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by troyvit 2y ago
I think we're disagreeing about what real solutions are. To me, banning TikTok won't change anything because Instagram, Youtube, etc. will take over what they did and/or VPNs will become the new awesome. To you, altering how
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by troyvit 2y ago
Nuclear families became popular long after our species was considered homo sapiens, and even today they aren't the norm for most of our species, so I don't understand what you mean when you say the ship has sailed. I'm all fo
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by troyvit 2y ago
Is it TikTok harming the kids or families who don't regulate their kids doing the harm? In other words if I leave my kid alone in the house with a liquor cabinet, and the kid gets drunk every day, did the liquor do the harm or did I? T
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by troyvit 2y ago
Near as I can tell, this MSN article is a re-post of a fortune.com article that pulls most of its reporting from a NYT article that it doesn't link to, and that (according to MSN's take), mostly just references "sources"
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by troyvit 2y ago
Based on this thread I'm starting to believe that any static governmental system is a failure and it's the iterations that bring about prosperity.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I don't know if that's true, but it sure is more well thought out than what the US is currently doing. You have my vote.
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Because when you subsidize, the taxpayer is paying for it. You are socializing the costs and privatizing the profits. I think that's a really good point. It's extracting money from consumers through taxes and handing them to
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by troyvit 2y ago
Huh. I work for a small organization under their Project Galileo, which basically means a free Pro account. We've only had simple needs, but any time I email a rep I get a response in 24-48 hours. I believe what you're saying, I j
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by troyvit 2y ago
I was speaking to ESR's essay holding up to the test of time but you have a good point. I'd argue however that the lock-down Apple imposes on OS X, such as signed system volumes, keeps them firmly planted in a cathedral. That said
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by troyvit 2y ago
Man I read that during my formative years as a computer guy and it helped me big-time make the switch from MacOS to Linux. That and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."[1] I don't know how well that one stands up to the test of ti
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by troyvit 2y ago
Holy cow thanks for sharing this!
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by troyvit 2y ago
This would be useful beyond getting in and out of customs too. For instance, most people don't want to carry around a work phone and a personal phone, so we end up mixing two personas on one device, and it gets awful. For instance I ke
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by troyvit 2y ago
> One might ask where the spines are of the Republicans who are in a position to apply pressure from the inside. Oooh I actually think that's the question that history will ask. We've seen groups choose party over country befor
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by troyvit 2y ago
> these guys' plan of using signal to avoid record keeping was foolish and stupid, more than just because of their silly fear that Democrats would release their records (that would require Democrats growing a spine). s/was&#x2F
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Current versions of macOS use a signed system volume Sometimes I feel like I'm deluding myself with the small inconveniences I put myself through only using Linux, but finding out about stuff like this wipes that away.
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by troyvit 2y ago
Regarding ads as free speech: > Bullshit. No one is entitled to yell at you "GET 20% OFF THIS UNDERWEAR YOU GLANCED AT YESTERDAY" with a dopamine megaphone in your bedroom. And to track 90% of your life to know when and how to
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by troyvit 2y ago
That's an important distinction. Case in point: https://sandersinstitute.org/event/bernie-sanders-arrest-at-... Convicted of resisting arrest.
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by troyvit 2y ago
> (Another tip: Don’t bring votes into discussions, it’s both against site guidelines and laughable.) Honestly: thank you, I didn't know that and won't do it again.
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by troyvit 2y ago
Some orgs can't afford not to.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I was speaking directly to the reactive framework itself (which is a smart way to get around some limitations), the div salad it pushes developers to sustain, and the fact that they felt they had to rewrite HTML such that instead of typing
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by troyvit 2y ago
Eh, I'm clueless about this aspect of the framework (if you can call such a steaming pile of resume-driven-development such), and honestly I'm thankful for it. Libraries like dayjs add complexity to the overall codebase and it&#x2
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by troyvit 2y ago
The best solution I have found is to buy a DRM book, then download the DRM-free version from libgen. That may not be what you're looking for but it keeps me in Calibre.
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by troyvit 2y ago
> An extra 100-200KB compressed is a ~100ms one time cost once in a while for the majority of my users, and ~1s for 95%+ of users. At that point I'm going to optimize for developer productivity Is that 100ms on fiber? Cable? 5G? 4G?
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by troyvit 2y ago
That is a very good point. All I have is a few PDFs and some xml to make it feel official.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I've been watching a British spy show called Slow Horses. So far a huge chunk of season 2 is spies looking at camera surveillance footage. It sounds like it's really that bad.
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by troyvit 2y ago
Dang. I've had a fantasy of painting several fake license plates all over the back of my hatchback to help confound these cameras, but: 'Part of Flock’s proprietary tech determines the make and model of the vehicle and also notes
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by troyvit 2y ago
> This has been the story for 20 years now. Even longer. I remember in college in the '90s we would pack two things away over the summer to make sure the next year would go well: 1/4 oz weed because it took so long for the mark
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by troyvit 2y ago
You can assume that if you like. I've downloaded my stuff and am hoping that'll be enough.
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by troyvit 2y ago
There's a great No Such Thing as a Fish podcast episode that talks about him: https://audioboom.com/posts/8641985-no-such-thing-as-a-honey...
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by troyvit 2y ago
Eh, there's choosing a hill and there's voting with your wallet, and I'm doing the latter. Judging by the article I linked, if anybody's choosing a hill to die on it's 404.

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