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by toqy 5y ago
I don’t have an answer for a general audible competitor because I too use audible. However I do purchase directly from one studio that I’m a fan of, Soundbooth Theater. There may be other groups with a similar set up, but I’m not aware of a
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by toqy 5y ago
I’m a fan of the subscription model just because I can get books that are normally a lot more expensive than a credit with a single credit. And if there’s any cheaper books I can just buy them for cash.
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by toqy 5y ago
Just turn on the crypto mining rigs when the price is wrong
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by toqy 5y ago
When did I ever argue that something shouldn't exist? I only pointed out a false equivalence in the parent comment. If you want to know my opinion though, I don't personally get enough value out of facebook, instagram, etc to use
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by toqy 5y ago
I've read them and found no issues. Thanks for your concern.
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by toqy 5y ago
It sucks that your neighbor has gathered many large trucks and is honking them for 18 hours a day in order to compel you to do something. Why isn't anyone doing anything about it? Now that you know you're being tortured what are y
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by toqy 5y ago
Exactly, if you aren't willing to exploit Africans what are you even doing?
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by toqy 5y ago
Reddit has to have some kind of moderation other than the volunteer sub moderators, otherwise people could just illegal content in a private subreddit
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by toqy 5y ago
Are you arguing in good faith? Do you think moderating text on this site is equivalent to what is described in the article?
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by toqy 5y ago
The rest of the world could also brain drain the US if it was easier to get into. The US -> EU/UK immigrants that I personally know have had a pretty hard time getting there permanently.
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by toqy 5y ago
A CDN isn't about caching jquery and sharing for various domains, everybody knows that doesn't work anymore. It's about getting jquery physically closer to your users. And sure upload it to your "own" CDN that you p
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by toqy 5y ago
Also be careful not to leave any fingerprints or strands of hair around!
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by toqy 5y ago
> That’s bad too In what way? I agree that personally tracking an individual and using psychology tricks and whatnot to trick them into buying stuff is bad, but if it's just a company knowing what works well for them, I don't s
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by toqy 5y ago
Phase 1: Collect data about what users like to watch on TikTok Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: The world is now controlled by China and we are doing full communism
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by toqy 5y ago
I'd probably be more worried about a flaw in your own setup vs TikTok uniquely being able to circumvent it
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by toqy 5y ago
Mongodb was a lot easier to manipulate json in for a while vs postgres, but once postgres got json path support it evened out a bit imo. Say you have some json and nested in it somewhere is an array of objects, and you want to just map over
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by toqy 5y ago
He was using python 2.7 so he would have lost the type safety after he fetched the data anyway
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by toqy 5y ago
I once inherited a medium size python service and small front end at work that was primarily developed by someone that was super into Haskell. He chose to use mongodb and built a lot of functionality around the constraint that he didn'
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by toqy 5y ago
I irrationally hate the sound of other people's keyboard for some reason. It's like listening to them chew.
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by toqy 5y ago
This is begging for a console.table console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parse
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by toqy 5y ago
I don't know why the author seems to think that this analogy would be presented without further argument. It would be more like “Worrying about the rise of AGI is silly because AGI isn’t going to happen for a long time, and any effort
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by toqy 5y ago
Yes if they didn’t already have a joint bank account why would crypto magically change this
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by toqy 5y ago
> I might not want to run my own bank. But I totally want to be protected from my banks incompetency. And odd statement, banks generally seem more competent than any given crypto operation.
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by toqy 5y ago
You seem to have already decided by buying an iPhone though
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by toqy 5y ago
Firefox battery on macos is also bad, so same argument. Their market share on android vs chrome isn’t worth mentioning, so I don’t even know that it’s a better choice.
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by toqy 5y ago
If Chrome’s battery drain vs Safari on MacOS is an indication of how it’ll be on iOS then I’ll pass
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by toqy 5y ago
What? They’ve already prevented it from falling to that level. If that is changed through legislation how is it their failure?
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by toqy 5y ago
Porn and Chrome probably
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by toqy 5y ago
Yeah the real value of Postman for me is that often times other teams will have postman collections that you can just import and explore an api with. Not that I really like what Postman itself has become though.
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by toqy 5y ago
Isn't the point being made that there is nobody else capable of demonstrating it?

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