BrenBarn

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901.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
They'll have to change it to "New Beautiful Freedom Font".
902.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Numerous equal-area projections already exist. It's unclear what makes this one better.
903.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
My hunch would be that people who go around chasing investment are likely to be unscrupulous in this way.
904.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Given the column names, it appears they're based on published studies. Presumably each publication has its own methodology. For instance it looks like "Becker 2019" is this book ( https://richardlynn.net/wp-c
905.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's interesting to think about the difference between "tattling" (or "reporting") and "calling out". These days I have the sense a problem our society faces in the US is an unwise embrace of "moral
906.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's tragicomic that this is what we get from people whose ostensible goal is to "make America great again". This is instead a perfect way to make everyone think America is supremely stupid. It's like thinking that get
907.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
But the problem is that when everyone has gravitated to the two biggest app stores, there's no scope for market competition. The point is not just to have third-party app stores, it's to not have huge app stores that capture th
908.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I remember visiting Egghead a few times as a kid, and I think we had a T-shirt or coffee mug or something with the little character. Their little marketing character was distinctive and is definitely still recognizable all these years late
909.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
When two entities control essentially the whole "market" for mobile OSes and associated app stores, and use their position to force their app stores on everyone, you no longer have a market. If we just forcibly split Google and A
910.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Sup dawg, I heard you like OSes.
911.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Okay, but are OpenAI and Meta straight up buying botnets on the black market?
912.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I could be persuaded it's worth having a lower standard of liability for "sibling" orgs within a company, so that if, e.g., the billing department does something shady then the HR department doesn't necessarily bear liab
913.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Get some sort of job in the company, do something illegal, threaten your manager with going to the feds, since at this point they are criminally liable for your act. I guess I left out a key word in my conclusion there: "You are
914.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
One thing I don't fully understand in all this is how the IP address stuff works. Like I keep hearing people saying somebody can get 10 gazillion residential IPs so they become unblockable, but how? This article also mentions crawler
915.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> First, disentangling individual accountability within a vast corporate structure is difficult, particularly in determining whether any executives had the requisite knowledge and intent to be held liable. We just need lower standards of
916.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I find that landlines actually have an advantage for customers too, at least of brick-and-mortar businesses: when you call, you're talking to someone who is actually there. Now that so many things you might previously call for can now
917.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Windows is moving from “click” to intent-driven interactions, where Windows knows what you want. And it knows you want to give Microsoft all your data, just by coincidence. Clippy's revenge.
918.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
If the junkies are providing a service, then they are Google in this analogy. Taking away drugs from junkies does cause material harm, but perhaps long-term good. Certainly I acknowledge that Google provides useful and maybe even essential
919.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
You have just described law in the United States. :-)
920.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Always love to see Flash games getting some love. That was a magical era in many ways, and in my opinion some Flash games rose to the level of real art.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
True, although both of those are hard roads in a way. Finding one of the small number of tech or tech-adjacent jobs at non-tech companies can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, since you have to comb through so many companies look
922.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> it would be extremely unpopular if people woke up one day and found Google was blocked in their country for fear of violating some law with extreme damages This may be true, but arresting drug dealers would also be unpopular with a lot
923.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
That's a good way to put it and is something I've often thought as well, although not just in the technical realm. I think of it as "doing a different job". You used to be a teacher but now you're the principal; y
924.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I've never understood why anyone would care about titles at all.
925.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I see what you're saying, although with the way the world is going, I'm increasingly doubtful of the potential of that approach, because it seems that companies are becoming more brazen about exp
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Big companies means more opportunities to lead bugger project. At a big company, it’s not uncommon to in-house what would’ve been an entire startup’s product. And depending on the environment, you may work on several of those project o
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Okay, but that's still not 4chan's problem. A company with no nexus in the UK has no reason to care about UK law in any way, shape, or form.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Always worth keeping in mind Remy's Law of Enterprise Software ( https://thedailywtf.com/articles/graceful-depredations ): if a piece of software is in any way described as being “enterprise”, it’s a piece of garbag
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Aren't a fair number of them are outsourcing/contracting that out, though?
930.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Super fun article. It reminds me of this time I wrote a 12-volume magnum opus on the 12,070 forms of bragging.

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