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by LaGrange 5y ago
...actually e.g. VS Code has a really great split backend, so you can actually have the frontend "properly" on Windows anyway, and yet still use WSL2. My own case was something different: annoyingly configured automated browser te
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by LaGrange 5y ago
It is, just with some fancy integrations that makes it more comfortable - for example memory reclamation. But it's all a fancy VM in the end.
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by LaGrange 5y ago
I get the gist, you believe you’re so bad at running a shop and/or writing you can’t survive without creeping on people. Also, look at both of your examples. They’re bad. They’re both best replied to with that diagram of holes on a WW2
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by LaGrange 5y ago
No it's not. My shipping and payment details might be, if I decide to buy anything. Those are not the same as "who I am."
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by LaGrange 5y ago
I'm pretty sure it's managed by people, and doesn't need to constantly surveil people to function.
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by LaGrange 5y ago
> And they'd be absolutely blind without GA. Good. > If you were actually in a physical store then they could look at you through the cameras. That's a gross idea to have.
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by LaGrange 5y ago
> Yeah, but who are you? I am none of your business.
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> A model turns into a gamble if you throw your hands up and claim that its impossible to have a 100% authentic model of a domain. ...no it doesn't. I've deleted the claim that you don't know what a model is from the prev
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> are not interested in a 100% authentic modeling of the problem A model is an approximation. There is no such thing as "100% authentic modeling" for anything non-trivial, and insisting on it grows models that aren't parti
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> even though git has bigger mindshare due to GitHub. This is, as far as I can tell from my memory, ahistorical. While git was still young in 2008, it was already quite dominant. The Linux's choice was hugely influential, and Linus&
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by LaGrange 6y ago
It's AVM, so it's specifically mentioned in the article for _not_ being available in the US. And yes, I've been using Fritzboxes (upgraded in 2017 for better wifi, to another Fritzbox) since 2011, and it: * reliably auto-upda
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> Uh, it's interesting that you see the design of your product as a counterexample, because to me it looks exactly like what mobile games have been doing as a mechanism for maximizing engagement. Addiction is a habit that interferes
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by LaGrange 6y ago
This is not _entirely_ true, not that it changes anything significant about the predatory nature of f2p developers. They absolutely want you to come back tomorrow. Apparently (inferring from what e.g. Mihoyo says and does about "total
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by LaGrange 6y ago
Well, for starters, GoboLinux is far older than Docker. It's built on similar (sometimes identical) tools to what Docker uses, though.
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> Author seems to have over 25 years of experience. That doesn't mean much. The author has been a researcher, and then moved into management, now working on a relatively simple e-commerce project with one of the most hilarious missi
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> I've seen terrible code with plenty of quick hacks on top of that, which was running very stable, because it was battle tested for years in production. "Battle tested" is not what is meant by testing here, though. And I&
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> Yes Factorio is complex. No it's not more complex than a Witcher/Skyrim/Cyberpunk/whatever big budget game you can think of. Than Skyrim, easily. Crowd mechanics in Witcher/Cyberpunk give me a pause, but still
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by LaGrange 6y ago
The problem is, by now development practices in many companies effectively force using multiple large containers. I know an x stack could use 4x less memory if I spent considerable time on ripping out unnecessary cruft, but few people in th
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by LaGrange 6y ago
A lot of things seem obvious but aren't actually true. Plenty of people with degree and experience coasted on nothing, or have personalities so abrasive as to make working with them all but impossible. Disappointingly I have poor exper
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> Unfortunately there are lots of companies with Zero AGPL policy. That's extremely their problem.
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by LaGrange 6y ago
GPLv3 has an explicit permission to link with AGPL, but not SSPL - that means that if you're using SSPL, you can't link it with any GPL code.
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by LaGrange 6y ago
WSL2 is by far superior to running Windows in a VM, mostly because it's not "just" Linux in VM. And anyway, just the way it lets me manage multiple instances of Linux is far superior to anything I experienced on Mac or Linux
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by LaGrange 6y ago
..incredibly hard choice of continuing to pump money from the company into C-level pockets. It's time to cut the losses and let Mozilla die, and maybe learn something from this.
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> while competitors went IPO with actual product. ...going IPO wasn't ever an indicator of success, and nowadays even less so. Meanwhile they're profitable enough that they can fund new products without having to do an IPO, an
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by LaGrange 6y ago
From the article: > To support the Chinese overthrow of the Dalai Lama's feudal theocracy is not to applaud everything about Chinese rule in Tibet. This point is seldom understood by today's Shangri-La adherents in the West. &g
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by LaGrange 6y ago
...as much as I kinda like a lot about 37 Signals work, this sounds a lot like fishing for sunk cost: "I paid 99 bucks for that, I have to use it or I wasted money." It's not an uncommon practice, but it's shady. The pro
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> Of the documented rules only minimum password length is even an excusable rule. Fun fact: bcrypt, still quite popular, has an inherent password length limit. Everything beyond a certain point (56 bytes) is just ignored. It's possi
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by LaGrange 6y ago
We get Zoom, we used to install Java (remember when it was bundled with crapware in hope you'll forget to uncheck a checkbox?). Companies routinely strong-armed users into getting malware. And I doubt popular game mods are all that str
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> statements like this are not useful for building understanding. I don't ask you to "understand," honestly I'm not sure if I even particularly want you to. I want you to _respect_ us, and others. And no, understandin
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by LaGrange 6y ago
> It is not painless: it is dissonant You'll get used to it in about 5 minutes. > and takes another syllable. Seriously, the amount of time people who pretend to be hard and rational loose their minds over things like "one s

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