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by abraae 6y ago
> without any real plan or timeline There's a very real plan, which is to develop a vaccine. And that plan seems to be going pretty well. The timeline will be dictated by the success of the plan, but it seems that most experts are r
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by abraae 6y ago
> Pressuring maintainers to come back is foolish. Unless that pressure has some impact on the maintainer's boss(es).
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by abraae 6y ago
Well it's only one person away.
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by abraae 6y ago
Look at yourself as being in the top 90% instead.
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by abraae 6y ago
That's genius pricing. Would it work? Like gym memberships, mostly they would probably just be unused, improving profitability.
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by abraae 6y ago
Definitely! The key part is "initial agreement".
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by abraae 6y ago
> Who doesn't have an auto increment Id field on every table? Anyone who exposes their id fields, e.g via APIs, and doesn't want other people gaining insights into their volumes by watching the rate of increase in id values.
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by abraae 6y ago
That resonates as I am currently trying to corral a group of neighbors in fixing up a bridge at the entry to our rural road. The key piece I would add is to point out that it is much cheaper to maintain the bridge rather than replace it if
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by abraae 6y ago
yyyy-mm-dd for the win indeed, if only for being naively sortable.
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by abraae 6y ago
> In New Zealand's last election, the National Party won the popular vote but their opponent the Labour Party actually won the election and is now in power. Incorrect. In the last election, a couple of weeks ago, Labour easily won t
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by abraae 6y ago
It's still in dev, so I haven't run it for more than a few hours at a time. Seems OK so far.
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by abraae 6y ago
New raspberry pi 4s can boot from usb out of the box since a month or two ago.
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by abraae 6y ago
I've just been on this same journey building a sensor for the level in our home water tanks. I started with a raspberry pi, but then discovered esp32 with an lcd display for just a few bucks https://www.amazon.com/LILYG
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by abraae 6y ago
We verify signatures as part of our service (online background checks). It's an entirely human process and imprecise might be the best word for it.
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by abraae 6y ago
> And you can no longer use the 2008 version of Gmail. Gmail has always been a hosted service - not software that runs entirely on your own machine. Apples and oranges. > Imagine creating software today with perpetual licenses but no
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by abraae 6y ago
"The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired." Cry me a river - Adobe can't afford to keep an old server running? At least be honest about the motivation.
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by abraae 6y ago
> Google now has huge swaths of newly-found copyrightable APIs of its own that its sitting on. is this really useful to Google? In Oracle vs Google, yes Oracle stands to make some good coin from Google's "theft" of Java AP
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by abraae 6y ago
In other words, a 1970s childhood.
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by abraae 6y ago
I have always wondered if intelligence could emerge from a game of life, given a massive board and sufficient random seeds.
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by abraae 6y ago
It's a numbers game. Hide out for a year or two. Protect vulnerable members of society and preserve a mostly normal way of life, except for tourism industry (which is largely dead regardless of what we choose to do in NZ). If there&#x2
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by abraae 6y ago
Watching cricket is an art in itself. I once spent 5 days watching a test match at the basin reserve in Wellington, fueled with plenty of beer. From day 4 it was obvious the match was heading for a draw and so it did.
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by abraae 6y ago
The thinking behind their stance is well laid out in a previous editorial: > The principle that the state will respect scholarly independence is one of the foundations underpinning modern research, and its erosion carries grave risks for
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by abraae 6y ago
> Even if you are totally self funded you still are accountable to your customers 2 main differences: 1) your customer's requirements are pure (usually) - "please add a frammel button so I can manage my widgets better". Yo
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by abraae 6y ago
> I wonder if Oracle winning would reinvigorate software developement This is a future I like to envisage as well. New programming languages (for example), struggling for traction, might feel obliged to clearly open source their APIs, to
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by abraae 6y ago
In New Zealand, your criminal record consists of solely those crimes you have been convicted of in court, and is automatically clean slated if you have gone >7 years without an offence (unless you have been convicted of a serious crime i
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by abraae 6y ago
As soon as you use the term EXACTLY with anything involving humans, you are in a losing battle.
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by abraae 6y ago
I thought the same, but it's been a looong time. I remember the standard setup for a 3279 color terminal was to go through and align the red, blue and green guns at a number of points on the screen. When you had aligned them all, the t
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by abraae 6y ago
I've got a huge tree that came down in a "1 in 500 year storm" lying outside my home office. I go out and chainsaw and axe it up some more whenever I need a break. Chopping firewood is about at the opposite end of the scale f
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by abraae 6y ago
I hate the water / electricity analogies because they don't make sense. Voltage is not like water pressure. If you have a high water pressure, water will inexorably be pushed through the pipe to relieve the pressure. That's s
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by abraae 6y ago
When I worked at IBM, we hardware engineers were organised into 3 groups. We mainframe engineers went on the cool overseas courses, spent our days in chilled computer rooms and looked after the really important machines. The mid range guys

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