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by richbell 3y ago
> "all the time" means it is not unexpected. Humans do mistakes and omissions that you've subconsciously learned that humans do, so you can adjust to deal with that. For example, just because someone has their turn signal
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by richbell 3y ago
> This article is unscientific garbage. How exactly is it unscientific garbage?
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by richbell 3y ago
There's a compelling argument that this is the result of Reagan cutting funding to colleges, resulting in once-free institutions pivoting to for-profit businesses.
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by richbell 3y ago
> It's important to output null / None instead of zero if you don't have any data! This is one of my gripes with Go, it's hard to express none vs default value. With languages like Kotlin you can either do `null` or c
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by richbell 3y ago
Chapter 11 bankruptcy in an attempt to restructure the company, not shutting down because they are insolvent (yet).
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by richbell 3y ago
Playing a slow and ineffective cat-and-mouse game seems like a waste of time. Imposing a burden on a handful of mainstream websites that already invest significantly into "safety" will push people into sites that are less able or
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by richbell 3y ago
For example, banning all employees from a company that you don't like. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/technology/madison-square...
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by richbell 3y ago
> It isn't and it is a valid comparison. You can say that but that doesn't make it true. GitHub is a massively complex behemoth orders of magnitude larger than Twitter, it simply isnt comparable. It also regularly gets shat on
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by richbell 3y ago
> It could have been a form but some of the choices for which recalled products and how many of each recalled product would have likely made the form rather convoluted. I'm not sure I understand how a chat bot is better in this case
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by richbell 3y ago
Did you need to chat with a bot for that? I've seen a worrying trend of companies creating what could be basic forms as "interactive" chat bots.
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by richbell 3y ago
That's a bizarre comparison. GitHub has gigabytes of pushes and pulls every minute, runs complex user-programmable workflows, and is the backbone of many of the world's companies.
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by richbell 3y ago
Things do regularly break, though. Outgoing links were broken a few days ago.
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by richbell 3y ago
Regularly rotating secrets for applications is good. Forcing users to regularly rotate their passwords is not so good.
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by richbell 3y ago
> That idea would transfer to plane seats? But airlines famously sell the the same standard of seats at all kinds of different prices and fill the plane. Airlines also famously sell _the same_ seats multiple times and hope people don&#x2
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by richbell 3y ago
Because housing is a basic need. Pricing people out allows you to raise the floor; keeping units vacant artificially restricts the supply and makes people more desperate. https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-ren
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by richbell 3y ago
It isn't just a hypothetical. Landlords use companies like RealPage to collude on pricing and keep units vacant.
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by richbell 3y ago
At least they canceled the project when it became apparent things weren't going to work out as expected. I've seen massive projects that have been train wrecks since day one pushed through until the bitter end because management c
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by richbell 3y ago
> Muslims are a minority in Germany, the UK, and most European countries. Surely it's obvious from the context that this is what I'm referring to Regardless, it is misleading to cast them as a minority group in the same way as
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by richbell 3y ago
> As the sister post points out, the idea that immigrants or refugees are to blame for recent rises in hate crime is more reflective of how skillfully the right plays minority groups off against each other than it is of any facts on the
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by richbell 3y ago
That reminds me of "The Onion Explains: The Israel-Palistine Conflict." https://youtu.be/ECscKICzsJ0
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by richbell 3y ago
In Canada it's $78 a month.
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by richbell 3y ago
Amazon is bad because: > Amazon has been happy to rake in commissions for years from dodgy products sold by third party sellers (uncertified electrical equipment, scam flash drives/SSDs, spycams, etc)...
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by richbell 3y ago
It's even worse: the chemical companies also get to dictate what science is allowed to be considered. https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc (this whole video is a gem, but ~13:30 is the relevant bit)
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by richbell 3y ago
E.g., "I just read about CVE-2007-4559 being exploited in the wild. Are we using this vulnerable method?"
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by richbell 3y ago
My "discovery" section is full of albums I have liked + downloaded. It's infuriating.
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by richbell 3y ago
There is nothing distinct about a window or piece of fruit. Obviously if you made an operating system called Windows and used a window as a logo that would be trademark violation, but there's nothing stopping me from opening John'
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by richbell 3y ago
> Maybe it isn't about you? Something that is good for womens health need not be something you only do to get more sex. Yeast infections are transferable to men.
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by richbell 3y ago
The only real similarity is that it's a bao bun with a face, which Bun didn't create the concept of.
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by richbell 3y ago
> what… is the point of this article? some randos raised “concerns”? classic journo-trash. not a cybertruck afficionado by any means, but… come the fuck on. "randos" such as the former acting head of the National Highway Traffi
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by richbell 3y ago
I don't believe you. Where's <marque> or <blink>?

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