imhelpingu

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by imhelpingu 5y ago
Yeah it's definitely facebook that's the problem, as opposed to Google, Amazon, and payment processors. Definitely if I'm looking for a monopoly, my top concern is making sure people on the internet can chat without that fami
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
I can't imagine how stupid I would have to be to not comprehend this statement.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
The title is "Do Developers Discover New Tools On The Toilet?" but an overbearing mod changed it because he thinks he's Etiquette Secretary of the Internet, and probably also so he can plausibly pretend this isn't a webs
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
Or everyone could just stop being a little bitch about everything 24/7.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
Wow, thank goodness the Epstein issue came to light so we can finally put away this monster for being bad with women. Social justice priorities.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
In terms of giving people a reason for skepticism, simply telling the truth (for once) is a drop in the pan compared to all the bald-faced, dishonest, say-anything "activism" performed by various groups (e.g. the entire neoliber
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
Wow what a paragon of truth and levelheaded reason, posting some propaganda article that any dumbass can poke holes in and which every dumbass has poked holes in. I love society now, and all of its earnest regard for public discourse and
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
The problem with the "abstract" keyword is it's more normative than descriptive. If there's not an actual useful abstraction involved, and/or if the abstract class doesn't actually represent a more abstracted g
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
This widespread notion that the military is incompetent when it comes to developing technology might be the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
Wow since you're so concerned and helpful, here's a tidbit: Everyone who has tried to run a personal mail server in past five years can't because of gmail.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
Have also run into this. Google is the quintessential evil tech corporation. We should all start avoiding their services when possible.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
We do this here every time writing comes up. Engineers should not comment on writing.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
Sometimes people have "bias" due to experience with reality, but definitely any result you dislike should be repeated again and again. It's obviously a big problem for science when reality is coherent.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
This is hilarious. I love hearing from butthurt HR types about how unfair it is that programmers have leverage at their jobs.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
Yeah there's so much nuance involved in figuring out whether a handful of giant corporations should be permitted to summarily remove a streamer from all social media because they dislike his political position. I like the part where th
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
Probably because it's rapidly becoming the quintessentially evil corporation, and there's a correlation between not having a problem with that and being a ding-bat who belongs in a cult. edit: I mean it. I'm a programmer and
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
This is why everyone used to understand the need to regulate in a way that promotes competition. The idea was promote .
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
I had to stop releasing music under creative commons because I noticed copyright trolls were trying to claim it was there's when some tried to use it as music in their youtube videos. The whole point of releasing under creative commons
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
And they've been trying to collect phone numbers for years. Any time an account is suspended, they try to require a phone number for it to log back in, for example.
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by imhelpingu 7y ago
The situation will never change for as long as """"""marketers"""""" continue to benefit from the big data collection it facilitates.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Google is becoming a service that no longer performs searches and instead attempts to project reality back at me based on a keyword cue. This is how the AI takes over society.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
I wonder if they might condescend to utilize the JVM so I don't have to compile JMC myself for another 5 months, or maybe at least they'll remove their circular links that infuriatingly obscure the fact JMC binaries don't cur
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Maybe you should just permit people to say "what are you talking about" as a form of "you seem to be confused" instead of trying to dictate which colloquialisms people use to express themselves. Your position on this is
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Wait! You're telling me that for the price of two coffees a month, I can have unlimited streaming on the go!? How about if marketers want me looking at their ads, they can stop pouring millions of dollars into research about how to spy
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
I switched my browsers to using DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and almost miss never Google at all. Any time I do miss Google, I just manually navigate to Bing and use that instead.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
People need to start seriously considering doing everything they possibly can to get tech monopolies completely out of their lives.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
This is the second comment I've seem where you being a hallway monitor is far more disruptive and annoying than whatever you're responding to. FYI making it clear that I'm being contradictory is better than a passive aggressi
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
The article is about how Google PR people are now openly advocating for removing the concept of a "URL" from web browsing for security reasons. What are you talking about.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
"Google Takes Last Steps Towards Killing the Open Web by Making Everyone Register With Centralized Certificate Authorities Just to Run an HTML Server." I sincerely hope I live to see this quintessentially evil corporation go bankr
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
I clicked for old paintings where shadows are wrong.

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