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by catach 3mo ago
> This website will die off in a couple years While that might be true, it's worth noting that the project has been running for seven years already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
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by catach 10mo ago
> Battery state is probably the only thing that I really think it must show you. The screenshot provided does show a battery indicator in the top right of the UI (Usage section).
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by catach 10mo ago
I've found the "Copy text from image" menu command to be useful from time to time, and the features I'm not interested in seemed easy to turn off/dismiss/ignore?
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by catach 1y ago
> It’s not a big enough slice for them to want to chase. Typical strat for them is not to be first with an innovation, but to wait and work out the kinks enough that they can convince people that the tradeoffs are well worth making. Appl
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by catach 1y ago
It's really difficult because many of the task types we use AI for are those that are linguistically tied to concepts of human actions and cognition. Most of our convenient language use implies that AI are thinking people.
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by catach 1y ago
It would indeed be naive to make that claim, so it's a good thing that's not what I did.
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by catach 1y ago
If the closed fork functionality is superior enough to make the original de facto obsolete then the users have already collectively decided that the tradeoff is worth it. And if the original can't compete it means the additional func
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by catach 1y ago
Speed of replication isn't a part of copyright law, is it?
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by catach 2y ago
I have TST set up thus: closing a tab will close all its child tabs, if that branch is collapsed. Pretty sure Sidebery can be configured the same way.
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by catach 2y ago
I recall it being claimed that Mozilla has the warchest to survive at typical spending levels for quite some time, without Google.
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by catach 2y ago
Indicating that they could make it amazing if they wanted to, they just don't want to. Likely due to cost.
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by catach 2y ago
Incrementals tend to rely on a drip-feed of new mechanics and capabilities at the introductory phase, extensive automation in the middle phase, and marathon-like competition against other high-ranked players in the elite phase. I don't
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by catach 2y ago
I suspect that the x86-64 to ARM transition had more to do with it.
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by catach 2y ago
Possibly, possibly. But those extremes are not what you get from an effective bias appeal.
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by catach 2y ago
We won't, because the machines are trained on data created by humans. We won't, because the machine results people want will be those that appeal to their biases.
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by catach 2y ago
I'd say rather that linking is the standard, the established social order, and that companies restricting linking in their platforms are the ones subverting.
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by catach 3y ago
The article's talk page already has a request for an impartial editor to weigh in, though several months old.
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by catach 3y ago
Took me another read, but I think the assertion is that a strong characteristic of twitter alternatives is that they talk about twitter a great deal. And so that's a common thread between twitter alternatives and HN.
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by catach 3y ago
Maybe, but that's not US law.
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by catach 3y ago
Interesting question! The st and ct ligatures used in the article don't seem to be part of the precomposed Latin ligature set, and what is there strikes me as far less obnoxious [1,2]. I expect it's possible to hack something
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by catach 3y ago
Luckily Reader Mode or disabling CSS takes care of the oddity.
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by catach 3y ago
I believe you're talking about capacity for compassion, and I'm speaking of the triggering of compassion. I'd agree that both capacity and scope of triggers can be altered, but it seems to me that that's a process that t
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by catach 3y ago
Observing that a particular business model is very likely to fail because of the conflict with another business model that happens to have much more powerful backing requires no compassion spend. But also, it seems to me that compassion is
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by catach 3y ago
> The fact that the project you had to work on didn't use maven isn't evidence that java's tooling is bad! It can be simultaneously true that some Java tooling is excellent and some of it is subpar. This is a problem when
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by catach 3y ago
Solution: disable JS. The site degrades quite gracefully. https://geany.org/news/geany-20-is-out/
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by catach 3y ago
Also, kudos for the extended family of extension writers. The article author ends on praise for minimap sidebars as an upgrade over conventional scrollbars, and what do you know, there's something for that: https://addons.mo
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by catach 3y ago
Is piracy on the rise? That seems like a difficult thing to reliably track.
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by catach 3y ago
Pretty sure it's an HN trope to read some of the comments before the article, in part to get a sense of the quality of the article. So, your duty was done.
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by catach 3y ago
To the degree the the implementers are also users they carry their implementer understanding into their use. Dogfooding doesn't help when your understanding doesn't match that of your users.
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by catach 3y ago
Regretfully Mozilla hasn't gotten around to providing the API for that.

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