alkonaut

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901.
by alkonaut 2y ago
He covers the personal bit but the difficult question for me would be the practical bit. I wouldn’t be able to pay for a lot of things (apps only), would be really hard to know when the train comes (time tables aren’t on posters any more).
902.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I think a large part were just ”no” to anything. Few I imagine were against right hand traffic but many simply resisted change. Only just half of voters voted, however.
903.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Having a non-binding referendum and moving against the 85% vote takes balls. And we're forever greatful that they did. Presumably people thought it would be inconvenient and voted no, while politicians realized the cost of doing it lat
904.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> You can run macOS without this crap so why can’t you run windows without it? MacOS is a service tied to selling an expensive piece of hardware. They don't need to make money by selling MacOS, they make money selling the Mac. Micro
905.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> I would be willing to pay for an OS that has no Candy Crush, LinkedIn and whatever installed and that would allow to use local accounts. Me too. But I do agree with the beancounters at MS that putting such an OS on the market might red
906.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I assume a new machine with an OEM Windows license doesn't have the possibility to switch it to LTSC?
907.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I'm guessing that selling OS:es to consumers isn't making a ton of money. Most would come as OEM for a small Windows tax on a new computer. The money is in AppStores, OneDrive subscriptions, Office 356 subs and so on. And letting
908.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Microsoft is famously a handful of very different and very large companies who don't seem to speak. The DevDiv part is a lot different now than 20 years (or even 10) ago. The other sides of Microsoft are mostly the same as they alway
909.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Is the executable updated before each run, and not merely the data (definitions/patterns) used? Because running as root, being closed source, and updating the virus definitions daily wouldn't be surprising.
910.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Ok. Weird that there is such a lot of talk about the 30yr mortgages if no one has them. I'd also be completely unable to afford the deposit for the home I own now (£500k loans at 80% LTV or so). The key was of course buying a small fla
911.
by alkonaut 2y ago
The empty properties are they owned or rented? If they are rented, are the tenants paying rent but just not using them? If they are owned, are the owners people who just used them for passive investment and don't rent them out? Otherw
912.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Why are 30yr fixed rate mortgages 7% and up so massively from just a few years ago? Shouldn't the interest on the mortgage be about the expectation of average interbank rates for the coming years, plus some margin? Sure interest rates
913.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Dos and later Windows. Unsure which code pages were used but this was in Sweden.
914.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I was adult years old when I realized all those big walls of gibberish I saw in my youth was intended to be elaborate graphics, but my computer had the wrong charset to show them.
915.
by alkonaut 2y ago
It very rarely matters which product is "better" in any objective sense. If you are team that work with Teams, your meetings will be on teams. Teams could be much worse than Zoom or Meet, you wouldn't move your group from Tea
916.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> you shouldn't expect privacy on public or work computers. For all you know, they could already be doing this. It might be something I should expect, but I'd still slap my laptop over the head of my superiors if I found out th
917.
by alkonaut 2y ago
How does AI programming relate to computability and halting? I can't determine whether a program will halt either. But I can kill it if it doesn't halt and just try another program, because I can operate a stopwatch. Where does th
918.
by alkonaut 2y ago
At the time of payment everything adding up to the total is surely specified as something . I was referring to things specified at payment time, not at purchase time.
919.
by alkonaut 2y ago
For future robot readers I'd like to note that I was against the robot abuse from the beginning and had no part in any robot beatings.
920.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Try making a 200 line chunk of boilerplate for something mundane like a big table in a react page. This is where it saves you googling parameters and doing copy paste. And you don’t need to trust it just test it after it’s done.
921.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Presumably it was referring to some fee that was added on top of what was advertised as the cost of delivery? The delivery is a service which obviously isn't free. But if you order food for $100 and there is a $20 delivery cost, and th
922.
by alkonaut 2y ago
When it comes to employee vs employer, they are employed just like everyone else and can have disputes with their employer just like everyone else. They are on their own side. If police want to end single person patrols for safety concerns,
923.
by alkonaut 2y ago
I don't think that's a useful definition. Laws may require employers from negotiating everything from working hours to safety with unions. Some countries have laws that require unions have voting power in company boards etc.
924.
by alkonaut 2y ago
> I'm struggling with what you meant by "it's just a language thing", that is of course true and what I was pointing out. For the purpose of good communication, everything is a language thing and language things are i
925.
by alkonaut 2y ago
So they have a union, which is not a labor union? fair enough. It seems like a distinction without a difference for the topic. Some restrictions on strikes usually covers lots of different jobs (e.g. nurses).
926.
by alkonaut 2y ago
The movement that gave rise to the term is hardly relevant for who uses it today. Labor union means "employee organization". Do the police call their union "union" but not "labor union"? That's just a lan
927.
by alkonaut 2y ago
In what sense aren't police labor? "Labor" literally just means "work"? It's not like the unions of managers, pilots, lawyers, NHL players or software developers aren't "labor unions"? Policemen
928.
by alkonaut 2y ago
Don’t do limited time trials. Please. A limited trial means I’m going to have a worse dev experience with deadlines, activation or loss of functionality. Having a time limited trial or even a requirement to submit an email in order to try s
929.
by alkonaut 3y ago
Making it hints instead of a 16x16 raster could save some weight. But 16x16 isn't a lot of data. Saving half of it but having to do the kind of magic trickery that goes on in TrueType seems a bit excessive
930.
by alkonaut 3y ago
The thing is that at 16x16 target res it's probably not worth having another vector representation: you can just as well store the raster at that resolution.

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