crsmithdev

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by crsmithdev 6y ago
Support for your claim?
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by crsmithdev 6y ago
Another breathless, gasping story about the evils of FB / technology / capitalism / <insert boogeyman here> from the Guardian, which has established itself as the nexus for alarmist 'journalism'. The footer:
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by crsmithdev 7y ago
I am so sorry, you may be beyond the reach of modern medical science :p
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by crsmithdev 7y ago
Yes, that was the start of it for me, seeing that going on while understanding exactly how much BS it was at the time. Then the 2016 elections (and constant fumbling to get any story right since) and this finished the job.
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by crsmithdev 7y ago
Shocked that a normal and healthy practice that should be done more by more and different kinds of people is big news to the NYT, because tech. Watching the NYT (and others) from within tech over the past few years has done more to destro
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by crsmithdev 7y ago
How hot will this thing be with 8 cores? Unless they've cut some ventilation holes in the bottom of the laptop. MBPs aren't exactly known for good thermal regulation (my previous one I had to actually undervolt the CPU so it wou
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by crsmithdev 7y ago
Had to read about this from another source, the cookies popup can't be dismissed and even when deleted from the DOM, the story is still unreadable.
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by crsmithdev 7y ago
This is from 2016, but you can see that even three years ago, the Guardian was already busy milking every possible story for outrage. Nothing can happen, clearly, without it being connected to something bad caused by tech.
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by crsmithdev 7y ago
Zero confidence that any part of the US congress is even remotely capable of producing a bill for this that isn't a complete disaster. Unfortunately, they'll probably try anyway. One of those moments I'm glad that our govern
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
> 1. If you're an alcoholic and think you can handle a single drink, you're lying to yourself. 2. It's honestly not worth it. Life is better than being stuck in a multi day binger. The physically effects are taxing on the
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
To be fair, UK lawmakers are very familiar with leadership failure these days.
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
Has it ever been the place to have an interview or 1:1 conversation? That it didn't work well seems like something that would be known in advance, and so the choice of doing it this way feels more like grandstanding on the part of KS.
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
> You can achieve pretty much the same isolation as Wayland on X11 with cgroups and Xephyr. Wait, you mean I could get something almost as good just by adding in two additional technologies to the mix? Amazing!
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
Yes. Of course, if you are living in the EU, you are stuck with that market :)
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
I wonder if at some point it will just make good business sense not to offer your service / product in the EU? I imagine the cost of developing and running software to comply (plus the fines for anything but perfect compliance) woul
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
Perhaps eventually they'll invent and patent their way back to a usable laptop keyboard :) IMO, declaring bankruptcy on the current design and reverting to the previous chiclet keys would be welcomed by most users, but it seems unlikel
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
> Lewis-Kraus’s critiques are based on incomplete facts and largely anonymous sources whose motivations are impossible to assess. Curiously, he did not ask me about the great majority of his concerns. Had he done so, the evidence underly
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
Right, so there's a letter missing from a pronoun. Noted. Any thoughts on the commentary itself? No?
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
"My flippant tweet began to pick up traction. My intent wasn't to claim that the meme is inherently dangerous." He spun an offhand comment into full-on opinion manipulation, because we're now reading his article on the t
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
So, the author read a book and then awkwardly tried to graft its theme onto the narrative his employer is pushing. Went about as well as you'd expect.
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
And media outlets like the NYT manipulate our opinions. An endless parade of articles written by non-experts with no incentives to get anything right, but plenty to keep the story going and traffic coming in.
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
A heavily-recycled story that's been making the rounds since at least 2017. No matter, have to keep the outrage machine going to drive traffic!
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by crsmithdev 8y ago
At this point I no longer trust them to report accurately about even the United States.
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by crsmithdev 9y ago
I had a similar experience: I went to a very good, Catholic college prep school and I wrote a lot of papers well before setting foot in college. In some ways, it was more challenging than any subsequent education. However, this is not t
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by crsmithdev 9y ago
> So in other industries it should be fine? What an odd thing to take away from that statement.
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by crsmithdev 9y ago
So...wait, wasn't one of the biggest selling points of the (awful) Touch Bar on the latest MBP that it could use Touch ID? And a few months later they are moving away from that entirely?
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by crsmithdev 9y ago
Thanks for providing yourself as a great example of the problem here.
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by crsmithdev 9y ago
> Trying to scare people into behavior does not work very well. The Catholic Church spent centuries threatening people with eternal hell if they had extra-marital sex, and people still had extra-marital sex. Studies have shown that absti
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by crsmithdev 10y ago
An interesting idea confounded by inexplicably strange design choices, and the regressive, odious politics of its creator. Would love to see a similar idea done by a different team.
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by crsmithdev 10y ago
Boost growth, boost growth, boost growth...have to keep growing more, and faster, otherwise the whole thing breaks down, no? Seems sustainable.

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