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by Decade 10y ago
> Shifting geography. First thing I thought of with that was: Earthquakes. All these famous tech companies are built in an earthquake zone. Amazon has the further misfortune of being in an area without a history of preparing for the eart
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by Decade 10y ago
If you have 6 months in the bank, then you don’t need to make decisions “suddenly.” I think it is sound advice. Life does not wait for anything. Would you rather be a poor person who raised a family, or do you want to be a rich person who w
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by Decade 10y ago
Yes. The ‘”Western”-style of life’ needs to change. The intellectual conservatives are aware of this, and react negatively. They believe that nobody should tell them how to live their lives. Rejecting human-driven climate change is a way ou
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by Decade 10y ago
> The Elites have decided that the "commoners" are too stupid to be trusted with actual decision making… I only see real Democracy working in small, relatively wealthy and homogeneous countries. It is a scientifically verified
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by Decade 10y ago
I hate having intro videos playing when I set up a new computer. They attract the attention of everybody else in the office, and I have to scramble to mute, then close, them.
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by Decade 10y ago
> I've never once wanted to fill the screen with an app without putting it in fullscreen, I just don't see what the point of doing that would be. For me, it’s for ease of working with multiple windows. I frequently work with mu
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by Decade 10y ago
> Here's a question for you. If suburbs are "the least optimal configuration", then why did urban sprawl occur in the first place? Why did so many people leave the cities and sought bigger homes on wider lots? Because huma
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by Decade 10y ago
That would depend on what your definition of “use” is. Musk is using a surprising definition of “use” that includes “leverage.” The income increases the cash flow, which is obviously important, but it also signals to investors and bankers t
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by Decade 10y ago
Actually, Katy Tang, the Supervisor from the Sunset, is a major proponent of building more. Unlike many of the other Supervisors, Katy Tang is actually looking out for the good of the local economy. Now, Eric Mar, the Supervisor from the Ri
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by Decade 10y ago
I see. It’s not just a bailout, to stave off SolarCity’s looming demise, though it is partially about that. It’s also expected to be profitable, because they could consolidate SolarCity’s sales operations into Tesla’s existing showrooms, an
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by Decade 10y ago
That's not what he said. Solar cars are dumb. They're good for tech demos, racing across the Australian Outback on a sunny day in the summer, but useless for normal commutes in traffic. Musk said Tesla has always planned to provid
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by Decade 10y ago
OK, that’s fair. I don’t trust the Ubuntu automount system (in general, I don’t trust GUIs that can go out of sync with the underlying system, and I always have a terminal open), and I don’t plug and unplug drives quickly.
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by Decade 10y ago
I think JoeAltmaier’s dev experience is different because he’s an embedded developer. The embedded ecosystem is a disaster area. Proprietary forks of Eclipse, fragile build systems with closed-source modules, strange interfaces that don’t
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by Decade 10y ago
> How so? Because many pop musicians are successful without “knowledge and skill in music” as it was defined at the time. I would push “pop music” even further back to traditional folk music, which has rarely been appreciated by professi
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by Decade 10y ago
> I do a windows reinstallation about once every second year, and I routinely get problems. Network drivers are almost always missing. Looking at the device manager, about 5-10 different devices fails to auto-install, all part of the mot
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by Decade 10y ago
Yeah, I’m not so heartless. Attitudes like that are why pro-development people have attracted a reputation as bullies and villains. Grandma wants to live out her days in the small house and quiet neighborhood where she has lived her life? T
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by Decade 10y ago
A security model defeated by a bonkers architecture. I’m especially baffled that font processing is in the kernel. Allegedly, Windows 10 now moves non-system fonts into a restricted user-mode process, so exploits are a lot harder. But it st
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by Decade 10y ago
> The best AV is: - keep everything up to date - uninstall flash, java, silverlight - don't open random junk - use homebrew/homebrew cask to install stuff Indefensible. Just browsing a web page is “open random junk.” Ad netwo
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by Decade 10y ago
> HSR was a great idea for the second half of the 20th century in relatively dense countries… The US is more spread out, tilting in favor of air… The US shouldn’t be so spread out. These rail projects are for the long term. In the long t
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by Decade 10y ago
I haven’t looked at those numbers, but I would expect a rail system to increase revenue from activities near the stations. Especially since we really do need to transition to a post-carbon future. Effective transit would allow us to increas
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by Decade 10y ago
> Note that he's not just handwaving in the magic word "regulation", he has a concrete proposal for six specific, privacy-protecting rules: http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you..
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by Decade 10y ago
My problem with these sorts of screeds is that they treat all techies as complicit. It’s really a problem of big tech companies, and the big tech companies have so much power because there is money in it, and they have the money because hu
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by Decade 10y ago
>So first he's criticizing techies for not fixing the pathologies of Oakland. Then he's saying these problems are rightly the domain of politics. So what's the problem? Those are political problems, should be left to polit
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by Decade 10y ago
On Windows, once in a while there is a Patch Tuesday when the only update is Internet Explorer, a program that I neither wanted, nor installed, nor opened since I got tired of it years ago. Clearly, I need to reboot my computer for this. On
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by Decade 10y ago
No, I said, “how” they’re closing it. If you click the OK button, the dialog box should close but you would expect something to happen. The issue is that people are unhealthily conditioned into clicking Cancel, and Flash and Java never get
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by Decade 10y ago
Windows 10 runs on 32-bit. The actual requirements are very confusing. And Intel still is making 32-bit processors for embedded systems. I’m surprised that a 2-year-old machine doesn’t have the required CPU support. I just upgraded a 32-bit
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by Decade 10y ago
I installed Windows 10, and then discovered that the third-party driver that I needed for work was not compatible. Namely, the Roland REAC Driver. That driver acts as a network protocol that you attach to a particular network adapter, so wh
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by Decade 10y ago
I’ve never seen this. Partly it may be A/B testing and I was never in the B group, but I think people are closing dialog boxes without thinking enough about how they’re closing them, and accidentally agreeing to upgrade.
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by Decade 10y ago
In my opinion, there is never a good time to restart. That is simply an artifact of the sad historical circumstances that led to the current state of operating systems. I don’t particularly enjoy waking up to all my programs are closed beca
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by Decade 10y ago
I think they expect businesses to use more traffic, and to require more expense to support. Practically all Internet service is oversubscribed to some extent. The uplink is maybe 1 gigabit, but the downlink that has been sold is maybe 30 gi

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