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by wharvle 3y ago
I'd suppose it's a reference to rich people having far more influence on public and economic policy than the working class, and those policies in turn having a substantial effect both on how people interact and who has money, espe
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by wharvle 3y ago
I've never wanted one and not found it in DDG, or found it named differently from what I'd have named it. Every now and then I try to guess one blind, and I don't think I've ever had it surprise me. And it works in any b
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by wharvle 3y ago
N-Gate summaries were harsh, but fair. Basically spot on.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Something this doesn't do that DDG bangs do, is let me append it, or even stick it in the middle of a search. I can just type it wherever my cursor happens to be, other than in the middle of a term. This comes up when I search somethin
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by wharvle 3y ago
Years and years ago I'd configure this stuff in FF, but using DDG effectively auto-configures it for any browser, exactly the same, everywhere, all I have to do is set the default search engine. And it includes some that I do use but p
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by wharvle 3y ago
> We were taught that the first paragraph of a story should summarize the entire story because most people won't read past that. Also because it's better writing . For that purpose, anyway. One can find readable images of e.g.
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by wharvle 3y ago
I’d shatter the glass every year, if not multiple times a year, without a case, is why. I probably drop my phone on concrete or tile at least once every couple months. I’ve broken my fair share. I’ve also had a couple that didn’t shatter bu
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by wharvle 3y ago
Adds a little overhead and friction to processes. Causes miscommunication and lost and scattered info, and worse visibility and awareness of what’s going on than could be achieved. The result is fairly significant rarely-accounted-for costs
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by wharvle 3y ago
It really was. Just my own machine's traffic makes it scroll faster than I can read, these days. Every web page and program constantly phoning home up and and including sending real-time mouse cursor locations, mdns, UDP local-network-
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by wharvle 3y ago
Relaxing. Like back when you could attach WireShark to your local network and not see a single damn thing happen for tens of seconds at a time unless you pressed a button somewhere. ... But also when computers wouldn't do anything usef
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by wharvle 3y ago
My experience is that they almost always end up being "just" a dumb pipe, then. Routing (beyond proxying requests to backend servers), request logging, bi-directional interaction with the backend code that can enable cool stuff li
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by wharvle 3y ago
> So I'd rather just have my application speak HTTP over a Unix or IP socket that my frontend webserver proxies to. "Each HTTP-serving lib is another liability" is at least as true for "each FastCGI-serving lib"
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by wharvle 3y ago
In a society where these diets buck the norm, I expect some of this effect is just from paying more attention to what one eats. It's a major mechanism behind lots of restrictive diets working for weight loss—paying more attention to fo
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by wharvle 3y ago
1491 (or is it the sequel, 1493 ? I could see this topic ending up in either) makes the case that there's nowhere near as much evidence of Native Americans eating passenger pigeons as one might expect given the vast populations (and
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by wharvle 3y ago
Every time I use some cloud-thingy that's just fucking scheduling, running, and managing multiple processes, and it's way harder and more error-prone and less reliable and burns a multiple more person-hours to set up and manag
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by wharvle 3y ago
HTTP daemons remain pretty nice, and if you use them rather than serving HTTP from your language (... and how many languages are you using? Each HTTP-serving lib is another liability) you get a lot of cool stuff "for free" ("
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by wharvle 3y ago
A shitload of stuff from the Bad Old Days is "not particularly slow" now that everything's in cloud-whatevers and k8s clusters. Anyone remember when you offloaded something to the server to make it faster ? Now it's lik
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by wharvle 3y ago
> You can have the keys printed on paper and placed onboard but that does not mean there was 1 bitcoin onboard. There is in the sense that if you go retrieve it (er, well, read and transmit the data) now you have the coin(s). Unless some
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by wharvle 3y ago
It’s kinda pricey compared to solutions without a built-in screen, battery, and controller. And I’m not sure how well it’d serve these other use cases, or playing games from iso files—I’m sure that last thing could work, at least in many ca
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by wharvle 3y ago
Example: the entire software industry (to include, and perhaps especially, companies that develop software but aren’t exactly software companies) seems to have a problem with splitting tools across a bunch of vendors, many of which have hea
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by wharvle 3y ago
iOS kinda keeps the map open outside the lock (at least with Apple Maps). Everything else locks behind it. At least on mine.
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by wharvle 3y ago
Scamming people into becoming part of a scamming-pyramid is how lots of these larger-scale scams work. See also: the business/life/whatever "coaching" industry. The real money's not in coaching ordinary folks, it&#x
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by wharvle 3y ago
As someone with a high school diploma and nothing else, and zero cash in the bank? Those are the folks to whom enlisting is appealing (in the US, at least). Not college grads in hot, in-demand fields with at least five figures liquid and re
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by wharvle 3y ago
> I can write dozens of pages of highly analytical and technical text without making mistakes in real time. I can speed read complex texts and memorize them with a high degree of precision. > From the “language” perspective I feel hig
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by wharvle 3y ago
That’s making it into a bit, for sure. Or on a promotional poster: “Not very funny. — Arbitrator [name]”
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by wharvle 3y ago
> Also, pretty sure that goes against the 1st amendment and if memory serves right, no contract can change people’s federal rights or change any laws The contract does not attempt to modify the protection of your free speech rights from
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by wharvle 3y ago
> I'm not overly found of timer units, either. They seem feature rich but much more complicated to setup than a single line in a crontab. I’ve twice tried to use them. Closest I got to having one work was that it reported it ran, an
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by wharvle 3y ago
It’s the surest way to access European-like benefits for the lower class, in the US. Housing (for your family, too), healthcare (ditto), retirement, free education, paid vacation (if not much of it). Pretty good schools for your kids, mostl
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by wharvle 3y ago
It's not their standard. It's in wide use on video game consoles and Android phones. The rest of the "PC" industry just hasn't moved so hard away from USB-A as they have, such that it remains the de facto PC sta
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by wharvle 3y ago
I don't think anyone else wants to make the bet that they could take a sufficient slice out of that pie to make the gamble pay off, given Apple's significant lead, and ~all of the likely-competitor tech companies with enough capit

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