briandear

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by briandear 14d ago
Can we stop with taxing everything you don’t like? Taxes should be equal and used to fund the government, not as tools to make people do things you like.
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by briandear 14d ago
Don’t we have enough taxes? Taxes should fund government not be used to force people to do things.
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by briandear 25d ago
Crazy. It depends on the kind of software being built. Working on embedded systems for avionics is an entirely different animal than working CRM software development as an example. Even Wozniak didn’t have a degree until 1986, long after Ap
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by briandear 29d ago
So you support nuclear power?
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by briandear 29d ago
How about chopping down all of the London Plane trees next? Absolutely disastrous for public health. They are also all over Barcelona and cause nothing but respiratory misery. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/
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by briandear 2mo ago
I hate the tracking too. But how to websites monetize free content otherwise? Advertising doesn’t work if you can’t price it. Without tracking, everything becomes a paywall.
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by briandear 2mo ago
Yet every website still has them.
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by briandear 2mo ago
No. The cookie banners have ruined the internet. The banners haven’t fixed anything. Business as usual, just click here.
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by briandear 2mo ago
100%. This is why many of us have a problem with the EU. And world governments in general — the more power they have and the further away from the elections that keep them accountable, the more tyrannical they become.
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by briandear 3mo ago
This is a country that has arrested people for social media posts. It’s also a crime in the UK to offend someone. Orwell identified the genetic defect in the British genome 80 years ago.
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by briandear 3mo ago
Why do people vote for large, strong governments that are able to take the power you suggest Tech is enabling them to take?
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by briandear 4mo ago
FabFilter is another independent company that make some of the best plugins around.
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by briandear 4mo ago
People care about stories.
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by briandear 4mo ago
Apple doesn’t use Leetcode. It’s often an 8 hour whiteboard interview during with you write pseudo code for the most part. You can’t “cram” for an Apple interview typically.
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by briandear 4mo ago
It would be great if editors had some kind of terms limits to avoid the WikiMafia stuff we commonly see.
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by briandear 4mo ago
Good communication should be the goal of all writing.
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by briandear 5mo ago
Trackball?
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by briandear 5mo ago
Have you used Oracle, Salesforce, Windows? That’s why.
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by briandear 5mo ago
PTA isn’t the place. The school board is.
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by briandear 6mo ago
You could look at disposable income. That’s a more objective measure.
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by briandear 7mo ago
Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug.
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by briandear 7mo ago
Completely agree. I hate kids being stuck in a Google ecosystem. Apple’s classroom app is really good.
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by briandear 7mo ago
Why doesn’t the market respond? If people don’t like Android, it seems like a market opportunity to make another OS. People love to complain about Apple and Google’s “monopoly,” but doesn’t that present an opportunity for someone to build t
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by briandear 7mo ago
Is anything stopping you from coding your own OS?
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by briandear 8mo ago
How is AI viewing content any different from Google? I don’t even use Google anymore because it’s so filled with SEO trash as to be useless for many things.
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by briandear 10mo ago
Very true. Just the other day, another “copyright is bad” post on the front page. Today its copyright is good because otherwise people might get some use of material in LLMs. Considering this is hacker news, it seems to be such an odd dicho
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by briandear 11mo ago
So how do authors make money? Going on concert tours? The copyright system needs reform (Mickey Mouse for example) — but the system protects creators. If there were no copyrights, no author would make any money.
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by briandear 11mo ago
It’s not just corporations. Look how much tracking nonsense goes into a recipe blog.
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by briandear 1y ago
Is it factual?
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by briandear 1y ago
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Govern

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