ProxCoques

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by ProxCoques 3y ago
This is what I find ... interesting about the engineering layoffs - was Musk right? Was there a large part of the engineering function at Twitter that was just existing on some mythology, and was in fact just not needed? If so, are the FAAN
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
> is a managing director of YC and has advised hundreds of startups about creating businesses. If I was a startup, I'd think hard about whether a guy who may well just have been lucky (and certainly didn't do anything signific
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Depends what you mean by "telling the time" though. How many minutes you have left from 8:58 to 9:34? Analog watch is easier for that stuff. Also approximations - quick glance to see if the long hand is getting close to the hour,
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Yes. Although you can block a lot of stuff (I run a pi-hole and put my connection through it via a VPN when I'm on the road), the bigger issue is really the content itself is being warped by what you describe too. Take Threads, to whic
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Good opportunity for a slightly-related joke: A Dublin tourist goes into an antique shop and sees a skull in a glass box. "Whose skull was that?" he asks. "To be sure it is the skull of Oscar Wilde." The man is amazed an
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Fascinating the sort of elephant-in-room ignoring bubble that articles like this inhabit. What next? How best to drive cars down residential streets at full speed? How about how to slap people around the head without them doing the same to
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
By the way, everywhere I've worked the traffic to mobile native has been around 3% I think. Engagement is much higher than with other channels mind you, so maybe that's it.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I recall it was perfectly common for a group of us to be sat around a table, or on a sofa or somewhere and somebody might drop out of the conversation and take out a magazine or a book, crossword or whatever (in fact Game&Watch and othe
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Those things are true, but I think you have to also state why. Do you want to talk to them about the map or the birds?
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Ambient signifiers are not a new idea in design (mostly talked about in the use of alerts), but knowing just enough about who is present would be more compelling if there was a more clearly stated payoff for it. The idea seems to have diffe
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
> People didn't pull out a magazine while in a group and read an article for 5 minutes Are you being sarcastic? I'm 57 and I recall they absolutely DID do those things in the 70's and 80's. Trains and station platform
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Not sure I follow. Regardless of competence or whether "money has to be spent", if that 3% did not have a native mobile app to download, they would just use the mobile web app instead. Why not spend the money on the non-native off
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Contract trumps copyright - it's a whole different thing.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
If the copyright system existed for shovels in that analogy, nobody else could make a shovel like yours during your lifetime, and for about 50 years after that, during which time your rights holders would get rich and shovel design would st
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Only if they think that 3% would not otherwise use Wikipedia. But in reality that 3% would just use the web app instead, no? In fact if they put a web link in the app store, would anyone even notice the difference? OT I know, but I really d
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
fail2ban is nice, but I found attacks on my servers went down by about 70% when I used the Spamhaus DROP list. Attacks on port 22 went down to almost nothing when I also used the xt_geoip module from xtables-addons to only allow SSH from my
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I make it 88% mobile web, 9% desktop, 3% mobile app (why Wikipedia wastes money on a mobile native app is beyond me, but hey).
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I believe you are referring to patents. We're talking about copyright though, which is a different thing really - but related I suppose.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Yes! That worked for Linus Torvalds! Oh, wait... https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/linus-...
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
> I think most people would agree that the physical trades and the arts are not well-suited for comparisons. How is the writing of a book, the production of a movie or the recording of a song any different from the building of a bridge,
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
By secondary effects, do you mean artists would cease to create art? If so, then artists living in the many hundreds of years before copyright existed in law would disagree. Or do you mean there isn't enough music, or film or literatur
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Please accept my apologies. I mean that the ostensible reason for copyright is to protect and thereby incentivise the production of artistic work. By extension, without copyright, artists would not create anything. But artistic work existed
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I'm not concerned about that. And if I was, why should artists be treated differently to anyone else who chooses to charge for the product of their efforts? Copyright didn't exist before 1710. Art sure did though. A protection of
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
If I install the plumbing in your house, you don't pay me every time you have a shower. I'm willing to concede an artist might be "better" than a plumber (commercially), but if copyright is intended to incentivise produc
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Copyright in its current form needs to die. It doesn't protect the artist, it protects their publishers and those who benefit from the sweat of their brow after the artist is dead. Protect works for 7 years renewable for 7 and no more.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
Indeed - TFA, and the comments here (including mine) point out it's not one factor.
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
My aunt and uncle are ornithologists. They observe feral cats as often the number one threat to native species populations in some areas, and have been instrumental in efforts to remove feral cats from Gran Canaria and other islands. https
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
See also the "lead-crime hypothesis", connected to an almost global and similar decline in crime over the same time period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I've never seen anyone burn domestic trash. Like in their back garden or something? Is that a thing?
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by ProxCoques 3y ago
I doubt you'd eat only french fries for a meal though. A sandwich and an apple might be 700 calories, but a 300 calorie portion of fries with something less than 400 would be a challenge.

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