ProxCoques

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by ProxCoques 22d ago
I know right? It's like interaction design came and went over a period of 30 years and now we're back to the beginning again.
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by ProxCoques 22d ago
It will never cease to amaze to me that Apple (under Jef Raskin who also wrote about this in The Humane Interface) observed and fixed problems with interactions like this in SYSTEM 6 in like 1993 or something - only for the same problem t
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by ProxCoques 3mo ago
"they can do that because there's plenty of articles on the web on how that shit works along with all the technical documentation, and we have blog posts explaining how to apply the technical tools to the domain." Does this i
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
> In a crisis, state intervention works, actually. There, fixed that for you. Stop calling literally anything that isn't 100% raw free market capitalism "socialism".
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Also by the Fed: 4 in 10 Americans lack enough money to cover a $400 emergency expense: https://fortune.com/2023/05/23/inflation-economy-consumer-fi...
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Capitalists as in capitalist governments centrally organising commercial legislation and regulations, subsidies, tariffs, standards, etc.
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
All "capitalist" economies have very large amounts of central planning for them to function (not to mention state subsidies and other protections from failing to make money), and use taxation and the national debt for that. Social
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Didn't somebody register dot.com and had an email address of dot.dot@dot.com? You could have dot.dot@dotsucks.com
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
My understanding on China's coal plants is that it's not the number of them, it's whether they're running that counts. Coal-fired generation is currently cheaper than storage for backing up wind and solar generation and
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
If (and it's a big if) the human race survives to deal with the effects of climate change, the next great battle will be to prevent waste from becoming the existential problem.
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
I used to naively think that some kind of PKI/trust network for online media would have to rise up to thwart misinformation. But anger is the real the reason why people want to believe obviously fake info about how Mexicans are manipul
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Not downloaded that app, but does it deliver exactly the same features as the web app but just look a bit different? If so, I wonder whether anyone working in the respective web and app departments sometimes wonders why their company mainta
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
The weird thing is that companies will pay for entirely separate engineering, product and marketing departments for their apps which duplicate their web apps in every way (or usually a bit less), not to mention being under the thumb of the
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Issues are a mess because they get used like bulletin boards for any random brain fart anyone has, despite Issue Templates trying to plead otherwise. IMO the way to fix this is to gestate all issues in Discussions. Then, when a clear and ag
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Element is a great example with well over 3,000 open issues, most of which would be far better worked out in Discussions from which the maintainers could raise issues or PRs from whatever the outcome of the conversation was (if any). But th
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Literally on the day you posted that comment: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/30/end-of-an-e...
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Yes, we've got that and it does help a bit. But we're often forced to be heavy-handed and just close junk issues with a comment asking the poster to open a Discussions thread. I feel bad about doing that though as it's hard n
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
If Issues could be restricted to repo maintainers (with everyone else using Discussions), it would make contributing to F/LOSS projects far easier because you could easily see what the team was "thinking" (PR lists aren'
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
I have a theory called "marginal cost pricing" that will blow his mind.
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
> That changed this year and they're now building some very large battery farms and i invasive their coal builds will drop. This is an under-considered point: just because energy sources like coal or solar, etc. are being installed
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
I see - I got the impression that the 70-80's was a sort of dark age for beer in the UK, with mass-produced low-quality stuff from the likes of Watneys and Carslberg etc. taking over, which CAMRA was a reaction against.
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
When was this? I was up in TVC (and later in that newer building up the road from it) in 1996 prototyping the BBC News Online publishing system with Fujitsu ICL. Didn't meet anyone from the Ceefax team though.
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
> The great brewers – Watneys, Whitbreads and so on—are disposing of all that rubbish: that’s out now, finished with, they say. So was this the start of the great decline in the quality of brewing in the UK during the 70's that led
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
There are many implementations of rent controls. Argentina's were rather badly done. Compare to: Germany - where landlords can't charge more than 10% above the local average rent. Spain - where landlords can increase rent only if
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
> "It's a shame where we live in a world with nutrient-limited degraded ecosystems and also nutrient-rich waste streams. We'd like to see those things come together a little bit," Saw a talk about circular economies o
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
I'm confused. We started off talking about how the President of the European Parliament is elected, but now you're talking about the European Commission. Those are separate bodies, the latter drafts laws. There's no country t
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
Reminder: the term "free markets" originally referred to markets free of the distorting effects of monopoly. To ensure markets remain free, fair and available to all, legislators need to intervene. Otherwise they go to sh*t. As as
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
I think this may be a misunderstanding of the word "president". The role you're talking about is more like that of the Speaker of the House in the US or the UK. Both are elected by members of the chamber, not a popular vote.
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
AFAIKT, even the "Popular/Strong Community" list on https://opensource.org/license all just essentially say you don't have pay for the source code, can't complain to the authors if it goes wrong, an
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by ProxCoques 2y ago
> Anyone treating FSD as anything more than an L3 in beta (i.e. not L3) is a fool. "I'm extremely confident that Tesla will have level five next year, extremely confident, 100%" Elon Musk, July 2020 https://www.

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