OroPla

> never managed to get back on Reddit because Reddit is using some very invasive and persistent banned user detection techniques.

The trick is to delete your browser cache (not just things related to reddit, everything), then wait a week to a month before creating the next account.

What benefit does k8s introduce in a home server? I currently have about a dozen services, but only use docker compose and a bit of shell scripting.

This stuff is so complicated and insane, that a 720p TV version from a decade ago can look better than a modern 4K Blu-ray release.

Case in point: Ghost in the Shell (1995)

http://comp.judging.it/index.php?seriesid=Koukaku%20Kidoutai...

Old TV version: http://comp.judging.it/content/Koukaku%20Kidoutai/4K-1/Judgm...

New 4K BD: http://comp.judging.it/content/Koukaku%20Kidoutai/4K-1/4K%20...

When did we last try to avoid such a thing? The way I remember history we celebrate this whenever it happens. Like how the electronic computer made the job of human computers obsolete.

It's baffling to people that don't care that much about what other people think.

> human beings have inherent value

I wish, then I'd get a paycheck without having to do any work.

This looks like something that heavily relies on a pointer device and thus is the opposite of what I want. But it can probably work well for people not minding this detail. Might even work better in VR.

> Discoverability? Who needs it?

It wouldn't be so important if things didn't change so much over the years. The CLI has stayed fairly consistent over the past 40 or so years. Can't say the same about GUI, though.

I wouldn't have to rediscover all functionality if designers didn't shuffle things around for no reason. Though, that's mostly a Windows thing, which I have to use for work.

> You don’t ask your colleagues for help anymore

To be fair, I never did. No one wants to be bothered and I don't want to bother anyone, too.

Just so we are all on the same page, capitalism is when:

.. the "means of production" (factories, employees, computers, tools, etc.) ..

.. are "privately owned" (as opposed to state owned) ..

.. for "profit" (so you do not have to live paycheck to paycheck).

This is a good idea, because otherwise the state would have a monopoly on everything by definition. Monopolies can form under capitalism, but that's where the state should take action. Remember when Standard Oil became a monopoly and was broken apart by the state under capitalism back in 1911? A failure of the state isn't a failure of capitalism, which is also why I can't understand people wanting communism, which would give the state a monopoly on everything, when what we are witnessing is already a failure of the state.

(1) I'm not aware of anything amazon did that would go against my principles that turned out to be true.

(2) Unbending idealism is self-destructive. We wouldn't even be able to touch money, nevermind credit cards, if we were fully principled.

Last time I returned a TV on amazon the first thing the website did was offer me a no question asked $100 back if I decide to keep the TV anyway. But I returned it and after weeks of back and forth with probably LLMs I got it sorted out. They came to take the TV away and I got my money back eventually.

Safe to say I ended up buying my next TV (actually a monitor this time) from amazon, too. If they struggle with that kind of return then what would anyone else do? I don't have a car, I need someone to come and pick it up.

I'm a customer, though, not the moral police. I don't have the time, energy or inclination to screen every company before buying from them.

Everyone large enough will have a few disgruntled people making up bad things that might or might not be true. In the case of amazon, the few claims I followed up on turned out to be exaggerated or false.

> When I click an item on Amazon and it says "arrives by Tuesday" then 95/100 times it does.

These days my only reason to get mad at them is that they will regularly deliver an item earlier than their communicated shipping date, which is almost as annoying as delivering later.

I don't really mind if it arrives tomorrow or in two weeks, but please don't have it arrive at any other date. Also don't mind changing that date down the line, as long as I am kept in the loop and can plan accordingly.

I left ubuntu back during the unity desktop days. It was a great desktop for beginners, but not my cup of tea. Since then they put ads in their operating system and embraced these nonsensical snap packages, so I'll never go back to ubuntu.

Instead, I'll probably move everything over to Void next.

There's a shorter word for that: chutzpah.

Can condensation convince people believing the opposite?

Grading in writing has always felt nonsensical to me. When I didn't get a perfect score in math, the teacher could point out what I did wrong and how I would have been able to do it right.

None of the people grading my writing ever even attempted to do that. The grade existed separately from my writing and served no purpose of education.

I once turned in a five sentence essay that covered about a single page. The person next to me in class turned in five pages, but ultimately got the same grade as me. That's when I realized how stupid it all was.

Rationalists change their position when being shown to be wrong. To err is human, after all. But to insist on your original wrong position is irrational.

What's the relationship between social skills and the truth?

It's because since FF3.5 they only made the browsing experience worse. To the point I hate updating Firefox, because it there's a chance it will do something silly I'll have to fix.

But all the other browsers are even worse. I'd really like to move to qutebrowser, but it doesn't have good enough adblocking. I'd give Zen a try, too, but it's not in the repositories of my Linux machine and I'm never installing a browser that is not in the repositories.

I only use whatever they give me at work, too. The trick is to do private browsing in a private browser. From a work machine, I only ever go to work related sites.

Too many. There's also too little dialogue. Not just people talking at each other, but long conversations.

Isn't it illegal to bomb civilian infrastructure?

That reads like defeatism. Just because you think it is not effective enough is no reason to not give it a try. We won't be stopping to burn fossil fuels. Just like we won't be stopping war and have world peace.

I think it's more productive to not entertain wild fantasies and be realistic about what can be done.

With the cookie, at least you could just whitelist some sites and have everything else be deleted once you leave the related website. Though, admittedly cookie-auto-delete often stops doing what it is supposed to.

> Ultimately people want to learn about new products and services and new companies that couldn't ever advertise anywhere would die off.

I want to learn about products that are useful to me, but not through ads. As it turns out, it is incredibly difficult to learn about new products that are useful, as those do not tend to show up in ads at all and even seeking them out is very difficult.

It's weird how no one has come together to make a website specifically designed around users finding product categories that will make their life better. For example, I didn't learn about height adjustable desks from an ad. Nor did I learn about balance boards from an ad. Or trackballs. Or essentially every other product that made my life better once I realized that product category exists.

Sounds like blame shifting to me.

Never ran into this, as I never thought to put quotes around a tilde in my 20+ years with bash.

I guess it is interesting that ~ behaves differently from a variable, as usually you'll have to use single quotes to get the string literal, but then I wouldn't want the tilde to expand inside quotes, either.

It took nature millions of years to go from 7000ppm to under 700ppm. But we are talking a diff of only about 100ppm. Not cutting down the rainforest or raising a forest of that scale in some desert does seem like a positive contribution.

Another good idea would be to mandate working from home for everyone that reasonably can do so. During Covid I've only measured about 300ppm as the bottom baseline, while nowadays I do not measure lower than 400ppm. (Co2 measuring devices are fairly cheap and good to have in your office, as high Co2 affects your ability to think clearly. Without opening a window and having just one person inside Co2 easily climbs to about 3000ppm within a few hours just from your breathing.)