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by slily 2y ago
I guess HN is just a more pretentious version of Reddit now? Share simple facts and people downvote/flag you for not being sufficiently outraged about the subject?
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by slily 2y ago
I'm no fan of the direction Windows has been going since 7, but this is exactly like the default behavior of KDE Plasma (at least on OpenSUSE).
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by slily 2y ago
That explains it, I'm not in that ecosystem but suspected it was something similar.
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by slily 2y ago
They must have a very creative definition of "active user" because Zuckerberg gets 15-20k likes on his posts while I can scroll down X and find several posts a few hours old from random gimmick accounts with many times more. Takin
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by slily 2y ago
This reminds me of how Playdate owners make it very obvious they don't use the thing in the way they retroactively justify their purchase by commenting on quirkiness or aesthetics at the expense of functionality or usability. I guess I
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by slily 2y ago
Elon Musk got the stick for being outspoken and disagreeing with elements of a quasi-religious ideology (disregarding his further radicalization following that event). ESG doesn't "do what it says on the tin", there would be
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by slily 2y ago
This doesn't address the contradiction. The fact that a CEO's sociopolitical views take precedence over the impact of the actual company is exactly why ESG is a cancerous tool for political activism that should not be taken seriou
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by slily 2y ago
I read /pol/ occasionally like I read far-left commentary and I can assure you that they portray Hamas/Iran/anyone aligned against Israel or openly anti-semitic as a gigachad. If Jews were wiped off the face of the Earth
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by slily 2y ago
As far as I know, friendly fire and collateral damage are a reality in all hot wars, especially in situations such as this one where one side attempts to blend in with civilians, so I don't see how this is different. The good and bad o
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by slily 2y ago
I see Jews being harassed, synagogues vandalized, 4chan-tier anti-semitic conspiracy theories going around leftist circles, and more broadly I see social media armchair activists who may or may not be relevant but do affect public opinion p
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by slily 2y ago
I agree in principle, but I don't see many protesters demonstrate that nuance.
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by slily 2y ago
The idea is to stand up for the weaker party and that's it. It doesn't matter that Palestine is led by a terrorist group with a genocidal agenda with overwhelming popular support. They are weaker and therefore they can't be w
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by slily 2y ago
Are you serious? That culture is why America still has high innovation while other Western and "culturally Western" countries that do not are largely stagnant. I'm amazed at how often I see people (largely Americans I'm
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by slily 2y ago
Literally all of the examples you gave to support the idea that children need uninterrupted Internet access would be solved with a little bit of advance planning instead. Obviously your mind is made up, but that's not convincing at all
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by slily 2y ago
I'm inclined to disagree based on my personal experience. I was never subjected to the kind of pressure you're talking about with regards to mental health and medication, but I spent too much time on social media and not enough in
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by slily 2y ago
We used to have computers in schools, on which we did all the things you present as requiring a cell phone to do, only without the persistent Internet access. Somehow we survived.
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by slily 2y ago
I saw discussions on GitHub where it was suggested that they refuse to match based on metadata over folder structure because they don't trust people to tag files properly. With my library, it generates multiple album entries per multi-
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by slily 2y ago
Both Plex and Jellyfin refused to import my fairly standard and accurately tagged music library last time I tried, and Plex is definitely opinionated about structure in video libraries.
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by slily 2y ago
And mine will be studying ancient Hebrew, Greek and Latin and reading the Torah, Homer and Virgil. Anyone allowing children near electroludograms designed to be addictive before they're familiar with actual classic cultural artifacts i
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by slily 2y ago
How do you qualify this as "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" and not the suggestion of yielding government control of OSS? That is the disproportionate reaction, and I urge anyone pushing for more government control&#x2
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by slily 2y ago
I wouldn't leave it for that long, but mostly because of degradation in texture. The sarcasm is how I stop myself from getting too angry over the ridiculous US food safety guidelines that discourage people from cooking and encourage wa
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by slily 2y ago
My model recommends the warming function for up to 40 hours, but I'm sure Japanese people who eat rice every day get poisoned all the time, and we should all follow FDA guidelines that say to throw out all of our food if it is in the f
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by slily 2y ago
This article names a bunch of advantages of free shipping but we're supposed to reject it because an Etsy seller decided she didn't want to offer it and compensate by increasing the price of her product slightly for an algorithmic
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by slily 2y ago
So because climate is hard to model, it's unfair to expect models to be reliable, so we shouldn't criticize environmental doomsayers spreading bullshit projections that guide government policies before getting inevitably retracted
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by slily 2y ago
Greta forbid someone point out that junk science exists in the state religion of climate change. Don't do your own research, listen to the experts, and delete your tweets panicking about models telling us climate change will kill us al
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by slily 2y ago
My post has none of that, and your lazy clichés were completely off base in your previous post as well, though I didn't point that out in my own reply to give you the benefit of the doubt and avoid making it personal. It seems you feel
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by slily 2y ago
Climate change is everything and nothing, it's so insidious that you can't predict it accurately nor measure it at a short time-scale yet it uniquely explains recent and regular weather events and spikes in commodity prices. Might
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by slily 2y ago
That's a completely different conversation from the broad condemnation of protests that affect all farmers based on the premise that farmers shouldn't be able to afford nice things.
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by slily 2y ago
Sure. But I've never seen any evidence that small farmers aren't aligned with the protests. Is there any, or are the wealthy farmers simply a convenient target?
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by slily 2y ago
I know a high school graduate who drives Uber part-time for a living and bought a brand-new Tesla with no downpayment recently (i.e. at elevated interest rates), so that's not a very good discriminator.

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