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by nikanj 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/1494/
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It’s always give me that Linux desktop feeling, where all the features are there, but it’s held together with spit and baling wire
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A few months back I opened Signal on my daily driver phone. All my contacts and message history were simply gone. Apparently this is a security feature designed to keep me safe. There is always a tradeoff between usability and security, and
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It’s new
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For many people, the 17th Mario Kart is the first one they buy. New people are made every day, and they won’t pay today’s prices for the first SNES version of Mario Kart
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Immigrants can immediately provide labor for building more housing, babies not so much. The next false argument is saying ”by the time the 50s babies were moving out, the population was higher so the ratio of new homes needed was not as dir
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A huge number of people end up on the street by simply losing income and not being able to afford rent anymore. We tell ourselves it’s substance abuse, so we can pretend it’s their own fault and couldn’t happen to us
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In the 1950s the UK was adding about 260k babies per year with a population of about 50 million, or about 0.52% per year Net migration (immigrants - emigrants) in 2024 was about 0.63%. I would hope the productivity advances in the last 75(!
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They’d much rather blame brown people and tech workers than admit that fixing things might require allowing more homes
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Man, I wish I also had that sort of mediocre talent. What has he achieved in his career anyway?
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Alas, someone bungled the incentive system and a closed question counts as a solved problem
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You also get a surprisingly large amount of pushback for refactorings like this, because a lot of professional developers have been taught to value code quality and API purity over such frivolities as actual user experience.
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I need an AI model to be able to keep track of the AI model names.
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I'd rather have a copy paste answer than a "go fish" answer
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And ChatGPT never closes your question without answer because it (falsely) thinks it's a duplicate of a different question from 13 years ago
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Ah, those were monthly prices for leasing the domain, not prices to buy? At least josj.com is offering a monthly plan
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Where should one head if they wanted to get a short domain like that?
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I bet the signal says Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
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Power plant needs to follow environmental reqs which leads to higher energy cost. Burning fuel on-site with no emissions control is cheaper
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We didn't come up with a new word for programming when we transitioned from hand-writing assembly to instructing a compiler on how to produce said assembly. We didn't need it later either, when we got automatic parallelization and
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To be fair, many CVEs are just that
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My guess for the future is that no app maker dares to put efforts into Android Desktop mode because they worry Google will leave them high and dry, and in two-three releases the desktop mode will be abandoned because it has no app support
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Because it's pitched by a known charlatan?
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It's a match made in heaven, with a buyer who just wants to report to the board that they have successfully invested in $fad, and a seller who knows the buyer is mostly motivated by the opportunity to put money towards $fad.
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A hundred startups also gamble on perpetual motion, and their arguments always come from a place of "perpetual motion would revolutionize markets and there is strong demand", never from a place of "we have figured out how to
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Someone who was ordered by their boss to deploy it, and made sure to get the instructions in writing - with their protests also in writing.
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Why? Well, the existing protocol is 40+ years old, widely used and seriously battle hardened. The new one would be brand new and therefore infinitely better according to basic open source logic
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Google is paying Mozilla to keep Firefox on life support - so that they can pretend Chrome has competitors
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I remember Helsinki CS having quite a bit of BGP, TCP and both ipv4 and ipv6. No guarantees that every student aced those classes, but the teaching definitely was there
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Retirement started as ”you’re too old and frail to work”, but morphed into ”now that you’ve worked for a number of decades, you can relax and enjoy life for 20+ years before your health starts to deteriorate” Personally I think we should re

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