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by sobkas 5y ago
If only distributed search engine was possible...
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by sobkas 5y ago
> I think this is an excellent example of why people get so excited about Rust. It can't do anything you can't do in C or C++, but it makes a whole bunch of things significantly easier and less stressful. Which makes maintenanc
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by sobkas 5y ago
> There are definitely obnoxious tourists and respectful tourists. Ah, the dreaded "not all tourists..."
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Not really in a serious way, partly because I do not have an idea where would I start. Any ideas? On premise search. Businesses have lots of resources on their internal websites, but no easy way to search them in one place. Addition of
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by sobkas 5y ago
> So the argument is, that ‘because Google Bot can read the content for free, then I should be allowed to do so too’? This seems like a pretty week excuse for bypassing a paywall. I think the reason we have annoyances like ‘please sign u
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by sobkas 5y ago
> You know the end is near when ideas of proper morality flow from a government to its citizens, rather than the reverse. You have no idea how many of social liberties you take for granted were strongarmed by governments/judiciary.
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by sobkas 5y ago
> If, instead, we would build stuff in orbit it would be much cheaper and faster as you don't need origami like folding, high Gs resistance, and a malfunctioning piece can be replaced easily. Are you sure it would be cheaper? Buildi
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by sobkas 5y ago
> It's indeed a "new" way to make money. You cannot "pirate " this signature. You can't stop anyone else from making different nft pointing at your art and saying their nft is original. So maybe you can&#x27
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by sobkas 5y ago
> There is a gaping chasm between what users say they'll pay for and what they will actually pay for. Especially in social media. More like "I'm paying for it... What have gone so bad in my life that lead me to do it"
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Next time you're doing production work on a TV show or movie and want to use a piece of media in your production without licensing it, try running "Hey, we can just right-click it" past the studio legal department. I&#x2
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Feels weird that a private company can target individuals for a price. How was this legal? Isn’t it illegal to hack the phone of a private individual? Or do they simply say here’s the tool, here’s the manual, do what you want just don’
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Not saying this tradeoff is for everyone, and I've never used C++ professionally so I'm probably ignorant. But are you saying it's common with production projects that use a compiler from 2003 or earlier? What's the
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by sobkas 5y ago
> The fact that iOS plays nicely with apps that ask to prevent screenshotting is a foundational bug. Does such an ability exist on stock Android? Either way, it’s best practice to root & jailbreak. When I used feature "screen ca
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by sobkas 5y ago
> I can imagine a rather dark "Employees as a Service" future where we get paid only for each productive minute of automatically recorded work, as if humans were AWS Lambda instances or whatever And then people would be forced
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Who in tech do you hold up as an ideal persona? For me it is mjg59 and maybe Miguel de Icaza, also maybe Linus Torvalds
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by sobkas 5y ago
> They'll have day jobs and create art on the weekends and evenings. Alternately, they'll be sponsored through some full-time fellowship to create art. If public wants a specific artist to create a specific art, they will be fo
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by sobkas 5y ago
> So there are accounts on Twitter that "expose and keep track" of people (I won't give them the benefit of the doubt re: their assumptions of "white supremacist" and "hate rallies"). This sounds awfull
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by sobkas 5y ago
I always liked tme.eu
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by sobkas 5y ago
> I've always thought that the Unix philosophy could do well here; if you start by building the rawest version of your app to operate on the command line, and then make the UI an interface to that, you can trivially automate anythin
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by sobkas 5y ago
> IMO the far left challenging free speech is a bit of a trojan horse. Yes, you can use censorship to suppress distasteful ideas, Yeah, and rightwing is a bunch of saints that never deplatformed anyone?
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by sobkas 5y ago
>I can fit in my 1 square meter food closet and which would likely cost me (or a few other experienced backenders) 2-3 weekends to setup. I don't think that setting it up is main problem here. Keeping it up to date and secure is the
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by sobkas 5y ago
> but do you remember when there were choices other than Word and Excel? It was so great to use different incompatible file formats/office suites when you wanted to send a file to someone.
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by sobkas 5y ago
> The West, at the very least, allows people on prime time TV to insult even the highest-ranking leaders in the most dirty and savage ways imagined. This is cathartic. Well, not every western country is an America. In Poland there is a l
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by sobkas 5y ago
> It's one thing to punish murderers You know that this murderer can be a wife that killed her abusive husband. Or other similar circumstances. Not all murderers are evil.
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Well as Clarence Ray Allen showed, sometimes the only way to stop someone from killing people is to kill them. If killing is such a great solution, lets just kill everyone capable of committing a crime. It will definitely lower it.
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by sobkas 5y ago
Because if you change that config file, people responsible for it will be added to review, and will beat you with a stick for touching it without consulting change with them?
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by sobkas 5y ago
And neither it can with humanity. I never heard of plausible plan to do it with technology we have or will have.
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by sobkas 5y ago
I don't know how to think about this article https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r... It looks bad
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by sobkas 5y ago
<Blame the voters. Voters have agency. The voters are the enablers of the politicians. And then we have gerrymandering and voter suppression, good luck with getting a vote that counts.
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by sobkas 9y ago
Turning? Wasn't it true already with cases like Flint?

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