msmenardi

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by msmenardi 3y ago
as an ex-technician, I'd have to agree. With the caveat that they should choose how they want to fix your shit.
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by msmenardi 3y ago
any requirement to log in is done with malicious intent. what other purpose could it hold other than to harvest your data for their own undisclosed purposes? Maybe anti-bots or something, but there are other ways to do that. Besides, a bot
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by msmenardi 3y ago
Ya'll, this is just the Fediverse. Check it out.
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by msmenardi 3y ago
> ... I am mostly curious why anyone would bother watching/subscribing to this media, since the amount of information you gain from them is enough to influence you emotionally, but not enough information to gain you a market advanta
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by msmenardi 3y ago
The purpose of smart locks such as these is never convenience. It's not even to make money. The purpose is to deprive you of the resource they control should you say something they disagree with. In fact, this applies to all smart devi
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by msmenardi 3y ago
they don't want you to be able to communicate with your teammates without their knowledge
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by msmenardi 3y ago
Hi, asking for help is hard but I'm used to it at this point. I'm looking for a job, if you know someone who's "always hiring" for remote positions please let me know. I have a year's worth of experience as a l
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by msmenardi 3y ago
> on Facebook or Reddit, you suddenly read a comment written by a veterinarian in Azerbaijan – someone who you would almost certainly never have met in real life and who is more different from you in every way than all the people you int
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by msmenardi 3y ago
> ...The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum. until, of course, someone updates a library that your code depends on or the OS changes the way it executes code or som
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by msmenardi 3y ago
I don't understand that graph. Why is it so spiky? for any particular year. It almost looks like the temperature varies by ~0.5 degrees week to week. Can someone explain it to me?
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by msmenardi 3y ago
The difference is at a university you have to learn ~5 different subjects at once. On the job you only learn one. It's more of a "Breadth first" approach.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
Right... the story is called "Robots and Murder" because people still use robots to commit murder. The point is that broad overarching rules like that can always be subverted.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
This is totally wrong - people are much different in 2023 compared to earlier in our lifetimes, even people from 1990 would seem completely different to us now. Cultural evolution is a type of evolution, it's not a "fake" v
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by msmenardi 4y ago
Unfortunately people often don't go to the doctor because it's too expensive. Why would that change if you added more things to the doctor's toolbox?
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by msmenardi 4y ago
The more you have to pay for it, the fewer people have access to "on-demand everything". Meaning it'll become a luxury of the richer side of the arbitrary cut-off line where ordering groceries or getting an Uber is financiall
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by msmenardi 4y ago
The transaction is fundamentally between a human client and a corporation. With an AI shopkeeper or with a human, it doesn't matter - you don't steal from the till attendants, you steal from the corporation.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
There should be forums or something where people can contribute to discussions and create a community. How are they supposed to vote for representatives if there's no way to know who other people are?
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by msmenardi 4y ago
The goal of programming as a discipline is to create tools that allow problems to be solved. Art is a problem - how do I express myself to others? The entire industry is designed for moments like this.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
It could also be caused by authors getting better at expressing themselves succinctly.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
Robert Evans (the author) has done a lot of important reporting in the middle east. I first heard about him through a friend who recommended his podcast "It Could Happen Here", and I loved his reporting on the BLM protests in Port
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by msmenardi 4y ago
This isn't true. Yes, it's only checked locally, but you can store the key-code used and if you connect to another player with the same keycode it can prevent you from playing together. This is something many companies did to thei
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by msmenardi 4y ago
It'd also be nice if companies were forced to pay for time spent commuting
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by msmenardi 4y ago
You're confusing the impact of the decision with the prevalence of belief in it. While that may objectively be the best way to combat climate change, it doesn't imply anything about how many people are making that decision for tha
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by msmenardi 4y ago
The author completely missed the part where Lain became a god... Or how she erased herself from time and space because she could no longer relate to her friends and family. It reminds me more of Welcome to the NHK than Evangelion, honestly.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
Generally, people want to do less work so they can spend more time focused on their own dreams and aspirations.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
Privileged people also tend to conceptualize theft as "theft from a corporation" as in, stealing clothes from Target or slim jims from a gas station. The idea that their entire livelihood could be taken from them doesn't cros
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Developing for the Semantic Web (2020)(smashingmagazine.com)
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by msmenardi 4y ago
And yet, in our system that prioritizes efficiency, we have more slavery than at any point in human history. Something doesn't add up.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
"Private tutors" can be anything from an after-school karate class to visiting a piano teacher's house for an hour of instruction. It doesn't have to be solely for elite people.
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by msmenardi 4y ago
It also encourages slavery. Who sows your clothes? Who assembles your phone? Who picks the vegetables you eat? Really it's all the same person: The cheapest option.

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