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by xp84 4mo ago
Programmers might write more efficient code if the performance was unacceptable on their own laptops, but even in the not-flush-with-cash companies I've worked all my career, it's been easy for me to always have a dev laptop wit
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by xp84 4mo ago
Strange comparison, the Strat has sentimental and historical value. I don’t collect and cherish articles about Java.
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by xp84 4mo ago
I think it’s mostly Apple and maybe Google who have the hard-ons for the shortest expiries possible.
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by xp84 4mo ago
I see it more like McDonald's can't produce burgers fast enough because of a meat shortage, but Burger King has their own supply chain that allows them to supply extra meat. McDonalds now needs to buy patties, possibly at a higher
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by xp84 4mo ago
So you're saying that no Western leftists espouse degrowth policies that, if carried out, would lower their living standards while enjoying the luxuries our nonzero-carbon world provide them?
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by xp84 4mo ago
No I'm not, because no matter what we do there is always a Climate Change Guy saying it's not enough and we're all gonna die if we don't do better.
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by xp84 4mo ago
Your first link is hilarious. 1:38 features a tow truck wiping out. You'd think he'd seen enough people get in trouble to make him drive better!
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by xp84 4mo ago
I'm assuming these are AI-generated songs... but they're so funny. I think "hilarious songs" is an underrated use of AI. It used to require a lot to make a catchy tune, so we were limited to the output of the few comedia
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by xp84 4mo ago
Indeed. File under "bitter pills to swallow." It's so easy to sit in an air-conditioned house, with our 2-day delivered Amazon stuff, and just make pronouncements like degrowth, etc. Meanwhile about 99% of the humans who live
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by xp84 4mo ago
A good and balanced take, this. Too bad we don't even allow those on the political stage anymore :( All we get is candidates who scream that the other side is stupid fascists or degenerates and that all their opinions are obviously stu
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by xp84 4mo ago
I'd love to see you grab the sound effects from something like the Super Batter Up for SNES. Somehow I think Bandai Namco is not monitoring the Internet for those samples -- at the very least MLB will be coming to ruin things before th
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by xp84 4mo ago
I suppose, but that "brand" was owned by many different people, and the current one has very little to do with whatever people did in the past. At a certain point, one should at minimum back up all one's stuff when ownership
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by xp84 4mo ago
Interesting how our generation which grew up using Napster now has so many intellectual property extremists. By this logic, even humming a tune you heard on the radio is theft.
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by xp84 4mo ago
It's been around for about 17 years, and if anything is more popular now than ever. So even if lots of kids grow out of it, there are new ones being born every minute.
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by xp84 4mo ago
Idling? Where do you get your news? He's leased a ton of capacity to everybody else. Makes little difference to Musk whether Grok is using them or someone else is paying him to use them. We all know from AWS's profitability that r
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by xp84 4mo ago
Wow. I wonder (genuinely) how such a mammoth payout will affect retention? I guess the option vesting will serve the purpose? I guess if I found my already-vested shares were worth $4 million, I'd still be motivated to get the remainin
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by xp84 4mo ago
So... are you arguing that Musk is an opponent of 'free speech' because... a bunch of private citizens argue with you when you speak critically of Musk? The whole thread (and to be fair, Musk himself most of the time) has lost the
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by xp84 4mo ago
> labor and land are cheap such that you can get fiber laid cheaply and quickly. Which is why all of sub-saharan Africa is crisscrossed in fiber, and every hut in those villages has an ONT zip-tied to the straw walls where they get their
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by xp84 4mo ago
? What's your point here? And almost everyone born after 1980 created their first online accounts while they were a minor, including I'm assuming 70% of Photobucket users.
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by xp84 4mo ago
raises hand although it's for a family member. But that's a very different product. I was only saying I don't think the PB thing is getting anyone rich, rather it's probably bringing in just enough profit to keep whoev
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by xp84 4mo ago
If it requires nothing more than a click to cancel, it seems like you'd be happier in life if you viewed such a thing as merely a two-step process (signup, get what you need, cancel immediately) rather than a serious commitment to spen
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by xp84 4mo ago
I really doubt anyone's getting rich off this. Genuinely doubt it. How many people remember their photobucket accounts, let alone bother to hunt them down, let alone want to bother getting a credit card out and remembering to cancel (o
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by xp84 4mo ago
I think the main thing here is merely that it's costly to keep a massive archive (of mostly garbage[1]) online and available on a long timescale. Not just the S3 bill (which I wouldn't underestimate the cost of, for a site that
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by xp84 4mo ago
...or $11 for a month, and you can cancel it? Where do people think the money comes from to store gigs and gigs of photos literally forever?
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by xp84 4mo ago
He said in the article that he guessed maybe he used a different account. This is a lot more believable (esp since he said it) than a conspiracy that PB deleted all photos and built this whole system just to steal $5 a pop -- especially con
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by xp84 4mo ago
I'm honestly genuinely surprised that you care so much about $5 ($3 in 2006 money, when people last used photobucket) that you wrote this article over it, but cared so little to just ask for the refund 15 seconds after finding the acco
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by xp84 4mo ago
> websites would treat your uploaded data with respect Are you saying that the free websites in question owed their users completely free storage of that data, in perpetuity? How is that a reasonable expectation, regardless of how one
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by xp84 4mo ago
Imagine you were building this reactivation flow. How likely would you have thought it to be that someone keeps the password to a completely unused account for 10-20 years, then suddenly misremembers it as an actually-used account and goe
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by xp84 4mo ago
Maybe I'm some kind of capitalist pig, because I can't find much to be mad about here. To summarize: 1. Customer took the initiative to check out a long-dormant free photo hosting account 2. Found that it required payment with a m
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by xp84 4mo ago
Pardon my mistake. How do you even manage to have a drought when it rains all year long? Sorry, that just doesn't make any sense. You can drive around anywhere on the East Coast and everything everywhere is green all summer. I've

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