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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's a logical choice. If you ever get in trouble there, you'll find that unlike in Germany, there won't be any bureaucracy or red tape at all. They'll deal with you very... efficiently.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It took me a long time to realize that in the big picture, all those inefficiencies are actually upsides. Most of what governments do is harmful to society. The more inefficient and inept they are at it, the better. Sure, it may be an incon
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Decades and decades of people touting the supposed evils of fiat money, and I've yet to hear a single convincing, pragmatic argument for why it is worse than any of the alternatives. We've had the gold standard in the past. During
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Why is it taking so long for Framework's products to become available in other countries? It's been more than two years and three product generations + an entirely new product, and you still can't even pre-order in the vast
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by p-e-w 3y ago
There's no shortage of scientific fraud happening in the "first world" also. Dealing with those people would be a good start.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> There should be Nutrition Facts but for scientific trials. No, there should be prison time for scientists who conduct unethical trials or publish fake results. The public (and policy makers) place such immense trust in those people and
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's not a "God of the gaps" argument because I'm not claiming that "God" (that is, incomputable physics) exists. I'm simply pointing out that the fact that our entire understanding of physics is built on
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What do you mean? Text-to-speech systems from the past few years are indistinguishable from an actual human voice.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Hey, it's you! Thanks for DB4S!!! I don't use it that much these days, but when I do, it always delivers.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's like saying "If your car runs too slow, toss out the back seats." History and extensions are there for a reason. And managing the cache is the browser's job, not the user's.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That chart suggests massive improvements since the beginning of this year. Can anyone explain how this was achieved? What precisely has changed?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Really? I remember when Exxon was the world's most valuable company. It's not even in the top 10 anymore.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Such an analysis does not exist because that traffic is encrypted. ... by software that resides on the same system, with keys that are in memory on the same system. I'm not saying it's trivial to decrypt the traffic, but it&#
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by p-e-w 3y ago
No, we do physics this way because we don't know any other way. When this way fails (e.g. quantum gravity, turbulence), we assume that the problem is that we haven't tried hard enough yet. Which may be true, but it's also pos
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Microsoft had a good licensing model that sort of worked. Microsoft is the second-most valuable company in the world, with revenue comparable to the GDP of a small country. Seems like it's still working quite well.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> but emperically it has held true to the limits of our knowledge of physics Considering that our entire knowledge of physics is encoded as computational rules, because that's all we really know how to do, this statement is basicall
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Unless I'm blind, the article doesn't contain any actual evidence of telemetry being sent – just a list of domains contacted, and speculation on what their purpose might be. I don't doubt that Windows collects and transmits
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Clearly there must be additional Linear A inscriptions in Crete and possibly elsewhere. There are probably many of them in storage in various museums and antiquities departments. The vast majority of ancient inscriptions ever found are
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Work by amateurs on Linear A does not have a good track record. Linear A is completely undeciphered, so amateurs have done exactly as well as professionals. Meanwhile, Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform, and Linear B were all deciphered b
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Only difference is that because vim has been open-source for decade, there are many many more plugins No, the main difference is in the quality of plugins, not in how many there are. For example, Rust-Analyzer provides an official VS
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by p-e-w 3y ago
This was supposed to parody how some of Vim's default shortcuts just flat out do not work on non-US keyboards, because e.g. typing [ requires pressing AltGr+8 on German layouts, but Ctrl+AltGr+8 is not the same thing as Ctrl+[. And y
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The chainsaw with ready made attachments is way easier to get going, but in return you have to carry the chainsaw with you and if there are any problems with the tool itself you probably aren't going to be able to fix or modify it
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I love the concept and engineering behind Zed, but considering how software startups tend to fare, there's just no way I'm going to mentally invest in a closed source dev environment. Even if they succeed commercially, chances are
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by p-e-w 3y ago
You mean the one with syntax highlighting disabled by default?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Was that expressly written to parody Vim? Yes. The advice to turn the yoke upside down is supposed to reference remapping Caps Lock to Escape, without which Vim destroys your pinky on a standard keyboard. But it's the choice of pr
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The amount of work needed not only to get a basic IDE up and running for your languages of choice, even for commonly used languages such as Python or Javascript, is far too much for someone who wants to get on with their day job or hob
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> DKIM, DMARC and all the other anti-SPAM measures amount to exactly that. Nonsense. Anti-spam systems block spam, not content an unaccountable cabal deems politically undesirable. That comparison is laughable. > So federation does wo
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What the article barely touches upon is that all currently available AIs-as-a-service - permit themselves to store and use your inputs essentially as they see fit, for essentially any purpose - have mechanisms designed to "prevent abus
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> No one group is in control, each fiefdom is free to do what they wish That's not true in practice. The purpose of a social network is to communicate with others. Network effects ensure that the biggest instances grow ever bigger,
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Lemmy is a fediverse application. The whole point is decentralization. No, that's just a marketing lie. The biggest instances have politically-charged "codes of conduct" that other instances are forced to adopt or be def

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