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by skinkestek 1y ago
> I will say, this is a level of question that is too sophisticated for SO Could it be that, for years, they've been selecting for things like: - Low friction onboarding - Upvoting “easy wins” and thought experiments over real-world
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Am I missing something, or is the content here too minimal? For this to be genuinely useful, I’d expect at least a few code examples—and ideally a link to a working repo to show it in action.
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by skinkestek 1y ago
> Meanwhile, (some) journalists at (some) news organisations are being forced to write stories that have no integrity under an editorial policy that is designed to promote a partisan point of view. Let’s not forget the credentialed journ
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by skinkestek 2y ago
> I have presences on Mastodon and Bluesky, but my follower count on both remains in the low teens. I've been on Bluesky for a few months. Around 300 followers, mostly generic female names being caricatures of progressive or traditi
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Something similar here: - Part of my colorblindness seems to be a language thing, especially as a non native speaker of English: is that status light "amber" or is it just on? (here it it obviously helps if there is a full rack an
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by skinkestek 2y ago
> People were writing off Google in terms of AI until this year.. and oh how attitudes have changed. Just give Google a year or two. Google has a pretty amazing history of both messing up products generally and especially "ai like&q
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Can it now generate images of soldier in typical uniforms from 1940s Germany without having to throw in a few token ethnicities? Or generate images of the founding fathers of US that at least to some degree resemble the actual ones?
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Exactly. This person seems to have some serious issues :-)
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Hi another person with 5 kids :-)
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Exactly.
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by skinkestek 2y ago
I guess this is what is called the strawman argument? Pretending I only care about one thing and then pointing out that it is stupid to only care about one thing?
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by skinkestek 2y ago
> And how often has the latter actually happened? Exact amount of times it happen doesn't matter as much as the fact that one side tries to pretend it isn't a problem. > there is no 100% foolproof system that allows for no c
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Picasa could have had the same promising future as Sketchup. For Google+ I cannot say, but what I know is that even if the launch, the initial iterations and the leadership was bad, destroying the thing just as people starting to settle in
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by skinkestek 2y ago
You might be meaning something smart and good or something not so smart and good, but I only realized on my second reading. What I mean is there is absolutely room somewhere between the current situation (examples from Norway) where: - ever
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by skinkestek 2y ago
I went from using a series of Android phones, including a number of flagship phones and finally tried iPhone in 2018 after custom keyboards became available (no way I'd accept the built in back then). At that point the cheapest iPhone
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by skinkestek 2y ago
> and pretty much only made things better, did migrations, etc. Maybe you are right. From the outside however, the situation looks very different: - reader? destroyed - Google+? Forced upon us and then destroyed as soon as communities st
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Did anyone mention that on AppleTV I now get ads on my home screen? ---- I am also using a Macbook for work and in addition to the fantastic battery life and the fact that it mostly "just works" I feel parts of the experience has
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by skinkestek 2y ago
> The development of Firefox costs around half a billion $ per year. Half a billion, IIRC, is what Mozilla gets from Google every year. This is AFAIK mostly not spent on developing the browser. To add insult to injury AFAIK it arrives th
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Best thing we can do to influence it is probably to use and fund forks such as LibreWolf, hoping that they are in a position to continue development once Google decides to tell the manager of Mozilla to finally destroy it completely. (Yes,
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by skinkestek 2y ago
I happen to be in the target audience: Orion user on Mac (but I think of it as a better Safari if anyone saw me writing I only use Safari and Firefox), but would like to have it available on my non Mac machines as well.
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Reading in Firefox mobile. I open Chrome / Edge 4 times or so every year it feels, either to verify something is just as broken there or because of low quality systems at work.
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Safari + Firefox here. But I use Firefox for webdev as well. And unlike my colleagues using Chrome I've only once been made aware of something I made that didn't work in every browser.
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by skinkestek 2y ago
if I understand correctly ediff isn't cli, it is a gui built into emacs, only implemented unsing characters?
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Ahh, good point. I guess Rust (and maybe other unmanaged languages) can be compiled to WebAssembly?
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Haltbakk bunkers were also the ones that left a russian mega yacht without fuel a while ago :-)
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by skinkestek 2y ago
russian facists.
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Both these (sløyd /woodworking, heimekunnskap/cooking and home economics) were mandatory for everyone in Norway back in the nineties(although to be fair shop time was limited to wood, we weren't allowed to use metal lathes et
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by skinkestek 2y ago
>> Wait, there's something here that I'm not getting. Why are you compiling the code to WebAssembly instead of just running it directly on the server? > Well, everything's a tradeoff. Let's imagine a world where
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by skinkestek 2y ago
People have typical shelled out significant more money for Miele washing machines because they were known to last typically up to somewhere between 1 and 2 decades and be repairable. People pay a lot extra for Toyota. I don't want to p
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by skinkestek 2y ago
Facists, not nazis. If they don't hate Jews it isn't nazism, just ordinary facism. Also russia already beat the us to becoming nuclear armed facists.

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