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by sxg 3y ago
Sure, on paper we should all carefully consider every decision we make. However, in practice I’m confident the vast majority of Mastodon and Twitter users (including myself) don’t consider using either service particularly important or dese
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by sxg 3y ago
Perhaps Mastodon is just too immature at this stage for the servers to really differentiate themselves from each other. However, as the number of users and posts on Mastodon grows, will any server actually be capable of adequate moderation?
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by sxg 3y ago
At the time I signed up for Mastodon and a server, I didn't consider and wasn't presented with any of these questions/answers or other points of differentiation among servers. I guess that's part of the issue: when an or
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by sxg 3y ago
Sure, but as the number of users on the federated service grows, how do we not end up in the same place as email today? Does it not become good moderation policy to auto-block all new and small servers (e.g., self-hosted email servers) if y
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by sxg 3y ago
That’s exactly the problem with replacing Reddit with a federated service. The opposite is true with replacing Twitter in which case it’s difficult to explain why a user has to pick any server at all.
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by sxg 3y ago
I agree with the premise of the article. I’m a new Mastodon user trying to give the platform an honest shot, but I can’t understand why I would choose any particular server over another. Why choose anything other than the pseudo-default Mas
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by sxg 3y ago
I’m sure you’ve heard of Amethyst, but it does address at least a few of your concerns. Particularly focus following the mouse and conflicting shortcuts.
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by sxg 3y ago
Your own comment doesn’t include any specific examples of these communities, which I think reflects the big problem: discovery. As big as HN is, I rarely see it mentioned anywhere that’s not HN-adjacent. I’d love to hear about some of these
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by sxg 4y ago
downloadmoreram.tk was a classic around 2004
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by sxg 4y ago
You can’t overlook the fact that doctors also work about 1.5–2x standard work hours. About 60 hrs/week is on par for most doctors. Many surgeons will be putting in 80 hrs/week or else take a pay cut. Adjusting for that in addition
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by sxg 4y ago
Excel is a generic spreadsheet program that's designed to be used by 90% of people for 90% of use cases. Accommodating for this niche use case will definitely break things for many existing users. The real solution is for geneticists (
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by sxg 4y ago
John Carmack did a 5 hr podcast with Lex Fridman recently [1]. Moving away from Meta seemed like something that had been happening slowly over a long period of time. [1] https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/
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by sxg 4y ago
Very happy to see this meta-topic written about! Especially happy to see the "bad faith" argument called out: "The internet is already full of crap. People who aren't experts are just making it worse." I keep seeing
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by sxg 4y ago
Many todo apps do this including Things 3 and OmniFocus. What you want is a task that recurs on completion as opposed to one that recurs on a schedule.
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by sxg 4y ago
Even basic users need to do things outside of a browser. How do you upload pictures from your phone to a Linux desktop?
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by sxg 4y ago
I generally agree with your point, but the difference is that the dangers of most new technology can be reasonably contained. Deep fakes will undermine people's trust in anything they see or hear, which is a severe negative. It's
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by sxg 4y ago
I've published two papers in Scientific Reports and have had several more rejected—definitely not my experience. Peer review was arduous and on par with any other major journal with similar impact factor.
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by sxg 4y ago
One reason is because "very + <adjective>" often only vaguely approximates what the writer means. "Very good" has such a wide range of interpretations that it almost has no meaning. If I tell you I went to a "
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by sxg 4y ago
Depends on the specialty, but roughly $500–$1500 (higher for surgeons and proceduralists; ~5% of your salary). However, if you work as an employee for a hospital or a large group practice, you don't pay for malpractice insurance direct
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by sxg 4y ago
I wouldn’t characterize it as “paranoid about litigation”. Lawsuits against physicians are common, and you absolutely have to consider the small but real risk of having to defend your actions in court. I’m a physician and see this play out
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by sxg 4y ago
I'm dismayed by this acquisition but glad to see the near-universal dislike towards Adobe in this thread. How can a $150B+ company exist with this much disdain for its business practices and products? I'm guessing Adobe's pri
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by sxg 4y ago
Taking a look at the raw data on Wolfram Alpha, it seems like a lot of the super low income countries are muddying the data. There are many low income countries with Gini coefficients all across the spectrum. I don't have the time to d
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by sxg 4y ago
This article is saying a lot less than the title leads on. The article states half of all cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, and obesity. Nearly every patient in the developed world is aware that all three of these are bad, but t
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by sxg 4y ago
Multiple people committing the same mistake is much more likely to be a systems problem rather than an individual developer's problem. The other reply comments are saying the same thing, but your (parent) comment needs to be called out
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by sxg 4y ago
What about the NATO requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense? Isn't it strategic for the US to spend disproportionately more on the military to support allies' militaries (e.g., South Korea) and prevent the rise of competing supe
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by sxg 4y ago
> What if your work was a walkable distance? It is a walkable distance, and it’s unsustainably expensive for how little space I get. Not to mention the fact that there aren’t any ownable properties in walking distance to work—renting an
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by sxg 4y ago
Same. If it helps anyone else out, I’ve had no issues with AirPods Pro and MX Master 3 on the 2016 and 2021 MacBook Pros.
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by sxg 4y ago
You need a standard so you can use lights and music players from different vendors at the same time. You also need a standard to ensure future devices that don't yet exist also work with your smart home. A third reason: a new upstart c
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by sxg 4y ago
They will almost certainly be grandfathered in. Legislation nearly never retroactively applies to things created before the legislation itself.
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by sxg 4y ago
Drag and drop from one folder to another is how I would do it with a mouse only. Is there another way?

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