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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
>The Nazis didn't need Flock cameras to kill millions. No, but they were extremely happy to hop over to France and realize that we kept lists that indirectly listed jews. Actions have consequences that we may not be able to predict.
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
You won't know, they'll say it's for national security so licenses don't matter, and then if you keep going they'll make sure your life is a living hell and your bank accounts closed. I'm begging tech bros to u
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Ah yes, they're carpet bombing people and indiscriminately killing fighters, adults and children, but they're going to be stopped because... the software they use is two clause GPL.
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Doubling PRs isn't necessarily unbelievable. AI reduces ceremony around PRs, makes the small shitty changes that you never had time to do possible and the larger cleanups at least doable. Double the PRs doesn't mean double the out
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
>The US has top-tier cancer survival-after-diagnosis outcomes. "Airplanes that get shot in the wing always survive" logic. People _do not get diagnosed and die_ because the US healthcare system is inaccessible to close to 50% o
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
>Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5%. I don't see you complaining that the US military has a low operating margin, so maybe we can just agree that some things are just normal expenses for a population. Which therefore leads t
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
>sixteen people contribute €100 each; yeah sure everyone has 100€ to spend on friends, at least once a month. What kind of reality does he live in ?
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Things that don't happen and that you make up for to win a hypothetical argument: this one.
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
> What's moving the goalposts? I am very much amazed at what Fable can do. I push its code straight to prod. >> What's moving the goalposts? I am very much amazed at what Opus 4.8 can do. I push its code straight to prod.
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
>the people who built up stockpiles in advance need to be compensated for their foresight. Or we do what we've always done to war profiteers and hang them after taking their supplies, because hoarding food and expecting to be paid f
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Anyone sensible doesn't call this censorship. It might sound complicated if you live in a country where elections are won by who spends most money for airtime, but granting candidates equal airtime on traditional media is how it works
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
And Mojo will die because nvidia is not interested in maintaining any semblance of backwards compatibility when it comes to CUDA. It's going to be a perpetual race forwards, and whenever nvidia upgrades CUDA, you're going to be st
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Countries under embargoes are failing?! Countries that cannot get oil, electricity, goods because the most imperialistic country on earth cannot see them succeed are failing ? Well golly gee how could that be cuba has a longer life expectan
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Ah yes, the most capitalistic country on the planet, where billionaires quite literally buy out public officials isn't capitalistic enough, and isn't "real capitalism". Watch out, you're almost sounding like the &qu
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
No, the means of productions are owned by _the workers_, not by you as an individual. You want to stop working there? You're welcome to trade your spot with another worker. And before any "uuuuh this can't work uuuh people wa
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
>it's difficult to find a moderately high end laptop Terrible news for you, people work on dogshit dells given by their company and netbooks, not high end laptops. Macbook Pros, high end laptops, etc are exceedingly rare. (And can a
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
DWM quite literally does that all the time. For the general case it allocates GPU memory, but also swaps to system RAM or uses it as a synchronization mechanic when you have one screen on an igpu and the other on a dgpu.
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
??? Fast and loose is an understatement, at best it's a view from a rendering engineer that thinks all software acquires a DXGI swap chain and handles buffering itself, but it's flat out wrong and over two times too high at the ve
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
And I would take a proper homemade burger over an injection of bleach or a full breath of Zyklon B, but maybe compare what is comparable. Default uneducated behavior to respond to anything USSR related with "BUT STALIN GULAGS" (wh
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Yes, Soljenitzin is not a revolutionary new thing nobody has heard from. Conditions in gulags were fucking dreadful, the same way conditions post any revolution when it came to repressing those who would put down a revolution would be: amer
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
yeah, who could ever need accurate and immediate depth perception, having to carry a 4090 in my roomba to badly reconstruct it from 4 pictures so it can stop bumping into walls is like the future man
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Americans prisons have been historically so much better than USSR prisons, sure <3
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
The lack of union is exactly the reason why every software developer shut the fuck up and took money in exchange for building spyware, tracking software, ran psychological experiments on unknowing people and generally contributed to the des
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Maybe it exists! Maybe it doesn't! Maybe ROVO actually means Really Overtly Violent Opportunities! And Rovo can make it all up as it goes.
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Rovo makes for an INCREDIBLE time reading jira tickets and confluence pages. Someone wrote YES in all caps in a page ? Rovo will helpfully tell you (after loading for 5 seconds) that YES stands for Yassified Entertainment Setting, a new opt
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
>in Compose this means monstrous constructors and modifier chains. Which is now being fixed by the Styles API ( https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/styles ) which are easily reusable.
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
You come in, shit out thousands of lines of slop that you didn't even think about or review, put it in the lap of the maintainer, expect him to maintain your crap that you don't even understand indefinitely in the future, and you
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
Literally there for more protection. Split your app into different apps, each handling a component. Want a banking app, without access to registering your card for NFC payments ? Split the app. sharedUserIds cannot be applied blindly, they
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
permission.INTERNET has _never_ been a dangerous permission on android.
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by well_ackshually 2mo ago
"I just asked Gemini, and it turns out that Mossad can steal my data anyways". - An app without the INTERNET permission will crash the moment you try to access the internet. It's like a rite of passage of every android develo

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