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by ubertaco 2y ago
I recently swapped from the F-Droid version of AntennaPod to the Google Play Store version so that I could use Chromecast, which they strip from their F-Droid builds because the underlying library isn't open-source and is deemed "
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by ubertaco 2y ago
>But the micro vs. macro distinction is only one of time and scale and that's the whole point: species aren't "real," even fish aren't "real" in any ontological sense, but the countless organisms that w
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by ubertaco 2y ago
That's not what falsifiable means. It's not experimentally verifiable. There is no way to conduct a test that would negate it if it were untrue. It is why, being intellectually honest, the theory of evolution as the origin of spec
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by ubertaco 2y ago
>We don't think we have the competence to be a teacher. We would never presume to teach someone else's kids. While this is a good and rational awareness of one's own capabilities, as someone who grew up in Bible-belt homes
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by ubertaco 2y ago
Congratulations to Louisiana on improving from 50th-ranked state in education to...50th-ranked state in education?
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by ubertaco 2y ago
Pure economics and rational decision making are the exact reasons for engaging in regulatory capture, bribery, and oligarchy. Why on earth would democracy (or any other form of shared power) be a rational choice for you, from an economic st
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by ubertaco 2y ago
To play the devil's advocate here, as someone who grew up homeschooled and in a culture of "micro-scale evolution exists, but macro-scale evolution has not been demonstrated": >Antibiotic resistance ...is a micro-scale ada
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by ubertaco 2y ago
>Optimising for the majority over the minority is always good. That's the literal opposite of capitalism. Capitalism is optimizing for the minority (rich investors -- the "capital holders") over the majority (workers who h
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by ubertaco 2y ago
From the NYT article: >Some have even suggested “y’all,” a word that reads as much too slangy, regional or what you might even call ethnic to ever gain universal acceptance. Heaven forbid we embrace something that could be called "e
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by ubertaco 2y ago
Seconded. In my entire North Carolina + Georgia upbringing, with frequent visits to Tennessee and back to NC, and some visits to South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama...never once have I heard y'all referring to a single person. It&#x
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by ubertaco 2y ago
Poetry, like humor, involves the use of the reader's expectations, but is typically most effective when subverting those expectations. There's a lot of bad poetry in the world that just follows readers' expectations. I sh
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by ubertaco 2y ago
It's definitely quirky in its inconsistency, but type 'a Tree = | Node of ('a Tree, 'a Tree) | Leaf of 'a Is saying "The possible cases for the type describing an 'a Tree are: a Node of
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by ubertaco 2y ago
This is such a weird complaint that it feels like engagement bait. "Let x be equal to 4 in x * x" is a natural way to express a concept in English. The equivalent OCaml code is: let x = 4 in x * x I'm not sure ho
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by ubertaco 2y ago
> offline and fully customizable, but HN/Reddit went mad over it. ...until it isn't. A self-hosted open-source project you can download and run (or compile yourself and then run) is very different from a closed-source OS-leve
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by ubertaco 2y ago
This calls to mind complaints from a few years ago about fact-checking as "damaging to the reputation" of the person whose claims were fact-checked and identified as false. One's reputation is damaged when they choose to tel
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by ubertaco 2y ago
I am less optimistic than you; I don't see how that would matter to the current MAGA movement.
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by ubertaco 2y ago
By the actual numbers, illegal immigrants are by far the group with the lowest rate of felony, violent crime, property crime, and drug-related crime: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-o...
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by ubertaco 2y ago
Are you going to sell the thing you're using Rider to build? That's commercial use. If you're not going to sell it, it's probably not commercial use.
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by ubertaco 2y ago
I watched it for the first time a few hours ago, and did a Wikipedia dive about the Book of Kells. Flip over to HN and see this thread; what a weird convergence.
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by ubertaco 2y ago
Sure, but that's why I say >Living in community can happen by choice, not just by [employer || school] coercion; it just requires that you make that choice. As other replies have pointed out, the school/work bonds more often th
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by ubertaco 2y ago
I see this sort of question whenever this topic comes up, and I think it's interesting that there's a baseline assumption of a false dichotomy between "in-office interactions with employees of the same company" or else &
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by ubertaco 2y ago
Well, the immediate initial test failed for me: I thought, "why not apply this on one of my own sites, where I have a sort of journal of poetry I've written?"...and there's no category for "Poem", and the reque
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by ubertaco 2y ago
That and the fact that it gates progress entirely using a mechanic that had, up to that point, never really been introduced -- you might have noticed it on accident, but the whole design of the game (go fast from left to right, jumping some
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by ubertaco 2y ago
I mean, the problem with the current supreme court is that their decision-making process -- as demonstrated in the Trump immunity case (where the ruling was in direct contradiction to established law) -- is not a question of what the law s
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by ubertaco 2y ago
I similarly grew up with The Incredible Machine 2, and Pictures at an Exhibition haunted me for decades because I didn't know its title. Then finally, one random day NPR played it as part of a block of classical music _and_ said Muss
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by ubertaco 2y ago
I love this bit here: >The subheading under this rule would be: Try your best to be right, but don’t worry when you’re wrong. Repeatedly. If you feel uncomfortable, or like an impostor, good. You’re pushing yourself. Don’t assume you kno
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by ubertaco 2y ago
>Whatever your thing is, make the thing you wish you had found when you were learning. Don’t judge your results by “claps” or retweets or stars or upvotes - just talk to yourself from 3 months ago. I keep an almost-daily dev blog written
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by ubertaco 2y ago
That's sorta Musk's primary operating mode. See also: the whole Twitter purchase fiasco (for a recent example), or the expensive lawsuit against the actual co-founders of the larger, more-successful tech company that bailed out hi
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by ubertaco 2y ago
This is indeed the main thing I use Spotlight/Alfred for on MacOS: I want to go to the window for this app, regardless of what virtual desktop it's on, and I don't want to hunt for it. I use that "text-based finder"
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by ubertaco 2y ago
Exactly. Licensing is the easy part. Deploy + run are the hard parts, IMO. You can build something amazing like Immich, a shining example of open-source software that, after a lot of setup, "just works"....until the next release w

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