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by starttoaster 2y ago
The point of my previous response stands... What is the difference in how one reaches a destination, if they in fact did make it to that destination? Granted, this does read a bit like an ethical dilemma where people with different values m
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by starttoaster 2y ago
My company has a global remote workforce. The only team of which that owns any infrastructure being the team I am on, and all of my peers on that team being based in various parts of the US. So it’s not as simple maybe as you might think.
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by starttoaster 2y ago
In my honest opinion, Brave is a bit better than a crappy browser. They have their little crypto widgets, which you can disable very quickly if you’d like. Which depending on how hot blooded you are on the subject of crypto can be a turn of
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by starttoaster 2y ago
If you have a web browser that isn’t Firefox, it’s probably Chromium these days. Also irrelevant to the search product. Regarding the search product, you’re suggesting they used to use Bing/Google but now don’t. … Does that not mean th
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by starttoaster 2y ago
In order by paragraph: Sure. This doesn’t seem like a direct response to anything I said, but it’s a valid point to why our government will be too slow to react in the situation I’m describing. I’ve used it too. I think you’re still thinkin
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by starttoaster 2y ago
I already kind of replied to this rebuttal in advance in my first comment that you replied to. But I’ll refute it again a second way. Textile machinery impacted a very specific sector of work. We’re talking here about an advancement in tech
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by starttoaster 2y ago
All depends what lens you're looking through. From the perspective of advancement of the human race, AI is almost definitely a good thing. From the perspective of humans being employed at least in the short term, it's going to be
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by starttoaster 2y ago
I'm not sure you're aware of the ramifications of all of this, or else you just don't care. The voice acting industry is now entirely dead thanks to your opinions on this matter. Nobody is going to reach out to Liam Neeson fo
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by starttoaster 2y ago
I hear this sentiment echoed a fair amount without really saying why it sucks. And sometimes I wonder if the writer omitted it for brevity, or is actually just echoing something they read on the internet without really believing or understa
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by starttoaster 2y ago
What is it about a company spreading awareness about their product that weirds you out in particular, I'm curious? Billboard advertisements are an awareness type of advertisement. I'd be much more concerned to learn about paid end
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by starttoaster 2y ago
Not sure how it works in every state, but my property taxes are liable to increase year to year, for a home I own. Are you saying this is not the case in California? They just true up property taxes for a property upon next sale?
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by starttoaster 2y ago
Explain how it is a national security threat, and I can start to work on explaining why it isn’t.
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by starttoaster 2y ago
Or, the two things we’ve said about Apple aren’t mutually exclusive. I’m talking about how they behave, you’re talking about the philosophy for the products they create. I like and consume Apple products too, and my willingness to buy their
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by starttoaster 2y ago
Accurate. Businesses that show consistent good will towards their users often just haven't become successful enough to afford to exploit you yet. Pointing out that Apple only really cares about extracting your money is mostly an admiss
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by starttoaster 2y ago
Can't you argue that stifling speech is as bad as all out forbidding it? And if it's about CCP ownership and control, I guess we should probably institute a ban on relying on China for anything at all, including building all of th
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by starttoaster 2y ago
It is not uncommon to move across the United States for work. Across the planet might be a different story.
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by starttoaster 2y ago
> software development was super close to the metal. Not so much anymore. From your perspective, what feels lackluster about software development being further from the metal. I maybe also have a misunderstanding of what you mean by that
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by starttoaster 2y ago
You mean a generation has decided they didn't want to be exploited straight into adulthood to take on massive amounts of debt just to receive a general education, that takes 4+ years in virtually all cases just to see any eventual retu
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by starttoaster 2y ago
The robots replaced the frontline laborers, yes. But someone now needs to maintain, build, and engineer new robots. Hence they said the laborer's job was replaced with one that requires fewer people at a higher skill (and probably pay)
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by starttoaster 2y ago
I somewhat assumed there would be commenters suggesting the human angle as a retort. That's why I prefaced with both "this is what the teacher expects of me" and "understanding that educational staff is already often ove
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by starttoaster 2y ago
This might come off rude on accident, but I mean genuinely without malice. When I'm writing an essay to submit to my professor/teacher, I am asked to make multiple drafts to get a proper end result that is ready to submit. Underst
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by starttoaster 2y ago
Script kiddy was adopted to make them sound more like what they are: people that have no clue what they're doing but mostly just exploit things that smarter people found out they could exploit. The "smarter person" being a na
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by starttoaster 2y ago
The S3 API isn't unknown or anything, the client library SDKs all being open source. So I'd imagine a software developer writing a tool that aims to be S3 API-compliant would use one of the open source SDKs, and write their API wh
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by starttoaster 2y ago
> What is the difference between .. There's zero difference between any of them except how you parse and process the data. Answered in the previous message... "A data serialization language allows the end-user to specify how th
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by starttoaster 2y ago
> I think "it seems you're determined not to use jq" is pretty hostile since I made no intimation of that at all. Well, I didn't say that, so I don't know what that other person's feelings or intentions are,
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by starttoaster 2y ago
> JSON is literally key=value, just nested. The nature of being nested, and also containing structures like lists, maps, etc. All of which makes it more complicated than key=value. > The question was "What's not to like [abo
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by starttoaster 2y ago
That's great for key=value data, but more complex data structures don't work so well in that format, JSON does. "Why would you need to represent data as a complex data structure?" Sometimes attributes are owned by a spec
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by starttoaster 2y ago
That is interesting extra context. With that in mind, it doesn't really make sense to me why anybody (especially Linux distro vendors) would care then. Which seems to clash with the article's statement: > Firefox's Linux b
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by starttoaster 2y ago
This is a good point, but I had assumed that the distro package repository owners make these packages using the officially published binaries, and had to go out of their way for linux/arm64 because of the lack of an official binary. Is
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by starttoaster 2y ago
Mozilla finally relenting that arm64 isn't just a fad? Or did they just enable this with some CI infrastructure they couldn't get working with qemu?

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