otikik

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by otikik 3y ago
I always keep a notebook around. But I use it an extremely short-term external cache system to offset my brain. I jot down stuff I need exclusively for the current day. An issue number. The phrase " Bob about the thing". A doodle
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by otikik 3y ago
An adult mayfly will outlive most Javascript frameworks.
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by otikik 3y ago
I said I was pissed, not resolving a differential equation. Feelings don’t need to make sense in order to be true.
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by otikik 3y ago
You must be on the top of the pot then.
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by otikik 3y ago
I am now pissed that I have a Mazda. Mission accomplished, legal team, you undid all the efforts of the engineering and marketing departments in one single action.
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by otikik 3y ago
It’s not a bucket. It’s a pot. And it’s heating up.
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by otikik 3y ago
Website width isn’t calculated correctly for mobile and you need to scroll left and right in order to read the text. I was doing that right after reading > i have very high and unusual standards, Which was kind of funny TBH :)
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by otikik 3y ago
“DNS servers are leaking server IP addresses to users”
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by otikik 3y ago
"Technofeudalism" is a term that already exists, actually. Here's Cory Doctorow reviewing Yanis Varoufakis's book about it: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/
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by otikik 3y ago
This is addressed on the video here: https://youtu.be/5DePDzfyWkw?t=628 TLDR: they used an OSI-approved version on a previous app, someone forked it, filled it with ads, and published it in the app store trying to make it l
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by otikik 3y ago
> corrupt police shaking down small business owners under threat of losing their business license I am almost certain that qualifies as "crime".
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by otikik 3y ago
You might have missed my last paragraph. I think family is a better metaphor. Families do provide emotional support as well.
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by otikik 3y ago
> We're just their pets I am not sure it is ever established that we are anything. I think in the Culture novels the term "human" is used as a shorthand for "humanoid citizen of the Culture", not necessarily Ho
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by otikik 3y ago
Are you sure you want a novel? It seems you are more looking for an essay in speculative futures. In a novel, everything happens how the author "wants". Including in Children of Men.
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by otikik 3y ago
It sounds like you would do well in many other businesses. Don't let academia hinder your potential. Have you considered selling timeshares to elderly people?
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by otikik 3y ago
> Two of my coworkers are now convicted murderers. Ex-coworkers, I presume.
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by otikik 3y ago
I would counter that an earlier step would be not to adopt that language in the first place. The options are not “Premium games” or “games”. They are “games” or “Microtransactional experiences”.
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by otikik 3y ago
My hopes are smaller in scope. I hope this helps people with severed nerve damage, or perhaps to implement better prosthetics for people with missing limbs (perhaps with motion and tactile sensors?) One that I would personally be very inter
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by otikik 3y ago
And then the become the central part of the economy.
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by otikik 3y ago
That’s not the gaming department, that’s the gambling-but-with-extra-steps department.
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by otikik 3y ago
Indeed. "Why do we need to measure the speed of light coming from a moving source. We all know that the velocity of all objects compounds with the velocity of their emitter"
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by otikik 3y ago
Can you expand on that? Is that just a bunch of alarms in your mobile phone, or something more ellaborate?
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by otikik 3y ago
But that problem exists for any C project that uses an external library. If the library defines something that the project already uses, then the project will not work. In my mind that's not a problem with the decisions taken by the au
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by otikik 3y ago
Wouldn’t existing programs just continue working? What the author did was adding new types, not modifying or removing existing ones.
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by otikik 3y ago
It might be a leftover from the time where we had text-only docs (no courier) and the use of `backticks` was not commonplace. With those restrictions, ALL_CAPS would be a way to signal “this is a name that has meaning for machines”, simply
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by otikik 3y ago
I started my first comment with "If you want to make the point that the US is communist", implying that that was what I was addressing. I think that the argument still holds. That is independent on how comparatively worse or bette
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by otikik 3y ago
Weakness is a comparative thing. I’m European. Compared to Europe, American unions barely register. You gave an example where one union did something big one in the US once. Still small and weak compared to Europe. Unions can stop the econo
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by otikik 3y ago
If you want to make the point that the US is communist, unions are not a great example - they are few and very weak, with a couple exceptions (Police Unions). The US is way more similar to communism in the way the ultrarich accumulate benef
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by otikik 3y ago
The reason this sometimes work is not because it objectively should. It's because it helps the other person relate. It's way more difficult to convince someone of something if they already see you as "their ideological oppo

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