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by rolandog 1y ago
Thanks for steelmanning my argument. Definitely agree that texture (and price) will play a big factor in weaning off people from authentic meat. I hope we are able to surpass the challenges we're facing and live to see healthy food sou
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by rolandog 1y ago
Why would it have to only be ex-meat eaters? It may be just my (admittedly biased) opinion, but I think that Big Meat has managed to turn meat-eating into a quasi-religion — almost like football. I also try to not shy away from knowing wh
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by rolandog 1y ago
I think that also one needs to be familiar with modifying the guix daemon service to allow substitutes be downloaded so that you don't have to build derivations [0], [1]. Once you modify the guix daemon service and approve the substitu
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by rolandog 1y ago
I may be rusty, but wasn't there a "finally" scope for those situations? edit: writing from phone on couch and the laptop... looks far, far away...
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by rolandog 1y ago
I do wonder if we could have some sort of deterministic/coordinated ⌈n⌉-level rotating hierarchy (think a rotating program cycle with period ⌈n⌉) such that n^n ≈ population. The aim would be to have ⌈n⌉-generation stewardship [0], wit
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by rolandog 1y ago
I'm all in for some continuous improvement experiments for democracy: - modest proposal: yes, have X random people in government, but have a Y-month paid training period before they serve for Z years; ALSO ensure their families want fo
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by rolandog 1y ago
> Some glitches were of their time and wouldn't occur these days, e.g. malfunctions in resistive touch screens that caused random clicks on POS screens to occur overnight. These still occur on modern touchscreen laptops (work-provid
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by rolandog 1y ago
Early 40's and just made a switch from ChemEng to DevOps 4 years ago, after having been nerd-sniped into the field constantly while I wore "multiple hats" at Former Employer's (scope creep applies to job functions as wel
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by rolandog 1y ago
Thanks for the recommendations! I was unaware of the underlying tech, so definitely felt out of my depth... It doesn't help that most "alternative to" articles focus on (what I would consider) secondary functionality.
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by rolandog 1y ago
Exactly... Why is it that every time a science fiction writer comes up with a new dystopian future to warn humanity about something, there's always a bunch of psychopaths that go "ooh, blueprints for a get-rich-at-the-expense-of-e
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by rolandog 1y ago
> One more thing: I am well aware that Skype was also used to make calls to landlines and mobile phones across borders, but this is a feature that is hard to replicate, and somewhat of an add-on. If you need that kind of feature, you wil
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by rolandog 1y ago
Indeed, though we're at the mercy of the tyranny of the default.
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by rolandog 1y ago
Well, then we find ourselves finding each other out of touch! I think your line of thinking might be either overly naïve, or maliciously turning a blind eye: First, "both-sides"-ing, for lack of a better word, is — IMHO — a false
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by rolandog 1y ago
If future LLM patterns mimic the other business models, 80% of the prompt will be spent preventing ad recommendations and the agent would in turn reluctantly respond but suggest that it is malicious to ask for that. I'm really looking
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by rolandog 1y ago
> The immigration crackdowns are very popular across the entire (R) electorate, regardless of their wealth. Sure. The rich (R) electorate gladly watch how the non-rich (R) electorate has taken the bait and is happy chasing after the new
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by rolandog 1y ago
But are you owning something with a subscription in a market that has normalized hiking their prices? There used to be contracts with service providers, and that — IIRC — usually shielded consumers from exorbitant increases.
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by rolandog 1y ago
> Why could a court favor the interest of the New York Times in a vague accusation versus the interest and right of hundred millions people? Can't you use the same arguments against, say, Copyright holders? Billionaires? Corporati
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by rolandog 1y ago
Good luck, Kagi Team! You got this!
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by rolandog 1y ago
Yes, agree. I think this fake outrage at the rudeness of the word is performative pearl clutching from staunch capitalism apologists. Everyone knows that synonyms exist, and them not having found the more "polite term" in Wikiped
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by rolandog 1y ago
I disagree with your definition; from Wikipedia [0]: > Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a pattern in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. [...] > platforms sque
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by rolandog 1y ago
It doesn't matter if it is or isn't. The whole point was accountability to each other. That went out the window with the "American Service-Members' Protection Act" (The Hague Invasion Act) [0]. Nothing screams &qu
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by rolandog 1y ago
Huh. Trying to find the letter "i" in this page in Firefox for Android results in a 0-based index of results (starts at 0/-1); you get 999/-1 as the last result if you start from the end.
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by rolandog 1y ago
Completely agree! Did we not learn from the pandemic? Countries run and rely on underpaid essential workers; they shouldn't underpay them, but capitalism pits workers across the globe into a race to the bottom for salary and safety.
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by rolandog 1y ago
Because there is no legal obligation that sets a minimum measurable quality and availability of service; this allows for companies to automate away customer support and place an AI chat muppet just because they can.
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by rolandog 1y ago
Yeah. I have often wondered how to deal with such vitriolic behavior from a loud — but small — portion of the population. We have entertained their callousness and allowed them to drown out the conversation for far too long. But I digress.
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by rolandog 1y ago
I think we're at an awkward place where governments worldwide have been slow to understand the importance of the global infrastructure that has sprouted, largely due to open source software... Given that browsers are essential to acces
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by rolandog 2y ago
> That's more relevant. RT has had some fairly legitimate people on it such as Larry King, Julian Assange, John Pilger, Amy Goodman... Many Pulitzer prize and Peabody winners ... It's a mixed bag, people can't be so reduct
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by rolandog 2y ago
Thanks for the encouragement and sorry for my late reply! Indeed. Chemical Engineer that has always loved programming + InfoSec to include it in some way, shape, or form on what I do... I took a chance during Covid and was fortunate to lan
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by rolandog 2y ago
I partially agree with what you just posted, but — walking along your train of thought, I take a bit of issue with the following paragraph (sliced for emphasis): > So there seems to be a bit of a trend for people to build flashcard-type
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by rolandog 2y ago
Are you going to back those wild claims with some facts, links or how-to's? I would very much like to go study a second degree, a Master's, or a PhD but I fear I can't take several years off work to just study (who'll p

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