wildmanx

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by wildmanx 4y ago
And how sustainable is that solution?
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by wildmanx 4y ago
What's the tangible benefit of reading a history book? What's the tangible benefit of learning about quantum physics, evolution theory or the history of the French Revolution? My iPhone works anyway, the grocery store sells chicke
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Let's assume that's the case. Then without having witnessed the propaganda, I'd not have proper context to what you just told me. I'd have to go with somebody (you) claiming what had been the propaganda back in the day.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
You'll have witnessed history unfold in front of your very own eyes. You'll know the difference between what the history books will claim 20 years from now and the public debate shift based on that, and what you've actually w
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> There are much, much better ways than reading CNN/NYTimes every day. Reading those once a day is actually pretty good, let's say at a dedicated time. In contrast to many-times-a-day-let-me-just-check-the-app. The latter is ju
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Sure, but this here is "Hacker News". We are the 1% that you are talking about. Export functions wouldn't convince me though. Those can disappear och be broken or miss things, which I wouldn't only notice when it'
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by wildmanx 4y ago
This. 100%. Because of this, I've come to distrust any offering that's not self-hosted on my homeserver. Sounds drastic, but I've been burned too often. The quality I get from this is significantly lower, the amount of work I
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Yeah, this is ridiculous. Notice how all the models on the page have big to giant hands? One of my earliest smartphones was 4.2". That was already problematic for my hand. 5" is too large, 5.9" is out of question. I don'
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> If it isn't buggy That's not how software works. Software is always buggy. Question is only how severely functionality is impacted and when those bugs will be found. Most bugs are never noticed since they only concern corne
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Not sure which part. You quoted an implication. Do you find my description in the antecedent arrogant (i.e. my characterization of the beginning of the article), or the implication itself? If the former, I spent quite some time to argue in
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Well said, thank you.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
I disagree. When reading material that's so utterly flawed, full with oversimplifying stereotypes and arrogance, then it's entirely possible to have formed an opinion before finishing the piece. Nothing could have come after the
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> The article defines stupidity in a very precise way No, it doesn't. The part that you mention is "law" 3 of 5. I stopped reading mid-way into the first "law" up to which the article already used the term "
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by wildmanx 4y ago
This is a terrible view of humankind, society and the people around you. What is "stupidity" other than a concept vague enough that you can just throw it at anybody to, in part, immediately raise yourself to some level of superior
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQnnhAXLt0 around 3:16. It's not just a percussive stab. It is actually a valid chord (all black keys) in that key.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Also feels like they are more common on mainstream-ish TV.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
I work in Europe at a nice company with nice offices. It's beautiful. Most of the time we all have our doors wide open, it's glass doors, mostly glass walls, very bright, very modern. Everybody is welcome to stop by at any time wh
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> How do you compete with that? Taxi business need to reflect. Did you read the article? The reason this worked for you is that you benefited from exploiting some underpaid soul that was up at 5 in the morning to barely scrape by.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
The purpose of shadow banning is to make it hard for violators to work around the restrictions. If the feedback loop is in the order of seconds, then the bad actor can quickly find a way to just pass the filter while still dumping the cra
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Office designers on the European continent have come up with an ingenious invention for this: Individual offices! Site managers in North America rarely want to hear this, since it's more expensive and supposedly prevents close collabor
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> Is it really a tax if it's voluntary? That seems like a contradiction of terms. Um, it's not voluntary. Buying the product is voluntary. But the state taking a cut once you do buy the product is not voluntary. Don't mix
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> For some people winning the lottery (even smaller prices) is literally the only "realistic" way of getting a moderate amount of "wealth" That itself is questionable. Let's say somebody of poor socioeconomic bac
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by wildmanx 4y ago
That's the kind of short-sighted thinking that makes the difference between high performers actually wanting or not wanting to work for you. (In more detail, the two reasons my sibling comment gave.)
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> If instead a project is described as “I built this thing for me. Here’s the source. Please don't trust me, or my code, with anything valuable” expectations can be better aligned perhaps. Every open source project states this expli
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by wildmanx 4y ago
It's a typical pattern that I've seen in FOSS projects over the last decades. Somebody writes something cool, publishes it, is initially happy about adoption and positive feedback, and then people start to demand more and more of
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by wildmanx 4y ago
What open source means and what different people choose to use it for are different things. Of course as a maintainer you may get more out of it if you put effort in for building a community, which then can help you improve the project,
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> The thing is, that has nothing to do with open source, it's always project-specific, so the full post largely doesn't make any sense as a comment on open source. That's how I read this article. He argues that it's a
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> > Energy is not free. No, nuclear isn't either. > You don't need free energy for desal to be more than worthwhile. It was a response to that the only byproduct of desalination is sea salt. It's not (or it's a
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> The byproducts are sea salt. You might pay less for it at the store. 1. It's not some food-grade "sea salt" that you get. It's brine, which, dumped into the ocean, wreaks havoc in the local ecosystem. It's heav
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by wildmanx 4y ago
We humans have a terrible track record when it comes to using tech to try to counter environmental issues that we caused. It has essentially never worked. What _can_ work is to use tech to address the root cause, which in many cases resourc

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