foobarchu

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by foobarchu 6d ago
> same amount of money for a worse product. I like physical media, but this is not objectively true. Digital purchases come with benefits consumers want like quicker access, less materials waste, and (in general) more longevity since a d
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by foobarchu 8d ago
> When all it really needs is civic responsibility and an understanding that the government derives its power from the people, and thus the people always get the government they deserve. Look I encourage people to vote and participate in
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by foobarchu 19d ago
Not OP, but with DNS ad blocking like pi-hole you need to be aware that any "normies" living with you will hate it. DNS blockers silently break any kind of "sponsored links" in search results and a lot of the links in em
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by foobarchu 20d ago
> Whereas seemingly half of all people claim they have aphantasia Citation needed. People who experience something will be louder when that condition is brought up or relevant. That's a known phenomenon, it's why conservatives
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by foobarchu 25d ago
You can just as easily say that people using these fonts are the ones holding accessibility users hostage, since they are willingly choosing to use exclusionary tools. If an ISP blocks an entire apartment blocks internet in response to one
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by foobarchu 25d ago
That's their point though. The hacker ethos doesn't ask "should I do this" it asks "can I do this", and that's kind of beautiful when it's not scaled up to a corporate level. The goal doesn't hav
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by foobarchu 1mo ago
Out of curiosity is that just "modern" reddit or old reddit too? (However long old reddit sticks around, anyway, it's clearly not long for this world after they began requiring a login to use it so if the login page requires
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by foobarchu 2mo ago
Brightness and color temperature are orthogonal. The dimmer switch only controls brightness.
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by foobarchu 2mo ago
I would say most LED bulbs. You need ones specifically rated for enclosures, which are way less common, and most people have the wrong idea of what counts as enclosed (the glass hood around your kitchen chandelier bulbs is an enclosure, as
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by foobarchu 2mo ago
It's weird to me that you find that weird. People in general don't like worrying that every little conversation is being recorded.
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by foobarchu 2mo ago
I hate to be the guy arguing semantics, but is that the median definition? Everyone I know defines vibe coding as ignoring the actual output code completely and evaluating the result by how it behaves under test. Non-coders vibe code by def
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by foobarchu 2mo ago
I'd argue the conclusion is wrong. The premise, that places like CA are currently such tinderboxes as a direct result of preventing natural burning and continuing to develop in areas that need to burn to stay healthy, is extremely well
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by foobarchu 2mo ago
> In the end neighbors and community at large ended up being against the grocers union due to a handful of cringe, edgelord members in utilikits over-stepping with their "uh ackshully" shit. This reflects poorly on the neighbor
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
It's not unusual to have sleep state issues on Linux, which is what it runs (an Arch derivative). Could be some faulty hardware somewhere, but it's not a concerning enough issue to spend money replacing things for a machine that g
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
Not OP, but the sleep and hibernate states on my desktop are pretty finicky and can't truly be trusted. I'd rather know everything shut down properly than risk it, especially since the thing boots in seconds anyway, and I have to
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
Sure, it's a work phone. And that job is with the US government, famously "of and for the people", meaning that citizens are owners of thar workplace. As an owner, I am not okay with this, and I will make my voice heard To be
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
Then what's the right to it doing in the constitution?
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
This doesn't seem like a reason not to do address based limiting, just a reason it wouldn't be perfect. Perfect is the enemy of good.
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
> Migrating Spring Boot apps from 3.x t 4.x is now easy given all the tooling available. Is this true now? I used Claude-backed Cline in March to make that migration, and it got SO much wrong, mainly due to the lack of solid documentatio
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
The claim was that the AI use is rampant in youth right now. I countered that with (real) anecdotal evidence from those who have the best view into the problem. You have not refuted me in any way. If anything, you're implying a complet
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
LFS is not installed by default alongside git, it's a separate package in most systems
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
I've actually been told by my teacher friends who used to complain about too much AI that their high school students are starting to reverse course here, and are now bullying each other for actual or perceived AI use. It's become
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
> You can't fight reality. Defeatism doesn't do anything positive for the world. You're trying to convince the people pushing for a marginally better world that they should give up because it'll never happen. That is
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by foobarchu 3mo ago
This ties into my own theory about all this: for the first time in history, it's so socially okay to be child free. At any other time, it was assumed that if you got to a certain age and didn't have, it was a problem . We've
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
> Because I hate to break it to you, they could have zero drop in quality by just not incorporating US data... This is so false and unsupportable it's comical. The same goes the other way, if you claim they would use no value by on
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
> when you pay for an AI model you are paying for the marginal service of building a model off that data, not for the data itself Well no, you're also paying them for having done the work to "acquire" that data. That acqui
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
At the same time, the amount of disagreement an opinion gathers is an extremely important channel of information for determining whether you agree with someone's position. Silencing the disagreement with it gives an outsized benefit to
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
Yeah I'm more worried for people spending all their income on high rent apartments or quickly depreciating cars.
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
I think the question was intended more as "what does PE have to do with Wikimedia", not "why is PE a problem".
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by foobarchu 4mo ago
As others have said, there's even more at stake with a nonprofit. Charities famously milk their employees dry by emphasizing what good and important work they're doing, to justify overworking and underpaying them. If someone choos

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