nmilo

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by nmilo 4y ago
Most people that know my taste in music already have my spotify because they're my friends and I gave it to them. As for worrying about pseudonymity, spotify lets you hide listening activity and make all your playlists private.
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by nmilo 4y ago
Sometimes it makes me sad how "boring" digital transmission is. Just pack up your data and send it over IP. Life is too easy.
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by nmilo 4y ago
And how much training and guiding did that take? It's not like they hit "generate" and the first try made some good music. This definitely took a ton of human guidance and curation.
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by nmilo 4y ago
What a ridiculous premise. The value of your time does not come in some sort of interchangeable unit where 1 hour of TV repair is comparable to 1 hour of Firefox bug-fixing. Realistically, if the author decided to get a new TV, he would not
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by nmilo 4y ago
If it's 58 bytes it can fit inline into your 14kB HTML file.
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by nmilo 4y ago
> i am afraid to like, or even publicly discuss, the story because of what it might say about me. I really hope this is just well-written meta satire, and not actually how you feel.
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by nmilo 4y ago
I would actually like this. Imagine if online discussion was so visibly bad that no one used it anymore. Talk to real people. Go outside.
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by nmilo 4y ago
Maybe it's just because of the connotations we have behind the words, but I don't like the idea that a dinner with friends is somehow "hedonistic," but starting a business is somehow filling your life with meaning and pu
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by nmilo 4y ago
I don't get it. What is a "community manager"? Is it someone that runs a company's social media page? And do they think that people care about their brand so much that they would join a community of people whose only com
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by nmilo 4y ago
Because almost no one actually knows how it works. People hear "bitcoin" and immediately think of the dark net, Tor, anonymity, etc.
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by nmilo 4y ago
All else being equal, more privacy is always good. I think the examples given are just there to get normal people to care about this too. Similar to when abortion was outlawed in the US and suddenly people cared a lot about all that Google
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by nmilo 4y ago
The author somehow misses the number one use case of crypto: as a currency. You can buy things with Bitcoin right now. Therefore each bitcoin has a value. You can move bitcoins around to move value around. Simple as that. The only problem i
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by nmilo 4y ago
Why? Obviously GP does not particularly care about the success of academia, it was only brought up as an indicator of a larger trend. Why derail the conversation and bring up all this other stuff about academia that's not related to th
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by nmilo 4y ago
Who the hell said that was the real problem in academia, as if it was the only problem there? Are we not allowed to talk about a problem if some greater problem also exists?
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by nmilo 4y ago
Wrong, the HTML is completely valid, in the sense that a browser renders it. All text is valid HTML; that's the whole point of lax parsing. It might not be valid XML, but if it works, why care?
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by nmilo 4y ago
It's still a difference of 38.5 nano seconds. You have a budget 16,000,000 nanoseconds per frame. It's like Jeff Bezos writing about how to save money at Walmart; just pick the readable and stupid approach and move on. Game loop
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by nmilo 4y ago
You know, if you've ever done anything creative, the brain's ability to take inspiration from something and remix it (without realizing it's not original and actually just a memory) is shocking. So are our brains really just
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by nmilo 4y ago
Let's be realistic, Quizlet is not e2e encrypting their protocol, and most web services are not getting strong privacy. Good old HTTPS is enough for most services.
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by nmilo 4y ago
Of course, cops are no match for the MIGHTY VOTER. When I see cops abusing someone on the street, I will no longer stop and record, I will merely smirk at them, for it is I, the MIGHTY VOTER, that actually controls the cops. And when I go c
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by nmilo 4y ago
That's the thing about people who aren't "into" tech, they have no idea what all this terminology is. What the hell is an OS, an app, a browser, a website? My grandma was completely shocked when I told her that some $100
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by nmilo 4y ago
Really? You see a joke project made for fun and the first thing you do is try every horrifically racist and homophobic slur you can think of? Do you always look for things to be mad about?
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by nmilo 4y ago
Obviously modelling your program like Car extends Vehicle is bad, but thinking in terms of real-life relations makes thinking about complex subtyping relations like covariance much easier to grasp. Compare: > If B and C are subtypes of A
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by nmilo 4y ago
You already have a "dynamic slider control" for everything you read, it lives in your brain and it's called "skimming." Well-written articles already expose the essential point in an easy-to-find way, and I couldn&#
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by nmilo 4y ago
> We built a social network for pets. [...] Every story update is appended in a homemade "blockchain" running in WebAssembly in the Lambda worker. Dear God.
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by nmilo 4y ago
Avoid second-person pronouns such as "you're".
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by nmilo 4y ago
Careful, you might lose an hour on that site.
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by nmilo 4y ago
The bin forever? I don't know anyone who gets their news and blog posts straight from Google search. Google can't stop you from putting up an RSS feed, sharing the link to friends, or posting it to content aggregators like HN or R
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by nmilo 4y ago
Of course there's no counterculture---(but not for the reasons given in the article)---the Internet has made it a part of mainstream culture. No matter how absurdly counter-mainstream you make a piece of music, film, etc., you will fin
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by nmilo 4y ago
Yes, that's how society works. If you use a service respectfully you get rewarded with the ability to keep using that service.
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by nmilo 4y ago
You're conflating developers who write in Go with developers who write Go. It's easier for me to write weird "function returns function" tricks than it is to fork a compiler.

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