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by _jal 3y ago
I'm not making a normative claim - I don't want a corporate mall, either. I'm making a prediction. The unregulated internet is a risk to some very powerful interests. They cannot tolerate that. And despite what some people th
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by _jal 3y ago
> 20 years from now, we're still going to want to run our own software And you'll be able to, on hobby machines or VMs. But the general purpose machine where the owner controls the OS will fade. Banks, popular sites and other c
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by _jal 3y ago
If I do not end up with an offline-playable artifact in a standard format with no DRM, it needs to be priced as one-off consumption, like a movie ticket. Because duration aside, that's what it is. "Cloud" service economics ca
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by _jal 3y ago
If you added attributes for the number of rows and columns (something like <table ... rows="4" cols="4">), it could render it progressively. I don't recall if that was vanilla HTML or vendor extension, I suspe
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by _jal 3y ago
Yep. I used to be more charitable, but I've taken to being very short with founder wannabes who act like this. Bluntly, if they refuse to look past their preconceptions to see who they're actually talking to, why should I? This is
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by _jal 3y ago
> Grammarly is an application that I don't get. You write like a native speaker, so I'm not surprised. But imagine having a few years of school-German, and then taking a German language job. I'd bet there would be times yo
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by _jal 3y ago
You seem to think I'm arguing against something there. I'm not, it is strictly descriptive.
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by _jal 3y ago
The US also has close to no data privacy protection, so you can also practice whatever targeting and manipulative nonsense you want on your subjects. The delta there shows what that's worth.
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by _jal 3y ago
But not complicated things like, uh, dumping a representation of what's on screen to a file.
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by _jal 3y ago
> That will change Been hearing that from Wayland folks about very basic things for what, 15 years now?
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by _jal 3y ago
It is an emotional response to the fear of being "left behind". And for some folks, there are pseudo-religious elements. There's been a long line of thought (search Extropians) obsessed with a sort of godhead-merger, or becom
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by _jal 3y ago
I've been convinced for years that Google Docs loses things. I both had files vanish and have lost edits - one time I could demonstrate it with a screenshot of part of a doc that later reverted to an earlier version. Other people at wo
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by _jal 3y ago
Some people, when faced with a demonstration that someone they care a lot about can successfully deceive them, develop trust issues. It is a thing that happens. I don't think it speaks to the depth of their feelings, it speaks more to
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by _jal 3y ago
The argument is that there are plenty of unprosecuted crimes already, obviously. I understand why you might disagree with that, and I understand why your reading comprehension might work better when not discussing your employer, but I have
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by _jal 3y ago
RHV is dead, they're trying to move people over to (the much more expensive) OpenShift. Support for it has gotten predictably worse. I don't expect Ovirt to survive, the vast majority of development was RH. "The market"
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by _jal 3y ago
Not github, but I signed up for a service with the username 'duplicate_user_id'. It seems someone there didn't find that as amusing as I did, locked the account, and refused service. I can only guess they thought it was setup
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by _jal 3y ago
My guess is that sideloading on IOS will be region-locked to be available only where legally required.
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by _jal 3y ago
It reads like the advice of a mid-career engineer who is not aware that their time has been spent in a very small corner of the overall software engineering world.
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by _jal 3y ago
To start with, individuals do not print their own currencies. People always jump in immediately to say you can't inflate your way out of debt/look at Argentina/etc., but that's missing the point, I'm not saying that
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by _jal 3y ago
I'm currently working on planning for a large enterprise migration. We're definitely not doing a 1:1 mapping of VMs, but costs are still going to go through the roof. There might be a quiet betting pool on just how much more.
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by _jal 3y ago
The landlords were clearly communicating pricing information to one another with the intent of profit maximization. I don't see how software mediation changes that.
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by _jal 3y ago
It codes as "clean" and "controlled". It also implied clean energy tech at a time when that was also mostly science fiction.
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by _jal 3y ago
Is Ycombinator paying out to their "content generators" here? Also, while I can imagine one's HN reputation helping someone a job or find a venture partner in this little bubble, there is no comparison with Xitter's reac
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by _jal 3y ago
I like wood. It is pretty much everything you want for something like this - super durable, very easy to work with, and depending on what you pick, cheap and pretty, too. Plus, woodworking is very satisfying by itself. And also easy to get
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by _jal 3y ago
> prevent long terms It is a quandary. Some pols burrow in and never go away, to the detriment of the people they're supposed to be serving. On the other hand, term limits just empower lobbyists, who don't have them. You think
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by _jal 3y ago
Why are you pretending I said anything about it being illegal? I said nothing about law.
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by _jal 3y ago
> His reasoning boiled down to "Linux is too popular". You made the right choice. That founder demonstrated domain incompetence alongside a demonstration that they don't know when to delegate, with a side of shallow reason
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by _jal 3y ago
> To me it’s quite obvious that this is about defending “the Swedish model" Of course it is. And what's wrong with that? Mr. Freeze Peach doesn't seem to complain about that when it is China calling the shots. If he wants
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by _jal 3y ago
New categories of things to wear are really hard to get people to adapt without some instantly-compelling use case. I'm having trouble coming up with a mildly interesting use case for this. Get it to the point where it can constantly o
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by _jal 3y ago
> The European Union isn’t sovereign. It likes to pretend it is, but it isn’t. I'm going to assume you're misinterpreting rather than trying to be disingenuous, but I was obviously referencing the nations Ireland signed the ser

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