JimmyAustin

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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman Stallman has been the leading proponent of software freedom for many, many decades. He isn't inherently against big corps, he is against what a lot of big corps do.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
Absolutely not an issue. The last thing you want when developing a prototype piece of software for a 1 ton chunk of metal is another bit of software plugged in that you dont control or understand.
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Uber won’t be charged with fatal self-driving crash, says prosecutor(theverge.com)
2 points by JimmyAustin 8y ago|0 comments
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
In the US, the IRS collected $3.33 trillion in revenue in 2018, with a total budget of 11.5 billion (2017). Thats 0.3453%, or 35c per $100 of tax revenue. Fairly minor in the scheme of things.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
From my understanding many fast food chains shy away from using hunted meat for supply chain reasons.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
If I remember correctly, Steve Jobs compared the iPhone 4's design to a Leica.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
The current max price of a MBP is actually $10,899 AUD, though $5,120 of that is the jump from a 512gb SSD to a 4tb SSD.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
Counter: Sublime Text and Sublime Merge. Though I will concede they put an extraordinary amount of work into hitting all three.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
I'd say it's a protection in case of their servers being breached and you downloading a malicious version of the application. No court on earth would support them if it attempted to exfiltrate all of your data.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
Both incredibly close, but not right on the money.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
My first job out of university was on an analytics team at a consulting firm (big enough that you know them) that used MS SQL Server for absolutely everything. Data cleaning? SQL. Feature engineering? SQL. Pipelines of stored procedures, s
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
"Billionaries destroying media outlets" is an emergent property from two facts: - Some people can't/don't get justice because they can't afford a lawsuit. - Rich people can give money to poor people to get them
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
Fixed!
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
Fixed!
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
Peter Thiel (worth 2.5b) destroyed Gawker with a contribution of 10m to Hulk Hogan's legal fund. If Bezos contributed a similar proportion of his fortune (112b), he would be contributing 448m. Not only is the National Enquirer about to
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
The issue with lat/long isn't just that it's inconvenient, but it doesn't map to high density structures. A resident of 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential building in the world with 96 stories, would share a lat&#x
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
I'm not sure about the mobile app, but command-f to search for songs inside a playlist works on the desktop app. It's really not hard to delete songs.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
- Sublime Text - Sublime Merge - Alfred - Daisy Disk - Github - Office - AWS
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
I don't think that freeware is really a part of the Apple Developer ecosystem. Most of the MacOS exclusive software I use on a daily basis costs $20-$30, a price I'm more than willing to pay for software like Pixelmator, DaisyDisk
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Pai Lou Pai was an Enron exec who divorced his wife and married a stripper. As a part of his divorce he sold off 250m of shares months before the value of them collapsed. He was (relat
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
This is just the cyber equivalent of "Shoot someone and you'll go to jail, join the military and shoot someone, get a medal".
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
I've always had issues attempting to install Windows on a machine that already has Linux on it, but it's been (relatively) smooth sailing going Windows -> Windows + Linux.
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
"If you come at the king, you best not miss." If you criticize a seniors ideas, and they interpret it as you coming after them, you better destroy their reputation, or they'll destroy you. It's hard to destroy someones r
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Search on after Japanese island 'disappears'(edition.cnn.com)
3 points by JimmyAustin 8y ago|0 comments
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
:%s/can't/won't/g
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
My DL box has a Ryzen 1800x and a GTX 1080ti running Ubuntu 18.04. The Ryzen has given me very few issues, Nvidia gave me some setup issues, but now that it's all configured its rock solid.
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Leaked Andreessen Horowitz data reveals how much SV startup execs get paid(uk.businessinsider.com)
11 points by JimmyAustin 8y ago|1 comments
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
For Windows: http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ For Mac OS: DaisyDisk
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
The CTRL's predecessor, the K-Type, also featured hot-swap socket. There are a few others (like the GK64 and the Ergodox EZ) that also feature it!
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by JimmyAustin 8y ago
I honestly don't know anyone in my (australian) high-school cohort who even thought about the varying costs of under-grad degrees. It's such a small difference, and it's all covered under HECS anyway.

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