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by rodgerd 4y ago
The Hi bugs me not a bit. The "All your things are just where you left them" during a major upgrade? That gives me the shits.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Already there for you: https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It's pretty clear that no evidence would convince you to abandon your zealotry, because otherwise you'd make the trivial effort required to discover that Vienna or Singapore do not look like the Warsaw Pact.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> are really what they would want you to see, not what I would want to see. I think that there's also a huge amount of gaming of the algorithm by third parties. I doubt that Google are desperate for me to watch Jordan Peterson or
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by rodgerd 4y ago
There was a talk I went to a few years back where the speaker (Genevieve Bell) discussed the idea of "systems of delight" - that most recommendation engines fail because they just tell you things that you know, or that someone wan
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> monopoly A word reduced to meaninglessness by surveillance capitalists and useful idiots who are furious at people being able to hire a large company to protect them from Facebook.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Much like the Tsars and Charles I and James I, the French monarchs of the time seem determined to escalate until it got them killed. Modern billionaires could probably do with some history lessons.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I think that the closest you get to this now are Julia Evans' zines.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The problem is that any conversation around "learning Python" will very quickly disappear into strong opinions on setting up environments, the right way to structure everything, what is and isn't Pythonic, and so on. Shieldin
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Nowadays, it is easier than ever to learn programming. In some ways, I disagree. In the early-mid 80s, you didn't have a chorus of people on social media abusing you for your choice of programming language, as is the norm now for
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Ted Lasso, Severance, Prehistoric Planet.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> most people don't have constant 45Mbps+ speed on their TV's Gloats in New Zealand.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
They aren't planning on suing for a breach of NDA. They're planning on suing under defamation law, which alone will cost the former employees tens of thousands, if not hundreds, to defend; if they can't defend their case - an
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by rodgerd 4y ago
War and Peace is only as long as Lord of the Rings, after all. It's odd to me that people will read something like ASOIF and then punt on that. > It just so exhausting to work with people that see leadership as some ego trip. I thi
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Any of the 90s Performa models where processors were routinely crippled by having half-width memory buses on them.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Not a mouse, but there really is no competitor for the MX Ergo. I think this may be a problem in a few niches.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It's pretty suspicious that people can't reproduce the problem with other products; I kind of wonder if Logitech have been upping the power on their devices to overcome 2.4 Ghz congestion.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Today the excuse is that it's child sex traffiking, tomorrow it's persecuting women who get healthcare that the Texas attorney-general doesn't like.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
US law enforcement have been using data brokers to do an end run around requirements for warrants and other elements of due process for a while, as well as getting the data cheaply; I wouldn't be surprised if those drivers exist here.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
1. There's an ethical argument for people that they ought to pay for work. 2. The above is stronger for areas that aren't well-served - women directed producers for example. 3. Parasocial relationships have become a huge driver of
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I've suspected that the next place cryptocurrencies will see usage for actual consumer payments will be porn. If cryptocurrencies were useful for this problem, they'd have been adopted already. It's an sector whose busin
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by rodgerd 4y ago
If you cared about "cancel culture" and platforms having too much leverage, you'd be a lot more concerned about this duopoly than whether Twitter lets Nazis speak.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Australia and New Zealand have helpfully agreed to provide a case study in which works best. Mixed fibre and copper in Australia is slower and ended up costing dramatically more than it was supposed to.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
In the case of OpenOffice, they've repeatedly gamed efforts to close them down by doing bad-faith "releases" to pretend that they've got activity. ASF governance is weak, and that's why it might as well be the Aband
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by rodgerd 4y ago
https://www.chorus.co.nz/tools-support/broadband-tools/broad... New Zealand has fibre to the home for the majority of a country the side of the eastern seaboard of the US, with only 5 million people, and a lower p
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by rodgerd 4y ago
From this tweet: https://twitter.com/TroyTeslike/status/1537232387553099776?t... "36% of Model 3 buyers in Q1 2022 didn't have any service visits during the first 30 days of ownership while 54% had one a
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It affects vehicles especially. There are whole generations of people who will never buy a Harley or a British-branded car or a Fiat because of how absolutely shithouse they were in the 70s through mid-nineties (well not the British cars, b
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Exactly. Shoddy assembly, inadequate paint coverage, bumpers that fall off while driving, "whompy wheels" that were due to badly put together suspension, chassis damage from the factory and so on haven't really dented Tesla&#
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> At least by the end they can hopefully appreciate that the original government controlled system actually works the way it does for a reason. "A religion cannot fail, it can only be failed"; I admire your optimism, but I expe
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by rodgerd 4y ago
"You shouldn't feel bad about eating an octopus alive or boiling a lobster alive. It's tastier and they don't feel pain anyway."

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