Affric

62 ms·

601.
by Affric 3y ago
It’s interesting. This gigantic legislation is misconceived at the same time I think it’s easy to see why it has been deemed electorally popular enough for the government to proceed with. Tech companies do not provide a carriage service. It
602.
by Affric 3y ago
> their tactics have more or less pushed them outside of the mainstream conversation on technology. They always have been on the outside. There has always been, and will always be, a concerted campaign by those who benefit from closed so
603.
by Affric 3y ago
If you work with computers (rather than using them) and don't default to USA English when discussing and using them you are likely in for a bad time.
604.
by Affric 3y ago
This is a cultural issue in tech: “Politicians and regulators are always playing catch up. They are so dumb. We are creating the future” - some tech bro They don’t take society seriously. They don’t take the law seriously. At best they aren
605.
by Affric 3y ago
I don’t think that the parent commenter is claiming to have an understanding but is providing their perspective as a user. Do you have any good primers on the current landscape of Wikipedia? (Obviously not your job but who else to ask)
606.
by Affric 3y ago
Are you able to point to any concrete examples? I know that new user experience is awful now. Can’t even correct misinformation because my whole range of available dynamically assigned IP addresses from my ISP (the largest in the country) a
607.
by Affric 3y ago
That’s a bingo! This year we have seen consumer prices for RAM hit 64GB (2x32GB) for less than $100. I wouldn’t extrapolate memory price trends for the next 10 years because we are getting into weird territory but from the perspective of pr
608.
by Affric 3y ago
And development has changed so much. You just aren’t going to get the same quality documentation.
609.
by Affric 3y ago
Cheers for the links. In my experience attempting to evade tracking by trying to mitigate these approaches will often get you a "you look like a bot" message from websites (by which they mean, "your HTTP requests do not permi
610.
by Affric 3y ago
Right, by the same token, why should any relatively small carbon intensive country decarbonise x/y/z sector when China, India, Nigeria et cetera are still out there? Tyres have costs that they successfully externalise. As a societ
611.
by Affric 3y ago
Using a directional antenna to steal wifi after cracking people’s weak passwords, browsing through Tor, and not permitting javascript to be executed in my browser solve my issues. I am an enjoyer of the cookie dialogue because I am a sadist
612.
by Affric 3y ago
It varies at my local Thai supermarkets. But my Thai friends preferred buying it from Bunnings because otherwise they might be tempted to get it dried and it’s just not the same.
613.
by Affric 3y ago
Bunnings sell them as plants and you can cultivate from that. Holy Basil is actually native to northern Australia. Those are my Australian Holy Basil facts.
614.
by Affric 3y ago
My old man, bless him, found one instance of inbreeding going back to 1800 for each one and going back to 1700 on a few. My son's mother's ancestry is very different from mine. If anything I think we might live in period of the gr
615.
by Affric 3y ago
lol... the option to not create a pervasive surveillance state online was there. The big players didn't want it.
616.
by Affric 3y ago
And only made possible by the fact that levels of neutrality were enforced lower in the stack. These tech giants would not have been possible if the telecoms companies had the power to leverage their platforms for advertising. That's n
617.
by Affric 3y ago
Good question because I have found the paper I had misremembered and it’s that the top chimp is way more stressed because no one wants to be number 2 but everyone wants to be number 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.
618.
by Affric 3y ago
This is a well documented phenomenon in mammalian social systems. Second from the top in the hierarchy is the most stressful (as measured in cortisol). It's 99% of the stress of the top with none of the benefit.
619.
by Affric 3y ago
> The reason the abstraction sucks is because the idea sucks. Got it in one. Relativity, universal time, the human circadian rhythm... To quote my all time favourite HN comment quoting Plautus (presumably taken from R.R.J. Rohr's 19
620.
by Affric 3y ago
They killed the apple watch app which has made my life more difficult. App switching, getting out my phone when previously I just needed to look at my wrist. All in all this is a pass from me because I don't believe Okta are focused en
621.
by Affric 3y ago
Already seen it homie. They're still in the top level grouping.
622.
by Affric 3y ago
I am always suspicious of any of these that chuck Meganesia/Sahul and NZ into a single grouping at any level except political. Land of marsupials vs no land mammals. Eucalyptus vs way more diverse assemblage. Very different indigenous
623.
by Affric 3y ago
Well said. Good co-ops that last have the decisions made by those working there. And it's a lot of work.
624.
by Affric 3y ago
You mean they ignore the seven or so years that the Americans were in charge of Japan after the Japanese state went on a 30 year rampage through East Asia and the Pacific where Americans have supposedly treated the Japanese poorly during th
625.
by Affric 3y ago
Teams are groups of people working together to achieve a common goal where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Any further prescription is management gaslighting.
626.
by Affric 3y ago
Yes... so you should be empowered to leave said job.
627.
by Affric 3y ago
Reads like it was written by chatGPT. Wish I had come to the comments first.
628.
by Affric 3y ago
Yeah... so why are you wherever you are in the first place? To cynically carry out actions as though you aren't just doing what you are railing against anyway? That's exactly my point. Why be there except for your need of income t
629.
by Affric 3y ago
So with the guy not meeting the sprint requirements wouldn’t that have been discussed in the retrospective?
630.
by Affric 3y ago
100% Having worked in offices, remotely, and with offshore teams I can say that remote work leads to really bad outcomes from team members who don’t want to be part of the team. Worse than having them in the office. I think the big part is

More ›