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by scubbo 3y ago
Dropbox is still pretty solidly great.
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by scubbo 3y ago
I think they're saying that the base content _itself_ has the letterbox "burned in", so that when they watch it on their TV (with an wider ratio) it has black borders on all four sides - at the sides because of ratio mismatch
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by scubbo 3y ago
Corporations, in America, where the travesty known as Citizens United exists. (I'm not claiming that other countries don't have money in politics; but America is the one where it is most clearly enshrined with an actual name to th
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by scubbo 3y ago
Perhaps the part where "having backups which are unreliable/unrestorable" is _more_ dangerous than "being known to have no backups", because the former provides a false sense of security?
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Roads in the US aren't as safe to cross This is true on average, but not a justification for jay-walking being a crime on roads which _are_ safe to cross.
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by scubbo 3y ago
> for the purpose of keeping traffic flow orderly and efficient. Not sure why this should be any difference Because I'm saying that the act of crossing the road _itself_ should not be illegal - merely the act of crossing it unsafely
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Worth pointing out that "jaywalking" is not a universal crime. When I first moved from the UK to the USA, I assumed that "jaywalking" was a made-up thing that you warned tourists about, like https://en.wi
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by scubbo 3y ago
The scare quotes are disingenuous. However we may dislike or disapprove of Google's algorithms, it is absolutely accurate to describe the results as personalized.
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by scubbo 3y ago
> Sure, installing PopOS is pretty easy if you follow the tutorial, but what happens if you try to install Steam one day and it breaks your desktop environment? I think you're replying to the wrong comment. This was a comment about
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by scubbo 3y ago
A relevant slideshow (with captions): https://boringtechnology.club/ You can tell it's getting old because it used Phony Stark as a symbol for innovation, but the underlying message is timeless.
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by scubbo 3y ago
> "I've heard that AI is the way to do things, so I want the best AI language." In 2002. Jeez.
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by scubbo 3y ago
> I personally think anxiety and unspoken stress regarding climate collapse and other forms of society degradation we're experiencing and seeing accelerate are responsible for a good deal of this. That's a fair point.
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by scubbo 3y ago
> I don't know why people would communicate in public spaces if they don't want to interact with the public. Isn't that the entire point? I broadly agree with you, but, a minor counterpoint: Depending on the social network
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by scubbo 3y ago
In fact, I just had cause to use the term again, which prompted me to return here to describe my usage a little bit more. I was documenting a configuration file, and noted that one particular value was chosen "arbitrarily". What I
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by scubbo 3y ago
Seconding, here, that I've almost-always heard arbitrary/arbitrarily to mean (slightly differently than the sibling commenter) "able to be chosen freely, without any loss of generality"; though, yes, I have also heard yo
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by scubbo 3y ago
> I don't know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone who has any serious "long-covid" symptoms. You are fortunate. I know several who have those symptoms (ranging in age from my own - mid-30's - to my parents'
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by scubbo 3y ago
Yeah, that one baffled me, too. The rest makes sense, though!
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by scubbo 3y ago
I respect the thoughtfulness with which you made your point, but completely disagree. As another commenter stated - Code Reviews are, for me, primarily a method for communication and knowledge dissemination, secondarily a means to get a sec
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by scubbo 3y ago
Good God, I've wanted this for the Bay Area for years. How can I help make that happen? EDIT: oh, it's not just NYC-specific, it's possible to add locations elsewhere. Awesome - I've bookmarked it, and will start contrib
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by scubbo 3y ago
> OpenAI has made a better product than Google with less time and engineers Google has its flaws; but this is manifestly false _even_ if you restrict "Google" to just Search.
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by scubbo 3y ago
It does - but note that I made no mention of disapproving of impoliteness!
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by scubbo 3y ago
Cool article! A little feedback for the authors, if they read this: PoPs is used in the first non-intro paragraph and thereafter, but not defined until nearly the end. A reader _could_ find the definition by clicking the link from the first
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by scubbo 3y ago
> this person is rich and dumb Not, necessarily, a negative dating signal for some people. (Less cynically - it might signal "this person is comfortably-off and is willing to devote significant energy to dating" - which could b
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by scubbo 3y ago
Hopefully, the limit does not exist.
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by scubbo 3y ago
I, uhhhh.....I would like to know what TFA is meant to stand for, because I assume it is not "the ſucking article", but that was my first thought. Maybe "featured"? Google is only giving me "Teach For America"
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by scubbo 3y ago
A _significantly_ more helpful comment - thank you!
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by scubbo 3y ago
> If there aren't dishes at work, let alone a full kitchen, then leftovers are transported, heated, and eaten from the same container. Fair! I've been lucky enough to always work in places where the kitchen has a decent amount
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by scubbo 3y ago
> For most Americans, they don't have glass plates/bowls at their work Honest question - is there something wrong with microwaving ceramic bowls? Literally every bowl intended for eating (rather than for mixing cooking ingredie
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by scubbo 3y ago
> You only need a few minutes of thought to understand why electric vehicles will never be able to replace internal combustion engines as things stand today. Well, no, you absolutely need some data, axioms, or facts to support your thoug
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by scubbo 3y ago
Whoops, you're right, I brain farted the wrong word. To be clear, though, they were still wrong. `f(x)=2x` has the property they described of consistently giving the same input for a given input (if you pass in 1, it will always output

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