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by ziddoap 2y ago
> How many of us still have to do these things? Yep, we agree. That's the whole point of what I said in the first half of my original comment. At one time, they were common skills. Things changed, they aren't common, they aren
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> just not convinced on the real world applications here... As a piece of data alone, the results are probably not of significant use. The real-world application (and potential danger) is when this data is combined with other data. De-a
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> Its quite bizarre why social media apps allow anonymous people to interact with you. I mean, it's one of Discord's major use-cases. Joining a server of a common interest and meeting/talking with other people that share
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> How many of us can still... <stuff> Yes, this is what I meant by the calculator part of my comment. You've got some other good examples. > learning when to ignore AI, learning how to take information and turn it into som
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I'm certainly of two minds on this. On one hand, this reminds me of how all of the kids were going to be completely helpless in the real world because "no one carries a calculator in their pocket". Then calculators became so
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Why wouldn't it be?
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> Low information voter, reason your party lost and will continue to It's funny, in a sad way, that after so much discussion here about how silly it is to have this us vs. them, side vs. side mentality, that we end up with someone
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> The downgrading of exceptional individuals like PG to mediocrities is no healthier than placing them on pedestals. Recognizing that we're all just people is certainly healthier than placing people on pedestals.
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It is less socially acceptable in some cultures, more in others. The fact that a gradient exists is proof that, under different circumstances, the social acceptableness of hatred can change.
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Do you think there might be some variation in the degree of negative effects a forum like Hacker News has compared to TikTok/YT shorts?
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> The next 4 years will be like the last 8, minus the pandemic. Yes, calls to takeover ally countries and releasing a presidential cryptocurrency really remind me of the last 8 years.
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> The constitution applies to everyone within the borders of the country Minor clarification that some parts specify "citizen" (e.g. voting). Others specify "person" or "resident" or the like, which would b
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You didn't directly say "this will happen to you", but you are certainly implying that it is something the parent commenter should be worrying about. It's weird. It's like telling random strangers, who you know noth
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Someone says they're looking at what to do after their kids go to school and your reply is basically "well, if you think you're going to quit your current job, just so you know your spouse might divorce you for the money befo
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They need someone in the position. When you are that particular someone, you are needed. That doesn't mean you can't be replaced.
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Working in one domain does not preclude knowledge of others. I work in cybersec but spent my first working decade in construction estimation for institutional builds. I can talk confidently about firewalls or the hospital you want to build.
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They still provide a price and the call is optional.
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It's addressed in the article.
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> No sales calls, except for a short 'discovery call' if absolutely needed. And the important part is that they still provide a price, rather than hide the price with a call button. The call is optional, not a requirement to g
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Because visitors to those sites include corporate and government users -- the majority of windows installations. Corporate and government computers don't have Steam installed. Those website stats also include home users, people with
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Hadn't seen this one before, it's great. > As 6:30 P.M. rolled around, she felt sick in the pit of her stomach, like when she looked at a sentence that didn’t contain an acronym.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
So, do we agree that Steam is not representative of worldwide installs, and the data is heavily biased? > And the statcounter page gives zero info on what source they used. That is answered in the very first question of the FAQ which is
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> None of these link to a real source What? The Register, PC World, and Tech Spot aren't "real sources"? > Steam's statistics Show the percentage of market share for people who game . Not total market share. Hab
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According to...? Every source I look at shows 10 ahead of 11 still. October 2024: "At the end of September 2024, Windows 10 had a 62.79 percent market share and Windows 11 accounted for 33.37 percent." https://www.the
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Their stuff is full of bugs, confusing UI, poor quality. Can you expand on what bugs and quality issues you ran into? UI is pretty subjective (I find it fine), but in the 7+ years I've been using Proton Mail, I've never enco
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I like to post this investigation by Mozilla's "Privacy Not Included" whenever car privacy comes up, because it is actually horrendous. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-...
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I've been with them from pretty much the start, and would say that two outages in the a few months is pretty uncharacteristic. While the recent downtime did indeed affect my company, overall I've been really happy. Not being at th
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> What federal regulations are they evaluating if there are none? "Federal _or state_". They are evaluating against state regulations.
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They do the Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser every year.
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This seems unrelated to whether or not Mozilla makes bad decisions more often than not . I'm talking about frequency, you're talking about severity. People don't remember the 1000 times you did something correctly.

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