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by ufmace 1y ago
Yes, I suppose it is a deep cultural difference. My opinion on unions is mixed, I suppose. They may be necessary in some times, places, and industries to compel reasonable treatment of workers. If such things are necessary, they're pro
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by ufmace 1y ago
You're welcome to disagree, I don't mind some competition. > Just proof hire them for 6 months to a year. As is common with most quickly tossed out "tiny fixes" to Socialist policies of excessive regulation, this make
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by ufmace 1y ago
We would probably have much higher unemployment and slower-moving industries, and might no longer be the economic powerhouse of the world. When it's simple and easy to fire people, companies are a lot more willing to take a chance on h
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by ufmace 1y ago
It sings its own praises... how exactly? Maybe by a bunch of happy users talking about how they like it and it's a better solution to the problem that the thread or article is about without being explicitly paid? Which is exactly what&
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by ufmace 1y ago
It works fine, except for when it doesn't. Source: My macbook has drained its battery flat while closed in my bag dozens of times. Then it just stopped doing that on an OS update. I still have no idea why.
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by ufmace 1y ago
On the one hand, it's nice to see Ruby and the Ruby tooling system getting some love. On the other, I'm not sure if this is really needed. Most of this stuff already works fine in Ruby with Bundler. Did you know that Bundler alrea
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by ufmace 1y ago
I think the main difference for NYC is that quite a few streets and intersections routinely have 10x to 100x the pedestrian traffic of the busiest such intersections in pretty much any other American city. That's not to say that I don&
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by ufmace 1y ago
> Where does this idea come from? Anti-gun propaganda. Anti-gunners first started practicing lawfare against companies involved in the gun industry by suing them for crimes committed using products the companies were involved with, even
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by ufmace 1y ago
I agree. There's also the point of hardware dependance. From all we've seen, the practical ability of AI/LLMs seems to be strongly dependent on how much hardware you throw at it. Seems pretty reasonable to me - I'm skept
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by ufmace 1y ago
Well I see it's flagged for now, and I was one of the flaggers. IMO, at least by the time I saw it, there were more than enough red flags raised to say that having it on HN before more evidence is available is only flamebait.
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by ufmace 1y ago
At least when they were blasting floppy disks with their software everywhere, it was actually useful. Anyone even remotely interested in computer stuff could easily accumulate dozens of them without even trying. Just format 'em and the
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by ufmace 1y ago
One of the nice things about it is that, being strictly a paid service, they don't need to take over the whole world to be successful and continue operating indefinitely.
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by ufmace 1y ago
It seems like it's difficult to really separate them these days. You can always come up with something horrific enough that it seems reasonable, even necessary, for platforms to block it, like actual terrorism or child porn. But then,
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by ufmace 1y ago
Not sure if meant seriously or sarcastically. But it seems like a pretty reasonable option to me. Yeah, commercial air travel is super cheap and fast these days, especially for very far destinations. But it has its headaches and downsides t
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by ufmace 1y ago
Wouldn't they just land, refuel, and take off again a few times if they wanted to fly cross-country, similar to what they'd do in a car?
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by ufmace 1y ago
Yeah I get what you mean. I think I'd be a lot more weirded out than delighted if a restaurant I was going to stalked my social media (such as it exists at all), attempted to deduce things I would like from it, and presented me those t
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by ufmace 1y ago
Okay, that's fair. I currently do most of my browsing with Chrome and UBO Lite, and have yet to find a site that it doesn't work with . I do keep a copy of Firefox with full UBO and NoScript open on my desktop computer, just on g
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by ufmace 1y ago
It's the most real example anyone's provided so far. I tested it on both regular Chrome with UBO Lite and Firefix with stock full UBO, and both show ads on Twitch. I haven't looked into how to actually block them, but I'
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by ufmace 1y ago
Thanks for providing a specific example! That does make more sense. So I suppose Lite is indeed at least somewhat worse at blocking tracking. It's a legitimate concern. I admit that I don't have a ton of awareness of just how much
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by ufmace 1y ago
What is the adtech that's leaking through? I regularly use Youtube with uBO Lite, and it does infact consistently prevent me from seeing ads. I've yet to see a single one. There does seem to be a war going on between Youtube and a
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by ufmace 1y ago
Well the people posting that link seem to believe it's a clear and direct response to the question of why uBO Lite is insufficient when I or others say it works fine for us. > Not being able to block remote fonts is a vague technica
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by ufmace 1y ago
I agree with crazygringo that uBlock Origin Lite seems to work fine for me as far as blocking ads on the websites I visit. I also agree that these discussions can be frustrating. In my opinion, that's because people claiming that Lite
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by ufmace 1y ago
I don't think so. A moderately hard landing with an engine(s) smoldering because they were on fire but had their fuel cut off is probably survivable for most of the passengers. A moderately hard landing with the engine(s) a raging infe
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by ufmace 1y ago
Pretty obviously a bad joke and a bad idea IMO. I did not personally downvote, but I think it deserves its current score. Look at the timeline of the events. The switches were shut off, noticed to be shut off, and restored to the proper pos
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by ufmace 1y ago
I appreciate this perspective, but I think building a tool like uv in Rust is a good idea because it's a tool for managing Python stuff, not a tool to be called from within Python code. Having your python management tools also be writt
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by ufmace 1y ago
IMO, this is the process for building an application image for deployment to production. If the lock file is not present, then the developer has done something wrong and the deployment should fail catastrophically because only manual inte
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by ufmace 1y ago
I feel like it's happened to me multiple times that I've seen an ad for something I actually want, but if I click through or look up the company advertised, then do a little research on that company, I discover that it's a sc
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by ufmace 1y ago
Why does this friend in particular deserve an exemption or reduced rate? Why don't they do something like take the trains into the nearest NJ suburb and leave their car at the parking lots there, which will probably be free or much che
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by ufmace 1y ago
Even that isn't enough. Much of the bias nowadays comes in which specific facts and events you report, and which you ignore.
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by ufmace 1y ago
Now that I have a little more time to search around, I easily found this study, published March 31st this year, so not quite 3 months ago: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674 I only skimmed it, but I don't see anythi

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