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by uniqueid 6y ago
We're already in the middle of a pandemic where America is failing to pull together and make sensible decisions. At the same time, minorities are clashing in the streets with right-wing extremists and the police. > I therefore
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> there's a difference between banning Gab > the company and banning Andrew Torba the person. Is it that the latter is much funnier?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
True enough. It's not the ubiquity of git that is laughable, nor developers using vcs. It's this sort of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7894288
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by uniqueid 6y ago
It's honestly hilarious how obsessed this industry is with Git. It verges on a fetish. Like writing code is an evil you need to endure so you can experience the high of using version control.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> once I granted them access I was done That works fine for most apps. But if you need to work with documents in varied locations, you have to grant access repeatedly. In recent memory this caused me headaches with a LaTeX edit
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by uniqueid 6y ago
If you've avoided sandboxing issues with currently-shipping software, you're lucky. I run into them all the time. Nearly every aspect of the Mac requires priv's now, so the issues are hard to sum up. Some of the common ones
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> we will see a lot more apps on the mac I agree, but I worry they'll be a lot more bad apps :( Apps that are hermetically sealed off in a little rectangle, apps that make you click-and-hold to bring up hamburger menus,
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by uniqueid 6y ago
This blog post is more a statement on the sorry state of the Mac than it is a reflection of iOS's improvements. I don't mean that as a wise-crack, though I'm sure it sounds like one. On the Mac, sandboxing limits what a user
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Low-level 'Swift' Optimization Tips(github.com)
2 points by uniqueid 6y ago|0 comments
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by uniqueid 6y ago
sctbsctbdangdang?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
You got me! Enjoy your evening :)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> Silencing dissenting views has never worked in history There may be a grain of truth to that, but I don't think a historian, even one who agreed with its thrust, would feel comfortable with it as a blanket statement. I d
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> Firing, cancelling, and silencing anyone with a > 'bad' opinion doesn't convert them to a 'good' one. However it can prevent people with "different views" from evangelizing effective
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> Are you accusing their source of lying? I never said that. I just selectively quoted Wikipedia to make Project Veritas look bad.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
...and by the way, have you not noticed that your Google search results are peppered with paid results, and search terms that went "missing"?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Let's revisit the topic three months from now. The change to which I refer probably occurred less than a month ago. Not that Google results hadn't already been going downhill for months prior, but it became dramatically worse at s
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I'm surprised the author doesn't spend more time discussing Google's search engine. I've been using DDG as my primary search for a while, because Google Search has been returning increasingly bad results already for quit
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I think I understand HN's philosophy (ie: this is the web; you can never really delete anything), but there are a few of my old comments I wish I could hide. Does there exist no compromise that is simpler than emailing HN, yet onerou
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Social Media Giants Support Racial Justice. Their Products Undermine It(nytimes.com)
4 points by uniqueid 6y ago|0 comments
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by uniqueid 6y ago
According to Wikipedia, "Project Veritas is an American right-wing activist group. The group uses "disguises and hidden cameras to uncover supposed liberal bias and corruption". The group is known for producing deceptively ed
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Not great, but I can always switch to Elementary.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's over my head. Anyways, I shouldn't shoot my mouth off. Like I said, Physics is not my field :)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> There's only one now Why, because you experience it? Is that different from saying the only place that exists is your office? That's just where you are.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Well, he's dead to people in 2020 , not to his contemporaries over in the 18th Century, if you catch my drift. And we're dead, to people in (most of) the possible 3020AD futures that branch out from 2020. The hedge is in case
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I dunno. I'm not a physicist, but Time as a fourth dimension seems sensible. Since what you consider 'here' (your office, maybe) isn't the same as my 'here' (my living room, atm), why should your 'now&#x27
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Is there any public figure on the internet who doesn't receive death threats? You could maintain a blog for photos of puppies, and some lunatic would have a deadly-serious problem with it. The web isn't working. The saner and wise
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by uniqueid 6y ago
One thing I do notice is occasional spam in "new," but, to my delight, it always winds up flagged before an hour has passed. This is usually the case even with border-line posts (eg: an acceptable title like "I just found an
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That's post-install. The archive "only" requires 9.73 GB, which I believe is actually smaller than a few of their previous versions.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I want a second, locked-down internet/web that coexists with the current internet. The type of controls: - A decentralized group of "meatspace" businesses provide notarization. To get an "account" to use the network
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by uniqueid 6y ago
If you've only recently picked up this interest in History, hold on to your seat. You're in for a surprise.

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