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by shit_game 2y ago
> I originally wrote this guide for my daughter, then 12 years old I like the idea of this as an introduction for a child to web development, but I feel like it ( in isolation ) is wanting. One of the most jarring bits of this page is th
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by shit_game 2y ago
I've become convinced that everything he publicly does is an advanced form of social gish gallop meant to overwhelm and distract everyone from what he is actually doing, which is robbing the United States of its wealth, information, an
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by shit_game 2y ago
For context, (I assume) this is referencing the Horizon IT Scandal in which faulty accounting software used by post offices in the UK indicated there were financial discrepencies suggesting embezzlement, and over 900 innocent people were co
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by shit_game 2y ago
>I'm not sure there is a problem if a proportion of the listeners don't recognize they are listening to slop. I do, however, think its a problem if Spotify is giving preferential treatment to slop, as is claimed in this post. I
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by shit_game 2y ago
the fact that doubleclick.net shows up in the requests is incredibly telling. the page doesnt even work for me with ublock origin and strick tracking protection in firefox. is this related to all the social media links on the page? is the p
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by shit_game 2y ago
Things like washing machines and cars liberated people from labor and saved their time, which they couldn then use to persue other goals. For many, making art is their goal - generative AI isn't liberating people from the burden of mak
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by shit_game 2y ago
"I had learned to appreciate the color limitations during the old-school graphics competition at Evoke, where we could only use a predefined color palette. The first time I submitted an entry in 2022, I hated it. The second time, in 20
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by shit_game 2y ago
I was about to say that it felt very Gorean, but then I realized _duh_ there's a reason why.
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by shit_game 2y ago
I had the same thought. I think that it was slightly different in the age of paper publications and cable though because there was no alternatives. Now, everyone runs their own streaming service, and until all of them decide to also run ads
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by shit_game 2y ago
> Mouse interfaces are fundamentally different, because you have much more pointing precision, so it pays off to show more data on the screen. You don't have to cram your interface with with spaces to make it scan-friendly, you just
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by shit_game 2y ago
Their license/Eula clearly state that Reddit has perpetual whatever to content posted on Reddit, but relying solely on DMCA for "stolen" content _yet again_ feels like a terrible way to deal with non-original content. Part of
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by shit_game 2y ago
I've long thought that the use of residential proxies for things like scraping and operating large-scale bot networks is a necessity, but I've never really dabbled in using them, so I've never confirmed my suspicions about ho
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by shit_game 3y ago
>The compiler should be able to eliminate the unused parts during compilation, it’s not like adding JSON to the standard library is going to make a “hello world” program bigger. I agree. I would argue against keeping standard libraries t
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by shit_game 3y ago
This is what sticks out to me about the situation. I would much rather a site go offline due to service overage triggering at some limit that I set - simply relying on the good faith of a host to subjectively waive fees is not reliable nor
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by shit_game 3y ago
I'd have found this much more interesting if the animations were rendered in the browser - I would have loved to poke around the code that makes them work. They're neat looking, but being served videos and not code leaves an itch
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by shit_game 3y ago
> Bandcamp has been successful because of the trust they have within the internet music community. It’s not a very complicated product, but people buy music there because the whole thing feels like it’s a part of the music scene, not the
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by shit_game 3y ago
Right on, that's pretty interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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by shit_game 3y ago
I'd say it does influence my opinion to be more positive knowing that you're not necessarily in the palm of Githubs hands, though my underlying cynicism still remains - I think part of that is that I've grown significantly mo
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by shit_game 3y ago
I suppose that depends on ones opinion regarding the Copilot situation.
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by shit_game 3y ago
As "inspirational" as this comes across, I can't help but feel a bit cynical in that this is _Github_ publishing this. You know, the company that famously built an AI product using the projects hosted on Github... Personal de
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by shit_game 4y ago
Given how poor their search engine performs as of late, it's no surprise they can't seem to be original; they obviously can't find anything that already exists.
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by shit_game 4y ago
Absolutely. Something that many people may forget or not realize is just how much of the Internet's traffic consists of bots - benevolent, malevolent, or benign. If you've ever made a machine's IP public and logged the IPV4 t