pointlessone

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by pointlessone 2mo ago
Absence of such a claim is a commentary on its own, intended or not. Economic activity is almost always presented as a positive thing. It’s said to create jobs, generate wealth, increase production, etc. And here most of the things on the l
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by pointlessone 2mo ago
How much money? I mean, the natural answer is full price but that’s not the amount the author gets from a regular sale. There’s a whole range where it’s cheaper to freebooters and still more profitable to the author. I’ve seen an argument t
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by pointlessone 3mo ago
By this measure tweeting “end your life” at no one in particular should be classified as a weapons of mass destruction. There’s intent to cause harm. If people actually do, it would substitute achievement of the intent. The mechanism is nov
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
Broad appeal? You can’t do anything good aiming for broad appeal. People like too different things, they all don’t mash together well. If you add to many tings that appeal to different people you end up with incoherent mess. Instead of appe
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
Where would you put custom elements in your list?
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
I’m glad Matthew found an editor he likes but reading this I just couldn’t get that friendship ended meme out of my mind.
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
I dunno, is it that special? Take I’d for example. They released source code for genre defining extremely popular games and were fine. And how often is code reused anyway? Every online game seem to either use mostly stock server code that c
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
What are the insurmountable obstacles to releasing the server code for the community to run?
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
It is allowed as long as it’s verified. The thread specifically points out that if authors can’t be arsed to simply proofread their text the rest can not be trusted either. It’s a simple heuristic against low quality submissions, not an ant
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
I would even take any Leopard/Lion.
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
Where do I put my mother’s maiden name and my first pet name?
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
> 3. You don't need to use async Rust. Technically correct, but… Want to build a web app, every more or less popular framework is async. Want to make a web request? High change of async. Database? Very likely async, too. A huge frac
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
DLNA usually doesn’t force any system and more or less exposes fs. Some TVs natively have a client. Otherwise Kody or some other client app can be used to browse and play files.
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
As far as I can tell plex only wants separate folders for different kinds of media and file names that give at least some clue to what it is. Plex is much more lax.
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
One thing Plex does better is media detection. Like you can plop all your shows in a folder and it still will make sense of it. Jellyfin insists on a very specific directory structure and file naming. It’s very frustrating if you only want
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
It does give full access but Obsidian does tell you that. Community plugins are not enabled by default, you have to enable them manually. Same happens with a shared vault: once you get it you still have to manually enable plugins. So far no
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by pointlessone 4mo ago
A feature request of sorts. An option to reveal and highlight the element the color is for would be cool. There are so many colors and so many elements of the UI that it’s not immediately obvious where it is to properly see the changes I ma
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by pointlessone 5mo ago
I’d guess it has much more to do with the extra load agentic ai generates. If we take the charts in the OP at face value, do you think gh suddenly exploded in popularity? At this point I think almost everyone who has any use for gh already
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by pointlessone 5mo ago
I feel like this is some sort of butchered metaphor because in a vacuum just picking a color that has no context or effect outside of the experiment framing is really easy. But it’s not that simple if there are some externalities. Say, red
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by pointlessone 5mo ago
Wow. Much security. I too remember DOS. Data and code finely blended and perfectly mixed in the same universally accessible block of memory. Oh, wait… single context. nwm
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by pointlessone 5mo ago
I agree that there’s chaos everywhere and system integration on individual axes is a better way to look at it but then it turns out that Electron is more native than most GUI libs out there. Browser devs worked very hard and for a long time
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by pointlessone 5mo ago
I’d wager that it’s as native as Electron. It might be faster, sure, but it’s not native to any platform.
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by pointlessone 6mo ago
It literally gives me a headache after more than an hour of wearing it. This never happens with may AKG that has a very utilitarian and simple headband—a flat piece of plastic. It’s not pretty but I can wear AKG for a whole day and enjoy ev
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by pointlessone 6mo ago
How can you expect adoption of this scale if the AI side is so obviously negative? You might as well label the full AI option “I drown kittens” and go write a long post about how AI users won’t engage with your AI usage disclosure initiativ
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by pointlessone 6mo ago
This kind of news are about nothing. Tell me in a year, even in 3 months, how your fork has been doing. Clicking Fork on gh and writing a blog post is not a fork. A fork is a lot of work. Color me surprised if this will even keep up with th
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by pointlessone 7mo ago
> How are you all staying sane? Making some bold assumptions, eh? But more seriously, you can do very little about most of the things listed. Do that little and leave the rest behind. Tune out of news. Find sources of news that are relev
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by pointlessone 7mo ago
PDF is not exactly closed source though. It’s an international standard. And even, unlike most ISO standards, is freely available.
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by pointlessone 7mo ago
It doesn’t change the fact that people took political action on a massive scale. Both times mostly motivated by unsatisfactory personal circumstance.
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by pointlessone 7mo ago
Is it so? They had changed form of government twice in less than a century. Not just head of state or ruling party, form of government. You assume that because their baseline is miserable they can tolerate a lot but there’s a big difference
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by pointlessone 7mo ago
It’s not just a copy. It’s a caricature of a copy with a plenty of nonsense in it: typos and weird “text”, broken arrows, etc. Even a cursory look gives a feeling that something’s fishy.

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