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by williamdclt 7mo ago
> A war continuous until one side has caused the other more suffering than it can take. The article is in large parts about how that's not true. It makes the point that the very existence of the Iranian regime hinges on its oppositi
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by williamdclt 7mo ago
Sounds like they didn't build competing products, they built products that'd have been very valuable to the parent company.
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by williamdclt 7mo ago
Yeah. The vast majority of people simply don't give a flying shit, and many haven't really even noticed.
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by williamdclt 7mo ago
They definitely have. Github evolved a lot faster after the microsoft acquisition, I remember being mildly impressed after it was stagnant for years (this is not an opinion on whether it was evolving in the right direction or if it was a go
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by williamdclt 7mo ago
> the so called DOM-TOMs Fun fact: they've not been called that in 23y, they're DROM-COM
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by williamdclt 7mo ago
> why do all billionaires seem devoid of ethics? why do all NBA players seem so tall?
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by williamdclt 7mo ago
> duopolies in the US and the UK for better or worse, the duopoly is disappearing in the UK. Both Tories and Labour are getting passed by Reform and the Greens
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by williamdclt 7mo ago
Measure no, but only engineers care about that (and I'm not even saying that they're right, engineers care a whole lot too much about hard data). You can show alternative solutions, estimate, make assumptions, even make up numbers
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by williamdclt 8mo ago
> being a regular corporation is not the only possible model the point is that it _is_ the only possible model in our marvellous Friedmanian economic structure of shareholder primacy. When the only incentive is profit, if your company is
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by williamdclt 8mo ago
You really don't? It's just a ton easier for most users: it's (almost) like already having an account. Just click a couple times and you're in, no typing at all, no email confirmation or anything like that. I also avoid
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by williamdclt 8mo ago
If anyone knows of _any_ investment yielding a yearly 20% reliably, I'd certainly be interested. If Starbucks figured that out, I don't know why they're bothering making coffee.
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by williamdclt 8mo ago
> Especially infrequent visitors I don't know a single resident who uses oyster (maybe kids? Dunno, I don't have kids in my social circle), infrequent visitors are actually the only ones I've seen using oyster and that&#x2
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by williamdclt 8mo ago
> the waitresses were up to their names, literally standing and waiting by our table changing utensils and plates and filling the drinks FWIW, this sounds like a deeply unpleasant experience to me
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by williamdclt 9mo ago
In modern representations, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find red-dude-with-horns. Seems like we shifted towards hot-dude-with-something-off (Lucifer series, Good Omens), when we do see red-dude-with-horns I feel like it's mean
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by williamdclt 9mo ago
I think at least _part_ of the reason why is that it's just a whole lot less useful? There's tons and tons of applications for image and video and the automated analysis of it (for art, documentation or business purposes), whereas
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by williamdclt 9mo ago
> already barely usable (imo) finder been using a Mac for years, and to this day I don't know how it's possible to navigate directories using Finder. It only has shortcuts for a few folders by default (photos, documents...) and
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by williamdclt 10mo ago
> if you assume all countries follow the same type of happiness distribution that is simply shifted/stretched lower or higher. That's a pretty strong assumption, seems more likely that there's variation at the extremes tha
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by williamdclt 10mo ago
Yes? "The best possible life" covers pretty much exactly these socioeconomic factors for most people. Is there any of these factors that you think is not covered by this question?
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by williamdclt 10mo ago
> Most people don't seem to care, which is their choice. Most people don't have the required knowledge to make an educated decision about whether to care. In fact, most people are not even aware of the question, let alone have
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by williamdclt 10mo ago
Well ackshually, Himalayan salt does come from a sea (although this sea has disappeared a long long time ago) so it's not _technically_ wrong
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
> better experience for all for the well-off*
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
that might be literally the least of my concern regarding gen AI in today's world
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
> Yeah, I have a hard time believing that there’s a massive demand for AI-generated videos and images. Like, why would the news industry want to generate images and videos with AI? It’s not news. The advertising industry maybe, but even
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
> Better is to critique the actual PR itself. For example, needs more tests, needs to be broken up, doesn't follow our protocols for merging/docs, etc. They did: the main point being made is "I'm not reading 13k LOCs
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
That's not the point being made. Whether you're into the traditional marriage/family social schema or not (and personally I'm very much not), it's still something that most of the population wants, that society expe
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
I've read a lot more about "how dumb it is to use mongo over PG" than the opposite, I think the burden of proof is on the mongo-lovers these days (not that anyone has to prove anything to randos on the internet)
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
no-downtime is table stakes in 2025. I can't look at anyone in the eyes and tell them that our product is going to go down for a bit everytime we deploy (it'd also be atrocious friction for frequent deployment).
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
Mostly repeating what others have said but... Trains get delayed and cancelled very frequently. They leave you stranded in the middle of nowhere because there's a technical issue fairly regularly: it's not a daily occurrence, but
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
> React released hooks in early 2019 before Covid, and after that things don’t really change much at all. Server-side components became a thing, as well as the React compiler. And libraries in the React (and JS at large) ecosystem are pr
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by williamdclt 11mo ago
It helps with that, but it has other trade-offs: indirection isn't free for readability.

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