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833karma·798submissions·October 29, 2025
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> I didn't see anything in their comment where they added "and therefore we ought return to rampant extreme poverty", did I miss it? The US is already experiencing rampant extreme po…
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> (...) a multitude of government programs that seek to eliminate extreme poverty, (...) consumer protection policies that make it genuinely expensive (...) I don't think this opinion holds a …
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> The Cache API is a web-standard API. We chose to follow it in an attempt to follow standards. That's perfectly fine, but it doesn't justify the lack of support for non-GET requests thou…
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> Post requests aren't really meant for repeatable stuff though. That's simply wrong. Things like GraphQL beg to differ. Anyone can scream this until they are red in the face but the need…
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> I'm very surprised to see all of the negativity toward Cloudflare's usability and value here. As someone who uses Cloudflare at a professional level, I don't. To me each and every …
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There are levels to being a dick. I think that chronically online types tend to forget that at the other side of the screen there are real flesh-and-bone people who would find it unacceptable to be ad…
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> To me this seems to be true. From what I’ve seen CoCs are overwhelmingly used as a tool to enforce and reinforce a certain kind of ideological point of view. I don't know which codes of cond…
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> Quite ironic then that CoCs overwhelmingly lead to arbitrary and whimsical punishment. I don't agree. I think it has been working quite well in spite of the conspiratorial bullshit excuses m…
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> I believe OpenBSD's code of conduct can be summed up as "if you are the type of person who needs a code of conduct to teach to you how to human then you are not welcome here". I th…
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> The "garbage pile" of papers is not a new problem. It's been plaguing the science world for quite a long time. And it's only going to get worse because the metric and the targ…
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> Are there any use cases where that 1% is worth any hassle whatsoever? I don't think this is a valid argument to make. If you were doing the optimization work then you could argue tradeoffs. …
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> all because of M2 money printer, it broke how money works , process of fiat money started in 1971 but with covid printing they made last nail in the coffin. I don't think your claim is well …
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> Do you really need to be told that "It’s better to be rich than right" can not be an objective fact? It's not about being told. It's about the publication's attitude towa…
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> Don't forget all the cries of "governments can't do anything, only free market commercial entities can innovate!" To be fair, that's an ideological assertion that is obse…
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> Of course you can, wtf? Explain then what is your alternative to unit and integration tests. > Mock are often the reason of tests being green and app not working :) I don't think that…
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> Most code bases don't need dynamically loaded objects designed with interfaces that can be swapped out. In fact, that functionality is nearly never useful. But that's how most people wr…
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> Then one day I had actually proper coffee, and I discovered that good coffee isn't just some imperceptably theoretically better version of regular coffee that snobs are basically just faking…
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> That advice has stuck with me, and I try to have the least taste I can. I use $20 headphones and a $200 TV because I can't tell what "good" is, and I enjoy music and movies as much…
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