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by nikanj 8mo ago
”I had no issues with complex sentence structure, therefore the whole planet is fluent in english and college-level literate” Simpler language is an accessibility issue
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by nikanj 8mo ago
For the lolz. Some people are just terrible like that
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by nikanj 8mo ago
Babylon 5 has never been easy to watch which is a large factor in the underappreciation. Hard to appreciate something you can’t watch legally
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by nikanj 8mo ago
We are building tools and hoping an exit materializes. There’s so much funny money in AI right now, getting life-altering money seems easily attainable
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by nikanj 8mo ago
Just assume all ads everywhere are scams, it’s an accurate enough heuristic
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by nikanj 8mo ago
The Factbook dates from a time when facts mattered
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by nikanj 8mo ago
The might not be a clear user benefit, but there is a clear career benefit. Delivering AI for a billion users looks good on your CV
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by nikanj 8mo ago
”The library does not allow me access” is a much more viable lawsuit than ”Mr Moneybags does not allow me access”
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by nikanj 8mo ago
What sort of punishment do you endure if you refuse to use youtube? How long is the mandatory daily minimum?
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by nikanj 8mo ago
If they are an evil monopolistic empire, why are you upset you can’t use their services? It’s not like watching shorts is a matter of life/death.
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by nikanj 8mo ago
The point is that youtube is an ad-funded service, and if you're not watching the ads, Google is losing money on you.
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by nikanj 8mo ago
*Allocating man-hours towards making sure that users actually pay for the service they're using, either via youtube subscription or ads
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by nikanj 9mo ago
No, SP2 was received about as well as Windows 11 was. Googling "xp sp2 problems" gets you forum gold such as https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/windows-xp-sp2-suc... But I don't really need
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Windows with no plugins and my Claude is exactly like this
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by nikanj 9mo ago
EU will scuttle the trade deal to protect the niche interests of French onion farmers. See Mercosur.
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Fedora also sucks, if your yardstick for suck is "Sometimes after some updates some users experience errors" Despite news to the contrary, the majority of Windows updates don't break anything for the majority of users. You on
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by nikanj 9mo ago
When it came out it was universally hated, when SP2 came out it was hated again with renewed vigor
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by nikanj 9mo ago
> Microsoft forum user Kave discovered the problem on Tuesday when trying to access work-related information stored in Notepad. “Getting the error code 0x803f8001 for most my microsoft apps including my Notepad app which has important in
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by nikanj 9mo ago
At the end of the ZIP file, there's a central directory of all files contained in that archive. Read the last block, seek to the block containing the file you want to access, done
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by nikanj 9mo ago
The person needs to never see a commercial kitchen from the inside, lest they starve
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by nikanj 9mo ago
HP-UX and IBM AIX are probably shocked to learn that they, too, are not Unix
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Do you use the same logic to avoid driving a car to work: https://news.google.com/search?q=driver+dies+in+crash&hl=en-...
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Where!?
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Many people realize that they'd rather spend an hour biking every day instead of half an hour driving each day, because they enjoy riding a bike. "Providing power to travel" is such a weird way to describe using your own body
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Yes one is for getting to work and running local errands, the other is for showing that you are a successful alpha hustler who can afford a big truck.
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by nikanj 9mo ago
How very convenient for the story
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Could, but inevitably one member state will veto it because of their niche interests. See also: EU-Mercosur trade agreements. We get nothing done in the EU because we are all prisoners to 27 different voting populations, and nothing moves f
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by nikanj 9mo ago
They might be above the law, but nobody is above middle management. Even cops are subject to "you spent HOW much hours trying to burn one internet prostitute?"
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by nikanj 9mo ago
That screenshot was really high on the "weird dude power fantasy" scale. I find it very hard to believe that a cop could waste that much effort trying to burn a single prostitute. Being a cop is a job, and at your job your boss is
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by nikanj 9mo ago
Look at the average car payment in the US, and the average car sale price The ”americans can’t afford EVs” argument falls totally apart when the average(!) sale price is over $50k and you can get a perfectly good Leaf for $25k

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