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by awalton 9y ago
Utilitarianism will let you justify anything if you frame it right, including white supremacy, fascism, etc. This isn't something evidence and reason alone can handle. Ethically and morally, as a society, we have to choose what behavio
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by awalton 9y ago
> Imagine the complexity of maintaining the software when every patch must anticipate a fragmented mess of different pieces of patches being installed on target systems. ...why imagine? That's life as a Windows/Linux/Andro
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by awalton 9y ago
Given so much of the video content (at least high 80s percent wise) on Facebook is simply pirated from YouTube and other creators, it seems more than a little unethical for them to start emblazoning them with ads. But, they'll happil
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by awalton 9y ago
The Enterprise SSO market is close to defacto standardizing around SAML AFAICT. Either your product supports it, or the very large enterprises with very large budgets can't use it, and your competitor that does support SAML gets the do
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by awalton 9y ago
And you're the reason I don't use very many phone apps. Developer apathy becomes user apathy. If you make great apps, your customers will be enthusiastic about using them. If you make mediocre apps, you will attract mediocre users
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> Microsoft holds over ARM is mostly nothing though they're newcomers here and there are far manufacturers, so I'm sure they will end up losing their bet again. Yeah. Unfortunately Google (ChromeBooks) won the space, with virtu
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by awalton 9y ago
>That's a debate tactic for authoritarians in the US as well. E.g. see the current Net Neutrality headlines and articles.
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by awalton 9y ago
Cute that you think this started in 2016...
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by awalton 9y ago
Yeah, really hard to believe we simply modernized the idea of the Highwayman. Even harder to believe that the police force is so corrupt in so many parts of this country that they were able to rebrand the tactic and get it written into laws
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by awalton 9y ago
> I predict Disney will lose. Yeah well, I said the same thing about copyright extension and the DMCA... Disney doesn't lose these kinds of battles very often. They've paid a lot of politicians a lot of money to keep getting th
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by awalton 9y ago
<on-the-clock>Do you mind opening a support ticket for this with VMware? You can't be the only person seeing this, and it'd be great for us to check for this specifically when dealing with mystery-meat "bad perf in XYZ
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by awalton 9y ago
I literally didn't ask, I said Whataboutism and "Both Sides" bullshit needs to die. But for some reason that makes the Uber Defenders League on HackerNews come out of the woodworks to say whatever they can to make Waymo look
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by awalton 9y ago
From SFChronical: http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-Waymo-case-... > While he didn’t believe that work was illegal, “I had questions about the ethics of it,” Jacobs testified. > He confirmed t
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by awalton 9y ago
> "I'm sure that Waymo has done some shady stuff too." Please point us to the memo from Uber that proves Waymo is operating a "Competitive Intelligence" team that looks more like a CIA Ops team than a Business In
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by awalton 9y ago
> If you work for telecoms who support a non-neutral internet, then quit. Go on strike. Work only for companies who support Net Neutrality. ...you'll probably starve to death, though. Even with the immense shortage of technicians, t
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by awalton 9y ago
It's really, really easy for ISPs to just start making peer-to-peer connections of any kind slower than molasses while making white listed IPs from people who've paid the "High Speed Lane" tax travel at normal speeds. Th
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by awalton 9y ago
As much as I love the idea of locally building network infrastructure and making it a true commonly owned system... it doesn't work for rural areas. As soon as you hit the city limits, it's no longer the city's problem. We ga
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by awalton 9y ago
I joked that if Facebook, Google, Netflix and the other multibillion dollar user-trackers out there shut out Pai and the FCC, their tune would change overnight. I did not think for a microsecond anyone would be brave enough to implement it.
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by awalton 9y ago
> I guess oracle has the cash to just buy it to lessen competition? > So I guess I just don’t see any reason for oracle or ibm to buy them. These two statements are at complete odds with one another. The only reason Oracle buys anyone
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by awalton 9y ago
Having worked on GVFS (the GNOME one) in the past... every single time. Maybe GNOME should start trademarking project names too :/...
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by awalton 9y ago
Proving yet again that the "Internet of Things" won't work until the "Local Area Network of Things" works. If the "thing" requires the Internet to work, these kinds of failures will continue plaguing them
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by awalton 9y ago
> It also rules out consecutive/night shifts with a second driver. One of the things we're learning about electrical vehicles is that they do lead to a culture change in the way people operate them. Trucker culture currently.
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> I still wonder why Google sold Boston Dynamics It's a money pit, albeit a cool one. But that doesn't matter. Ruthless doesn't see the coolness, just the dollar signs. > and no other transportation or defense manufactu
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by awalton 9y ago
The tl;dr here is simple: Mozilla made a hedge that Yahoo! would sell themselves to someone terrible during the period of their contract, Yahoo! did, and Mozilla collected on the proceeds to the tune of $350 million-ish USD. It was a gamble
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by awalton 9y ago
I don't have any evidence either way, but it smells like the typical Silicon Valley job sniping that happens here every day. I'd happily take a Chief Architect role at a company if the paycheck had enough zeros and I was the domai
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by awalton 9y ago
Intel really doesn't mind "wasting" time on innovation - they make tens of billions of dollars a year and they're on top of the market. They can afford to go down blind avenues, especially when the research spills out so
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by awalton 9y ago
The fact is that people have to have job mobility, and need to be trusted that when they leave a company, they leave behind that company's secrets. Many companies make you sign a document that attests this: if you have any company data
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by awalton 9y ago
It's likely Intel's already got cross-licensing agreements for everything they need, seeing as they already build GPUs. (Or is somehow everyone forgetting that fact?) The case is probably that the Intel graphics team just decided
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by awalton 9y ago
Larrabee was an attempt to see if the x86 architecture could power a GPU. The answer was "not very likely", but it got turned into a product of its own anyways because it turned out to be very interesting for other compute-heavy u
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by awalton 9y ago
Use build-id ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId ), strip the debug info into its own object file, and point gdb at your debug objects when it comes time to debug. Lean distributable binaries, y

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