optimalquiet

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by optimalquiet 2mo ago
A major example is the US drinking age. Federal highway funds, which provide money for interstate highways, major US routes, etc, are partially contingent on states (who are given authority over alcohol laws both by the general police power
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by optimalquiet 2mo ago
Agreed. I think in and visualize in words, generally not images. I see something akin to [Spreeder]( https://www.spreeder.com/app.html ) in my head most of the time, and I often can somatically feel punctuation.
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by optimalquiet 2mo ago
I've found they are increasingly doing this in ways that are somewhat creepy. For instance, you might share something, and the AI will say, "One of the things I most frequently notice..." or "What I often feel...&quo
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by optimalquiet 2mo ago
If Canada is similar to the US, a mixture of SMS, Discord, and iMessage. The kids use Snapchat, your aunt uses Facebook messenger or iMessage, and occasionally someone might be into Telegram although mostly scammers. Teams or Slack for offi
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by optimalquiet 8mo ago
Interesting, I’m an American English speaker but that’s how it feels natural to me to use dashes. Em-dashes with no spaces feels wrong for reasons I can’t articulate. This first usage—in this meandering sentence—feels bossy, like I can’t ha
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by optimalquiet 8mo ago
Inevitably windows search fails to highlight what I’m looking for almost all of the time, and often doesn’t even find it at all. If I have an application installed, it picks the installer in the downloads folder. If I don’t have an app inst
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by optimalquiet 9mo ago
My interpretation of what happened here is that a legislator who opposed the bill inserted the names of the lobbyists as a joke against the bill, which has now paid off. The article says that the original list did not include the names, the
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by optimalquiet 11mo ago
You’re entitled to your experience and spirituality, but nothing about Twitter or Bluesky has ever struck me as ‘divine.’ Rather than being a nihilistic flight from value, I think there’s far more value to be found in cultivating friendship
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by optimalquiet 1y ago
Not quite. In order to make TLS certs work on a per-site basis, requests sent over HTTPS also include a virtual host indicator in cleartext that shows the hostname of the site you’re trying to connect to, so if the IP on the other end is
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by optimalquiet 1y ago
Yeah -- it's happening as we speak.
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
For what it’s worth, I’m a student, and have had the benefit of seeing both the AWS and Azure web interfaces for the first time in the past couple of years. Azure was astoundingly more intuitive and less bizarre than AWS as someone with n
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
> Imagine what we could have had in our communities if we hadn’t wasted $3,000,000,000,000 on Iraq. What we would've had was $3,000,000,000,000 less debt, and still no splash pad filtration. The Iraq war was put on the credit card.
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
Microblogging is one of the many aspects of the internet where the only winning move is not to play.
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
I see it used more often by hobbyists interested in crowding out alternatives they don’t like. “Why are you using snap? Flatpak is the future !” “What, you’re still using Xorg in nvidia? But Wayland is the future! ” And I like flatpak and
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
A phrase I hate even more than “modern” is “ x is the future”, especially when used to describe a technology that only works for certain use cases. It’s an attempt to use social pressure and bullying tactics to enforce a technological cons
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
I think Apple cares a lot about software. On iPhones. Macs used to be so great, but a lot of their sheen has worn off, and Microsoft has really improved their UI generally in the past 15 years even if there's still a lot of rough edges
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
> and also has the fun side-effect of being a cute easter egg to anyone who went to star tours. I don't think that was an explicit callout to Star Tours -- which opened at Disneyland years after RotJ came out (1983 and 1987). If any
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
Windows 2000 was part of the professional NT line, though, and was the companion of Me for the millennium releases. As far as I know, 2000 wasn't marketed to home users. I think what the comment you replied to is saying is the the tran
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
Did blockchain startups ever provide any real value to end-users? Like, at all? Speaking from my technical but not SWE perspective, the only things I'm familiar with using the blockchain are cryptocurrency (obviously) and NFTs, which a
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by optimalquiet 2y ago
As it turns out, the massive money generated by software produces quite a lot of status. But the IT world is meaningfully different from software engineering. IT infrastructure (as distinct from creating software) pays less, generally, and
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by optimalquiet 3y ago
I used to do the same. And I got it to a point where my feed was great, I could check it every few days and get updates from people I know and community organizations. But the issue is, it seems Facebook is now injecting algorithmic content
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by optimalquiet 3y ago
Soma-zone software in general is pretty neat for Mac power users. I especially like Launch Control, which lets you configure and inspect launchd (the mac service daemon) services.
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by optimalquiet 3y ago
A question: where did the hobbyist/small business crowd go?
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by optimalquiet 3y ago
And this is why, as a hobbyist, I’m very skeptical of, for lack of a better term, the consumer cloud. We’re not talking about AWS here, we’re talking about companies’ servers (that are actually AWS on the back-end) that they use to offer se
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by optimalquiet 3y ago
I’ll do you one better, I use IaC techniques to configure VMs at home, on an old workstation I’ve turned into a server. It’s great for hobbyists, too, and doesn’t require the cloud although I will admit it’s easier to go all the way when re