turtledove

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by turtledove 4y ago
Would you say that the install and maintenance load for both systems (Dropbox vs packages containers) is the same? Like, I'm confident my tech illiterate parents could get drop box running. Ease of use and UX are features. I'm n
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by turtledove 4y ago
Sorry, "would be super useful" be "would have helped me". Maybe those have different meanings to you? They mean more or less the same to me?
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by turtledove 4y ago
Because they have context that I don't? Because they quickly scan down to other comments and see the people explaining the joke? And not everyone else "got the joke". I'd assume many folks didn't get it, but didn&#x
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by turtledove 4y ago
Asking a non technical person to run and maintain docker containers is absurd.
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by turtledove 4y ago
I can install drop box in under ten minutes. I don't have to manage security patches for all the binaries in the stack. My data is available in network edge locations close to me or the people I share it with. I can turn dollars into m
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by turtledove 4y ago
Are those features of sftp? It cvs? Or the vps provider? Or are you saying, "well, with a completely different stack I can get closer to feature parity"?
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by turtledove 4y ago
Which definitely won't happen with a cheap VPS provider. /s
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by turtledove 4y ago
People click the upvote button at a sufficient velocity.
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by turtledove 4y ago
What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Yep. But if your user base is likely to include Americans, then you might want to consider filtering them out. (As it could be shocking to read.) Note the word consider , by the way. I'm not demanding anything here, I'm saying th
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by turtledove 4y ago
TIL. That said, I'm sure if you polled most folks these days, beaver would mean animal or women's genitalia, and not leave it to beaver. Given the relatively common crass meaning for beaver, beaver cleaver sure sounds like a sexua
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by turtledove 4y ago
Found a slur in the dataset, not sure if these are programmatically generated (I assume so) but may want to consider filtering those out.
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by turtledove 4y ago
He was saying density is bad. I was suggesting the opposite - it affords access to many and varied services.
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by turtledove 4y ago
You know you can rent cars, right? Or share a car as a community? And yes, it does mean some limits, but they aren't as severe as many people think.
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by turtledove 4y ago
I mean, sure. Some places have become urban centers recently and that's fair. But coast to coast, our biggest population centers were all established and built up before car centric planning. I live in Seattle, for instance, which used
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by turtledove 4y ago
You can easily live in Seattle city limits without owning a car, and our transit story is pretty bad. In a city that really funded transit it would be trivial.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Find a space you enjoy. I enjoy getting able to walk to the grocery store, bookshop, several cafes, many restaurants, hair salon, library, tattoo parlor, beer shop, movie theater, etc. How many of those places can you visit without a car?
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by turtledove 4y ago
The US absolutely tore up cities to make them more car friendly. Redlining and slum clearing were used as justifications to knock down entire neighborhoods to put more roads in. Most old American cities started as port towns with streetcar
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by turtledove 4y ago
These cities removed transit systems and housing to build roads and parking. It will take time, but doing the reverse is totally possible. Most cities were filled with streetcars and dense housing at one point.
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by turtledove 4y ago
I got called a communist on hacker news for suggesting this idea. It'll be interesting to see how the comments shake out. Less cars and less parking is a good start, but we also need to build more transit and bike infrastructure.
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by turtledove 4y ago
https://drugpolicy.org/drugsellers https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/3914/1/2875-Understandingdrug... Some data that suggests many get into it to feed their own addictions (which can be a "no ot
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by turtledove 4y ago
Hmm... That's much harder. I can list plenty of things, only, they apply only to the wealthy. 60 years ago I'd have a huge list. But we sorta stopped caring and we've been costing on that historical success.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Look, if the answer is starving or selling drugs, I know what most folks are going to do. There might not be other opportunities available. Until we've eliminated the threat of homelessness and starvation for everyone living here (whic
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by turtledove 4y ago
Plenty of folks in the US do that, and not by choice.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Because the US has close to 20% of the world's prison population. Because we regularly experience power outages in major areas, killing hundreds or thousands of people, due to political corruption. Because our health care system only w
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by turtledove 4y ago
Police are not interested in justice or ensuring everyone is treated well and given a chance to articulate their situation. They are interested in what makes their lives easier, which is to pack people into cells and wait for the notoriousl
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by turtledove 4y ago
Considerably more than thousands. It's not acceptable to treat anyone this way.
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by turtledove 4y ago
The tone of this article that describes the conditions as inhumane and grotesque to the subject of the article feels real weird. It's not just dehumanizing to the one innocent person there, it's grotesque to treat anyone like we t
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by turtledove 4y ago
You have a very rose colored view of the world. Some folks are presented with an opportunity to sell (or be an accessory to the sale) and the deal is too good to pass up because the alternative is starving.
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by turtledove 4y ago
What if someone makes a change to the pattern because they are maintaining the code but don't understand it? What if a future version of Python stops accepting that as valid syntax? It's too clever by half.

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