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   by scubbo 4y ago

   Given that that would be opening the manufacturers up to an _extraordinary_ liability if it was ever discovered; that many individuals are highly motivated to discover this behaviour; that it would be possible to do so fairly easily with ne
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   by scubbo 4y ago

   > Andy and S-team decided this week to pause on new incremental hires > We still intend to hire a meaningful number of people in 2023 Am I missing something, or are these contradictory?
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   by scubbo 4y ago

   In my personal projects? Absolutely. It's fun and satisfying to build something on a server sitting in the corner of my room, something I can actually look at and kick. For professional projects? Only if given a _very_ compelling reaso
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   by scubbo 4y ago

   > Bisociation works by attempting to form a connection between a target concept and a random stimulus concept. > * Pick a target concept. > * Randomly pick a stimulus concept. > * Attempt to form an association or connection bet
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   by scubbo 4y ago

   I absolutely love Obsidian, and have been enthusiastically recommending it to everyone I can. Congratulations on hitting 1.0!
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   by scubbo 4y ago

   This is presumably a limitation of the iOS client, as I've certainly been able to store my vault in a Dropbox folder and sync it to my Android device with DropSync.
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   by scubbo 4y ago

   Fascinating perspective. Can you elaborate? In particular, given that Javascript predates App Stores by many years (I would hazard an unresearched guess at over a decade), and that Javascript serves myriad purposes in websites that have not
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   by scubbo 4y ago

   > When using SSO, which we do, you cannot have more than one account open in the same browser at the same time. http://willthames.github.io/2018/02/28/managing-multiple-aws... You're welcome :)
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   by scubbo 4y ago

   Thanks a ton!
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    (Honest question) what do you feel that your comment added to the one above it? Are you suggesting that "dumb verbose code" might not be legible (I suppose that's technically possible, but seems unlikely to happen by accident
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Off-topic, but I _love_ the "sidenote" format for footnotes. I've been meaning to implement that in my own blog for a while, now. I'll check out the source for inspiration.
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Small-scale evil is still evil.
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    +1 to Hollow Knight. Beautiful visuals, beautiful soundtrack, beautiful everything.
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Thank you!
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Off-topic, but I think this might be the first time I've loaded a url including `%20` and had it actually render in my address bar as a space, rather than the percent-code. Is this something new in Firefox?
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Absolutely. https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql (found from HN a week or so ago)
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Oh, well done.
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    This is a lovely idea! My partner and I regularly take "Digital Detoxes" - weekend-long periods of no internet connectivity (initially we intended "no technology", but loosened that to permit eBooks or a single pre-plann
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Well, sure, but that comes under the heading of "traverse sensibly", no? The bot would traverse according to the paths, and snapshot accordingly.
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Why is that a problem? Scale isn't a non -issue, but it's a much smaller problem[0] than creating code to traverse the space sensibly while exporting screenshots and linking them together. Once you have the code to map-out a 10m
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    > Maybe copyright laws don't put people off in the way that you're claiming they do. Or maybe there would be many more of such projects if people weren't put off from starting them in the first place by copyright laws.
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    This is a commonly-held misconception. "Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge" was a backronym[0] - an acronym formed from an already existing word. [0] https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/8755
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Right - as I acknowledged by saying "[this] won't be true for everyone - perhaps, not many people"
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    > The "cost" of a company using info about me to run more efficient ad auctions is totally worth the benefit of having highly accurate maps with up to date business info with stuff like hours and direct links to their website&#
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    > And you think that complaining about tech companies[...] is a more rational strategy to achieve the outcomes you want? No, I don't. I was pointing out that your claim that individuals can effect political change is broadly incorre
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    > If you're concerned about this, contribute to the EFF Doesn't this just prove my point? No individual can make a difference - only large organizations can.
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Thanks! This (to me) was way more interesting than the rest of the article :)
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    Putting this in a sibling comment because it's tangential to my more-relevant response about an alternative business model. --- The claim that citizens of western-style democracies have mechanisms to modify government behaviour is tech
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    I've never seen such a concise and well-articulated statement of this position. Thank you for presenting it! I instinctively disagree with it, but I can't actually provide a coherent and convincing counter-argument, which is proba
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    by scubbo 4y ago

    That's a helpful perspective - thank you!