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by scubbo 2y ago
I don't agree that "If we could not fuck with accessibility devices which disabled people rely on, that'd be great. Thanks." can be classified as "broad outrage". --- It can be simultaneously true that "th
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by scubbo 2y ago
Not explicitly, but > which disabled people rely on is pretty clear implication. But I'll spell it out for you - people with impairment to senses (primarily vision) rely on this infrastructure to know when it's safe to cross a
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by scubbo 2y ago
When the biggest criticism someone can level at a company is "I wish they had more coverage", they're doing it right :)
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by scubbo 2y ago
One does not have to be harmed by an action to be able to call out that it would have harmful impact.
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by scubbo 2y ago
No, the ridiculous thing is pretending that the rest of the world views technology the way that you (and many others - myself included!) think that it _should_, rather than in the way that it _does_. You may believe, with some justification
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by scubbo 2y ago
It's just an announcement page, for now.
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by scubbo 2y ago
Self-quoting[0]: > Sonic has the best customer service of any company ever encountered, and it's not even close. The few times I've had to contact them for assistance, I've been very quickly connected with someone clearly
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by scubbo 2y ago
> Ones I always find it difficult to find good icons for are [...] "save file". As someone who knows very little about iconography and design, this is very surprising to me. I thought that the "floppy disk for save" (
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by scubbo 2y ago
Patreon-style supporters.
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by scubbo 2y ago
> in a scalable way You continue to beg the question. "Without advertizing, companies would not be able to scale" is not a weakness of the push to ban advertizing - it is a virtue. The people advocating against advertizing _act
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by scubbo 2y ago
Presumably, they are excluded from consideration because manual tests[0] are, by definition, un-automated, and so are a bottleneck. Every manual test added to the "test suite" adds seconds (or, more likely, minutes) to execute, wh
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by scubbo 2y ago
They specifically mention "the P team at AWS". The two following things are perfectly able to be simultaneously true: * The average Amazon engineer is not expected to have awareness of CS fundamentals that go beyond LeetCode-y cha
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by scubbo 2y ago
I intentionally included "a semicolon" in my comment, because, no, even the sentence you wrote is susceptible to garden-path parsing. One _could_ read it as "...written by Buyser, and by an AI, and by software, and by...hmm,
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by scubbo 2y ago
From the article itself: > After a while, we realized it was starting to become unwieldy texting everyone when we were going to be outside. Thus, the WhatsApp group was born. Tech itself is not _inherently_ dehumanizing or isolating - on
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by scubbo 2y ago
100% same here!
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Notches
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> goblin.tools is written and maintained by Bram De Buyser, an AI, software and data engineer. I'm not saying that a semicolon and an Oxford comma are _necessary_, here - but I am saying that I did a double-take at my first interpre
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by scubbo 2y ago
Ah, I see your point now. Not "how can you generate income (at all)", but "how can you generate income more effectively than a competitor who is drafting off your development, to ensure you don't get competed out of busi
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by scubbo 2y ago
Precisely because it _was_ so interesting and valuable to observe those patterns - for the corporation observing them.
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The same way anything else gets created before it exists in order to create revenue - loans and/or early investors. EDIT: whoops, I missed the second part of your question ("...how can it be maintained and enhanced over time...&qu
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by scubbo 2y ago
I think you are underestimating how much people and businesses are willing to pay for convenience. For a business, especially, if the hosting provider costs are less (or even slightly more) than the pro-rated salary cost of the employee who
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by scubbo 2y ago
Hmm - YMMV, of course, but I've found quite the opposite.
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by scubbo 2y ago
By all means! Email's in my bio.
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by scubbo 2y ago
I like it enough to keep coming back, but lobste.rs is slightly preferable in my experience; more goodwill/less pedantry, and less Trumpelon apologism. (If you are gearing up to reply to the last three words of the previous paragraph,
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by scubbo 2y ago
What is QC? My best guess is "Quality Control", but I'm not sure how that belongs in the same bucket (in terms of "things that are threatening to reshape the tech landscape" and/or "things that are monetar
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by scubbo 2y ago
> That's why I consider any strong opinions on languages to be a poor indicator for ability. Hmm. Can't say I agree here - at least not with the literal text of what you've written (although maybe we agree in spirit). I ag
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by scubbo 2y ago
Very much appreciate the thoughtful reply, thank you!
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> you need a solid strategy for storing the energy. This is an unsolved problem in our time Earnest question - why isn't this solved by the fact that batteries exist? Are you saying that there is some technical/physical problem
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> Even self-hosting isn't foolproof - your content can vanish when you forget to pay for hosting I know what they mean - "running applications that you maintain and deploy yourself, on hardware/platforms that you don'
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Lol, good one.

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