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by gambler 2mo ago
Programmers need to stop listening to obnoxious people who are proudly destroying our industry while simulataneously farming our anxiety for attention and validation. Software enegineering is not the kind of field that should require adopti
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by gambler 4y ago
So, in essence, you don't have anything meaningful to respond with. You're perfectly fine with using centralized platforms when it's convenient and their ownership aligns with your ideology. You might say you don't like
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by gambler 4y ago
When your revolution against "platforms" is led by people who host all their code on GitHub and have a public LinkedIn profile, you're not paying attention to your surroundings and will inevitably be taken advantage of.
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by gambler 4y ago
>Many of us learned HTML and web technologies by reading the source code of websites HTML is an extensible language. Markdown is not.
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by gambler 4y ago
You didn't link to data, you linked to an opinion from Vice laundered through another outlet. Here is some actual data, which (predictably) shows that conservatives are targeted significantly more for suspensions: https://ar
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by gambler 4y ago
He is half-correct, but not in a good way. When people on the left say something that goes against new-left agenda, they get suppressed too. That is not a redeeming quality of the system or an indicator of fairness. It simply shows that the
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by gambler 4y ago
>No one argues that speech must have value to be allowed (c.f. shitposting). >Hereʻs the answer everyone knows: there IS no principled reason for banning spam. The whole threads seems like it revolves around this line of reasoning
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by gambler 4y ago
It's not a mistake. It's a PR strategy. Social media companies are training people to blame content and each other for the effects that are produced by design, algorithms and moderation. This reassigns blame away from things that
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by gambler 4y ago
Crazy conspiracy theories, eh? People running those companies routinely talk to one another. When it seems they act together, it's often because they actually do act together.
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by gambler 4y ago
This is just 2nd order gaslighting. For many, many years Google was denying obvious problems with how their search system worked. Denial and gaslighting was clearly their marketing strategy. It kind of worked too, at least in terms of publi
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by gambler 4y ago
Hm, after reading the title I monetarily thought the article would talk about the implosion of Union Pacific and complications of switching to a different provider. FYI: https://www.manufacturing.net/labor/news/131
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by gambler 4y ago
There is a difference between "Google does not censor anti-war content" and "Google does censor anti-war content, but usually has an excuse I find acceptable". When a company puts Jon Lennon's Merry Xmas (War is Ove
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by gambler 4y ago
https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/don-t-see-evil-148ae18bc9fe https://citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/google... https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/google-
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by gambler 4y ago
Blatantly incorrect. Google engages in egregious political censorship all the time. Including censorship for Russian government and censorship of US anti-war voices. https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-responds-to-cpac-censors
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by gambler 4y ago
Just because you think some issues is "inevitable" in the future doesn't mean you should spend academic resources to make it happen faster, while simultaneously making it easier to exploit.
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by gambler 4y ago
The entirety of deep fake technology was developed mostly in mainstream academia using "raising awareness" as an excuse. Paper after paper, model after model, repository after repository. Every single time the excuse was "if
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by gambler 4y ago
When I started using Go generics, they turned out to be completely useless for the use case I wanted to solve the most: functions to use in Go templates. Something is basic as adding two numbers is not solved by the core library and becom
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by gambler 4y ago
https://technology.reclamation.institute/pages/cured-html
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by gambler 4y ago
Have you tried Locals? Not a penny a post, but $5/month per board. Can't say there aren't any trolls, but it's definitely more "real" than most social media.
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by gambler 4y ago
I think this kind of framing of the question is very close to being a sly form of gaslighting. What people want to know is not whether the current state of things is "normal". After all, death, sickness, war, hunger, disease and c
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by gambler 4y ago
For starters, there is no way to consume multiple return values of a function or method inline. This makes chaining extremely verbose and often results in having three lines of error handling per one line of "normal" logic. Second
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by gambler 4y ago
Go has a lot of issues. Some of them would be easily fixable if people promoting and developing Go actually admitted the problems. However, the fanbase usually acts as a cult pretending that issues are features. Thing is, just like broken,
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by gambler 4y ago
"They DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICS. They really don't." So why are you panicking just because Musk bought the company? This is laughable gaslighting. That whole thread is misdirection. Yishan is a liar and should be call
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by gambler 4y ago
We quickly went from "Twitter isn't a heavily censored platform" to "they have secret blacklists, but it's totally normal and not political and a good thing anyway". This game of moving goalposts is tiresome an
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by gambler 4y ago
>I'm deeply familiar with the platform and have not witnessed censorship outside of threats and direct hate speech Maybe you're brainwashed to the point where everything Twitter bans falls into categories of "hate speech
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by gambler 4y ago
Ellen Pao literally wrote an op-ed arguing this in Washington Post. This was before he bid for the company, just because he was invited to sit on the board! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/08&
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by gambler 4y ago
> The anti-intellectual, anti-scientific streak in many poor analyses claiming to debunk some scientific research is deeply concerning in our society. People endlessly reference the Dunning-Kruger effect as a meme, without ever having
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by gambler 4y ago
What is the evidence of this "electromagnetic warfare attack"? What is claimed to be attacked and how? How was it affecting SpaceX? Is SpaceX/Starlink really crucial to anything in Ukraine? Etc, etc. The only "explanatio
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by gambler 4y ago
Predictable talking points devoid of substance. For example, a brief excursion to the nearest Geocities archive will immediately demonstrate that access to the Internet was by no means something exclusive to tech nerds and academics even ar
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by gambler 4y ago
To all the people who think this is some sort of accident that will get corrected. It is and it isn't. This particular manifestation of ban by association might be a corrected if it gets enough pushback . The general idea, however, is

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