wutbrodo

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by wutbrodo 6mo ago
> Wayland was designed exclusively i3 style compositors I'm a dyed-in-the-wool i3 (now sway) user. I don't even use floating windows. Wayland has still been an awful experience, broke a bunch of workflows for me
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by wutbrodo 6mo ago
In 2008, I remember playing starcraft over LAN with my roommate. It played better on Wine/Ubuntu than it did on his Vista machine (and unrelatedly but hilariously, in the middle of the game his computer gave him a countdown to reboot w
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by wutbrodo 10mo ago
> No first responder can prevent a crime from happening, all responders arrive after crime has occurred I've never understood this claim. Are you unaware of the concept of deterrence, or do you reject that it exists?
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by wutbrodo 11mo ago
It was deprecated in 2015 iirc
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by wutbrodo 11mo ago
Ah appreciated, that is indeed exactly what I was asking about! Now I'm left wondering why enforcement was supposedly so hard. Seems like shooting fish in a barrel, especially given that some very large websites were in clear violation
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by wutbrodo 11mo ago
I may be missing something, but I don't see how this clearly precludes that behavior. Which descriptor do you think is unambiguously violated by making it easier to provide consent than withhold it? To my eyes, both 'freely'
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by wutbrodo 1y ago
It's not like NPM pre-Microsoft was a paragon of professional management or engineering...
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by wutbrodo 3y ago
I was surprised to hear GP's story about the Midwest, but not surprised to hear an anecdote of West Coasters being kinder to strangers than elsewhere. Any one of those stories is worse than anything I've experienced in decades of
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by wutbrodo 3y ago
SFGate reports that he lives in Mill Valley, though they may be wrong https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mill-valley-man-kille...
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by wutbrodo 3y ago
> These things happened at SoMa, which is objectively known to be a "nicer" neighborhood. What? After the Tenderloin, SoMA is absolutely the worst neighborhood for interactions with crazy people. What on Earth gave you the impr
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by wutbrodo 3y ago
First-order, yes: Redistributive policies don't have the sum of the country's wealth as their primary optimization objective. Arguably, their goal is closer (but not quite) to the sum of national utility, which follows from dimini
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by wutbrodo 3y ago
> Burning Man has been pretty much taken over by SV tech dweebs Burning Man has been intertwined with tech culture for like...30 years?
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by wutbrodo 3y ago
> Having an open pro-information stance is all well and good, but when it is obvious that the people sending you information are doing so according to their own timetable, you have to take a higher stance. This is where journalistic ethi
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by wutbrodo 3y ago
Sure, I don't think either this[1] commenter or Ken Thompson were trying to say that the product category shouldn't exist. A computer is vastly overpowered for what the average user is capable of or interested in doing[2], which i
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by wutbrodo 3y ago
I may be missing context here, but you're referring to the fact that they leaked the Russian-state-hacked DNC emails, right? Could you elaborate on why you think it's "selective" to have leaked those? Otherwise, it seems
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Agreed about background music, but I definitely spend time listening to music and doing nothing else, and the medium feels active to me in a way that television doesn't. On the other hand, I've been a musician since I was three, s
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Likewise, I don't have any illusions about medium fully defining the quality of content: eg reading 50 Shades of Grey isn't more rewarding or meaningful than watching The Wire. But apples-to-apples, watching video is the only comm
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Hospitals and the medical system in general are always the last to get a memo about health. I wouldn't touch a good chunk of hospital meals with a ten-foot pole even when I'm in perfect health; the fact that any hospital is feedin
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Hell, Twitter's reliability has been atrocious for a long time.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This definition easily encompasses the people who post their kids' lives for no monetary gain,which is the vast majority of social media users. A lot of the people in their 20s who share every detail of their life on social media conti
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Right, sure. I was less arguing with you than highlighting the intellectual bankruptcy of this movement.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Sure, but at that point you're just saying that a neutral descriptive term is more commonly-applicable to one gender. Is the word "sobbing" or the word "weeping" derogatory? Visibly-emotional crying is also associat
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
An additional one I noticed with my female cousins was that a lot of fun was sucked out of high school girls' social expression/reconnaissance. On the recon side, gossiping is a fun bonding activity, but scrolling through snaps&#x
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The example of Chrome on Windows given above seems to belie this claim. The "nebulous chance to use a better product" you refer to was apparently enough to trickle down to the non-tinkerers. Who's to say the same wouldn'
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
My rough model was always simply that all the Western powers practiced African slavery in that period, in the regions in which it was useful (hot, humid, agricultural ones). The same dynamics that led America to have slavery in Mississippi
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
You're misunderstanding the purpose of the policy. It's not to help out car purchasers, but to shift consumption towards EVs. As somebody who cares a lot about the damage that ICEs do, locally and globally, it's enormously fr
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The subsidy's goal is not to make the recipient's life better, but to shift consumption decisions from ICEs to EVs. The theory is that ICE/EV cost comparison is skewed by the substantial extra negative externalities of the fo
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Ha, this was my first thought, though I've got a built-in damper on being that annoying guy who brings up tiling WMs in every workspace conversation. It is a little amusing to see such a dramatic headline supported by the extremely ele
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Is this sufficient to call it a "complete fabrication"? Climbing concert revenue is plausibly consistent with a disappearance of lower-overhead non-ticketed live music, like at a bar. In fact, those two are very compatible with ea
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This isn't a problem in practice. Ime you can cover 99.9% of sites with uppercase, numbers, and a special symbol like "!".

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