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Amazon makes it really easy to accidentally resubscribe to prime, as well as accidentally subscribe to random products that have a subscription option. The dark patterns are such a turnoff.

I try to buy locally but sometimes I still need to use amazon, eg, a Self published book will only be available through them

Re: the surge protector- did it stop transferring power, or did it fail to protect your equipment?

> Is that the ONLY reason why you dis Lenovo?

They installed spyware. That is more than enough reason to lose trust. IIRC, they did it more than once too[1].

If that isn’t cause enough, what is? Would it take pre-installed ransomware to lose trust?

https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html?m...

What cloud advocates always say is that the $50k monthly will save you money from not needing to hire a team to manage it for you, and that over the course of 10+ years you will be ahead.

Is that true in anyone's experience? Every once in a while somebody posts about their competing bare-metal system and it looks like a lot of people have managed to cut their server costs by 99% (based on the numbers they post) by avoiding the cloud as a service

Honestly curious

Why do they begin justifying by talking about 70% of buyers using mobile? Completely off topic

I can’t stand push notifications, I disable them all except for a couple (like signal). They are usually only part of the app to manipulate you into using it constantly

Anything named an antivirus should be possibly to sue for this sort of thing, right? It could not possibly be more misleading

It’s like a locksmith company monetizing by sneaking people into your home when you’re asleep

Imagine the near future when governments become more technically adept and those holes get plugged. These stories are scariest because they utterly prove how eager governments are to control access to information and communications.

Same thing with DRM - its scariest because one day it will work

Its not industrial, but I recommend At the Mountains of Madness by lovecraft for an example of this sort of question being asked in fiction

What terrible browser design to send all that data. I would never have imagined my computer was sending all that off 10 years ago

Every answer to a “recommend x” question is just self promoters pitching their own product too. It’s just advertising at that point, not real information

I’m buying a jetbrains sub in a couple of weeks. Is it correct to say that the webstorm features come with rider? I’m confused by their marketing descriptions.

Is encryption built in yet?

In Canada, it’s now illegal to hide your face during a protest (a gift from the Harper years)

> These efforts are well intentioned, but facial recognition bans are the wrong way to fight against modern surveillance. Focusing on one particular identification method misconstrues the nature of the surveillance society we're in the process of building. Ubiquitous mass surveillance is increasingly the norm. In countries like China, a surveillance infrastructure is being built by the government for social control. In countries like the United States, it's being built by corporations in order to influence our buying behavior, and is incidentally used by the government.

He’s right, but we should take every winning battle we can, no? Even a few notable victories could help to change public opinion about whether things are inevitable or not

As a dungeon master, I have to say I did not expect my job to be automated so quickly

Trump likes to target Mexicans too and openly has said he would like to be in Putin’s position with a dynasty. A surprising number of Americans are okay with this. Next election is going to be dramatic.

Then there’s China and its minorities being swept into mass concentration camps. Reminds me, I wonder what is happening in Hong Kong right now

Edit: update on hk https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/hong-kong...

So much for being open minded about ever working for Apple. This is extremely hostile to individual freedom

The biggest example of chemical weapon usage so far was wwi, and it was almost entirely used against soldiers. wwii saw them used them in concentration camps against captives, but not in a military capacity (apparently Italy used them against Ethiopia shortly before the war). Not even at Stalingrad.

It honestly amazes me that the “people” in charge of some of those countries had such restraint

I have used simpleanalytics for a while. It offers a lot less granular information because it deliberately collects less for privacy reasons

I know somebody who had an ectopic. She had to more or less abort it, which made her feel unbelievable bad. For years afterwards. I’m sorry to hear it happened to people close to you twice

Its so rare that I didn't even realize you could put gifs in your readmes on github. Slick

He gave a good talk about SystemD once too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

edit: found a version with better camera angles

"I absolutely love this model."

You are right, the model is great for some people in some cases. However, its a model where companies use software to lock you out of being able to use your hardware. This is becoming extremely widespread. Consider also the farmers having to deal with the John Deere tractor licenses and being unable to maintain their own equipment (or Apple preventing you from being able to upgrade or repair your macs/iphones).

The problem is that as the practice scales, people end up with no real property rights, and are just ensnared in a hundred terms of service agreements that they literally cannot escape while living a normal life.

Lots of potentially dangerous things are harmless or even pleasant on a small scale.

Anecdote: after iOS 13, my microphone started not-working intermittently. It still doesn’t work consistently

I have a handful of certs but I can’t remember what they are or where I stored them. I don’t put them on my resume. The courses were great

A good keyboard with a keyboard driven distribution does the trick too though

Which is the better introduction to Lisp: On Lisp (by pg), SICP, or another text (maybe on Common Lisp)?

Or is it better to just go straight to Clojure these days?

Is guile a good choice for going through SICP one day?

Serialization for one thing. You can work with JSON extremely freely without creating weird serializable classes for every combination of data you might need to work with - eg, no class named "DoodadList" for when you want to de-serialize a JSON list (maybe that's a Unity3D thing?).

You can nest functions nicely and work with closures when it makes sense, if you like that sort of thing.

The async programming model is also really nice to work with.

You also don't need to create classes for every noun, verb, and adjective in your system either - when all you need is a function, you just write a function, not some weird object to hold it.

You also don't have to write a f after all of your decimal values to tell the silly compiler that you mean for 0.25 to be a float. (this one truly does not matter, but there are a lot of little things like this that add up)

I know you can do a lot of that in C#, but its just so effortless in javascript. You just need to be more disciplined about how you code it