GabeIsko

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by GabeIsko 3y ago
This wasn't just between projects - it was from one firm to another. So there is a conflict of interest; why would any gov. procure anything from anybody if a giant like Tata can swoop in and poach all your workers and steal your proj
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Man, it sucks that the law makes this situation. Texas would rather punish TCS than have stuff work well. But I guess you can't go around sharing confidential information - it's a big no no in these contracts. TCS should know bett
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
I can't believe what I am reading. It took you more time to set up nextcloud with docker compose? What? For my hobby stuff, I can usually try something out really quickly by giving a compose a quick read and pasting it into portainer f
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
I am a firm believer that the creator should choose the way their work is licensed, but man - it is weird seeing an open source project have such a commitment to Intellectual Property. It seems like it is mostly developed by volunteers. So
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Wait till you find out the truth about matching donations.
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Yeah it's bad. But it's also why Microsoft can't really roll them over. They actually do something and get payed for it, as horrible as it is.
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Yeah I agree. But that's consulting for you. There is a lot to not like about the evils of consulting, but wikipedia being free and doing pledge drives are on the more mild side of what's wrong.
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
I'm not saying they are not wrong - it's unfortunate that there is a second hand market for fundraising consulting. It doesn't accomplish anything productive, yet here we are. The key point is to understand that this is cause
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Those are just non-profit fundraiser consulting tactics. Don't take them personally, just ignore them. The reason they exist is that Wikipedia has too much money, so they spend some on consultants who say they can raise more. It's
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Yeah, we would be fairly in trouble if banks just depended on low rates indefinitely. But more expensive debt is worse for them in the short term - that's what banks sell. I'm talking about in principle. At the end of the day, a h
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
You are cherry picking a bit there. Take a look at [bank stocks]( https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/best-bank-stock... ). The reason banks don't "like" high interest rates is it devalues th
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Do people have problems with Leetcode stuff or something? Aside from generating code I already know how to write before hand quickly, I find AI super useless for coding. It's never been able to solve a single problem I have worked on -
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
It's not about fearing them - it's about them not having any choice but to do business with cloud providers, and that being the case in every industry. The whole thing gets set by whatever prices a handful of companies decide to c
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
But if this deal follows a Capitalist system, if we have greater supply of "valuable" content, than the price should go down and we should view less ads over time. Instead the opposite is happening. That's kind of the greater
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
But it is if you are viewing advertisements. That is the argument that Yanis makes in the book anyway, heavily simplified and removed of a lot of context. The point is that you can't choose what you read or watch. We still can somewhat
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
What bank do you know that doesn't rely on cloud services these days? Heck, when was the last time you even made a transaction that didn't involve a computer? I think the respect to which this worldview holds up is the definition
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Ah, I think i had the connectivity backwards. I thought the complaint was about hosts connecting to these services, not inbound connections to hosts. Ultimately, they will probably want people to solve it with service endpoints, and give pr
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
I'm curious, why can't you use an elastic IP?
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
> It's designed to be a deflationary currency to counteract inflationary fiat systems, Even if you take this conceit, we have to step back that bitcoin has irrevocably failed. Governments have definitely proved that they can regulat
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
It's a big picture issue though, right? Where else is scientific research supposed to be conducted? It can't all be profitable. Not that I know how to manage a research department or anything. But it is a bad sign if even prestigi
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
I do get the sense that it wasn't as bad in the past. My grandfather, as an aerospace engineer would talk about how the entire culture changed around the 80s, and it came at the expense of diligent engineering. I looked at some of the
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
It's a weird chicken and egg scenario, isn't it? Grants should really be going to universities that have the equipment to do proper research. Universities rely on grants to fund their operations and lab maintenance. The whole thin
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
A pretty obvious consequence of the American war on funding scientific research.
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Its very puzzling, my understanding is most people use Google analytics anyway, and anyone serious about it pays them. Do they think they can extract more money from this sector or something? Surely they are the market leaders, unless somet
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
I just... don't see this ending well. Seems like a really bad idea. Most people who need a commercial vpn have one. But all this is going to result in is an additional step for internet traffic, by default for Chrome users. Other than
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
While I agree in principle, I think the harsh reality is that hosting video content is a much heavier lift than text. I don't have confidence that a decentralized video platform really any legs atm. Being wrong about this would be a pl
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Oh yes, I definitely agree, and I support the rights of farmers to repair the equipment they use. The carve out for agricultural equipment is clearly a concession to John Deere lobbying. John Deere sees value in IoT data gathered from its e
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
I think legistlators would make the case that while general purpose computing devices should have right to repair laws, game consoles are machines dedicated to frivolous entertainment and that consumers shouldn't mess with them. It&#x2
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
Lol, these exemptions are pretty hilarious. I can get the logic of regulations that prevent tampering with alarm systems for safety reasons, or potentially dangerous heavy machinery like that found in agricultural equipment. Carving them ou
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by GabeIsko 3y ago
I do something similar, but even managing a separate configuration just for the reverse proxy gets tiring. I have plans to move to something kubernetes based and use an ingress controller to automatically set up everything based on a deploy

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