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by seanp2k2 3y ago
It’s hilarious to see all the “Congress created [sic] dust bowl” signs down I-5 through the Central Valley when you consider how much of the land there was given to them for free through homestead acts, and taxpayers subsidize their water.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Scanning one package is one thing, but distributing what are essentially entire disk images for a functioning OS plus whatever software you’re after just never seemed appealing to me. It’s doubly laughable when it’s Java or something else
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Not just enterprise logic, but enterprise serving the public sector logic. Get those sweet, sweet tax dollars. You should see how much medical displays are for things like looking at ultrasounds / MRI / xray images.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Really wish we had options for 16:10 and 4:3 monitors in 4k-8k resolutions in 2024. Personally, I think the ultimate monitor is somewhere around 36” wide with a ~1.6x “golden ratio” (aka 16:10) so around 22-24” tall (for reference, a 42” 16
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
The fact that even in Silicon Valley, the Comcast monopoly is very strong for both single-family and multi-tenant housing tells you everything you need to know about the viability of anyone actually solving this problem. They’re simply maki
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
100% this. If companies use Admiral to block Adblock and don’t have the tiny “heck off” link at the bottom of the modal, I just hit back and don’t read their article. Sometimes Reader works on iOS in those situations, sometimes not. Between
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
It’s representative of where most Apple software and hardware is designed and where their customers have atypically high disposable income compared to most other countries. They’re obviously doing pretty well with this strategy.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
>The reality is that cars are freedom and still superior from a continence and comfort standpoint. Ask any Amazon driver; they much prefer peeing in bottles in the comfort of their own delivery trucks vs on trains.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Sky cars won't happen in this lifetime due to a few factors, not least of which is inefficiency in overcoming gravity at a speed sufficient to maintain flight in air as dense as ours in here on Earth. The other factors are obviously we
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I've got some H3O+ for people who want to try something "similar" to water in the same way that Adderall is meth.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I also just don't understand how it's profitable to run those ads in the US, given how niche some of the conditions are...like I'm pretty sure that if you have cancer, you're going to be asking your doctor about a lot of
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
All Apple needs to do is send a few scary C&D letters from their army of lawyers and this will be done. If they run the infrastructure for imessage, I'm sure there's something in a ToS somewhere that talks about spoofing devic
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
And if you read or watch much about all the musicians reviewing their Spotify Wrapped this year vs how much they were paid, you’d see that we’re already there. The value of their work went to music streaming services and everyone using thei
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I mean, why do you think we really got away from the idea of tying currency to something physical? Money and property are just ideas that enough people agree about to matter. If you don’t agree, too bad and good luck convincing all the othe
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
There’s definitely a deep philosophical discussion to be had here about what value governments provide in return for your tax dollars on property that in reality they allow you to do certain things with, insofar as any human can claim to ow
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I’d highly recommend reading the 1840 banger * What Is Property? or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government* by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon of Property is theft! fame.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Just ask TV and car manufacturers who collect telemetry about absolutely everything you do with their products and probably everything that happens on your connected phone and/or wifi network too.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Metallica made sure that argument doesn’t hold water in court back when they were suing all their fans for downloading their music on Napster. To this day I remind everyone who will listen why I refuse to listen to them ever again whenever
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
And this is also why Adobe software is some of the most frequently-pirated software of all time. After all these years and all the other examples of the correct way to do this, they still refuse to see the light of “free for personal use” l
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
I smell any company that charges subscription fees to creatives for content they’re selling from other creatives and taking a huge cut of.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
It’s no wonder that certain parties are so very interested in gutting consumer protections in US government at every level so they can continue these consumer-hostile practices unchallenged, but it’s hard to get voters to care about these
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Yearly reminder that a long time ago, chat services used XMPP and we were on the verge of having GChat interoperability with FB messages and I think Yahoo or something similar at the time. None of them really wanted to do it for business re
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
If you're in the Bay Area in California, you're in one of the best spots in the world for birding. Grab some decent binoculars -- https://birdwatchinghq.com/best-binoculars-for-watching-bird... has a list and I&#x
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
They have many orders of magnitude more money and attorneys that would work full-time on such a case to ensure that even if they lost the court battle, the person or company doing the thing that they didn't like would be effectively ba
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
This; it’s a win-win-win for the company.
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
As the article author correctly points out, Python should have just thrown when a method is called that requires a TZ with a datetime that doesn’t include one. Between this, the Unicode circus, and the rejection of PEP582, Python seems more
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
If you’re storing time zone info for a transaction in the database instead of storing it as epoch time, you’re probably doing it wrong. Time zone is a user-level presentation layer issue. Keep that junk out of the backend. Imagine writing c
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Let’s do semi trucks first for the “only allow a few mph above the speed limit” think. Driving down I-5 is infinitely more annoying with semis taking the left of two lanes to pass other semis because they want to to 65mph instead of their l
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Ageee when Google, who has been in the maps and software game much longer and with many billions more invested than any car company, can’t even tell that I’m on US101 on the HOV ramp and not on a surface street under the highway for that ra
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by seanp2k2 3y ago
Also interesting that the first paragraph cites 103mph as the speed in a deadly accident. Would 3mph have made a difference here? Volvo already limits top speed to 112mph in all their models since 2021 https://www.goodwood.com&#x

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