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by arpa 5y ago
Mistakes happen. People forget which environment they are on. people forget where statement in their DELETE query. People misremember their cwd prior to running rm. Sometimes it's lack of experience, sometimes lack of sleep, sometimes
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by arpa 5y ago
That's what happens when you put your trust in autocorrect: you lose all the thrust )))) I've turned off the autocorrect, and now I get all kinds of stupid touch interface mistypes, and lose time over correcting them, but at least
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by arpa 5y ago
trust != thrust, just so you know.
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Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft (2003)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by arpa 5y ago|0 comments
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by arpa 5y ago
Disturbing lack of DRM. It should only be possible to polish apple devices with it. And, of course, any other polishing cloth should render these devices inoperable.
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by arpa 5y ago
We're jaded enough to assume the reverse of Hanlon's razor (for me it was when google dropped their "don't be evil", hard).
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by arpa 5y ago
I don't want to believe the battle is lost, but I don't see a way to fight back aside from establishing a hacker counterculture, which is kind of happening with tor and internet alternatives.
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by arpa 5y ago
RMS was right all along.
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by arpa 5y ago
Netflix has made a significant dent in piracy, but DRM will fix that...
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by arpa 5y ago
and that spells the end of personal computing.
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by arpa 5y ago
No, thank you. But I suspect people would still accept and use that tech just like they have accepted always-online/always-listening digital assistants. Just imagine the possibilities of large-scale manipulations, tho!
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by arpa 5y ago
If anything, headlines like these make me avoid clicking. My attention is a scarce resource. I'm not going to read through a longform (unless it's from damninteresting.com - but I purposefully go there for longform trivia) if I ha
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by arpa 5y ago
the same reason safari doesn't play ogg, but plays aac fine. Apple just want to promote their patent encumubered codecs over free ones.
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by arpa 5y ago
Fork! Streisand!
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by arpa 5y ago
While I agree that Alan hasn't really lived his life righteously, that's an ad hominem. But anyway, if you meet buddha on the road kill him, and beware people claiming they have all the answers. There isn't a single truth, as
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by arpa 5y ago
"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you're dead. But we missed the point the whol
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by arpa 5y ago
if by totaled you mean they would catch fire and burn... what a bright idea to use biodegradable insulation...
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by arpa 5y ago
Linux needs IME? :O
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by arpa 5y ago
"helps save the trees" is where i lost it completely. Oh my god, we _deserve_ all of this hellscape.
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by arpa 5y ago
spot on, imo
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by arpa 5y ago
Oh hi mr. Tannenbaum
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by arpa 5y ago
Haha, it's not about games. It's about remote device management, employee tracking and less "bytes _you_ own", more "bytes corp owns". I actually quit my previous company over this. Now they all work on windblo
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by arpa 5y ago
Viruses are easier to ignore. Just look at how the pandemic goes...
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by arpa 5y ago
The loop will close as we once again will realise that even though domain is king of software, it is too different a beast from what the enlightened among us (not me) call "Infrastructure", the serf that actually grows the crop. N
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by arpa 5y ago
Fair enough.
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by arpa 5y ago
do one thing and do it well, huh?
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by arpa 5y ago
if [ "$?" == 2 ]; then why not $? -eq 2? why nested ifs?
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by arpa 5y ago
better than windy, ventusky and what have you
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by arpa 5y ago
As to why all the downvotes: the folks here are well aware that you're talking out of your rear-end or are unaware that we are exposed to EM waves orders of magnitude more powerful and of significantly higher frequency. This type of EM
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Quadro Tracker (1993)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by arpa 5y ago|0 comments

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