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by locutous 4y ago
It's bad on both sides. As a parent. If your child ends up in a class where other children are abusive there is almost no recourse for changes and you are treated poorly for trying. Ditto if the teacher is abusive, which also happen
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by locutous 4y ago
That's the grammar Nazi hat. Pedant hat off.
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by locutous 4y ago
> That’s going to be hard to argue. Where are the copies? Discovery will show exactly what the base images for training are. You can view that the outputs are derivative works. I don't think the mechanism is going to shield the vio
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by locutous 4y ago
In many cars fog lights and high beams are mutually exclusive. You can't turn on both even if you wanted to.
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by locutous 4y ago
Some generalizations. Home cooking is generally going to be better than particularly fast food because you are not reheating the same oils over and over. Coconut oil is generally held as better. Cold pressed oils otherwise. Prepare to pay
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by locutous 4y ago
App store discoverability is very poor. Web discoverability is much easier to manage. It's something you have more control over and can buy easier through marketing via any channel you want. App store pages just don't convert w
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by locutous 4y ago
I haven't seen one that has done it well personally. Missing in this is so much of how it might be done right. There are so many dragons. Vendor lock in, logging, debugging, development (can I run the application on my laptop?), ver
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by locutous 4y ago
Jim Keller mentioned this problem in the hardware space. Basically when people breach the interface design and couple things and how that coupling limits your ability to grow the design. When he helped set the tone for the Zen architecture
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by locutous 4y ago
> If done right microservices is a way to transform part of your organization challenge into a technical one, which for many organizations is the right move. Famous last words, if done right... Or you just multiply your organizational i
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by locutous 4y ago
> Servers can only get so big. If your monolith needs more resources than a single server can provide, then you can chop it up into microservices 200 threads, 12TB of RAM, with a pipe upwards of 200GB/s. This isn't even as big
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by locutous 4y ago
> As a user I've seen and used this crap. My understanding of the market is much better than yours, it seems, because I approach it as a user. And yeah, you definitely don't listen to the users. Declaring that you always know b
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by locutous 4y ago
> They can. You just don't know how to listen. I've worked on many mobile products. This has been true of none of them. Please provide some evidence of otherwise? > Does this happen with native apps? You betcha. Something
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by locutous 4y ago
If my customers don't really need a Ferrari, then making them pay for one is expensive. Most cars work just fine for most people. Software is expensive. People resent high rate subscriptions as it is. Including on here. They resent
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by locutous 4y ago
> Is it? Native buttons also come with things like affordances, accessibility, recognizability. And web views come with things like scaling, accessibility, page/document search. The recognizability and discoverability is up to the
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by locutous 4y ago
> This will never be as nice to use as a native app, because you cannot replicate all of the small details of how native UI works on each platform. Not sure how much of that is necessary. I mean, a button doesn't "look native&
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by locutous 4y ago
This presumes that all efforts to curb climate change make the world better. Global regulation of fundamental economic development represents a shift to authoritarianism. That's not a positive move if you believe in individual liberty
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by locutous 4y ago
I have many children. I consider my employment my relative vacation time and my home responsibilities my life's real work. It's the most rewarding work you can do, and runs about 20 years. But with fruits much much longer. Man u
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by locutous 4y ago
Tailscale requires a 3rd party network login. If Google freezes your account you get locked out of your private network also. Tailscale is a 3rd party platform that can also disappear, locking you out of your password manager. Maybe use neb
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by locutous 4y ago
Fortune plays a role, for sure. But you don't even get to petition fortune until you have some significant ability to identify and execute on a business. Too many people focus so much on the luck they neglect the required positive tal
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by locutous 4y ago
To get a friend you have to first, be a friend. You have to invest your time into the relationship. Friendships are forged over time with others who reciprocate. We are, generally, losing this skill as a society.
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by locutous 4y ago
> As a product of generational trauma, I find the "no perfect time, just have kids" mentality disgusting. The families of the earth do need improvement. That starts with individual choices to be better, do better. However, yo
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by locutous 4y ago
> Take Wordpress as an example. There really should not be a need to cache a Wordpress site. But some of the most popular plugins are those that cache. Caching gives sites about two orders of magnitude speed uplift in my experience. Som
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by locutous 4y ago
"indoctrinated". You say that like people who say this are selling rotten fruit as new. You can verify this for yourself. Go to an old folks home. Ask them about their lives. See how many don't bring up their children. O
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by locutous 4y ago
At this rate there won't be a South Korea before too long. The future belongs to the fertile.
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by locutous 4y ago
> why would anybody subject themselves to that struggle if they don't have to? It's a fundamentally selfless action to raise children. It is also part of the core purpose of all living creatures.
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by locutous 4y ago
The ones with the kids are happy, the ones with the money are not. That's how it works out. Money doesn't buy happiness. Having a family successfully contributes a great deal to happiness.
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by locutous 4y ago
Manoeuver has always been useful. Modern mobility and arms haven't changed that. Gaining superior firepower or leverage at the decision point is the real take away, not who is attacking or defending. Fixed structures are always an as
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by locutous 4y ago
First, an ambush is not a traditional attacker role. The ambusher has the pre-prepared position and is leveraging an intelligence advantage. A counter attack similarly isn't assaulting a prepared position. Otherwise this is an ignoran
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by locutous 4y ago
Being armed is a dramatically effective way to improve defensibility. How many effective defensive fortifications can you name that ran intentionally without any arms because they are of "little use"?
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by locutous 4y ago
Were you never taught that it is wrong to steal? It's attitudes like this that make the collapse of civilization even possible. People who willingly, even eagerly, go feral and abandon their civility. Taking by force, stealing from o

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