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by toomanyducks 5y ago
> some still are well that's an understatement[0]. I alos think it's less productive to interpret the phrase absolute evil as a comment on an entity's moral alignments (because it's a corporation, it's not chaoti
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
idk about this, my anecdotal experience suggests otherwise - irrelevant things (i.e., monitor resolutions, mouse acceleration curves, and I think DNS settings at one point) can be thrown around by updates a bit too frequently in my experie
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I've been laughing at myself for like two years now about how awkwardly I came out, and only now do i realize how fortunate i am that i didn't try to automate it. Thank you very much
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
idk though, I'm going to take the anarchist approach here and say we shouldn't need regulation to make this ethical. The fact that some of us benefit off of manipulation and nondisclosure feels like a result of an unjust power s
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
> how will disclosure work? Honestly, I hope it never matters. If we're manipulating consumers, let's do it as obviously as possible. If we're confused about how to tell people we're manipulating them, we've chos
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I have many issues with this. First: > Think of the classic campaigns from Apple, Volkswagen, Absolut, and Nike. Is this not the definition of selection bias? If you only think about the classics, everything seems better than it was. It
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
This article seems to complain more about a lack of focus than a lack of completeness - I'm going to go out on a limb and say that maintenance is good. Maintainence keeps software up to date with new tools, old bug fixes, and occasiona
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
So it takes a dedicated app to adjust mouse acceleration curves? Is this an accurate reflection of the platform as a whole?
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Hm - I think something to consider is who's information it really is that you want removed. Information that I put up isn't Google's to remove, but if I want to do that, should I have the right? Especially if it's active
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
It's well past midnight, I've been interacting with apps designed to maximize 'user engagement' since 8 PM. I don't have coherent thoughts, I'm opening irrelevant tabs habitually. This is not healthy. I have a
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
No, I think I have a low opinion about my abilities - I need a complete picture and all the help I can get to understand anything at all. But yes, I agree that it's not as simple as my original comment made it out to be - I definitely
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
> informed and alerted and here I think is the issue - it's hard for a closed source project to fully inform and alert anyone, at all. It's impossible to get a full understanding of a codebase that doesn't allow me to look
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Honestly, this is about what I expected. I have the admittedly niche and somewhat impractical opinion that it's within no one's rights to have ownership over an idea, an implementation, or a solution to any problem at all . When
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I've been bouncing between tiling and pseudo tiling on lightweight wm's on Linux - I guess I'd say the advantage to tiling is a more intricate layout. It's just more strongly defined[1], which can be a pro or a con depen
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
It's certainly an informal thing, and in my experience, yes, a youth thing. For me, capitalization/no capitalization is akin to the difference between a formal/informal 'you' in other languages (i.e., German, French
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I'll second the other Gen z person in the replies and say that lots of us hate thumb typing and if we're going to generalize across every single living person by one factor, my experience is that typing speed goes down with age.
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Where do you get that confidence? Reading the article, I'm mostly seeing somewhat deliberately hyped-up claims and hand-wavey references to AI, neither of which give me much confidence in this tech taking a tremendous leap anytime soon
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Can we not read so much into a literal tweet? It's what, 240 characters max? We've written more words speculating on what happened than was originally said. It's a tweet . Also would like to point out: I'm not defending
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I think I like the theory of this but in practicality I'm pretty sure I'd just get irritated by it. In most usage, there is only one input and output format, being plain text. If I specify a given type further and send it to grep&
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I bounce between qutebrowser, brave, and firefox - could anyone who exclusively uses ff convince me to switch? I've always viewed ff as a solid fine out of ten, and would be interested in hearing more about any unique and cool features
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I think the issues with traditional packages all boil down to the fact that packages are not files . Packages are some transformed instance of some code, operating over a computer's resources in some way. Sure, eventually you get do
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I think the idea of 'work' is not in a technical sense but in a business and social sense: does it see success at a large scale? As things get larger, they get harder to judge, so asking that about Linux and all airplanes and open
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Assuming 'less than a few seconds' is actually accurate, that's not quite the case - I dual boot with a NVMe and SATA SSD, and even the NVMe (running Void Linux with runit) still takes about 30 seconds to power on. Absolutely
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
motherfucking website[1] would like a word with modern CSS [1] https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Tangential, but for the pain of alternate keyboard layouts, I've found it easiest to use a keyboard that allows remapping of keys in hardware to alternate layouts (sends the 'wrong' keycode when you press a key). It's a
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I'm curious if anyone has experience maintaining (not writing from scratch) pre-existing systems in Rust - now that it's 6 years old (!), what's it like to interact with in contexts where you aren't building from the gro
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
Personally, I think there's generalizations both ways here. Your experience doesn't map one-to-one with the author's, and the author's won't map to yours. Neither of them are absolute when applied outside of one lif
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Ask HN: Tips for Memorizing Code?
1 points by toomanyducks 5y ago|2 comments
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
honestly had no idea what git LFS was before seeing this, but okay then
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by toomanyducks 5y ago
I guess I'll give the obligatory Rust rec - It's a fun language that prevents you from being too stupid (after you learn it).

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