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by wwweston 5y ago
Digital sales out-revenued streaming until sometime 2014ish, and there was a window in which that happened while it also beat out physical formats. And it "declined fairly quickly given streaming" because buffet streaming services
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2013-2022 will probably still be in demand for anybody that's camping out on Mojave to keep 32 bit support or has Intel-related needs, though that demand profile will of course change over time. Framework + Linux sure seems compelling,
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by wwweston 5y ago
It is... and that's potentially part of the problem. The value proposition at the low-demand end of serverless is less clear for PHP, since it's pretty much had that value (throw files on a cheap host and forget about the vanishin
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It's clearly a non-starter to suggest that only 1 party would do such a thing, but that's distinct from saying only one "group" would do it if by group we're talking about social philosophy built around, say, the
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Since the orders under discussion stipulate inoculation or weekly testing, seems really unlikely the principal issue involved here is backlash from the substance of federal direction.
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It's also possibly for some of the same reasons: baseline expectations coalesce around some predominate experience (shared social experience / shared road experience) that becomes the default, to the point where it becomes difficu
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It wasn't ever gone. It just wasn't hosted on FB. The thing to remember about tech -- both when it's lionized as a revolution for the better or vilified as the source of evils making things worse -- is that most of the time w
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by wwweston 5y ago
See also: https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre...
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Berry's a good well for deep-speaking thought. The essay from which it comes is pretty great too -- I don't think it's online in whole form but there are pieces discussed here: https://www.brainpickings.org/20
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"the mind that is not baffled is not employed the impeded stream is the one that sings" -- Wendell Berry
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Also constant is the fact that the catastrophe continues to unfold at a rate that falls neatly into the uncanny valley between "slow and marginal enough that most human beings can't seem to comprehend it as a catastrophe" (po
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> I am very scared of the potential consequences Any particular reason? I'm someone who was told to be cautious about some vaccines by medical professionals due to a past condition, and so when the covid vaccines started to come ava
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I’d also say homeowner economic incentives don’t even cover it. You buy into a community as it is — that’s what you saw the benefit of investing in not only economically but socially and in terms of years of your life. You may well be parti
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It's also possible that it's the other way around: a certain "common denominator" + algorithms that chase broad engagement = mediocre results. The real trick would be some kind of engine that can aim just above where the
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> In either case, given the modus operandi of a "tech" company, its an encroachment on free will. Given the nature of every medium ever includes some focus inherent in what creators make and curators highlight/disseminat
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by wwweston 5y ago
Thanks for the generous and informative response!
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by wwweston 5y ago
It never took that large of a percentage of the population to get sick at once to overwhelm hospital capacity. Some tenths of a percent could probably it. 35% of the population vulnerable means there's plenty of room for that. Enough p
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> This is false. Suffice it to say that it's non-obvious to me where to start to go about getting a stable and mobile (ie laptop) experience. I'd like nothing better than to receive a response that makes me feel sheepish for th
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> C-Levels spend a lot of their time in meetings discussing confidential information “Confidential information” is presumably a concern because (a) at a certain point broad enough knowledge you’d rather keep internal leaks outside the or
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> All pejorative has a literal interpretation that is not pejorative. Even assuming that's true, it doesn't follow that every literal interpretation should be or is understood as pejorative, which leads to the question of why
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> I think people certainly use the phrase "toxic femininity", but such examples are from the long-tail. Forbes and Psychology Today are long-tail low-relevance now? > What isn't said, is that the expectation to become a
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> I don't know anyone who believes this. Anyone who actually knows what adjectives are and how they work believes this. Or people familiar enough with the substance of the discussion to know it includes discussion of what healthy
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Process (agile or not) always has three goals: legibility, scalability, and fungibility. Both management and devs alike can be concerned about the bus factor, which falls under fungibility. Of course, an organization can have (or lack) huma
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There's a history of emphasizing a closer relationship of some racial groups to the rest of the animal kingdom as a way of othering them or implying their nature/capabilities are more animal-like and less human-like. So while it&#
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Online order for pickup is close, at least if you can wait 6-8 hours for the order to process. Had this same experience with a Walmart a week ago, btw -- it took me 15 minutes to find one item I was looking for, and by the time I realized
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I'm absolutely convinced this happens -- with roles, with capabilities, with salary. It's got to be related to normalcy bias and other anchoring phenomenon. Probably less than half-conscious, too.
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Sure they do -- I can pick any basis I want for saying their ideas are worse. I can make that basis arbitrary (because I don't like their names), or I can ground it in appeals to things that people value widely. One can get lost in the
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It's Lubuntu, so I think the desktop is LXQt; I'd assume it's not that. About the only unusual thing I can think of is that I'm trying to use dropbox. It dies periodically, so maybe it's hungry, but even without it
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I’m with you up through XMonad, Emacs, and XTerm but... Firefox? Right now I’m currently struggling with an attempt to use a circa 2015 Dell XPS 13 as a Linux-based daily driver, and Firefox is nigh unusable with even only a few tabs, 4GB o
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Watch this space: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v... In particular, figure 1. And of course even if there was NO effect on spread, cooperatively participating in reducing load on hospi

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