Apocryphon

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by Apocryphon 5d ago
Some of those were (limited) unilateral strikes but a lot of those were multinational endeavors done with the blessing of the international community.
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by Apocryphon 5d ago
Xe Services rebrands yet again to eXe
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by Apocryphon 6d ago
I’ve always thought that this principle explains all sorts of cultural phenomena, from the tech industry having a poorer work-balance compared to others (the pace of development is only limited by how many hours you must sleep!) and progr
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by Apocryphon 7d ago
How do using autonomous vehicles benefit their claims-settling? Wouldn't it make it unpredictable- in an accident between two self-driving vehicles, who is liable? What if both vehicles are from the same company? Doesn't this lead
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by Apocryphon 7d ago
It has Touch ID
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by Apocryphon 7d ago
I could’ve sworn that Robinson had already replaced Mercator by the ‘90s, so I was surprised to see defenders of the latter.
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by Apocryphon 8d ago
> Worked in San Francisco. Lived a 20-minute walk away from work, in a 1-bedroom apartment. My mortgage + HOA cost about 16% of my gross pay. This is in the mid-2010s. Sounds reasonable for someone earlier in their career. More difficult
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by Apocryphon 8d ago
What general area did you live and work in? Was it actually Silicon Valley or a tech hub? With remote work, you don’t have to work at home. Many simply work at a co-working space or similar environment that isn’t the actual office. The colo
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by Apocryphon 8d ago
Whenever there’s a debate on unionization in the software industry, I have to ask: if engineers have so much leverage, why couldn’t they hold on to remote work benefits that were bestowed upon them during the pandemic?
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by Apocryphon 8d ago
He who laughs at last, laughs best.
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by Apocryphon 9d ago
It shall be us, the audience
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by Apocryphon 11d ago
Isn’t Mearsheimer a crank these days anyway?
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by Apocryphon 11d ago
Heavens forfend that those who work in an industry that preens and postures about innovation and reinventing every facet of life to be better try to build a better union. Oh, so taxis, software tools, the very act of courtship, loans, the c
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by Apocryphon 11d ago
That is the sort of thinking that allowed tech companies to offer perks like remote work when labor power was higher, only to yank them away once labor was on the downswing.
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by Apocryphon 12d ago
Better than IBM Tay.
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by Apocryphon 13d ago
I wonder which tech nonprofit would be best to champion this cause. Doesn't seem quite the EFF's domain.
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by Apocryphon 14d ago
It's just "sheeple" for this decade. The hoi polloi . Same as it ever was.
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by Apocryphon 19d ago
Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg were famously supposed to be on American Airlines Flight 11, and Jackie Chan was supposed to start filming a movie at the World Trade Center that very morning. I’m sure more near-brushes exist.
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by Apocryphon 20d ago
What kind of development in your community are you exactly opposed to?
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by Apocryphon 22d ago
I was referring to the Xia, the mythical precursor/founding dynasty.
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by Apocryphon 23d ago
What's his explanation for what happened? iirc, immediately after Hiroshima the survivors had thought the Allies had used some sort of fuel bomb.
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by Apocryphon 23d ago
Every ancient empire did this with their primordial beginnings, from Romulus and Remus to Izanagi and Izanami.
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by Apocryphon 23d ago
The Moon landings invented the Tang dynasty
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by Apocryphon 23d ago
Since it's popular among youth on social media, maybe this is like Helen Keller skepticism? https://www.perkins.org/qa-a-factual-look-at-helen-kellers-a...
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by Apocryphon 23d ago
Not bad, though based on the screenshot Lake Merritt in Oakland looks not to scale. https://watchdogs.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Bay_Area
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by Apocryphon 25d ago
> You want to decouple from them but you obsess about their politics. It’s a transnational world, despite all that’s happened. Leftists in America obsess about Corbyn and Sheinbaum. Right-wingers supported Bolsonaro and now Milei. Libera
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by Apocryphon 25d ago
Telling what? STEM academics are busier than Pokémon fans to contribute to Wikipedia? Or they care less about the cause of Wikipedia? That as a society we produce more of the latter than the former? There’s no definitive rationale to be tol
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by Apocryphon 26d ago
I thought GPT was the model that spoke most like blog clickbait? Isn't Claude somewhat better about it?
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by Apocryphon 26d ago
Google was also characterized by their infamous data-first 41 shades of blue A/B test. It seems like they went into an extreme where design was informed by user behavior, by empiricism, rather than by the taste of the designer. https:
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by Apocryphon 26d ago
I think the distaste is more against feature bloat. This sub-thread is reacting to dedicated e-readers succumbing to becoming full-fledged app-running devices. Is the refresh rate on an e-ink display even suitable for general computing? Plu

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