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by account42 5d ago
Seems to me that most people still have to get up in the morning to go to a bullshit job just to stay alive and consoom things they don't need. I don't see the big change.
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by account42 5d ago
It's a very limited view of what's happening that happens to coincide with your bubble.
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by account42 5d ago
First post shown right now is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659245 which is essentially an ad for an AI company. So I guess this will need further fine tuning.
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by account42 5d ago
You sound phobiaphobic.
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by account42 5d ago
Yes, there are people who eat burgers with utensils. It's more common in quasi-formal settings like business-organized dinners where people don't want to appear messy from my experience.
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by account42 5d ago
End stage capitalism is itself a result of shamelessness.
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by account42 5d ago
In what way are these two things related that would make this a tradeoff?
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by account42 5d ago
Eating in public places not mean for eating subjects others to the smell of your food in the same way that listening to something on speaker subjects them to unwanted sound. Hijabs are more indirect but I would disagree that it doesn't
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by account42 5d ago
But then people get angry if you don't want those "cultural differences" in your daily life. And when people question why you prefer private transportation.
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by account42 5d ago
Not if it means essentially outlawing open computing.
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by account42 6d ago
> without impacting users too much? You mean essentially locking out users with non-default Chrome configuration.
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by account42 6d ago
With a large enough OLED you can just leave some actually black borders and get perfect integer scaling in all cases.
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by account42 6d ago
Then IP-range block those places until they get their affairs in order.
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by account42 6d ago
Self-referential art rarely ends well.
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by account42 6d ago
Yes and in general, taste can deteriorate with age. Just look at what Cameron did with the 4K remasters of his movies.
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by account42 6d ago
> The old guard said the show’s producers were crazy to do it with practical effects and should just use CGI since this was what they would have done, if they had the technology. As always, art benefits from limitations. From the [dead]
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by account42 6d ago
It also takes away variety of the outputs as often it turns out those "uncreative" tasks actually do hide creativity.
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by account42 6d ago
You do understand that these are PR stunts, right?
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by account42 7d ago
Does ABI really matter when the lambda is always compiled in the same translation unit as the function from which variables are captured? Seems to me that compilers should be free to optimize the simple cases to a single stack frame referen
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by account42 7d ago
> Heeey, our mobile networks are much less shitty than our railway services! :) Still mediocre compared to nearby countries.
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by account42 7d ago
Which has been the correct name since before Twitter existed. You can also use "message", or "comment" if its in reply to something else.
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by account42 7d ago
That's on you for failing to set expectations for how others you let into your home treat your devices. I can't imagine anyone I know thinking to "finish setting up" something in my home without asking and there would be
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by account42 7d ago
Imagination is well and good but don't jump to assuming that just because you can imagine something it is already happening now. So far I have seen zero evidence that it is.
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by account42 7d ago
A lot of TVs can still be used as a dumb display if you simply ignore all their other useless "smart" functionality. If anything, "large format gaming monitors" are a response to that usage from the monitor industry want
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by account42 7d ago
FYI, Brother has also started enshittifying their printers so don't skip the research the next time you buy.
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by account42 7d ago
Only if by "essentially bricked" you mean you can't use their "smart" functionality.
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by account42 7d ago
Or even just realize that if the devices had this capability these companies couldn't resist using it to show you ads. Since these devices don't show up to date ads unless you manually connect them to a network you can be reasonab
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by account42 7d ago
Wild. Still, paraphrased like that it triggers my "sure, that totally happened" detectors.
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by account42 7d ago
Be specific. Which models and after what time. Mine has been running for two years now without insisting on updates.
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by account42 7d ago
The question is specifically for monitors, for which this would have to be implemented separately because the discovery is different. At most a monitor should be associated with an automatic ICC profile.

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