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The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong's last mahjong carvers(cnn.com)
42 points by rectang 1y ago|3 comments
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by rectang 1y ago
I feel like there needs to be the analogue of open source licenses for equity offers. Something standardized, so that both employees and management could negotiate in good faith with high confidence that the terms are as advertised. Because
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by rectang 1y ago
I was a bit surprised to see the the "software" criteria in your reply, as I'd always thought of enshittification's inevitability as a capitalist phenomenon whereby a quality brand is wrung out for near term gains by man
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by rectang 1y ago
Don't say "reliable", say "opportunity for enshittification".
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by rectang 1y ago
I read this article because just last week I set up CSS height transitions to show/hide divs in a form which displays conditional content (based on radio button selection). "Why shouldn't I do this?", I thought. It look
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by rectang 1y ago
Fortunately, from what I read, the woman, a hotel employee who was struck by debris from the poolside wooden hut where Baumgartner crashed, is expected to make a full recovery. I hope she is not afflicted by any lingering health or financi
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by rectang 1y ago
"We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes." — Leona Helmsley
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by rectang 1y ago
> "You're absolutely right." I admit a tendency to anthropomorphize the LLM and get irritated by this quirk of language, although it's not bad enough to prevent me from leveraging the LLM to its fullest. The key whe
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by rectang 1y ago
There's a blog post about the incident: https://www.gravityforms.com/blog/security-incident-notice/
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by rectang 1y ago
Somewhere in between. Gravity Forms is a very popular premium WordPress plugin. I maintain a handful of WordPress sites (wouldn't have been my choice of platform but whatever) and the design and functionality of Gravity Forms is better
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by rectang 1y ago
> We also received a confirmation from one of the staff of RocketGenius that the malware only affects manual downloads and composer installation of the plugin. Phew.
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by rectang 1y ago
Switched-on Bach is a revelation in part because the synth bass tones are more focused, distinct, and identifiable than when the same notes are played on acoustic instruments — allowing you to hear harmonic interplay which I believe is clos
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by rectang 1y ago
There are so many great options for exploring the world. Even in your neighborhood all it takes is a novel perspective to discover something new, and the same is true elsewhere. Are there no mountains to climb other than Everest? Is there
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by rectang 1y ago
Living an examined life and choosing actions in tune with your conscience is its own reward, not self-denial. Staying home is not the only alternative to participating in the most destructive acts of overtourism.
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by rectang 1y ago
There are so many humans that are blithely destructive and nearly all of them believe themselves to be good, because it is human nature to have faith in your own wholesome intentions. Overtourism is one area among many where we would be be
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by rectang 1y ago
You don't want to end up with a court trying to figure out whether that usage constitutes fair use. Taking a stand on whether it "should be" fair use isn't what company resources are for.
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by rectang 1y ago
The point stands — it’s not that the heart attack leaves you infirm, but that surviving it lets you live long enough to die of Alzheimer’s or cancer or depression. Causes of abrupt death are being winnowed down, which the author regards wit
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by rectang 1y ago
> A sudden cardiac death is the disease equivalent of homicide or a car crash death. It meant someone’s father or husband, wife or mother, was suddenly ripped away without warning. Now ever increasing numbers of people avoid an abrupt
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by rectang 1y ago
The new title, “Nvidia won, we all lost”, is taken from a subheading in the actual article, which is something I’ve often seen dang recommend people do when faced with baity or otherwise problematic titles. https://blog.sebin-nys
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by rectang 1y ago
When titles are changed, the intent as I understand it is to nudge discussion towards thoughtful exchange. Discussion is forever threatening to spin out of control towards flame wars and the moderators work hard to prevent that. I think th
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by rectang 1y ago
Problems in this domain arise more because you’re wandering off the beaten path for configuration and tooling than because the systems lack absolute capabilities. If you don’t want to build your extension the way that the extension framewo
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by rectang 1y ago
That's possible, but then the people building your extension need a C++ toolchain. The question was "please provide examples where switching to C++ involves jumping through even more hoops", and in my view requiring downstrea
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by rectang 1y ago
> Delegating to an external vtable (mandatory to avoid overhead) means that you have to forward-declare all of the types you'll ever use a vtable with. We went down the rabbit hole of writing a compiler for this as part of a proje
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by rectang 1y ago
Writing extensions for projects that support C extensions but may not support C++ extensions, e.g. many dynamic languages.
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by rectang 1y ago
I think Wellnhofer is accurate in his assessment of the current state of the library and its support infrastructure institutions . Software without adequate ongoing maintenance should not be used in production. (Disclosure: I'm a pas
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by rectang 1y ago
Please help me to understand the urge to blame pig butchering on pigs rather than on butchers.
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by rectang 1y ago
> Sure, we can say there is no objective source of truth and chastise the author for using that word I regret my imprecise use of language which has taken us down this tiresome metaphysical subthread. I should have merely emphasized th
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by rectang 1y ago
That's technically true but underplays the extent to which company self-enforcement PR is malicious nonsense at odds with reality. Companies are amoral piles of money which will do anything to become larger piles of money, and will re
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by rectang 1y ago
> I think it's elimination could lead to a willingness by companies to be more careless when it comes to chemical safety And that's the point, is it not? Create a wider space for companies to "innovate" within, at th
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by rectang 1y ago
CSB investigations still represent an objective source of truth which competes with the PR that companies put out absolving themselves of blame in the event of any mishap. Removing the CSB frees up companies to "self-regulate" an

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