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by somebehemoth 4y ago
Regardless of whether Disney should have ever gotten this deal, the taking away of the deal is unconstitutional because it is punishing free speech. That's it. This is not a "left" thing. It is a Constitution thing. I can bot
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by somebehemoth 4y ago
There simply is no evidence whatsoever that Ruby is past its prime. People are committing myriad logical fallacies: comparing go language to rails framework, anecdotes about Ruby monoliths, incorrect statements of fact about Ruby capability
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by somebehemoth 4y ago
People that don’t know how to use and maintain Linux should not be the metric for Linux stability. Linux will let you shoot yourself in the foot. That is not a Linux problem, PEBKAC.
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by somebehemoth 4y ago
Brave makes money from advertising. Not the same as how other browsers do it, but it requires trust to use Brave too. Referral link controversy is easy to find and relevant to the conversation: “Brave browser CEO apologizes for automaticall
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by somebehemoth 4y ago
I agree and I think Chrome OS on chromebooks proves this is true for a huge number of people.
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by somebehemoth 4y ago
Propaganda is not defined by friend or foe. I get the joke about public relations. > Not blaming it when my milk goes bad isn't "brushing it off. Minimizing is a form of propaganda.
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
> Please tell me how I'd use a map as an analog control navigated by my hands. Perhaps you should not be using a map while driving. My argument was not analog controls can do anything touch screens can do. Adding distraction via tou
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
Is the argument that Musk will make Twitter less ideological? My assumption is that he’ll push for his own ideology. If so, nothing gets better unless you happen to agree with Musk’s ideology. If nothing gets better we’ve traded one echo ch
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
> Meanwhile almost all of the screen on my big screen car gets used every time I drive. Which means your eyes were not on the road every single time you used this interface. Even if you had “wasted space” in your previous analog UI, none
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
Buttons and knobs can be navigated by humans using muscle memory alone. This is a feature of humans that has minimal downside compared to forcing the focus of human visual systems to a use touch interface. It is a false dichotomy to assert
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
People literally are priced out of macs. Nothing you say changes that fact. > About the final point—are Macs really "high cost"? There are zero low cost macs, while other low cost computers are abundant. > If a Mac is $2100
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
Nice website and idea. Lose the pop up. Stop perpetuating this dark pattern and let people focus on your content.
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
> I don't see how anyone that can afford comparable PCs or UltraBooks would be priced out of Apple products. And if they can’t afford comparable PC’s, then Macs are not affordable. There are many affordable non-mac options.
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
Perhaps, but this discussion would be moot if Apple did the same, “M1 GPU faster that RTX [under specific scenario]”. But they didn’t do that and here we are.
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
Laughing at other peoples' opinions doesn't make you more correct. Corporations copying each other to increase profit does not prove this is the right thing to do for all users.
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
No one said it was "hard hitting sexism" whatever that is.
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
I don't think you understand correctly.
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
> Democrats are as guilty as Republicans No they aren't. Not even remotely close. I'm exhausted by "both sides". "Both sides" arguments cause apathy in people because what is even the point in voting if, &qu
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
> The primary purpose of sideloading apps is to get the app downloaded and play it for free. I don't believe this is true. This is demonstrated by open source software on many platforms installed directly by end users without a cura
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
> Tesla hid nothing. They deceptively claimed that for additional money the customers' cars would be enhanced in the future with FSD. They then made that claim again each time they failed to deliver. They continue to make this claim
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by somebehemoth 5y ago
I've only just tried this out with 3 monitors so I could be doing something wrong. 1 monitor has an i3 style task bar at the top showing workspace numbers (one, two, three, ...). It works like i3 in that you can navigate those workspac
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by somebehemoth 6y ago
I don't think there is anything as good as iTerm. ConEmu is not bad.
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Gig workers handed lifeline by $2T stimulus plan(arstechnica.com)
13 points by somebehemoth 7y ago|10 comments
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Public Document Clearinghouse: Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry(justsecurity.org)
1 points by somebehemoth 7y ago|0 comments
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NY State investigating UnitedHealth over use of an allegedly biased algorithm(businessinsider.com)
2 points by somebehemoth 7y ago|0 comments
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by somebehemoth 7y ago
The feedback of "Android version of Firefox is unusably crashy on my phone" is not something any developer can take action on. There are no example sites, no steps to recreate. I agree it should be in the bug tracker, but adding
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by somebehemoth 7y ago
You make good points but it sounds very silly to claim DNS adblocking is a waste of resources. One, to each his own. Two, no false positives in our home and 10%-15% of DNS queries blocked is definitely not the "wrong solution" fo
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by somebehemoth 7y ago
I see this all the time and I think it is unhelpful to make these kinds of statements. I can make a counterpoint that I've used FF on Android for years and never experienced any issues whatsoever. I am not trying invalidate your expe
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by somebehemoth 7y ago
It can be forked?
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Python Is Eating the World(techrepublic.com)
90 points by somebehemoth 7y ago|119 comments

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