throwdecro

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by throwdecro 5y ago
Is there a "Kessler syndrome" analogue for the internet, where failures beget failures until it's just an impenetrable cloud of fail, forever?
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Oh did they recently change "toots" to "posts"? Maybe that barrier to wider adoption is out of the way now. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> you could argue a certain types of self-modifying or monitoring code has an awareness of itself. Having a representation of itself doesn't mean it has an awareness of itself.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
But "toots" has connotations of flatulence.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
That's not a bad question. I find I use it for basically all my code editing nowadays, but I don't know why. I think it's just "smooth enough" and feels consistent even as you use it for a variety of different lan
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I wonder if the price is being supported by people opening accounts in COMP hoping to get free money from the next mistake.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> Can you imagine an piece of IKEA furniture being used daily and lasting for >40 years? Yeah. IKEA's not bad.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> sometimes he was just a... Why qualify it with "sometimes"? I think it's safe to assume that the way a person behaves in private, among their peers, shows more about their essential character than how they behave when d
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I actually check the laws in a US State before moving there just to make sure it this type of intellectual property grab is not allowed. By rights any jurisdiction that allows this should have zero people producing intellectual property, b
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I guess the $23M fee was something that the market could bear.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Is there an "uncanny reliability" range where increasing reliability on the part of a service provider makes things worse, by being so close to 100% reliable that any failure is a shock? Maybe it's better to go with cheaper s
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Yeah, it's really unconscientious to have a system where the stakes are so high behave so unpredictably. People make important decisions based on how things are supposed to work. Whatever the "correct" parameters for immigr
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by throwdecro 5y ago
How much of this does an end-user need to think about? It seems very complicated.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
What isn't?
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I think it's something you can make for free, and sell for money. I don't think anyone "gets" the whole thing; I'd be shocked if anyone selling these things was also a collector. You either get the money or you gi
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by throwdecro 5y ago
As a slight aside, I prefer to shut down and be sure that things are shut down. It really bothered me when Mac laptops started turning on just because the lid was open. It makes it impossible to confirm the laptop is truly off, because ope
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by throwdecro 5y ago
A plan for enforcement isn't really a prerequisite for regulation. It's especially not a prerequisite when there's no limit to the regulator's capacity to investigate and escalate penalties, should existing measures fal
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by throwdecro 5y ago
It looks like there is a section called "Smart features and personalization" in the GMail settings (not the general Google account settings; specifically the GMail settings) under the General tab. It indicates that "Gmail, Ch
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> Isn't this controlled by the "Gmail smart features" setting... I just went through the Google's "Privacy Checkup" and it wasn't clear to me where this setting is. Also is the Takeout from 2019, or are
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> Do you all not not feel that the browser is ya know the user's agent? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't, depends on what the browser developers want. That said, there is something dubious with how ad blockers take an author
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> Swift has way too man shorthand syntaxes. It feels nice from a language design perspective but when teaching Swift, you can see how confusing it is for the students. 100% agree. As a late adopter of Swift, I spent a lot of time lookin
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> I do think that Brave would be 100% in the clear (same with any browser or extension) to "MiTM", modify, or refuse to display any part of any web page. Taken literally this would mean that browsers would be allowed to re-writ
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Scrubs may be playing to play, and competitors may be playing to win, but only griefers are setting their own terms.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> Homebuyers will make purchasing decision based on their monthly mortgage payments, instead of the home price. Which is crazy, right? People max out their "borrowing power" at low interest rates and take on huge loans, withou
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Real-world success is generally a matter of luck no matter what the incentives are. You can't make your cancer research pan out, you can only do it diligently and find out later if it was the right direction. You can definitely scre
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Is ssh-agent even worth the trouble?
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I agree. There's value in people getting angry enough that they prefer to attack as hard as they can, instead of getting the best outcome for themselves.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> That deal "avoids costly litigation" I guess it would be worse if this were criminal litigation and not civil litigation, but it's still kind of incredible to see such a naked admission that if you can outspend the attor
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> I’ve built a functional MVP and got it in the hands of demo users thru TestFlight Well done!
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I definitely wanted them to fail, and I'm relieved that they did. If they'd succeeded there might have been an onslaught of additional clowns you'd have to filter out when looking for work.

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