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by memefrog 3y ago
"Imposter syndrome" is one of those terms that has lost most of its value now that it's become widely known. I don't think it has any value when it's self-diagnosed. People seem to think that being in a new job or
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by memefrog 3y ago
This post is the programmer equivalent of teenage girls posting photos of themselves captioned with "I'm so ugly" to farm praise from their friends. I have come to dislike this growing trend that celebrates mediocrity and fai
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by memefrog 3y ago
Removing a book from a school library is not banning it. But even if it were, why does posting a bunch of examples of people banning things contradict someone saying "I don’t think there can ever be a legitimate case for banning a p
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by memefrog 3y ago
That shouldn't reduce performance too much, right? Getting the current time is such a frequently-executed system call that, as far as I understand, its implementation is in a vDSO in Linux that is loaded into every process. This mean
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by memefrog 3y ago
People did for decades and a lot of that "regular back-end stuff" is in C++ at the moment. If you wanted to move it to a different language, you might currently choose to move it bit-by-bit to Go. But you could also move it bit-
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by memefrog 3y ago
He said they may have done so and that there's a chance it was intentional, which is entirely true and quite a reasonable thing to say. He acknowledges that it's unlikely, and he doesn't think that they would do that or
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by memefrog 3y ago
LexisNexis does not just "charge people access to content which the parent company didn't generate". I could access most legislation through the government legislation website that shows the current version of every piece of
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by memefrog 3y ago
Shitposting on reddit isn't "labour".
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by memefrog 3y ago
This post makes no argument. It is just a pile of assertions. Simply stating that there is a "social contract" doesn't make it so. What evidence does the author have that "millions of users create the content expectin
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by memefrog 3y ago
Nobody is saying that China caused the pandemic intentionally.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Sounds like the 'bell curve'/'midwit' meme, which shows an IQ bell curve and three people: one on the left, one in the middle and one on the right. The left and right have the same view, and the middle has a (clear
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by memefrog 3y ago
It might be urxvt (rxvt-unicode), a popular terminal emulator.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Nobody is going to hear about someone not wearing a seatbelt dying in an accident and blame it on the manufacturer of the vehicle.
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by memefrog 3y ago
I don't know about the law of the United States, but here in New Zealand a contract purporting to interfere with the right of a citizen to stand for election to Parliament would be void as contrary to public policy (Peters v Collinge [
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by memefrog 3y ago
Personally, I associate "smol" with "doggo" and "chonker" and other childish redditspeak.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Nothing that needs to be provided to you by others can be a "human right". Human rights are inherent to being human, hence the name. You do not have a human right to every nice-to-have service that you think ought to be governme
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by memefrog 3y ago
It is the responsibility of the individual to ensure his needs are met. If he is incapable of doing so, then charity (collectively or individually) may be necessary. I am not opposed to a social safety net but what you propose and what we
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by memefrog 3y ago
50 million daily users is a lot. In ~2012, Reddit apparently had ~1.5m DAU. That was still a pretty decent website. Pulling random numbers out of the hat, maybe each daily active user makes 5 requests per day, on average? Many might jus
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by memefrog 3y ago
Sue on what grounds?
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by memefrog 3y ago
> not letting your kids watch saturday morning cartoons because you find them to be annoying seems pretty dickish and seems like it has an extremely asymmetric possible negative long run consequence. What negative long run consequence co
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by memefrog 3y ago
To be fair there is dirt-cheap turnkey hosting of things like web forums. Remember those cPanel webhosts where you'd pay $5/month or something and then you'd be given a list of PHP programs you could host. Or there were tho
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by memefrog 3y ago
It literally just is not. Attention and money are categorically different things. If you want to argue that directing your attention at something is somehow equivalent to spending money on it, then be my guest. But you have not done th
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by memefrog 3y ago
How many people left Digg for Reddit all those years ago? If the same number left Reddit today, nobody would even notice. Digg was a very niche website. So was Reddit. The migration was large only relative to their then-tiny populations
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by memefrog 3y ago
I agree. This is absurd. A reddit clone is a few hours work. The technology is not the difficult part, and they haven't even done it? Anyway the idea as a whole is stupid, because the problem with reddit is not its CEO but its entir
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by memefrog 3y ago
Attention is not money. Watching a YouTube video is not being charitable. You cannot just blankly assert that "their time is paying for the charity in the videos" without explaining why this is true. You will have a difficult t
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by memefrog 3y ago
I would feel uncomfortable if a doctor did pro bono work just for attention or for YouTube views instead of out of the goodness of his heart, but acted like he was a wonderful and charitable person for doing so.
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by memefrog 3y ago
I use Clickbait Remover for YouTube to disable this. It also fixes the FULL CAPS LOCK video titles that have become so popular. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
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by memefrog 3y ago
>and that indigenous Australians lack access to medical care for even diagnostics. If it is anything like the situation in New Zealand, there is no lack of access but a lack of uptake. You cannot infer from lower rates of uptake that th
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by memefrog 3y ago
He might do so for now, at the moment. That doesn't mean he will do so forever. How long did Amazon run with no margins to build up its business before it made money? How long has reddit been running unprofitably? He still has room
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by memefrog 3y ago
That's not an argument in favour of Mr Beast. It's an argument against government programmes. And it is a good argument against government programmes.

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