicians were way too tied up with Israel to allow even the slightest criticism. I hope that's finally going to change now, because Israel really needs to be reined in. (Iran too, the US too, and Russi
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by mcv 7mo ago
Trump wants to attack Iran and ends up helping them more than ever. And Russia can also sell more oil at a higher price now. Great job. He went in without a goal, plan or exist strategy, and it really looks like he'll end up strengthen
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by mcv 7mo ago
Isn't this already possible? Give it its own user account with write access to the project directory and either read access or no access outside it.
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by mcv 7mo ago
I'm no expert on the details, but I thought he was sold as a slave and then bought by his dad. No idea how much time he actually spent in slavery.

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