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as an ex-technician, I'd have to agree. With the caveat that they should choose how they want to fix your shit.

any requirement to log in is done with malicious intent. what other purpose could it hold other than to harvest your data for their own undisclosed purposes? Maybe anti-bots or som…

Ya'll, this is just the Fediverse. Check it out.

> ... I am mostly curious why anyone would bother watching/subscribing to this media, since the amount of information you gain from them is enough to influence you emotionally, but…

The purpose of smart locks such as these is never convenience. It's not even to make money. The purpose is to deprive you of the resource they control should you say something they…

they don't want you to be able to communicate with your teammates without their knowledge

Hi, asking for help is hard but I'm used to it at this point. I'm looking for a job, if you know someone who's "always hiring" for remote positions please let me know. I have a yea…

> on Facebook or Reddit, you suddenly read a comment written by a veterinarian in Azerbaijan – someone who you would almost certainly never have met in real life and who is more di…

> ...The value of computers is that you can write code once, and the computer can execute it repeatedly ad infinitum. until, of course, someone updates a library that your code dep…

I don't understand that graph. Why is it so spiky? for any particular year. It almost looks like the temperature varies by ~0.5 degrees week to week. Can someone explain it to me?

The difference is at a university you have to learn ~5 different subjects at once. On the job you only learn one. It's more of a "Breadth first" approach.

Right... the story is called "Robots and Murder" because people still use robots to commit murder. The point is that broad overarching rules like that can always be subverted.

This is totally wrong - people are much different in 2023 compared to earlier in our lifetimes, even people from 1990 would seem completely different to us now. Cultural evolution …

Unfortunately people often don't go to the doctor because it's too expensive. Why would that change if you added more things to the doctor's toolbox?

The more you have to pay for it, the fewer people have access to "on-demand everything". Meaning it'll become a luxury of the richer side of the arbitrary cut-off line where orderi…

The transaction is fundamentally between a human client and a corporation. With an AI shopkeeper or with a human, it doesn't matter - you don't steal from the till attendants, you …

There should be forums or something where people can contribute to discussions and create a community. How are they supposed to vote for representatives if there's no way to know w…

The goal of programming as a discipline is to create tools that allow problems to be solved. Art is a problem - how do I express myself to others? The entire industry is designed f…

It could also be caused by authors getting better at expressing themselves succinctly.

Robert Evans (the author) has done a lot of important reporting in the middle east. I first heard about him through a friend who recommended his podcast "It Could Happen Here", and…

This isn't true. Yes, it's only checked locally, but you can store the key-code used and if you connect to another player with the same keycode it can prevent you from playing toge…

It'd also be nice if companies were forced to pay for time spent commuting

You're confusing the impact of the decision with the prevalence of belief in it. While that may objectively be the best way to combat climate change, it doesn't imply anything abou…

The author completely missed the part where Lain became a god... Or how she erased herself from time and space because she could no longer relate to her friends and family. It remi…

Generally, people want to do less work so they can spend more time focused on their own dreams and aspirations.