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by romwell 3y ago
>Everyone knows what happened next. ...Microsoft did a hostile takeover with the help of an "ex"-Microsoft Elop being appointed Nokia CEO? Might I say, MS and Nokia eloped . Oh, and cancelled the very much beloved Linux-based
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by romwell 3y ago
>I've thought for a while now that it is a matter of national interest that your population couples up and has children Yeah, and many people in the US would be way more eager to do that had we had: - affordable housing - minimum wa
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by romwell 3y ago
>We did just that. Went to Vegas and got a city hall thing done. 25 years later, no one gives a toss about us not blowing $10k on a wedding. We bought a house with that money as a down payment. Yeah, we had to put 10x as much for a downp
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by romwell 3y ago
We told nobody. Booked a ticket to Hawaii, found a non-religous person who could officiate, hired a photographer, and had a little ceremony on the beach just for us two. 10/10, good memories, no regrets. Still wasn't free though;
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by romwell 3y ago
Huh. Neat, I guess. I was lucky enough to get an original IBM Model M keyboard from a friend when the lab he was at was clearing out their old equipment. Plugged it in a few years back through a USB-to-PS/2 adapter when my basic Logite
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by romwell 3y ago
Sure, but in this case, maintaining the digital properties surely won't bleed Sony dry. Letting people download the content DRM-free for a period of time while sunsetting the service wouldn't bleed them dry either. It's not e
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by romwell 3y ago
Insufficient. If I buy a book, and later find it missing on the shelf because the bookstore owner took it back and burned it , it's not a matter of refund. It's theft . This kind of analogy and language has been used to punish t
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by romwell 3y ago
Yeah, expect Sony is alive and profitable, so your entire argument is bullshit. It can honor the agreement, or it can die . We can and should make sure the latter happens if they choose not to do the former. Learned helplessness does not
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by romwell 3y ago
> thought it was just supposed to be a pun on “gen’ AI” Then they'd have gone with Genie . Which would be kinda genius on their part, but Google isn't that kind of company anymore.
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by romwell 3y ago
>Counterpoint: SMS login and account recovery is good UX, and it's the telcos that need to step up their collective game. Oh, yeah, fantastic UX. I've had my phone and credit cards stolen while traveling abroad (such a hard-to-
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by romwell 3y ago
>Why does the service provider care about account takeover, from a financial perspective? Indeed, caring in any way about users of your product or service is merely a liability and a cost center.
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by romwell 3y ago
>How can you control that, though? Are people responsible for the mental state of all their followers? No. There is an extent, however, to which leaders are responsible for the actions of their followers. They know what audience they&#
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by romwell 3y ago
>the seemingly out of place "as a record label" portion of Tan's quote probably should have engendered some pause in the discerning reader. A discerning reader would discern that the word record was missing from Tran&#
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by romwell 3y ago
Not just that, he modified the sentence by replacing most of it with the names of SF politicians. Pretty much the only part left intact was "die slowly". This isn't a quote, this is an allusion .
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by romwell 3y ago
Yes, that's the dividing line. Specific example that I linked: >Rallies organized by Likud and other right-wing groups featured depictions of Rabin in the crosshairs of a gun. In July 1995, Netanyahu led a mock funeral procession fe
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by romwell 3y ago
There's criticism, and there's saying "<specific person> should die". If you can't tell the difference, you don't belong in public spaces or forums.
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by romwell 3y ago
>You know, like a Che T-shirt doesn't mean you're endorsing the killing of political prisoners and stuff. Or that a George Washington statue endorses slavery. What a load of bullshit. He put names of specific people in his tw
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by romwell 3y ago
>So, he "re-tweeted" Tupac but does not endorse it? :) There might be a reason the Tupac reference didn't exactly come through. Perhaps because he replaced all the people Tupac wished dead in his rap song with the names of
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by romwell 3y ago
As the article says, a single leftist saying "millionaires should be guillotined" should be taken very seriously. But him saying <specific, named people> should "die slow" shuold be taken as just a joke, bro . H
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by romwell 3y ago
>Either that, or the country really is a few Twitter sparks away from civil war, which again would... not be a normal state of things. We're pretty much there, yup. But stochastic terrosism[1] isn't a new or unique thing. Yitzh
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by romwell 3y ago
>ASML isn't guarding profound insights revealed by the gods requiring some sort of eternal liver pecking sacrifice to obtain. As someone who's worked in semiconductors... [citation needed] on that claim. >If the EU plays har
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by romwell 3y ago
>There's not really any need. No, there is a need. We know what happened and why. We also need to know who all these people were, because all of them failed at their jobs . The last person in the chain using a shitty tool doe
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by romwell 3y ago
I debug using printf. The supposed advantage of using a debugger is rapidly examining the state of the program. But the debugger offers no means of actually examining anything other than the simplest variables. With printf, I can create a
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by romwell 3y ago
Yup, I'd love to know the name of that wonderful software and the company that made it. Also I'd love to know the names of the judge, prosecutor, and investigator who put a man in jail simply because a man from the store told them
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by romwell 3y ago
>In the same way a writer reads books and use that knowledge to create more, an ai model can do the same. No, it can't. Literally. The AI model doesn't decide which data goes into training it. People do. These people are doin
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by romwell 3y ago
>In practical terms, is that different from Google becoming a trillion-dollar company from its search offering? Google directs people to the people that created content and their platforms, allowing them to profit off of their labor. Cha
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by romwell 3y ago
Oh those darned HOA types!
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by romwell 3y ago
>As soon as I read “evolutionary perspectives” I noped out. Musicians aren’t competing to spread their genes ...and their study, unsurprisingly, came to the same conclusion. >But music is something we do to bring us together, not to c
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by romwell 3y ago
My bad then. Hope they indeed do that.
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by romwell 3y ago
Windows 95 remains the pinnacle of clear, discoverable GUI. It's like the companies rolling out UI elements don't even bother running them past people , and are guided solely by what the design department thinks looks cool that d

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