nathias

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by nathias 3y ago
Google has been going down that path for a long time, they won't stop until the web looks like cable tv, every part infested with adds with content reduced to target the lowest denominator among the greatest number of people. It should
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by nathias 3y ago
I will never turn off adblocking, maybe alternatives will get some extra users now.
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by nathias 3y ago
corporations don't decide based on data, they decide by the ways department heads and other middle management can use the data against each other
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by nathias 3y ago
I mean the best in terms of the base ux, the hackiness that you encounter sometimes is proably mostly because of the coupling with remote services (github, gitlab) where there is some friction, but imo pretty minimal (some unaccounted hashe
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by nathias 3y ago
When I was learning to code, I first learned git. It was the most intuitive program I've ever used, I still think its one of the best software ever written.
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by nathias 3y ago
maybe if we make it look more like a phishing site it will select only the customers that truly value our product
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by nathias 3y ago
Now you're saying that a potential for surveillance is enough to reduce a thing to a surverillance technology? Not intent, not actual use, just the possibility?
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by nathias 3y ago
but the multifunctionality of knives makes them conceptualized as tools not just murder weapons
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by nathias 3y ago
Your computer can spy on you. The web can spy on you. Your appliances can spy on you. Your car can spy on you. Your lightbulbs can spy on you. but you don't need tech for that, a spy can spy on you
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by nathias 3y ago
I can use communication tech to avoid surveillance, so no.
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by nathias 3y ago
this is a bad argument, it could be applied equally to all communication technology
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by nathias 3y ago
how does this compare to nix?
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by nathias 3y ago
You assume I mean just learning syntax, I don't, I mean the actual skill of developing programs in production.
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by nathias 3y ago
Compared to learning other skills programming is easy, it is made to be optimized for human use, legibility and learning, it has the most resources on learning by far. Yes, you might not be able to create a perfect and complex computer prog
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by nathias 3y ago
Google's strategy has been obvious for decades, slowly become the infrastructure, make yourself into a dependancy and then start to squeeze out profits. Too bad corporations won and monopolies aren't broken up anymore.
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by nathias 3y ago
I really love that love has no gui, every other game framwork I tried is 1000s of stacked gui windows...
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by nathias 3y ago
Usability has increased, the problem is we are not the intended users, we are cattle to be sold as data or attention to the users who publish their adds.
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by nathias 3y ago
of course lab-grown meat will not be efficient at the begining, its the potential of the technology that matters
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by nathias 3y ago
focus is a muscle, you have to retrain it I suggest you shift your time off to more focus building activities, like reading long narratives etc.
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by nathias 3y ago
If I worked somewhere where a guy would shadow me, hover around and 'support' me that would make me quit very fast.
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by nathias 3y ago
I found it deeper than most concepts in the genre, the core of that plot is one of the most impotant questions in contemporary philosophy - the realtionship between thought and language.
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by nathias 3y ago
I think it plays especially well because the parodic exagerations of one era are indistinguishable from the dystopian elements of the future...
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by nathias 3y ago
it's both a parody and one of the foundational works of the genre
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by nathias 3y ago
Technological progress does not proceed from definitions, new concepts can unlock new domains of thought that can in turn yield knowledge and technology.
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by nathias 3y ago
selling shovels for a few different gold rushes seems to be profitable
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by nathias 3y ago
why do US people have this magical relationship with language? like the concept doesn't matter but the actual term is very important ...
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by nathias 3y ago
use containers,install vimium, treestyletab, darkreader and hack the UX to customize everything
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by nathias 3y ago
do you have a phd in history to judge that? I said I wouldn't trust, I'm sure there is some good resources but they are mixed with bad ones, I just know that r/philosophy is a terrible resource for anyone studying philosophy
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by nathias 3y ago
I wouldn't trust anything on reddit...
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by nathias 3y ago
it won because of the disrespect of frontend in the industry, because people seem to think it's ok if backend engineers write garbage frontend code

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