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by zorpner 6y ago
This is honestly probably an unexpectedly good heuristic -- remove anything pulseaudio depends on, and you'll likely get a more stable system.
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by zorpner 6y ago
I think my favorite contextual example of this is the opening line from Neuromancer: "The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel." Means something very different now.
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by zorpner 7y ago
There are two critical things to recall about OK Soda: 1. This article in The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/id-like-to-force-the-world-to-... 2. 2/3 Coca-cola, 1/4 Orange Soda, 1/12 Dr. Pepper
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by zorpner 7y ago
Some of the Arlo gear is battery-powered. I use a couple of their LTE cameras in areas without any other means of connection.
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by zorpner 7y ago
I think it's an implicit read, that is, given that anyone commercial should be using .com, anyone using .org should be non-commercial (and likewise non-educational, non-governmental, non-military). That being said, it's not like .
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by zorpner 7y ago
I know and knew dozens of women in computer science degrees, this did not ever happen to many of them. They didn't tell you about it, at least.
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by zorpner 7y ago
I quickly skimmed the source... As the sibling comment notes, this is addressed in the source material. Consider engaging more productively before posting dismissive comments on HN.
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by zorpner 7y ago
They see tools not as a way to get more done or be efficient, but as something that's "moving their cheese" and they don't like it. It doesn't matter how overworked they are by remedial tasks that could be automate
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by zorpner 7y ago
It's not sad, it's progress. These are not mutually exclusive concepts.
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by zorpner 7y ago
> But it's hard for me to ignore the survivorship bias at play here. Surely it works the other way as well -- for all the stories of people who worked all night to achieve success, there are others about people who either did so and
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by zorpner 7y ago
Charles Stross clarifies the situation: https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1209553772424253440 > What you’re doing if you flag a book as containing typos is, you tell a computer to yank the book off sale immedi
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by zorpner 7y ago
Your argument is that amount of money wrongfully acquired equals moral wrong. I'm pointing out that this implies that there are bigger fish to fry.
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by zorpner 7y ago
> there is not a single thing in the economy that is immune from the laws of supply and demand As a sibling comment noted, this doesn't happen in countries where there are existing single payer systems, so your analysis is trivially
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by zorpner 7y ago
A friend of mine recently made the excellent point that Ring also provides Amazon with surveillance footage of their own delivery service employees. Synergy!
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by zorpner 7y ago
Realistically, on a social site without additional evidence, the default assumption on the modern web should be that a given account is being compensated for what they're posting. An account's history might allow us to adjust t
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by zorpner 7y ago
I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. What you're saying is absolutely true -- keeping politics out of anything is endorsement of the status quo. And even more specifically, as it relates to the workplace, anything you bui
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by zorpner 7y ago
> If the law can't be used to protect us what measures remain available? "Google" is not an entity -- it's composed of people, who make decisions and enable the things that Google does. Don't hire them. Don'
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by zorpner 7y ago
I think more engineers are realizing that if you've been working for Uber, Facebook, Twitter, and maybe now (or depending on how they act, maybe not) Cloudflare it severely curtails your future opportunities, both as an employee and so
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by zorpner 7y ago
I'm sure parents who work two jobs to support their children will be relieved to hear it.
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by zorpner 7y ago
I've seen a simpler version many times -- a chronically under-resourced group overworks itself until people leave and catastrophe strikes, and only then is it funded/etc.
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by zorpner 7y ago
Tell people not to "bring whatever politics to work" is explicit endorsement of the status quo. There is no neutral stance; everything is political.
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by zorpner 7y ago
How much commercial value does this information have? Enough to make it worth continuing to operate the service, clearly. Do you really want to go down that road?
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by zorpner 7y ago
This is addressed in the comment to which you are replying by the prepositional phrase "including a private conversation".
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by zorpner 7y ago
He created a killer filesystem... The principle of charity requires that I assume this is the most macabre, driest sense of humor I've ever encountered. Damn .
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by zorpner 7y ago
What's legal and what's right are very different things. It's perfectly fine to criticize Amazon for behaving poorly even if it's something they are legally permitted to do.
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by zorpner 7y ago
Don't yell. 1. Explain a specific use case that the new API can't handle (including a technical explanation of _why_ it can't handle that use-case) The maximum number of rules is 30k, which will break HTTPSEverywhere (I&#x2
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by zorpner 7y ago
Working for a company while using it as a staging ground for a coup against it is unacceptable. You seem to have an internal inconsistency in your argument -- assuming that it has the potential to destroy the company, if one fundamentally
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by zorpner 7y ago
Again, this is moral stance that you have, which I disagree with. As assumptions, yours include that the market captures incentives efficiently, that what people value and don't value is accurately represented by flow of money (and th
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by zorpner 7y ago
The neutral-most stance, if any, is for them to accept all willing clients. This is not neutrality; it is capitalism without ethics, which is a moral stance that you are taking. these employees are imposing their worldview on the company
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by zorpner 7y ago
Always interesting to see Xanadu bubble back up. This Wired profile from 1995 (!) is required reading on the history of the project: https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/

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