njharman

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by njharman 9mo ago
Clout. Monetization.
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by njharman 9mo ago
Journalists report, they don't analyze. The error is consumers believing journalist news is anything but uninformed, hot take heresy; spun in the most sensationalistic way. They are hired to get eyeballs for advertisers. Not to be accu
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by njharman 1y ago
Seems perfectly tailored to the product being sold and the customers paying for it Product being search users. Customers being advertisers.
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by njharman 1y ago
Putting tldr; at the bottom defeats purpose of tldr. Guessing this is BPF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter But, reader shouldn't have to guess. That is the link that should be in your Introduct
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by njharman 2y ago
18 years? Filthy casual, jk ;) I can't remember how long, but I started when you had to make a stack of 3.5 floppies to install... More than 30years ago. Long before that, I was using 4DOS to create best "shell" possible on M
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by njharman 2y ago
I've never understood peoples confusion about function defaults. They are part of function definition, they aren't in the function body. You should expect them to be "executed" when the function is defined.
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by njharman 2y ago
> It's managed! Your cellular isn't? Maybe switch providers, T-Mobile doesn't make me go maintain cell towers.
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by njharman 3y ago
100%
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by njharman 3y ago
> off way back machine. +1 for practical paranoia!
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by njharman 3y ago
Sure, anyone can do anything. It would be up to you (and hopefully a lawyer) to then sue them and let judge/jury decide. Or, convince authorities that some criminal law was violated and they should investigate. Both of which are hard a
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by njharman 3y ago
Spam is a minimal effort endeavor. A lead generator for scams. Only 0.1% or 0.01% response rate is good. They only want the unsophisticated, naive recipients. Expending effort to tweak rules is not worth the effort. (Although if they can ge
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by njharman 3y ago
The ultimate answer is because copyright holders have money and spent a fare bit of it on lobbyists. Copyright holders are organized, e.g. MPAA/RIAA, and motivated (money moves ya). Content consumers are disorganized and little motivat
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by njharman 3y ago
I don't think, and in general believe people label, not things like construction work or care givers as BS jobs. BS jobs are the ones that only exist to support hordes of people having jobs; middle managers, service industry (all the d
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by njharman 3y ago
I wanted to wear a body camera in the form on Mediated Reality glasses but the public shamed/cancelled the early adaptors and manufacturers so much so that the product/concept was withdrawn from market place. Everyone should be a
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by njharman 3y ago
Drug *abuse* is maybe a mental health issue. I'm sure I'm not alone in using drugs (alcohol, caffeine, pot) for many reasons other than to "make them feel good when they don't feel good". Which along with equating u
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by njharman 3y ago
Go learn about land mark Universal vs Sony time shifting and RIAA v Diamond space shifting copyright cases. Or, at very least stop spreading misinformation.
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by njharman 3y ago
Or don't purchase things in DRMd walled gardens. Even better stop supporting / participating in DRMd walled gardens.
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by njharman 3y ago
My car is parked more than drive. Still, the drive is the more important, valueble, and difficult. Cars should be optimized for driving first, and only for other things when needed. Likewise code should be optimized for reading, which is to
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by njharman 3y ago
Your absolute rights end when they encounter another person. As society, we've decided peoples individual rights can/should be curtailed when they harm others. We will never agree on definition of "harm". But, certainly
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by njharman 3y ago
> That doesn't seem possible. How would that work? agree; b00b, DlCK, cntfcker But I suppose, if user doesn't get to craft input, the collision space of converted numerical ids and words like above is sufficiently small to be i
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by njharman 3y ago
Step one; get overreaching, extreme powers passed into law because they'll only be used to fight "terrorism". Step two; redefine everything as terrorism.
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by njharman 3y ago
Stopped using cause the author can't comprehend that scrolling / scrollbars could apply to document as a whole (like every other editor/viewer ever allows). https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/display-sc
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by njharman 3y ago
> People expect comments to not be a personal take? Some comments are factual; corrections, links, additional information, etc. But people do expect HN to be polite, and "that's your personal take" is the polite way to say
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by njharman 3y ago
Related, in language being taken over and replaced. Having not paid attention to sports for 30years, but recently going to hocky matches. I have the perspective of avoiding the gradual "frog in boiling water effect". It was reall
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by njharman 3y ago
Instead of money spent to influence politicians, money will be spent to influence the masses. The net effect will be same, money "wins".
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by njharman 3y ago
A very long time ago, I played a simpler version on CP/M (dad's Cromemco System 3). Possibly typed in from https://www.amazon.com/BASIC-Computer-Games-Microcomputer-Da...
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by njharman 3y ago
> If I were a DC executive Your reaction is why you are not a DC executive. Shareholders, your board would not stand for your concern for employee/contractor over profit.
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by njharman 3y ago
> What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone Public Domain IP (USA) is owned by no one. As the preceding line alludes to > surrendered my Fables property to the public domain their property rights were sur
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by njharman 3y ago
Having electric current hard to avoid in saltwater, assuming use of metal. See Galvanic Cell / Galvanic Corrosion.
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by njharman 3y ago
See also sixth mass extinction event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

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