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by xienze 9mo ago
Unions are only going to be effective in a domain where the job can’t be done just as well by someone on the other side of the planet. Think plumbers, electricians, etc. The fact that the work has to be done “here and now” is the leverage t
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by xienze 9mo ago
> I don’t know where the LLMs are picking up this paranoid tendency to handle every single error case. Think about it, they have to work in a very limited context window. Like, just the immediate file where the change is taking place, es
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by xienze 9mo ago
> It's a subsidy of the financially illiterate to those who are. Counterpoint, the financially literate are subsidizing the existence of the financially illiterate via taxes and social programs.
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by xienze 9mo ago
> instilled the fear that "our way of life" will be destroyed if they don't vote for Trump, despite 1) being a lie You may find this hard to believe, but there are a lot of people old enough to see how rapidly "our wa
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by xienze 9mo ago
> So I don't think we can extrapolate confidently at all But the parent was — the implication being that if the other third had voted, surely they would have voted in greater proportion for Democrats than Republicans. That’s based o
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by xienze 9mo ago
> There are both happy and unhappy "homogenous" countries. There's literally no correlation. There’s multiple components to what “happiness” entails. One might argue that a society filled with numerous cultures and ethnici
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by xienze 9mo ago
> No, homogeneity doesn't cause happiness. Funny though how all those European countries everyone on HN and Reddit point to as "how things should be" are all pretty ethnically and culturally homogenous, though that's
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by xienze 9mo ago
The US used to be a much more homogeneous country, which certainly makes it a lot easier for everyone to be on the same page because of shared cultural values. That has changed dramatically in the past few decades and with it, places where
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by xienze 9mo ago
You understand how statistics work, don't you? When you have 64% of the population voting, that's a pretty big sample size, enough so that you can reasonably extrapolate that the 49.8% share _probably_ holds across the rest of the
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by xienze 9mo ago
> Very easy to dismiss it as the rantings of a madman but no-one is holding him back. Does anyone really need to? We're not getting Greenland and everyone knows it, ESPECIALLY the people screeching the most about it. Trump's wh
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by xienze 9mo ago
It was also very smart of them to send their citizens to US universities and companies and exfiltrate research and IP to grow their own tech industry...
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by xienze 10mo ago
> RDS is a particular racket that will cost you hundreds of dollars for a rock bottom tier. Again, Digital Ocean is below $20 per month that will serve many a small business. And yet, AWS is the default goto at this point because the loc
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by xienze 10mo ago
Well, I didn't know that at the time, and I was so annoyed by it I just moved to Jellyfin. And based on another comment in this thread: > https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-fo... They cer
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by xienze 10mo ago
> 'For some reason'? You mean for the sharing library and streaming services and all the other features that require identification to even use ...? All I wanted to do was self host a Plex server and access it from devices on m
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by xienze 10mo ago
For me it wasn't even about cost, it was the fact that logging into my self-hosted Plex server required an auth flow that went to Plex's servers for some reason.
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by xienze 10mo ago
The way I’ve seen it done is that you render a script tag that embeds a third party comment system (like Disqus).
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by xienze 10mo ago
IMO Mockito is fine, the problem I’ve encountered is people taking the easy way out and trying to test something that needs a real integration test with a convoluted series of mocks.
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by xienze 10mo ago
> Zero evidence was provided to support this, but I guess facts don't matter anymore. What do you think the whole thread was about? Apple makes a proprietary connector: anti-consumer behavior according to the EU. Use a standard conn
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by xienze 10mo ago
> No, anti-consumer sentiment is "you have to buy a different charger for each device and it becomes obsolete with the device". But you don't? The other end of any Lightning connector is USB-A or USB-C. Works just fine any
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by xienze 10mo ago
> That is a different legislation. I understand the legislation is different, but the anti-consumer sentiment is the same, but worse in this case since I have a feeling the screw bit won't be nearly as available and cheap as Lightni
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by xienze 10mo ago
I don't see how "oh third parties can get a bit for it" is really an acceptable answer. Lightning cables are readily available but that wasn't consumer-friendly enough for the EU. I think the parent is right, let Ford tr
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by xienze 10mo ago
And field sobriety tests are routinely challenged in court because they aren’t objective and at best, they’re taken into consideration with other things like BAC.
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by xienze 10mo ago
So you’re advocating that a cop makes a subjective judgement about your impairment level? I don’t see how anyone could find an issue with that.
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The article is not saying 40% of all drivers tested positive, it’s stating that 40% of people who died in a car accident tested positive, at pretty high levels too.
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by xienze 10mo ago
> So until we have a valid method of testing if someone is “too stoned to drive” we have to push back on any attempt to classify marijuana users as ineligible to drive. You’re not really going to win anybody over to the legalization side
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by xienze 10mo ago
I know it’s not exactly IPMI, but don’t those little external IP KVM modules work well enough to do remote admin of Macs?
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by xienze 10mo ago
> rack mount hardware I guess they prefer that third parties deal with that. There’s rack mount shelves for Mac Minis and Studios.
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by xienze 10mo ago
> and not straight up forced labour? Well you’re making the assumption that prisoners are forced to do this work rather than opting to in order to make a little money for snacks and/or make a case for good behavior when they come be
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by xienze 11mo ago
> Most techies under estimate how little normal folks care about privacy, cybersecurity and stuff like that. Exactly. Everyone I’ve talked to about my own robot vacuum (which is using Valetudo, so not phoning home to China) just kind of
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by xienze 11mo ago
> And then we should be helping them on the state and federal level. That’ll just lead to people on the opposite side of the spectrum (politically and in terms of being more urban) asking why their tax dollars are going towards a bunch o

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