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by npteljes 3y ago
It's not the social network's job to preserve image quality. That would be mixing up the concerns.
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by npteljes 3y ago
I'd rather have a safer world for the software, and for the people especially. What I wanted to reflect on is just OP's assertion that if bad thing X happens, it's game over. It's not, I think, because if it would, then
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by npteljes 3y ago
Very good metaphor. I score similarly in Rainbow 6 Siege, an online FPS game. On the level I play, the game can be very fast paced. Often I score simply because I'm more patient, not because I click more accurately or faster.
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by npteljes 3y ago
>One compromise there and it is game over. Consider that every agency like the NSA, and private groups like the NSO Group (authors of the Pegasus spyware) already sit on a pile of unpatched vulnerabilities, for various systems. If one vu
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by npteljes 3y ago
I read an analysis that creates a profile, but that's as far as public information goes at the moment. https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5467061/xz-backdoor-i-did-a-...
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by npteljes 3y ago
I agree with this. In group settings I also look out for group-destructive behavior, and address it as best as I can. I'm the kind of person who thinks that certain rules, while restrictive on the surface, enable a sort of sustainable
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by npteljes 3y ago
There are good products and bad products in every era. Sure, there are trends as well, which change over the years, but the matrix printer times also had a lot of shitty matrix printers, as well as other products that had things we have out
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by npteljes 3y ago
I'm sorry I don't understand your point clearly. Why is it a big problem, and whose problem it is?
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by npteljes 3y ago
>I wonder if it would be possible to crowdsource FOSS mailing list moderation. I think this could be a genuine use of an AI: to go through all of the shit, and have it summarized in a fashion that the user wants: distant and objective, f
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by npteljes 3y ago
The software we use is not safe at all. If we don't have an idea what goes on in an open source projects, how could we even begin to know what goes on in a proprietary binary, or a service? People's dealings operate on trust, that
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by npteljes 3y ago
I agree, and I feel the same about the reverse too. Flat-out stating that cannabis doesn't cause hallucinations, or encouraging people to just try it because it they might find it fun (not OP, somewhere else in the thread) is deceptive
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The government already takes care of many people who ruin their lives in different ways. Cannabis being a bit more legal doesn't change this. I suspect it even lowers the overall cost, as it lifts some burden off of law enforcement.
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by npteljes 3y ago
They didn't knock it, and trying is not harmless, because for example it can trigger or make worse mental disorders. https://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_effects.shtm...
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by npteljes 3y ago
Cannabis can cause hallucinations! It can do so in at least two ways. One is a somewhat rare primary effect of the consumption, and the other is the triggering of a latent mental disorder. Source: https://www.erowid.org/p
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by npteljes 3y ago
Cloud backups are cool, it's the storing all eggs in one basket that's not cool. Whether that basket a cloud service, a hard disk or a pendrive.
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by npteljes 3y ago
I think it's similar to how there's a lot of scooter drivers in SEA, but less elsewhere. Yes, climate is a factor, but I'd say so is culture. I think it's a lot more socially acceptable in Japan to drive a smaller vehicl
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by npteljes 3y ago
While that's true, what languages have is culture. Formatting conventions, names of built-in stuff, books that teach the basics, expectations of devs that already know the language, and the newbies are expected to work with. It's
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by npteljes 3y ago
Absolute. I feel like society goes through changes in a similar cyclic way. We, as humans, basically have a finite span of understanding and attention, and so, basically create cycles that are longer than that.
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Not really. Emergent behavior is when the system's behavioral patterns are seemingly disconnected, not obviously derived from the fundamental rules. Emergent behavior is on a different "level" than the originally described ac
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by npteljes 3y ago
Windows is complex, and the hardware people run Windows is also complex. Shit can be weird. For one, I had a problem with my Ryzen 5600 CPU and RX-5700XT video card combo. There is some kind of incompatibility between these two, and one tha
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by npteljes 3y ago
There is no right language choice for a game, same how there's no right choice to live a life. There are advantages and disadvantages, and in retrospect, we can see how things turn out. There are language choices in projects where the
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by npteljes 3y ago
If it's the British and the treatment of the brilliant people, the story that comes to mind is of Alan Turing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Homosexuality_and_...
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by npteljes 3y ago
They are supposed to be human curated, yes. The quality of the mixes definitely vary, but with a bit of time, it will be easy to separate the wheat from the chaff. Mixcloud also has a labeling system, so it will understand things like &quot
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by npteljes 3y ago
YouTube music worked for me, after a while, and that while was months. Another one is Mixcloud, where if I find a DJ, or radio personality whom I find interesting music-wise, I can listen to their long mixes to see what they come up with. M
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by npteljes 3y ago
One that I use is Mixcloud. Mixcloud has a recommendation algorithm, just like any other streaming site, but the value is that on Mixcloud, the unit is not single tracks, but rather mixes, mostly around an hour long. So, during that hour, i
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by npteljes 3y ago
Relating to me and my company, they weren't.
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by npteljes 3y ago
What both have is something unique, so people still go there. Yeah Jira is the worst, except for the rest of the similar software. And on Glassdoor, I can check out how much people say they are paid at my company. I have literally no idea a
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That's true. Apple is the leader in the vertical integration, and the resulting lock-in, in consumer smart tech.
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Easier, maybe, but the users are still married to the platforms, now with the added annoyance that there is no cross-talk between the apps at all. Network effect is a huge thing, and the only difference between iMessage and Whatsapp for exa
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by npteljes 3y ago
>couldn't care less what their friends type from. Not really. They have ties to specific platforms, just that the platform is not tied to hardware. So it's either installing the app, or losing the connections, same as with the

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