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by rapind 3y ago
Um what? > Now you can browse privately So consumers are insane for thinking they can browse privately. Is it “private” if you’re being tracked?
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by rapind 3y ago
> that OS configuration, patching, redundancy, testing, monitoring etc. For larger projects I guess, but I have a few VPSes that have been running sites for a decade or more that require almost no maintenance (occasional apt-get upgrade)
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by rapind 3y ago
3. Those who build their own hackintosh because they love OSX too much.
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by rapind 3y ago
> I always wonder why people argue about things like pronouns and immigration when a bigger issue seems to be the wealth gap. Immigration is very much an economic issue and discussing it is absolutely reasonable and shouldn't be aut
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by rapind 3y ago
I don't remember needing a fancy calculator until Engineering in University. Possibly they are now needed in High School, but I haven't heard that before? The article actually addresses the lack of camera as a positive in that it
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by rapind 3y ago
Agreed, but some of these surveys quoted are troublesome. > A survey of a school district in Virginia found that about a third of teachers were telling students to put away their cellphones five to 10 times a class, and 14.7% did so more
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by rapind 3y ago
Something else they've excelled at with the Switch are the indy games. Xbox really should have dominated the indy scene, especially with their subscription service IMO, but their licensing must be garbage compared to the Switch. Or may
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by rapind 3y ago
> Apple is putting its competitive interests ahead of its users interests I kind of figured this already when there's no way to filter apps by "doesn't have in-app purchases".
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by rapind 3y ago
I've been using rails for well over a decade (since version 2), and loving it. For the most part upgrades have been relatively painless by choosing to always lag a little behind on non-security related upgrades. There have been times t
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by rapind 3y ago
Ultimately a site can get around affiliate / referral detection with internal links that redirect though I suppose. So the crawler would need to follow and track all links to detect this. Also sites will surface different links /
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by rapind 3y ago
Is it a wonderful process that would work with any team or is it a wonderful team that would make any process work, or maybe (what I think) has the team evolved a process that works based on influences like agile and team dynamics, and is p
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by rapind 3y ago
> Is agile really to blame? Well kinda. There’s wisdom in crowds (sometimes). If it doesn’t just naturally gain adoption then that has to count as a negative. Maybe the positives outweigh the negatives, but I think that’s arguable.
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by rapind 3y ago
Source control was definitely a thing, but I think the popularity of git and what grew from it deserves a lot of the credit for current build pipelines. IMO a lot more than agile or xp.
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by rapind 3y ago
There’s probably a grey area for social sciences like economics. I also tend to think there’s real nutritional science but it’s being drowned out by all the snake oil.
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by rapind 3y ago
If you don’t care about looks, grab yourself four 20x20x2” furnace filters of your preferred rating (merv 13), a 20” box fan for $20 and some duct tape. Assemble into a cube with the fan on top and filters on the sides. Add a cardboard cuto
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by rapind 3y ago
In fact some employers will create listings with very specific requirements they have no intention of filling so that they can site it during visa applications. I actually don't know if this is still a thing, but it was absolutely happ
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by rapind 3y ago
> It's been bad enough that my daughter, who was a devout MCU fan, has zero interest in any new MCU content now. It's the same with my kids. They usually jump at the chance to go to the theatre (popcorn!), but they have no inte
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by rapind 3y ago
> having millions of people who can instantly produce reams of racist abuse to swamp online fora is a problem, even if you believe in free speech. It potentially changes the power dynamic in favour of a racist minority to dominate public
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by rapind 3y ago
> every basic income ‘experiment’ is flawed because they don’t account for the externalities of higher taxes I think UBI should be combined with a flat tax to achieve the same as a progressive tax but without any loopholes (because it’s
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by rapind 3y ago
The reboot tech is good to know, thanks. Yeah it just kinda fails randomly at times and I'm using a quality cable with a clean port.
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by rapind 3y ago
The thing most likely to cause an accident with my car is the horrible Apple Car Play system via USB. I don't know if it's a VW problem, Apple problem, or just a bad combination of the two. It can be so frustrating and fiddly that
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by rapind 3y ago
Understood and I agree. What I’m not convinced of is that learning speed would have a compounding effect because of this. If we assume a vacuum where the only difference is learning speed than any leaps the fast learner make by combining pr
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by rapind 3y ago
This reminds me of advertising in movie theatres now. I show up to a movie 15 minutes late to skip the insane number of ads.
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by rapind 3y ago
> And there is a bit of a compounding effect, as the accumulated advantage of the fast learner would unlock progress on additional components that the slower learner lacked enough background for. I’m not sure about this. Could you give a
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by rapind 3y ago
It's funny how disrupters eventually fit right in with the disrupted. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. - Pete Townshend
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by rapind 3y ago
> I also don't understand the US practice of not including relevant sales tax charges in the cost of a good. Here in Canada too, but I don't mind. When I feel the pain in my wallet, I want to know where to direct my bitterness.
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by rapind 3y ago
One of the concerns I have with AI assisted programming is it might make us more accepting of badly designed APIs and libraries, and eventually APIs designed for AI intuitiveness rather than human intuitiveness (assuming these don't al
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by rapind 3y ago
Basically monoculture is horrible for everything but industry.
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by rapind 3y ago
Once again proving Vi is the superior editor :)
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by rapind 3y ago
As a language, I wouldn't call it an upgrade over F# (subjective). The main selling point is probably running on BEAM w/ ruby-ish syntax. BEAM is kind of a big deal IMO. I don't think it compares very well to F# types, but yo

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