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by blowski 4y ago
There are no equivalent benefits at Facebook or Apple?
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by blowski 4y ago
I'm with you on this. You've got to choose between price, performance, flexibility, maintainability, upgradability, reliability, etc. These are the trade-offs you make. When people "why is this still a thing?" sometimes
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by blowski 4y ago
The UK newsagent WH Smith’s established the look of their stores in 1852. If you have a chain shops with the same owner, it’s hard to imagine why each branch would use a different design.
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by blowski 4y ago
I'd love to see some data for that. In my own anecdata, around half of my engineering colleagues (6 figure salaries) are on Android. Nobody gives a shit either way - the only reason I know is from borrowing chargers.
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by blowski 4y ago
Entering work in the late 90s helped a lot. There was a huge demand for programmers, but zero quality control to prevent you doing anything stupid. As such, companies threw money at me and my experiments hoping something would work out.
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by blowski 4y ago
I’m in the UK, and I can’t say your description rings true to me at all. There are some fans who passionately defend their tribe while attacking the other, but most people couldn’t care less either way. I believe it’s similar in the US.
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by blowski 4y ago
In your theory, why do Googler’s feel extra entitled compared to other big tech employees?
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by blowski 4y ago
Also, for those that prefer reading. https://musictech.com/guides/essential-guide/history-of-trac... I’ve seen hardware ones being used, though didn’t understand what they were.
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by blowski 4y ago
My impression is that he has a unique way of building “Brand Elon” which seems to work because of the times we’re in. He enters like a bull in a china shop, destroying everything regardless of quality or value. He then hands over day-to-day
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by blowski 4y ago
Same problem. I have multiple groups on WhatsApp that I don’t want to leave, but don’t believe they’ll migrate. Three family groups, close friends, school parents, son’s football club. A lot of these people were the last to migrate to Whats
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by blowski 4y ago
Someone got out the wrong side of bed? I’m also in the process of moving from Twitter to Mastodon, albeit I have very few followers on either. As such, I found it both interesting and useful. I imagine he does want engagement and wants to g
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by blowski 4y ago
A common problem was they got the level of formality wrong. I had a Portuguese one which translated “hi” to the equivalent of “Good day, Sir”. While a Polish one translated “great, thanks” to “fucking brilliant!”.
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How to Poison the Data That Is Used to Exploit You(patrickklin.medium.com)
15 points by blowski 4y ago|3 comments
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by blowski 4y ago
I could have CentOS of 2015 era.
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by blowski 4y ago
On a sidenote, how does Rocky compare to CentOS (apart from still existing) and Debian, Ubuntu?
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by blowski 4y ago
Not really. Someone’s suggested a possible reason for something that was unclear in the original article. That’s hardly a story.
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by blowski 4y ago
I don't understand the problem with fragmentation. I specifically don't want to have all my online presence to be centralised in a single account on a single system. So it's OK for me to have 5 different Mastodon accounts, ea
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by blowski 4y ago
Perhaps the belt-tightening going at the moment has made people realise how much money they're wasting on Kubernetes et al.
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by blowski 4y ago
This looks really useful. I run pub quizzes in the UK and often have to go through this process manually. The manual text entry worked well. But the “from URL” option returned 10 questions of “what is the answer to this question?”.
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by blowski 4y ago
For any theory about a common pattern of behaviour, there will be many exceptions that don’t fit the theory. Without hard data, both sides are giving a subjective opinion based on their experience, and both sides are probably right in part.
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by blowski 4y ago
If its use is so widespread, then it's probably no longer a trademark, in that context at least.
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by blowski 4y ago
I imagine AWS can't put it on the headers of their managed service, and that's what it's about.
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by blowski 4y ago
Exactly, everything’s a trade-off. And the trade-offs will be different for a very widely used system package like curl compared to, say, a small in-house ERP system or low-traffic website.
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by blowski 4y ago
RPA. Get a tool like UIPath or BluePrism that writes to the legacy UI, then build modern tools that communicate with UIPath's API.
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by blowski 4y ago
Just like CPUs don't need tooling - you simply write some Assembler to execute on them. I find organising CSS files to be pretty hard, and I've been using it since 2001, predominantly as a backend dev who needed to churn out a dec
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by blowski 4y ago
> Tailwind needs to have all the features of CSS, otherwise it's incomplete. This is how I see it too. If Tailwind doesn't bother adopting some CSS features, I have to jump between Tailwind and CSS files and syntax.
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by blowski 4y ago
I'm a Tailwind fan. I love it not because I don't know CSS, but because I'm not very good at using it. Tailwind is easier to use than CSS for knocking up a quick site.
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by blowski 4y ago
Linux and emacs might be massively powerful in the hands of a competent, experienced computer user sitting mostly at their desk. For somebody with less time and competence, a tablet can give them much more power because they can use it stra
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by blowski 4y ago
It reminds me of that guy who squiggled over his whole house. Demons make interesting shapes.
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by blowski 4y ago
What’s so weird about this? If he’d painted flowers we’d have all said “how lovely!”. Maybe he liked painting demons, it doesn’t make him demonic.

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