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by guraf 3y ago
Maybe this kind of delusional thinking is why he's no longer at NASA...
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by guraf 3y ago
Ridiculing people who are worried about long term effects of something that has been in use for only a few years is such an HN thing. There's countless precedent for things once touted as being safe to turn out incredibly damaging. We
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by guraf 3y ago
> there were no functions and subroutines, just line numbers and goto. No while, no fors. Just ifs Your memory is a little hazy because the ZX Spectrum had both subroutines and for loops (I believe all Sinclair machines did).
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by guraf 3y ago
> "Stability" is lacking in video editors because none are written in Rust. And yet, somehow, all the pro editors manage to be fairly stable despite being written in C++ (or maybe obj-c in the case of final cut pro and iMovie)
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by guraf 3y ago
What does 4+2 GB mean? I tried googling Redmi 4+2 GB but it only returns Redmi 4 from 2017 that has only 2GB of ram. Surely that's not what you're talking about?
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by guraf 3y ago
> while unnecessarily degrading user experience across society? Does a shutter sound really degrades the experience unless you were indeed trying to take a stealth photo?
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by guraf 3y ago
This has nothing to do with the article. He's just showing his poor lack of conversational skills, typical of the condition that makes him "superior".
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by guraf 3y ago
When wahnfrieden receives ad-free video from YouTube, it is another form of welfare "freeloading". An adblocker is indifferent from a handout except by name.
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by guraf 3y ago
What are you talking about? The vast majority of people would rather disable their adblocker on YouTube then subscribe and pay $15 a month... How is it a dark pattern for YouTube to suggest the most likely option?
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by guraf 3y ago
YouTube ruined the web by... Providing a free platform to host videos open to everybody? By allowing video creators to be paid?
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by guraf 3y ago
Your own quote says 10GB from replit vs 1,000GB from digital ocean. So, assuming your own quote is correct, DO is indeed way cheaper for anything that is more than a toy.
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by guraf 3y ago
They've been at it for over 40 years and grew to the most valuable company in the world. In many computer fields they still are THE platform (anything design for example) so clearly the software they do have is plenty. Can you elaborat
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by guraf 3y ago
> With the page up and page down keys, mostly, There is NO way that most people used page up down rather than drag the scrollbar in the late 90s.
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by guraf 3y ago
It doesn't share your cookies, that probably stops almost any leak. Then probably rules to filter out legacy ?sessid= ?sID=. Other than that I imagine it leaks things like /bank/account/id/75795 but the crawler will
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by guraf 3y ago
You're right, YouTube ads are notorious for being JavaScript heavy and served by a third party.
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by guraf 3y ago
Someone asks for a webpage and not only do you propose tmux, you also acknowledge it doesn't even do anything like what's asked. Typical Linux user.
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by guraf 3y ago
I'm sure you're making a clever joke and I'm just not getting it. All Windows branded as NT as well as 2000 (the first NT not branded as such) predate Windows 8 by over a decade, so I don't understand why you'd thin
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by guraf 3y ago
We're not taking issue with you calling it a fork, which it is. We're taking issue with you calling it an HOSTILE fork, which it isn't.
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by guraf 3y ago
Electro convulsive therapy is still routinely performed when pharmaceutical options have been exhausted, and damaging the brain is the intent. I went through a few rounds myself in modern day America where we pride ourselves in not being ba
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by guraf 3y ago
If what you said was true, we'd see the same poor quality in Samsung or Apple phones. Yet we don't.
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by guraf 3y ago
In any other field, engineers would be held responsible and after so many "mistakes" they would lose their license. Software engineers will fight tooth and nails to keep their privilege is being called engineers whilst having none
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by guraf 3y ago
You wrote a very long and passionate love letter to the European process and how it's almost perfect. And yet all those chemicals are allowed in Europe. So what happened? Were they grandfathered in?
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by guraf 3y ago
I understand not fully trusting docker, you have to trust several levels of kernel features and configuration, plus it shits all over your firewall like it owns the place. Real virtualization is a bit more airtight, though. There have been
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by guraf 3y ago
Alcohol is not only heavily taxed in Canada, but most provinces also have a monopoly on selling spirits. That's right, the gov is selling the booze, pocketing both the tax and the profits.
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by guraf 3y ago
Canada will have imported over 1M immigrants in 2023 (for their population of only 40M!). Newsflash: most aren't white.
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by guraf 3y ago
The average American probably spends about 20k in their lifetime, that's probably where they got their pricing from. They get a check-up a year and a handful of fillings with some prosthetics if they live long enough. Which totals to a
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by guraf 3y ago
There's a lot more nuance to the GDPR. It's perfectly possible to use cookies and not need a banner. Our industry's use of banners is just a passive aggressive reaction to being told to respect our users.
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by guraf 3y ago
Proton literally never worked without JavaScript, so I'm not sure why you're getting on your high horse here...
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by guraf 3y ago
Android nowadays only ships with Gmail app. It can do generic IMAP but it's never been clear to me if the process is entirely on-device. I'd rather not keep Google in the loop. That said there are some generic mail clients for And
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by guraf 3y ago
Why? All platforms (both desktop and mobile) come with IMAP clients. You just need to punch your password in and off you go...

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