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Your fallible memory is a feature other people expect. So much so that recording a call without consent is a crime in some states.

If you do start recording or transcribing your calls, be sure to disclose this every time you start talking to someone. Otherwise it's a trust violation.


It wasn't my memory I was thinking of, but people with serious memory issues, who can't remember even a summary of a phone call 5 minutes after it is done.


The Dancing Baby gif, which was abnormally large, and went viral via email in 1996, is around 220 KB. At this speed, it would load in 3.5 seconds. And being 4 seconds long, it could stream.


I don't think the issue is that they are naive or lack social skills, I think they just choose against it, and then lie about the motivation for their choice. It's all over this thread: "No time and no money!" But you know it's false. I think they know it's a lie too they just don't want to admit to themselves and others that they like TikTok more than people. Being a lame couch potato is socially acceptable if and only if you connect it to the big class-based social cause. They relished in the COVID lockdowns for similar reasons.

It's not naivete; it's dishonesty.


Of course there is a cure: penalties for publishing someone's likeness without permission. No one is getting media releases when they take these videos and publish them online but they are already supposed to. Make it easier to file lawsuits and watch these non-consensual non-newsworthy published videos disappear.


Hard disagree. Satire is never labeled as such. By identifying sarcasm or sardonicism, you would basically be saying that the comment is not inherently absurd enough to be immediately recognizable as laughably wrong. The whole point of sarcasm is to highlight absurdity.

There will always be people who misinterpret this kind of writing. That doesn't make it bad writing; some people are just a little dumb. The writing isn't for them.


> the comment is not inherently absurd enough to be immediately recognizable as laughably wrong

But how do you achieve this when there are a significant number of real people willing to write even more absurd things with no irony whatsoever?


Windows: 71% market share

Ubuntu: 0.89% market share

No volunteer is going to put in the effort to support Ubuntu especially when the other ~5% of linux users would complain that you aren't supporting their even less used linux variant. They would then do a crappy job of adding support for their distribution and absolutely none of it would work.


If you develop for Linux, shouldn't the software build and run on all the distros (with the end user doing the building using "./configure" until the distro picks it up and packages it)? Even for hardware interfacing with SDR devices?


Yes. Yes it should. In practice, 100% "./configure" success is a pipe dream.


A pipe dream that's somehow worked for decades.


That’s interesting but I wonder what relevant stats are for the users of these libraries


Kids in the 90s had never seen an actual paper file nor a manilla folder either, yet they managed to learn file system concepts. Skeuomorphism is valuable when designing UIs but was never that important for teaching computer concepts 30 years ago.


He didn't say 1 in 5 is common. He said 1 in 5 is not that uncommon. He's right. If 1 in 5 people in 1991 have a computer in the house, having a computer is not that uncommon.


This is a circular argument. In order for it not to be, you need to show how “having a computer in the house in 1991” is already a not uncommon thing for that to then apply to 1 in 5 not being uncommon.


Nonsense. Code is copy-pasteable; other things are not.

One can give very accurate estimates of how long it takes to build a brick wall because building brick walls takes time and labor. You can make highly accurate estimates of how long it takes based on how long it has taken to do the exact same task in the past.

But suppose I laid one brick and then could copy-paste it, then copy-paste that into four bricks, then eight, until I have a wall. Then I can copy-paste the entire wall. Once I have a building I can copy-paste the entire building in five seconds.

The ability to copy and paste an entire building is very valuable but how long does it take to create that copyable template? No one knows because it has never been done before.


Building brick walls is easy to estimate not because it is physical labor but because the company has done it many times before. Ask a construction company to estimate a unique one-off job and they will most likely fail. And that is despite them getting a lot of resources for investigating and planning which software engineers almost never get.


Yes exactly this. Perhaps when I said "skill issue" I should have said "experience" instead as another poster suggested.


The comments in this thread are astounding. The only thing I can think of that may be happening is that people here are so disturbed by the possibility that emergency services can fail that they have fallen into denial. "There is no need for people to help, at least without going through organized channels, because those organized channels are in control" is what I suspect they are thinking.

I saw it online after Trump was shot- "How could the top protection organization in the world fail so flagrantly? The shooter must have had inside help." Some people cannot accept that the world is less safe than it really is. It could be the cause of some of these comments in this thread but I don't know if it's the whole cause.


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