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by riffraff 1y ago
but the whole self driving shtick is what gave it the insane valuation, isn't it? "we're general motors, but better" is not the same as "we'll have self driving taxis that make money to our customers while they
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by riffraff 1y ago
It's quite country dependent. For example in Hungary my understanding is that many doctors have both private and public practices, but private clinics often don't have expensive machines. Doctors in public hospitals are severely u
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Big week for unions at Blizzard as Hearthstone team also votes to unionize(aftermath.site)
4 points by riffraff 1y ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
Fwiw, a lot of European healthcare has both a public and private option. You may pick the private options because they are "better" in some ways (e.g. more modern clinics, shorter waiting times, or sometimes just better care) whic
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by riffraff 1y ago
I'm not sure that's the only reason. In recent years a lot of projects have chosen to avoid the (l)GPL and use more permissive licences to try and reach a larger audience that might have been spooked by free software. This gave LL
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by riffraff 1y ago
I think Mozilla has a bugzilla instance that's been around almost as much, e.g. this is 26 years old https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35839#:~:text=C...
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by riffraff 1y ago
but ISPs do not have the power to decide if something is infringing a rule or not. Thus Ofcom goes through the motions of telling 4Chan "hey I think you're not compliant" and if 4Chan says "lol, I'm not serving UK p
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by riffraff 1y ago
seems to me they can happily go back to contributing to the tools, and at the same time ignore the fact that rubygems.org exists, by running gem.coop or whatever else.
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by riffraff 1y ago
as a rubyist, I'd second "cannot"
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by riffraff 1y ago
hasn't elixir kept innovating? The whole static typing/inference system seems pretty cool and keeps improving. edit: eh, I just went to check and they just has a release today :D https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2
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by riffraff 1y ago
there are separate issues * whether you need to limit people learning something * whether you need to limit people publishing something "they might be spies" is an issue for the first, but the new rules infringe on the last one to
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by riffraff 1y ago
they do, you can see "American Samoa", "Bonaire; St. Eustatius and Saba", "French West Indies" etc in Henley's rank, for example.
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by riffraff 1y ago
they wound down production of the previous iteration[0] due to poor demand. But seems like they do have a niche audience that likes it (and maybe can pass it as a business expense or something?) so they've sold a few. [0] https:/
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by riffraff 1y ago
It's a matter of habit and personal traits. I grew up doing homework with the TV on and still sometimes work with a tiny video overlay showing some anime or tv show. You basically pay attention to a small part of it, and switch focus a
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What is going on with all this radioactive shrimp?(consumerreports.org)
129 points by riffraff 1y ago|28 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
I like this theory, especially connected to how few shows deal with open nature anymore (stuff in the savana or jungle or old west with pumas everywhere etc). We seem to have become thoroughly urbanized even in imagination.
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by riffraff 1y ago
well, dirt does kill you in Australia. In multiple[0] ways[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldust [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia_pseudomallei
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by riffraff 1y ago
I'm pretty sure you meant "terrible precedent" but I giggled a bit thinking "yeah the company president is pretty bad for forcing this".
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by riffraff 1y ago
what's the thing with quicksand? I was born in 1980 and it seemed people would get stuck in quicksand on tv regularly when I was a kid, but it seems a kind of danger that has almost disappeared from the collective narrative. Why was it
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by riffraff 1y ago
I'm pretty sure they're very motivated to make money.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Thanks!
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by riffraff 1y ago
I may be incorrect, but isn't call/cc+state equivalent to delimited continuations? I.e. one can be implemented with the other (and IIRC Racket does have state)
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by riffraff 1y ago
spinel is the company spun up around rv, ruby's uv version. https://spinel.coop/
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by riffraff 1y ago
> I'd also like a private rubygem instance that was always possible https://guides.rubygems.org/run-your-own-gem-server/ (there's also "gem server")
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by riffraff 1y ago
I remember getting it around the year 2000 after having fiddled a bit with Linux desktops and being blown away.
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by riffraff 1y ago
An interesting development of modern blogging is you can integrate the fediverse pretty easily, e.g. WordPress can trivially publish ActivityPub and you can receive replies, likes, and boosts from mastodon et al. I Imagine the risk of spam
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by riffraff 1y ago
I understand where you're coming from and agree. But "enshittification" has its own specific meaning which goes beyond existing terms (i.e. it's specific to degradation of platforms making money from two sides of the tra
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by riffraff 1y ago
Enshittification was coined by Cory Doctorow who has been writing and publishing for decades and won plenty of awards. I don't always agree with what he says, but I'm pretty sure he has a pretty good grasp of English and plenty of
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by riffraff 1y ago
Reporting for Hungary and Italy here: at the restaurant you ask for split bills or someone pays and the others will just pay back. It's been a few years since this was a problem, shops have adapted. But yeah you still give cash to kids
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by riffraff 1y ago
What do you think happens to the cash at the end of the day? Managing cash has costs too, they're just harder to quantify: you have to ferry it to a bank, you have increased risk of theft, fraud, and robberies, you need extra time to a

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