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by ropable 9mo ago
From my perspective, the US is foot-gunning itself into geopolitical irrelevance through the destruction of its soft power and undermining the NATO alliance. For all its many, many faults, the CCP's actions around establishing itself a
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by ropable 9mo ago
Everyone here throwing shade at Stack Overflow is clearly too young to remember the horror of Experts Exchange and every other technical help site prior to SO. For nearly a decade, it was absolutely transformative as a technical help reso
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by ropable 9mo ago
If China does invade Taiwan, I feel like most people are going to have bigger problems than the Nvidia stock price.
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by ropable 9mo ago
A social circle is like a garden, inasmuch as you have to put in work to tend and maintain it. You have to put yourself in a position of potential awkwardness or rejection, which isn't easy. Interacting with people (especially stranger
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by ropable 9mo ago
I continue to be broadly in favour of this idea. I agree that there's some wiggle room around the specific age (15 vs 16), but for a population-level change you just need to pick an arbitrary value, implement, and re-assess later. I al
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by ropable 9mo ago
> But OK let's assume social media is always bad for kids and also that someone invents a perfect age gate... kids are just going to find places to hang out online that are less moderated and less regulated and less safe. Straw man
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Silent Rebuilds: Keeping Container CVE Counts Near-Zero(bretfisher.com)
1 points by ropable 9mo ago|1 comments
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by ropable 9mo ago
I came here to comment on this specific issue. The level of unsustainable groundwater extraction and inefficient consumption by agriculture and industry in Iran is just wild.
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by ropable 9mo ago
Good points, thoughtfully made. As a resident of Perth, I (largely) endorse that description. So much of the wealth of our middle- and upper-class is dependent on property ownership and rent-seeking, it's depressing. That population es
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by ropable 9mo ago
In Australia we've treated the family home as an investment, a primary mechanism for wealth creation (rather than an essential for life) for far too long. I fully agree that supply is the #1 driver for housing affordability, but like m
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by ropable 9mo ago
On the face of it, this initiative seems like solid nutritional advice. On the other hand, I'm a little dismayed to see animal protein sources given equal billing to vegetable and fruit on their new pyramid, and whole grains placed rig
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by ropable 9mo ago
Working fully remote during the COVID times taught me one thing quite well: that I am nowhere near the introvert I thought I was. Turns out that I really missed hanging out with friends in the same location (albeit a bit less often than som
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by ropable 9mo ago
The best non-fiction book I read in 2025 was "The Fabric of Civilization" by Virginia Postrel. It was completely fascinating, and made a good argument that the production of cloth/textiles might by one on the most import core
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by ropable 10mo ago
This author writes in ESL better than 99% of the people I've worked with in an English-native country, including myself. It's fascinating to read just how much more emphasis good-quality written English seems to have in Kenya than
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by ropable 10mo ago
I wanted to chime in to say: this is me, I do/have done this, and am also seeking to change this behaviour. It has never once occurred to me to try using spaced repetition for something like this, so thank you to putting the suggestion
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by ropable 10mo ago
It's beyond satire that US conservatives are now somehow upset about certain fonts being woke.
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by ropable 10mo ago
Sigh, I'll bite (even though I know I shouldn't, and it's pointless). > So, you haven't identified any actual problems with them being on social media Anonymous cyber bullying (multiple times), performative social exc
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by ropable 10mo ago
I fully support this legislation, and government regulation around this topic. Given the current (2025) state of the social media landscape, I believe that the positives of restricting access to them for teenagers well outweighs any potenti
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by ropable 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure that we can remove the word "software" from the article headline and it remains just as true. I don't believe that software projects are unique in this regard: big, complex projects are big and complex, a
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by ropable 11mo ago
Ooof. Occasionally you read something that hits different in the feelings, and this article was one for me. The regret at all the lost time and opportunity for all concerned. The might-have-beens. Sometimes, the shackles placed on us by our
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by ropable 11mo ago
There's something maliciously satisfying about seeing your own self-hosted stuff working while things behind Cloudflare or AWS are broken. Sure, they have like four more nines that me, but right now I'm sitting pretty.
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by ropable 11mo ago
It's just a couple of local Aussie nerds beefing again. Simmo broke up with Jonno's sister via IM, so feelings were hurt.
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by ropable 11mo ago
An awful lot of commenters are convinced that it's AI-generated, despite explicit statements to the contrary. Maybe they're wrong, maybe they're right, but none of them currently have any proof stronger than vibes. It's
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by ropable 11mo ago
It's almost as though the LLMs were trained on all the writing conventions which are used by humans and are parroting those, instead of generating novel outputs themselves.
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by ropable 11mo ago
I really, really wish that Youtube would start tagging this category of video to increase the visibility to end users. My feeling is that the main reason this content might be "winning" in the market is the sheer volume.
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by ropable 11mo ago
Welp, I probably just found the final reason for not bothering to maintain a Windows PC at home any more in addition to my personal laptop.
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by ropable 11mo ago
Notwithstanding that the sentiment of the article speaks to me somewhat, I think that it's overly reductive and lacks nuance. Sometimes collaboration can be bad - when you get bike-shedding, when there's no clear decision-maker, e
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by ropable 11mo ago
Profoundly misguided take. "These bureaucrats" are subject matter experts regarding the topics about which they have input. It's fine for people to do their own research about what car to drive. Which compounds they might con
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Devman's RaaS launch: the affiliate who aims to become the boss(analyst1.com)
1 points by ropable 1y ago|0 comments
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by ropable 1y ago
Looking back at my time at university, I have to admit that I mainly attended group study sessions in order to spend more time with the attractive singles in our course. This had the accidental benefit of forcing me to study and discuss the

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