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by tombert 5d ago
I was always very active during class, primarily because I would get bored and smartphones didn't exist yet so the only way I could entertain myself was raising my hand for the teacher all the time. I think because of this I was absorb
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by tombert 5d ago
> I literally had to retake trigonometry, while simultaneously being advanced into pre-calc, because my teacher saw that I aced the exams, but said I had to do the homework. Yeah, I passed the Calc 1 AP exam in my Junior year the first t
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by tombert 5d ago
Tangential, a million years ago I made a YouTube video on how to do the heat equation PDE. I got a YouTube DM from someone offering to pay me a fairly significant sum of money to do their homework for them. I was very broke, so I initiall
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by tombert 5d ago
I was a constant frustration to teachers in high school because I would do well on tests, but I wouldn't do the homework [1]. I'm kind of glad that I didn't know you could pay people to do your homework, since I have to admi
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by tombert 6d ago
Wouldn't this be an argument for people who can take principled stances to do so?
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by tombert 6d ago
Genuine question, since I'm a little out of the loop; why do you say that?
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by tombert 7d ago
Agreed. I will admit that sometimes I do have fun playing the game (certainly a lot more when I was younger), but not often anymore. I feel like I "have" to do it, because there's no such thing as a free lunch, and as such s
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by tombert 7d ago
Sure, a monopoly (as determined by the courts, albeit briefly) and found to be engaging in anti-competitive practices. It wasn't some vague "copyright" thing that made Microsoft do the AARD code, or make it difficult/imp
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by tombert 7d ago
You can have a monopoly without having 100% of the market. Even one of the most famous monopolies, AT&T throughout the 20th century, never had 100% of the market. You know this, so now you're just actively lying. Microsoft was br
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by tombert 7d ago
It’s not that “everything revolves around corporations for me”, it’s that every time I have ever criticized a corporation to a self-proclaimed libertarian, it it always deflected and turned into “well actually this is just the governments f
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by tombert 7d ago
It’s not explicitly about loving corporations, that just appears to be the consequence.
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by tombert 7d ago
My point wasn’t Uganda, my point was, and it still is, that “prosperity” is a relative term. I also have no interest in talking about the minutia of Uganda. I was pointing out that the USSR was “rich” by comparison to some other countries.
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by tombert 8d ago
I agree it’s much more than GDP. That’s kind of my entire point! These terms are complicated , and pretending that these things can be explained trivially by “LOL CORPORATIONS GOOD GOVERNMENT BAD AHAHAHAH” is reductive at best.
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by tombert 8d ago
Even if I concede all of this, and I really don’t, that doesn’t imply that it was a concerted effort to make Microsoft in particular a monopoly, at least not in the same way that they, for example, made AT&T a monopoly. Are you suggesti
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by tombert 8d ago
I should make it clear that I'm not a supporter of what the USSR was, and I'm not trying to apologize for it. I'm just trying to argue that "prosperity" is a relative term and trying to nail down the "why&quot
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by tombert 8d ago
I didn't claim that the USSR was doing well compared to the US. In fact I said the opposite. I said that the USSR was economically more prosperous than Uganda, and was not wrong about that. Prosperity is a relative term, and pointing
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by tombert 8d ago
No, I was making fun of the fact that you haven't seen something and you act like this is compelling evidence of anything.
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by tombert 8d ago
All you did was say that Standard Oil doesn't count as a monopoly because you claim that you need a government intervention to be a monopoly, which is not a definition I have heard and certainly does not fall under colloquial definit
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by tombert 8d ago
> None in any place I've worked. Oh, well, if you don't think that children would be good at making compilers then child labor must not have been a problem. I guess you have a point.
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by tombert 8d ago
"Prosperous" is a relative term; Russia, even during the USSR days, was still significantly more prosperous than Uganda, for example. You can say "yes but they weren't as rich as the United States", but if "bei
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by tombert 8d ago
That seems a bit reductive; I don't even know that you're "wrong", but there are a lot of factors that might have led to the United States' success. We have a lot of natural resources and a lot of our land is rea
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by tombert 11d ago
Agreed. I mean, there's really no shortage of terrible scenarios that can happen if we cannot assume that 100% of cops are good.
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by tombert 11d ago
I have gotten in arguments about these Flock cameras, because people will use the "if you're not doing anything wrong you got nothing to worry about" defense. Basically the entire point of the fourth Amendment (and sort of th
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by tombert 13d ago
I have the exact same anecdote; it makes me wonder if this is a common enough use case that a small language model could be trained and run locally for these kinds of “configuration bullshit problems”. I feel like a very large percentage of
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by tombert 13d ago
I have to admit that I'm pretty impressed that GOG has managed to convince a lot of the big brand-name players, (including Sony! [1]) that a DRM-free way of distributing games can be viable. If there's no DRM then there's no
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by tombert 13d ago
Valve is also pretty amenable to adding third-party games to the box as well. It's trivial to add games from GOG using Heroic and play them alongside regular Steam games. My main "game console" is a NixOS box running Jovian,
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by tombert 19d ago
I feel with Rust I try and avoid re-allocations in most cases anyway, so I'm not sure that musl's allocator being slow would significantly affect performance (though I haven't benchmarked it). I feel like part of the appeal o
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by tombert 19d ago
I am kind of obsessed with keyboard shortcuts, ever since discovering Vim a million years ago. The Vim shortcuts are burned into my brain. I've found that that itch is pretty much entirely solved by Sway (especially since it supports
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by tombert 22d ago
> make a mouse you can't use while charging it I'm not one to usually defend Apple-ism, but it always felt that this was such a nothing-burger. The mouse charges in like fifteen minutes and lasts for weeks. I don't have a
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by tombert 22d ago
Same. I don't really like country music, but Dolly always seemed somewhat down-to-earth and pretty decent.

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