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by wwweston 5y ago
> soft censorship If it's soft, it's not censorship. (On top of "if it's private, it's not censorship.")
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by wwweston 5y ago
I think it's pretty reasonable to require vaccination as a condition for participating in some settings. Office settings being one of them. But that said, I dislike surprises in employment agreement terms, and I've started to ask
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Whether the reason is true, the behavior seems more or less consistent with my experience. Mobile Safari caching seems forgetful on surprisingly short horizons (especially when low power mode is on). Mobile Firefox seems better but sucks
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Since forcing the industry to realize the possibility of server-side rendering at gunpoint is oppressive and impractical I suppose that there is some sense in which we need "accept that's how websites are built now," but ther
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To be much more specific: the idea that Twitter has a free speech problem is itself immoderate and ideological. There is an unquestionably huge range of ideas that can be not only freely but rather aggressively expressed on twitter. There
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> What ideology is that? Musk has hinted that he views Twitter as a public forum and should be moderated as such. “the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell
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by wwweston 5y ago
Location: Los Angeles CA / Salt Lake City UT Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: within California or Utah Technologies: Fresher with JavaScript, PHP, Python, HTML/CSS, RDBMS (MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, SQLite); have also built thi
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> We ended up going with vector algebra, then learned that quarternions were actually better Wait, what? I'm still mostly familiar with assessments like "Quaternions... have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them i
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See also Bill Thurston's commentary on the nature of mathematical knowledge: "mathematical understanding does not expand in a monotone direction. Our understanding frequently deteriorates as well. There are several obvious mechani
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> driven by paid subscription streaming If you look at the RIAA's revenue figures over time: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ The story they sure seem to tell is that revenues in the music markets over
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by wwweston 5y ago
> if Ukraine was a thorn in the Kremlin's side If Ukraine was THE thorn in the Kremlin's side... vs one point in a constellation of concerns including undermining NATO [0], weakening the EU [1], weakening the US, affirming nati
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While you're wondering, consider the possibility that Russia had more convenient means than military force for achieving its policy goals during the Trump administration. Then while you're specifically considering Crimea, consider
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> In CA, the most crowded state, There are more acres than people! Oh, well then, we'll just assign each person an acre, problem solved. Which one do you want? Apparently you'll be fine with one -- maybe even two -- in the midd
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by wwweston 5y ago
Turley fails to make crucial distinctions of degree here. It's one thing for people to criticize your speech and problems with it, which is the most common case. And that's just known as more speech. It's another for people
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Sure. As the saying goes "the plural of anecdote is not data." And that goes as much for specific stories about sympathetic landlords suffering from abusive tenants as vice versa. How would we find out what the systemic pattern is
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> they can't do much if you stop paying rent. I'm aware of specific stories where bad-faith tenants have made enforcement difficult , but I'm also aware of enough specific stories from the other side where tenants -- even
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> implicit conversions are confusing. Are they? All of them? 0:1 <≠> F:T? Boolean and binary are and should be distinct, and never the twain shall meet? A bold thesis in the world of computing. Context-sensitive meaning is somethin
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There's a presumption either way. You can make the presumption JS did for [] (and there's probably no turning back), you can even argue explicit is better than implicit (vs the value of context-sensitive concision). But it's
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More like wannabe lisper. Maybe someday I'll land that Clojure job. And yeah, making [] false-y would probably do bad compatibility-breaking things. That's from the department of wishes more than good practical going-forward choic
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Whenever someone has asked me "what would you change about Javascript" for the last 15 years, my answer has usually been "it badly needs a standard library." The standards committees have partly advanced that and Deno is
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> I made a decision in my career to consciously level up my skills-- testing, accessibility, documentation, etc-- all without being asked. Speaking of which... I'm intrigued by your test, in no small part because I'm not sure I
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Uber as well. In fact, for the first year or so I used Uber, I never downloaded the app, just did SMS.
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> For a critique to be of any use you must propose a valid, better alternative It's always nicer when critiques come with solutions, but a critique is valid if all it does is correctly point out an undesirable state of affairs, b
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/Streaming/ itself isn't the problem. The problem is the /payouts/. Retail revenues were replaced with fractional revenues more suitable for broadcast. That makes life economically more difficult for musicians. So m
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> I think Napster/Limewire/Kazaa were far greater influences on price point expectations for Music. Unauthorized copies have been a fact of life not only through the dawn of the P2P era but back through the cassette era. And
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Labels are their own problem for sure, and Apple has advantages over Spotify (I'd guess they mostly come from the fact that Apple can run its digital distribution infrastructure at a profit even without music altogether). I don't
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Reminder that Apple pays artists better too (average penny per stream over Spotify's average 3-4 tenths of a penny per stream). And that Spotify is led by people who think artists who want that level of compensation are "entitle
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> Grocery stores put common items like milk way in the back, in order to have you traverse the whole store and get exposed to as many meters of shelf as possible. They generally also like to change placement of product, to make sure you
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Assuming a system with neatly predictable dynamics that responds linearly to warming / cooling inputs. The globe may not be such a system: https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2021/03/24/weve-kn
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> I've ditched making VSCode and IntelliJ like vim and made neovim like VSCode. It's glorious. How does one go about getting the IDE features like autocomplete or source change tracking in NeoVim?

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