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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>Good luck finding a nanofiche “reader” in a couple of thousand years :-) A nanofice "reader" is literally just a microscope, isn't it?. Probably a very good microscope, which may or may not be difficult, given the
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by patmcc 3y ago
Do you think Oracle is supporting Java 8 until 2030 for funsies? If you work at tech companies led by tech people who think of their companies as tech companies, yah, you'll probably be on new(ish) versions. Most software isn't wr
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>I am not sure how twitch intends to benefit from this. It might staunch the bleeding. Instead of losing X streamers a month they lose .5X streamers who just simulcast instead of leaving. It's an admission that they'r
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by patmcc 3y ago
I think that's probably fair for FAANG-scale; if google bans you, that's impactful enough (and they're big enough) that having some kind of appeal process is reasonable. For every website, even on a free plan, I think that&#x
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by patmcc 3y ago
Haha, yah, I'm working on that. :) For family reasons I've been inconveniently far from offices for a while, and have a really good employer that allowed WFH (long before covid), but I've gotten pretty convinced at least 2 da
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by patmcc 3y ago
I've been full-time remote for 9 years, and the part that's really taking a toll on me is that, without third places, and without work, I have only the "first place". And that's just not enough to be healthy.
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>How? Programmers don't have executive powers. The secret is - and this is wielded a million times a day in a million small ways - of course we do. Lots of people do in lots of jobs, whether intended or not. You just do the
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by patmcc 3y ago
Eh, you can, just not easily at point of sale. You can give credits/rebates (either to all in the form of a UBI, or targeted by income) to offset the amount people will pay in VAT, or you can have different rates for e.g. "essenti
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by patmcc 3y ago
What's the rationale for income tax? It makes no more sense to tax income than spending. I agree it's unpleasant to be "double taxed" but until the policy makers start listening to the economists it'll continue.
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>Can you provide an example of this actually happening in a competitive market? Tobacco companies probably made a bunch more money as aspects of their advertising became restricted/regulated/banned - because they were basic
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by patmcc 3y ago
Sure, but the cost of 2 bytes is a lot different now than it was in 1950 (or 1970, or whatever). Store the full year.
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by patmcc 3y ago
You write code on your personal computer outside of work hours, it belongs to you (barring truly terrible and likely unenforceable contracts). Let's say you put it up on github. The next day you download it onto your work laptop and us
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by patmcc 3y ago
Maximizing for per-capita happiness just leads to the other end of the same problem - fewer and fewer people with the same "happiness units" spread among them. Thus we should strictly limit breeding and kill people at age X+5 (X a
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by patmcc 3y ago
I always enjoy patio11's writing, and I think a bit part is he writes as if the reader is intelligent but not knowledgeable about the topic, which is the best way to teach. The other three permutations of those bools are much more comm
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by patmcc 3y ago
I think there's an argument that not knowing anything about, say, dinosaurs, is probably fine. But "knowing" very wrong things about the age of the earth or evolution being real can lead to people making decisions that are
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by patmcc 3y ago
I think part of why I used to trust Wirecutter was all the links (that I saw, at the time) were just Amazon Affiliates - it mitigated the conflict of interest if I knew whichever of the 8 headphones I buy they're getting the same cut f
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by patmcc 3y ago
Yep, I'm still on NameCheap, for all the same reasons. They're not the cheapest any longer, but I've also never had an issues with them. And I like knowing that they're making a profit on me - keeps them likely to contin
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by patmcc 3y ago
Cloudflare wants you on their platform so they can sell you everything else - it's a loss leader. Porkbun I don't know. Namecheap, I think domains are their primary business - they need to make money on them.
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by patmcc 3y ago
This always strikes me as funny, because I think the default interpretation (and the one shared in the article) is that it's largely a Western/Eastern divide - Americans are 'ask' and Asians are 'guess' - but f
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by patmcc 3y ago
They're talented at getting into power, and may be talented at any number of other things. They're not always talented at the things we may want them to be, unfortunately. And that's true of both the ones I agree and disagree
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by patmcc 3y ago
I agree that the HUD definition is better, but what do we do when there are large numbers of people in an area where there is not available affordable housing? Like if market rent starts at $1000/month for a bachelor suite, and a minim
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>> and don't care whatsoever what IP that exits the AWS network from You'll start to care pretty quickly if it's the same IP as a bad actor that's blocked everywhere.
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by patmcc 3y ago
Really strong DRM on audio files is pretty silly because it's so easy to workaround, if you've got an audio signal going to speakers you can capture/record it no problem.
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by patmcc 3y ago
I agree with all of this, the only part I want to push back on is: "But what's pretty terrible is the attitude of customer service being "you just have to call, sorry"." I'm pretty confident in saying it's
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by patmcc 3y ago
Most of us aren't all that concerned about country-level doxing.
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by patmcc 3y ago
Quite an interesting chart near the bottom of this page - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit_smoking/how_to_quit/benefit... - doesn't quantify everything, unfortunately, but yeah even after a year the &quo
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by patmcc 3y ago
Smoking cuts your life expectancy by something like ~10 years. Most of those smoking deaths are people who've already smoked 30+ years; there's not a lot we can do to prevent those deaths now, even if they all stopped smoking tomo
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by patmcc 3y ago
This is a hilarious idea, I love it. Internet Protocol over Voice over Internet Protocol. Call it IPOVOIP.
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by patmcc 3y ago
I think the funniest line in here is "and looks something like a young Eugene Mirman". Paul is 35. Eugene Mirman is 48. Mirman doesn't even look like an old 48.
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by patmcc 3y ago
He's a shitposeter. Weird, maybe. Silly possibly, but that seems...lighter? Definitely not gimmicky. What's the gimmick?

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