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by afandian 4y ago
Wikidata, both the software and the platform generally, is definitely developed at Wikimedia Deutschland. I’ve met a few of the people involved. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE
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by afandian 4y ago
Yes staying true to the rhetoric about 'making the world a better place' does preclude certain future states. But that rhetoric can be true, actionable, and not incompatible with profit. Just saying here's an anecdatum abou
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by afandian 4y ago
It's surely not that bleak (at least, not everywhere). And it doesn't have to be remotely about 'politics'. My old employer made the leap to employee-owned and they seem to be going from strength to strength. https:&#x2
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by afandian 4y ago
Isn’t it just as likely that the software developers disempower the support staff as much as they do users? Maybe the agent did think that the reply would reach them, and the algorithm was being AB tested.
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by afandian 4y ago
I have two BlackBerry phones in a drawer with perfectly good hardware that I reluctantly stopped using because of software issues (Passport and KeyOne). PostmarketOS isn't relevant for these specificaly, but to your point, the hardware
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by afandian 4y ago
Depends how you look at it. Someone got a nice bonus...
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by afandian 4y ago
Is there an officially recognised category of spoiled ballot paper in the US like in the UK?
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by afandian 4y ago
I do wish posts like this had absolute numbers (or did I miss some?). Is this a monolith served by a team of 5, 15 or 50?
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by afandian 4y ago
I guess that comes at the significant penalty of lower bit rate. Still, it does sound warmer. (Seriously, I wonder what the rate would be?)
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by afandian 4y ago
I hope you zero the memory first! Otherwise you can hear the ghosting on good headphones.
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by afandian 4y ago
Looks interesting. From that page I couldn't see what 'graph' field relates to. Is it the identifier for a distinct named graph? It was blank in the examples. Do you use it? What for?
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by afandian 4y ago
How do you scale out processing if you can't have more than one consumer?
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by afandian 4y ago
If you're the kind of person who wants "open data" (read as broadly as you like) and could get it in snapshots direct from the source without having to scrape, what would your ideal format be? I know it's a very open end
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by afandian 4y ago
The government deliberately made the gap. They're not going to cover it it.
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by afandian 4y ago
Apart from everything else, isn’t this more complex machinery that you didn’t buy but have to service, just in case you might want it one day?
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by afandian 4y ago
I feel like the point you’re making has never been less true. Dialog boxes with “not yet” rather that “no” are ever more popular. I don’t think that the modern UX designer has much respect for me or my intentions.
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by afandian 4y ago
I'm in a similar space (bibliographic metadata, DOIs etc) but not too familiar with this area. Did the desire for interlinkedness go away? What in particular changed? Was an authority file seen as a replacement for a more organic RDF m
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by afandian 4y ago
What took its place in your experience?
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by afandian 5y ago
Which side would you put Kotlin in? Feels equidistant between Clojure and Java.
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by afandian 5y ago
That's not incompatible. Of course you can't do that in the middle of the floor.
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by afandian 5y ago
One of my minor life goals has been to learn the Turbo Encabulator text. It's tricky because of the run-on sentences. This might be the tool.
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by afandian 5y ago
(I say this as someone who doesn't give their child sweets!) IMHO if a child is behaving in a way that you don't like, it's your job, not theirs, to close that gap. Are you putting them in an overwhelming position, asking too
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by afandian 5y ago
I think the point is predicated on a situation where the candy is important ("favourite candy"). Substitute for anything else precious to the child. Intentionally destroying something precious, even a small thing, is indicative of
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by afandian 5y ago
They were probably mistreated this way as children!
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by afandian 5y ago
Screaming tantrums are a sign that something is wrong. It's your job as a parent to help the child deal with that situation. Not always figuring out the actual percieved problem (as they're humans, it's almost certainly nev
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by afandian 5y ago
Thanks! I wasn't planning it, but can't hurt to ask. When I looked the Lambda API looked uncomplicated to implement (I saw an example somewhere) and it felt like you could just write a few controllers and gain the ability to run a
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by afandian 5y ago
Pardon the ignorance, but is the state of lambda containers considered to be single-threaded? Or can they serve requests in parallel? If I had a Spring Java (well, Kotlin) app that processes stuff off SQS (large startup time but potentially
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by afandian 5y ago
Yeah we went into it with eyes open. I know "everyone hates Jira". We did evaluate Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) and I did talk to a sales engineer. We weren't able to make our issues open to the public, which was a serious b
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by afandian 5y ago
I should say that I respect and admire GitLab's pursuit of financial sustainability and not selling themselves too cheap. But the resulting culture, combined with the actual product experience, is offputting. The issue tracking and lab
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by afandian 5y ago
They haven't sold them selves as 'just code hosting' for some time. I almost wish they did. They've negleted basic stuff yet their marketing sells them as an all-in-one solution. A thousand dollars per seat per year (no

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