gspencley

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by gspencley 3mo ago
The word "need" is loaded and almost seems to be besides the point to me. Your father-in-law wants to talk a human rather than self-serve. What's the problem with that? Honest question. The fact that he can self-serve is an u
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by gspencley 8mo ago
Yeah I don't remember anyone liking Windows 8 at the time. I'm honestly a little bit surprised to hear that there is nostalgia for it at all.
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by gspencley 9mo ago
In most legal jurisdictions that I know of, kids aren't legally allowed to be able to access to pornography either. How is that working out? The only way to even attempt to enforce these things is with government mandated age verificat
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by gspencley 10mo ago
You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean they weren't still in "growth" phase. Their pricing, and their doubling down on account sharing policies over the last few years have shown that they are no longer in a growth
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by gspencley 10mo ago
> when I'd actually written most of the Wikipedia article on said subject. The irony... Wikipedia doesn't just use unpaid labour, it ends up undermining the people who wrote it. Surely it would be relatively easy to offer to sh
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by gspencley 10mo ago
> How the heck is that even possible? :o Because what the cheater is trying to accomplish is to avoid having to think. It's an act motivated by either laziness, apathy or rebellion (or some combination thereof). Not motivated by try
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by gspencley 10mo ago
> But, please, don't call it a "trade-off" - that implies that you're getting some positive benefits on both sides, which is inaccurate and misleading - you should be framing mutation as "safety price for necessa
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by gspencley 10mo ago
We shouldn't forget that there are trade-offs, however. And it depends on the language's runtime in question. As we all know, TypeScript is a super-set of JavaScript so at the end of the day your code is running in V8, JSCore or S
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by gspencley 10mo ago
I ran a highly trafficked adult website for 18 years. In the early days, CDNs were unattainable for me and I managed my own rudimentary network by hosting bare metal servers in data centres around the world, using geo-ip aware DNS servers t
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by gspencley 10mo ago
My wife and I own a small theatre. We can process orders in-store just fine. Our customers can even avoid online processing fees if they purchase in-store. And if our POS system went down, we could absolutely fall back to pencil and paper.
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by gspencley 10mo ago
I can understand that sentiment. Just don't lose sight of the impact it can have on every day people. My wife and I own a small theatre and we sell tickets through Eventbrite. It's not my full time job but it is hers. Eventbrite s
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by gspencley 10mo ago
> But it ultimately doesn't matter either way. A major selling point/part of the "contract" the web platform has with web developers is backwards compatibility. The fact that you put "contract" in quotes sug
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by gspencley 10mo ago
ML has been around for ages. Email spam filters are one of the oldest examples. These days when the term "AI" is thrown around the person is usually talking about large language models, or generative adversarial neural networks fo
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by gspencley 10mo ago
> This works very well for the local wealth crowd It works well for everyone. The problem with government that is for and by the people, is that wealthy people are people too. You're effectively saying that because you're worri
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by gspencley 10mo ago
> But the design clearly is not fit for where our society is or the direction it is moving, people have much more affiliation with the national entity than with the state entity For better or worse. I would argue that government serves y
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by gspencley 10mo ago
I switched to Mint (Mate) around 2012 or so because of radical UI changes made by Canonical. At the time, the "mobile revolution" was the big industry trend. Windows 8 had come out which was designed for touch screens (and people
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by gspencley 10mo ago
Sure but I hope you get my point. Fighting takes effort, cooperation takes effort. Most people have other things to worry about and don't care about whatever it is you're fighting or cooperating over. People aren't motivated
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by gspencley 10mo ago
> In my experience when humans are given the choice to cooperate or fight, most choose to cooperate. Personally, my opinion of human nature falls somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. I think when humans are given the choice to
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by gspencley 10mo ago
More colloquially, people would say that Wikipedia could not be trusted because "anyone can edit the pages or write whatever they want." Of course that's demonstrative of the genesis fallacy. Anyone can write or publish a boo
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by gspencley 11mo ago
I'm not worried that I'm going to lose access to V2. I'm worried that they are moving in the same rent-seeking direction that Adobe did that caused me to migrate to Affinity in the first place. Creative tools are, to artists,
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by gspencley 11mo ago
If it's a one-time license validation, no. That's fine. If it's "login every time to be able to use the app" then that is something that, while is not necessarily a deal breaker in all cases, really annoys me.
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by gspencley 11mo ago
Thyat's a fair question and the honest answer is I don't know and I'd have to sift through the feature comparison chart to see if there's anything I actively use today with my paid license that is moving to a Canva Premi
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by gspencley 11mo ago
A lot of this type of stuff boils down to what you're used to. My wife is not particularly tech savvy. She is a Linux user, however. When we started a new business, we needed certain applications that only run on Windows and since she
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by gspencley 11mo ago
I switched to Affinity as part an ongoing effort to "de-Adobe-ize." I had no idea that they were owned by Canva. This could be good news, but as someone who paid for a perpetual license, I'm worried that some of the features
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by gspencley 11mo ago
I share your bias, but something to consider is the prevalence of smart phone usage these days, and the fact that reading text on a smart phone can be as awful as trying to watch a video on a desktop when all you want is a quick text summar
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by gspencley 11mo ago
> that was never in question on normal computers. One of the things that really worries me is that this seems to be creeping in to desktop OS's as well. It's still possible, for now, to install software on Windows 11 without go
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by gspencley 11mo ago
After decades of struggling with weight, I no longer believe in the calorie religion. That's not to say that calories are useless or don't matter at all. I just think that calories matters a hell of a lot less than people are led
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by gspencley 11mo ago
My first paid position as a software developer was for a small, dot-com startup in Windsor, ON Canada. We co-located in Detroit - which meant border crossings (though this was pre-911 so crossing as a Canadian citizen was easier) - and had
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by gspencley 11mo ago
> "Oops, Jim Bob tripped over the power cord, guess we won't get any emails until the IT guy shows up" - this used to be a routine experience. You're not entirely wrong, but you're being hyperbolic too. I'm
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by gspencley 11mo ago
> It's cruel to encourage coldness in such an environment. You're straw-manning. The person you're replying to never once mentioned being cold, let alone encouraged it. They simply expressed a preference for companies tha

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