riffic

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   by riffic 3y ago

   or your unnecessary apostrophe in it's
2. 482.▲
   by riffic 3y ago

   everyone misuses the term which raises questions about prescriptivism vs descriptivism.
3. 483.▲
   by riffic 3y ago

   nope. get content at a local library and burn a backup copy, in case the library burns down or something. You're doing them a favor.
4. 484.▲
   by riffic 3y ago

   Piracy is morally justifiable if this is the alternative.
5. 485.▲
   by riffic 3y ago

   here's an idea - UTC everywhere
6. 486.▲
   by riffic 3y ago

   Reuters didn't have anything more substantial than this prepared ahead of time?
7. 487.▲
   by riffic 3y ago

   great, now what are the applications and how will this be commercialized into a torment nexus?
8. 488.▲
   by riffic 3y ago

   there's a principle of small batches that would be worth following https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2945077
9. 489.▲
   by riffic 3y ago

   oh I recognize Taylor, he was on the former Twitter, Inc. board.
10. 490.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    this is such a lid comment to make buddy
11. 491.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    I don't have a formal compsci background but one of the most enlightening things I've undertaken recently was a course involving data modeling. this seems like an important exercise many overlook.
12. 492.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    what can they do about it? Are there going to be enforcement mechanisms?
13. 493.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    the Mansible of Ansible
14. 494.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    we have the technology to engineer safer roads
15. 495.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    Twitter had a very prolonged outage around 2020/2021 before the Musk acquisition, and many more localized outages. I moderated the Twitter subreddit at that time, I'd be happy to dig up outage threads (like this one! https:/
16. 496.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    > non-binding resolution
17. 497.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    without doing any further research I assume AOL Instant Messenger got pretty close. Windows Live Messenger, on the list, had 330 million active monthly users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger India T
18. 498.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    I've been around long enough to see X's trajectory. It's headed here (List of defunct social networking services, Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network... side note but
19. 499.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    knowing nothing about fruit flies I also have similar concerns.
20. 500.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    I'm curious if they won't go all jurassic park and do a "life finds a way" thing. I know nothing about fruit fly biology.
21. 501.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    laying the blaming on a dead guy, classy.
22. 502.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    I knew I've seen the name "Cybersyn" before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
23. 503.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    domains are almost as Lindy (a concept that explains the longevity of things like ideas or technology) as circuit switched telephone numbers. We're not going to shake the concept away for a very long time. https://en.wikiped
24. 504.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    it's not that simple lol. there's a whole UDRP process they need to jump through. https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/guide/
25. 505.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    there's a clear (to the general public, it's absolutely not at all clear) separation of concerns between registries, registrars, and registrants. Google Domains was a registrar. the Registry itself has some arcane and obfuscated c
26. 506.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    omg this is awful
27. 507.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    why is no one talking about modeling or ERD or anything of that sort?
28. 508.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    there would have been a built in network effect with the existing fediverse
29. 509.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    rad that only makes me like the author more.
30. 510.▲
    by riffic 3y ago

    the IETF and ICANN have codified the underlying principles that tie ccTLDs to countries and your "here's a thought" won't do any good to change that.