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by aflag 6y ago
In my opinion, the current mess with resolv.conf is a case of accidental complexity. I don't think there's anything wrong with disabling badly designed systems that aren't useful for the problem at hand, assuming the admin is
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by aflag 6y ago
I have to admit I haven't look into p2p social networks in years. The ones I've tried in early 2000s (such as freenet) had really dodgy users. Perhaps a lot was learned since then. Anyway, I agree with you that what really prevent
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by aflag 6y ago
I don't know. Facebook can spot fake profiles because of the centralisation, not sure how that'd be avoided in that system. Also, if users are really anonymous, the system will end up turning into a cesspool of disgusting and ille
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by aflag 6y ago
Hm, then is your point that many developers become careless while programming because they are in an environment with safeguards in place to avoid screw ups?
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by aflag 6y ago
This seems to be the offending image: http://ianwojtowicz.com/Red%20Shift/Red-Shift-Earth-6400px.j... which is now a 404 anyway (or rather, it's a 301 followed by a 200 with text explaining it should be a 404).
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by aflag 6y ago
> Your blame-free production line won't help you if you're making the wrong thing and/or your UX doesn't help the user. Blaming someone will not help either. As you said, the user doesn't care who fucked up. Some
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by aflag 6y ago
I don't think it's rude to point out someone is missing the point, though I can see why you're considering that given the overall aggressive tone of your messages. Let's backtrack, then. My main point is that scolding an
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by aflag 6y ago
It exists in the web UI too. You need to select the precise time and day, not just the general time of the year, but you can tell it when you want to depart or arrive. See my screenshot below. By default, the dark blue section will have &qu
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by aflag 6y ago
You can tell google maps when you're going to be making the journey. Maybe you couldn't back when you tried. Related to worse search results, I don't know. But the fact that you're finding it less relevant doesn't m
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by aflag 6y ago
I'm not sure if that employee fucked up. That may be company policy. Support people usually follow a script and they very rarely venture much beyond that. Partially because they lack technical knowledge and partially because it could a
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Most of their feedback probably comes from their metrics. Things like sudden drop in the number of purchases, an unexpected increase in refinenment of certain queries, increased number of 500s, etc. In order to respond in scale you have to
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Google does offer a feedback button in the knowledge panel. However, I assume they are unlikely to take any actions unless there's at least a certain amount of agreeing feedback.
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They have billions of users, it's not scalable to treat each of them individually. So, they take more scalable approaches to identify problems and assess user satisfaction. That means that an individual should expect not to have much i
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by aflag 6y ago
Fair point, but that's obviously not true. All evidence we have points to both amazon and google following excelent software development practices. They are even drivers of good practices in certain parts. So, we'd need stronger e
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by aflag 6y ago
Maybe their quality control can be improved, but you give no insight in QA practices they are obviously skipping. Unless you're counting "dragging developers over hot coal" as your advice. In which case, I have serious doubts
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by aflag 6y ago
Not all requests are the same and they need to be treated differently. Some requests are rather optional and it's probably better to timeout if they don't respond in a timely manner so not to use up more resources than needed. Oth
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If you consider that shortening someone's life is not a continuum but discreetly bad, then there is no paradox. Moreover, I consider that to be the only ethical way to view it. If you take the life expectancy of the victim when judging
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by aflag 6y ago
What's the point of the question? What would you argue? Yeah, obviously everyone dies, but when is the important part. It's generally agreed that shortening someone's time to live is one of the biggest offenses possible (if n
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by aflag 6y ago
It may be a cultural thing too. It is a lot faster to produce young unqualified people than a really senior person. We are losing minds like John Conway. Anyway, I'd say my grandfather and cousin deaths (non-covid related) had about th
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by aflag 6y ago
Not sure if I follow your point? Are you saying this is less of a tragety because these people lived 50 years longer?
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by aflag 6y ago
File names, URLs and email address support utf-8 characters and you may want to lower case them in many situations. If the user is trying to search for a string, they probably want case insensitivity. I don't think it's that rare&
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by aflag 6y ago
Can't you use ext2/3 pretty much everywhere too?
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The Mask Slackers of 1918(nytimes.com)
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HashiCorp Nomad Helps Relax Cannabis Compliance and Kubernetes Complexity(thenewstack.io)
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by aflag 6y ago
That's the a key difference for me to consider it a contractor/client relationship rather than a employer/employee relationship. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know what the law says in each country Uber operates.
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by aflag 6y ago
I think giving the ability for one driver to promote their services over other drivers is also a key feature. Each driver needs to be able to differentiate themselves and not be essentially interchangeable.
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by aflag 6y ago
And, perhaps more importantly, the user sees your app and branding in the end and they can choose to pick you again. Which is not the case for uber either.
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> five of eight systematic reviews found no evidence that the use of masks would provide any benefit in controlling sources of infection or protecting healthy persons from exposure to respiratory infections Unfortunately, that news arti
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I've seen that idea being tossed around, but are there any sort of studies showing that the increased face touching can indeed make the virus spread more than not wearing masks? It's a geniune question, I'd like to see studie
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I've met people who applied to it at different times. None have got the key yet, including me. I don't think they are handing out many api keys. They probably had some sort of limit in mind when they launched and they probably rea

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