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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
To add to this, expressive power also makes it possible to communicate nuance and discuss biases and fallacies.
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
> The purpose of language is communication It isn't this simple. Literacy plays an important role in information assessment and in decision making. It's strongly associated with health, success in personal finances and career p
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
I'm surprised to see so much confusion here. Google pays some kind of "market rate" to Apple to be default search engine on iOS, this change'll first and foremost result in them paying similarly to be default in Chrome.
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
Yikes no. Cash generation's a proxy for capturing human value, maybe. If we run with that: - value can be generated, but not captured (generally good-natured humans do this constantly with those in their communities), and - value can
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
I'm not familiar with this. Suppose Apple released docs under an "as is" type disclaimer like is so common in the open source community: would doing so potentially come back to bite them?
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
This definitely sucks. I feel similarly about e.g. the jailbreaking community: I appreciate the work they do and at the same time I very much wish it wasn't necessary. If Apple and other companies like them were a little less greedy we
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
> "extract profit from this" means providing goods/services that people are willing to pay money for This is definitely not accurate: a functioning market drives profits toward zero. Therefore "extract profit" is
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
This reminds me of code golf, an activity I had some good fun with as a young teen. Coincidentally, one of my first contributions to the community was a low fidelity "flappy bird" clone in less than 0.5 kb of javascript. Maybe som
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
Good pun :) HN tends to be a little hard on brief comments. My current understanding is that comments with little substance are totally acceptable provided they're good natured. For example this comment by dang "There's nothi
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
I'd probably like the upvote itself to be considered "speech". The practical effect of upvoting is to endorse, together with the site's moderators and algorithm-curators, the comment to be shown to a wider audience. Alon
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
I'd love to hear from someone who's used both e.g. MicroPython and e.g. COBOL. Both are resource efficient but probably have fascinating differences in what they're like to use.
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by robbiewxyz 2y ago
No offense meant, but this reads a lot like LLM speak. Very wordy, light on specific details.
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by robbiewxyz 3y ago
It's discouraging that the goalposts (Overton window?) have been shifted so far that "company reluctantly agrees to stop harmful actions" is where we all pack up and go home. Like that's table stakes right? How about for
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by robbiewxyz 3y ago
Snap explicitly claims to "work to proactively escalate any content that could involve imminent threats to life" [1]. Given this, it seems almost certain that the Wi-Fi explanation is miscommunication, misunderstanding, or misdire
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by robbiewxyz 5y ago
From that video it appears the unfolding sequence is set to occur prior to the insertion burn into L2. If the JWST will in fact spend almost a month in earth's orbit, does someone have an educated estimate on the magnitude of risk pose
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Show HN: Pure CSS Threadlines for Hacker News(github.com)
7 points by robbiewxyz 6y ago|1 comments
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by robbiewxyz 7y ago
> I measure success by the people I've helped As someone of younger years (by SV standards), hearing the authenticity in this thread is refreshing. What path in the world of tech will put one around peers who intentionally focus on
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Introducing Pricing for Figma(figma.com)
2 points by robbiewxyz 10y ago|0 comments
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by robbiewxyz 10y ago
Everyone's trying to take this literally as the "right way to display plaintext" in modern PHP. In that sense, it is absolutely absurd. But if the idea of a "hello world" is to learn the basic boilerplate that you&
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by robbiewxyz 10y ago
I absolutely see this. Just today I've been helping teach a friend's child to do multiple-digit multiplication on paper. In that kind of thing, understanding place values (the ones-tens-hundreds columns) is so important. It&#
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by robbiewxyz 10y ago
The timing of this is a funny coincidence as Stack Overflow has just been rolling out their own new navigation topbar [0] to the sounds of "PLEASE, theme it dark" from their meta community. A lot of it just sounds like bikesheddi
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by robbiewxyz 10y ago
This really is interesting news for me. I actually moved to a full Linux stack a few years ago when I bought a new computer and discovered that my trusty engineering software wouldn't install on Windows 8 or 10 due to some of Microsof
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by robbiewxyz 10y ago
You know, I've used a related rule from time to time: I turned the bandwidth limit for my browser down to a only a handful of kilobytes/second. When clicking on that stupid link was 15-second wait, the rabbit holes broke and I f
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by robbiewxyz 10y ago
I think you could probably just point your DNS at Cloudflare to proxy your site through them; their service includes SSL plus some extras like caching and such for free. I've used them for a handful of projects and it's worked gr
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by robbiewxyz 10y ago
Uh oh, kiss of death. Owner said he's working on upgrading his servers to fight the lagginess. Really great game, though, perfectly simple.