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by usrn 4y ago
They taught this in the Philosophy class I took in High School. Lately I've been getting back into some of the philosophy and history stuff, I think when I was younger I was way too focused on pragmatic things like software development
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by usrn 4y ago
Smartphone software being pure garbage along with the games Qualcomm and the network operators play make up the rest of the story.
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by usrn 4y ago
The line between app and site is fuzzy IMO. Does cloudflare's documentation reader count as an app or a site? They certainly wrote it as an SPA. Hackernews seems more like something I would call an app etc.
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by usrn 4y ago
The line between app and site is fuzzy IMO. Does cloudflare's documentation reader count as an app or a site? They certainly wrote it as an SPA.
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by usrn 4y ago
I'm I weird for thinking "writing <x> out of history" is a really bad idea no matter what x happens to be?
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by usrn 4y ago
Spending time with my family. I used to enjoy programming (the alone on a greenfield project hacking kind) the most but things change as you get older.
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by usrn 4y ago
I honestly think nothing has really changed. You can see SCO saying "We have graphics now! People will want to use Unix on the desktop now" all the way back in the 80s. Computers keep getting bigger but the software keeps up with
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by usrn 4y ago
Mastodon is great. I tried Twitter the other week and it feels so much worse, like crappy RSS for celebrity gossip instead of a discussion platform.
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by usrn 4y ago
The English elites appear to hate the English.
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by usrn 4y ago
We had it before with XMPP (which even has a Signal-style E2EE standard now.) There's absolutely no reason we can't have it again.
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by usrn 4y ago
He's not quite as principled as I'd like when it comes to certain things. IIRC he doesn't want people being given access to ECUs because they could modify them in ways that increase emissions.
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by usrn 4y ago
Tokens are ponzi schemes. Cyptocurrencies aren't any worse than any other modern currency.
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by usrn 4y ago
See also: Why is there something and not nothing.
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by usrn 4y ago
I think it depends on the plastic. "Plastic" just refers to a mechanical property that a lot of different polymers have.
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by usrn 4y ago
It's been replaced with mandatory evening DEI training.
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by usrn 4y ago
With the other languages the apps on my machine are built with (C, and to a large degree Python) I have the benefit of the distribution maintainers at least looking in the general direction of the source for things I install (including deve
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by usrn 4y ago
Most marketing is arguably fraudulent. I don't think these scams are good at all but part of me really wishes there were more just to force people to think twice when they see marketing from eg Apple or Tesla. EDIT: s/advertising&
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by usrn 4y ago
>as someone who doesn't know how to code You'll learn a lot by reading and it's probably easier to understand than you might think. If you don't do this other people take advantage of you. They do it a lot more than y
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by usrn 4y ago
Twitter is not IRC. Switching from Freenode to Libra means changing a config and possibly sorting out some channels that switched faster than you expected. Switching from Twitter to Mastodon means abandoning the (pretty terrible but familia
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by usrn 4y ago
It was kind of nuts to see so many pages that weren't updated in years change their links.
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by usrn 4y ago
That's like arguing you shouldn't the read source for the software you use because you're not an expert.
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by usrn 4y ago
It's not arbitrage because of the labor spent looking through ebay listings and dealing with surprises (broken hardware, incorrect listings etc.) Also the machines have to go somewhere and that costs a lot because if someone can do
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by usrn 4y ago
We fought the war to restructure the government. I think if you told the revolutionaries they were fighting to abandon those traditions they'd be very upset.
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by usrn 4y ago
Looking at California I'm not sure Democrats are the model party for improving public institutions.
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by usrn 4y ago
If you don't like crypto currency then you should do your best to stop things that make it necessary.
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by usrn 4y ago
They do well on their own so why would they join NATO? Probably so they can let the US handle things for them. I think long term this will only make things worse but I'm certainly not an expert.
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by usrn 4y ago
I vote independent often and had considered voting democrat a few times. The last few years have made me hope that party goes the way of the Whigs.
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by usrn 4y ago
This is the problem with mobile stuff. It's always "one size fits all" and "fuck you if it doesn't work for you, too bad." I'm so tired of it I've just given up on normal smartphones. There's rea
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by usrn 4y ago
On Linux you can use lsusb to see what exactly is connected. I think on Windows you could see the tree graphically in "device manager." I don't know if OSX has anything built in.
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by usrn 4y ago
As everyone moves towards using Electron and Webviews for their native apps the apps just get worse than their web pages. Spotify, Discord, Slack, and many others are best off without the app. If 2010 was the decade of Smartphone apps I thi

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