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by skohan 4y ago
It's hard to imagine needing this honestly. I'm typing this on an M1 air, and even on this chip it's so snappy and quick even on things like larger compilation jobs. I'm not on the super-power-user end, but imo the pric
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by skohan 4y ago
I agree with you that the free software movement is incredibly important, and that it's not talked about enough. I actually think it should be taught about in schools so that the average person has a background on why it's import
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by skohan 4y ago
Step 1: join a conversation about the importance of FOSS, and the dangers of decreased awareness about its importance in society Step 2: re-frame it as the pro-FOSS side having bad manners Step 3: ???
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by skohan 4y ago
Is that how they do placebo controlled studies? I thought they would tell all participants they had received a genuine dose.
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by skohan 4y ago
Intuitively it makes sense to me that more complex systems collapse faster because potentially they have more points and modes of failure. For instance, due to advances in technology, many aspects of our current modern global society depend
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah exactly - if these games can't afford to exist without causing social harm then they should not exist.
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by skohan 4y ago
Long term, Casinos absolutely have odds slanted toward the house. With the exception of a very few games, like blackjack, which can be effectively gamed, a gambler will statistically be guaranteed to go broke as the number of games approac
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by skohan 4y ago
But it’s not just harming people who spend $110k. All sorts of people will end up spending money they shouldn’t because they’ve been trapped by an addictive product.
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by skohan 4y ago
Yes it does work. Elden Ring is another example of a hugely successful product which is solely focused on being an excellent piece of entertainment. It’s just more optimal for Profitability to create addictive garbage like this. Blizzard
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by skohan 4y ago
But these games are explicitly designed to be frustrating and not fun when played for free. The math and game design are expertly crafted to make you play compulsively. They most certainly have been designed to cause psychological pain w
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by skohan 4y ago
It might not be the greatest evil on earth, but knowingly preying on vulnerable people in society, and causing harm for your own benefit, to me is sickening and evil.
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by skohan 4y ago
I agree regulation is needed. I think these situations are also partially due to a failure of anti-trust. In many of these cases, there is insufficient competition for these companies to be forced to act in the user’s best interest. Add
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by skohan 4y ago
You don’t think sparing hundreds of thousands of children from harm in the Netherlands accomplishes anything? Is it useless to ban children from using cocaine and rocket-propelled grenade launchers in the US just because they’re not banned
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by skohan 4y ago
What's the limiting factor on bandwidth constraints for probes like this? Is it the power of the probe? Is it the distance from earth? I wonder if you could build a mesh network of satellites/probes out farther into the solar sy
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah exactly, imo the way the Go version requires you to declare an interface, in this case with a no-op method essentially acting as a tag, and declare conformance on your types is quite noisy and feels like a hack. Also I prefer with Rust
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by skohan 4y ago
I guess it depends on your priorities. I've had a very good experience with Pop in terms of polish, and after mostly switching to a Linux desktop Windows is unbearably noisy as an OS to me.
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by skohan 4y ago
Wow really? Cool if it works for you, but after switching to Linux I find Windows very annoying and high-maintenance.
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by skohan 4y ago
This is a terrible take. Why on earth would you trust a closed source, corporate solution more than FOSS sostare? The FOSS solution can be audited and the closed source solution can not. Your opinion is incorrect.
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by skohan 4y ago
I think this is less clear than. The rust/ swift version.
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by skohan 4y ago
Do you really think font choice is worth spying on all your users?
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by skohan 4y ago
Have you considered switching to a Linux desktop environment? Unless you need Windows for some reason, Linux is generally the best development environment in my experience.
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by skohan 4y ago
Telemetry is also not the only solution to the problem of improving a product. For something like a code editor, I cannot imagine what they can learn from telemetry that the cannot also learn from methods like user interviews.
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by skohan 4y ago
It’s complete nonsense, I cannot imagine what they are talking about.
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by skohan 4y ago
This sounds like security theater. Imagine thinking that widely used OSS projects are unsafe and MS products are the only acceptable choice.
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by skohan 4y ago
What advantage do you feel that remote ssh offers over just having a traditional CI pipeline?
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by skohan 4y ago
I'm not a go expert, but imo the main difference is ergonomics and clarity. Rust/Swift style ADT's plus pattern matching gives you a very concise and readable way to declare and use sum-types, and the Go way seems to have mo
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah I think it's always fine to use the most expedient tool for the job. Personally, when I am choosing what to invest my time in, I would rather choose FOSS tools which I know to be independent of corporate interests. I admit it&#x2
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by skohan 4y ago
It's all about what you invest in. I've been working with FOSS tools for years, and it takes a while to get your workflows figured out, but I would say I am pretty fast and productive now
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Nobody's talking about access to customer workloads. Does Amazon have knowledge about how much they're billing each client for bandwidth?
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by skohan 4y ago
Not the person you're responding to, but imo the main thing missing from Go is ADT's. After using these in Rust and Swift, a programming language doesn't really feel complete without them. That said, I think Go's simpli

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