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by blowski 4y ago
And yet a lot of very wealthy people and companies wrote on Medium.
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by blowski 4y ago
Not all centrists are competent and not all those who are competent are centrists. Yet far more sustainable prosperity has been brought about more by those leading from the centre compared to those at the fringes.
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by blowski 4y ago
Counter-point. The company I work for has about 50/50 Macbooks vs Lenovo. We have about 1000 staff, and I've seen similar rates in a company with 5000 staff. Macbooks * 2% fail in first 12 months * 20% need replacing in 3 years Le
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by blowski 4y ago
I consider the likelihood of needing to repair or extend it within a 6 year lifetime, and I believe the Macbook has by far the best reputation in that regard.
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by blowski 4y ago
I can imagine it started by accident, and then he’s later leaned into it even after being corrected.
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by blowski 4y ago
In the horseshoe model of politics, those two are not far apart from each other. They both oppose the competent centrist.
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by blowski 4y ago
I seem to remember from "Cockpit Confidential" that things could get thrown around in the air during a bumpy landing, causing a risk of head injury to passengers. This includes books.
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by blowski 4y ago
"Nothing to excess." The Oracle at Delphi in Ancient Greece had wisdom that would help some of today's libertarians (and socialists).
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by blowski 4y ago
I suspect we could have learned that low contrast text was bad without tools that track every single interaction. I might even say we haven't learned that lesson, despite the prevalence of such tools.
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by blowski 4y ago
> With substitution variables/text, this feature could be amazing. At which point, are you just re-creating JavaScript?
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by blowski 4y ago
I use simple Bash or Python scripts while prototyping, then Terraform for anything that needs maintenance in production.
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by blowski 4y ago
I agree that I think this can be an unhealthy attitude. A lot of us are working on projects where the biggest challenge is convincing the Product Manager to provide more than one sentence in the brief. That said, I can't think of any t
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by blowski 4y ago
This is exactly what GDPR is for, right? Arguing "you've already given some data to one bit of Google, so all bets are off and they can collect and store whatever they like" is the kind of logic we want to put a stop to.
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by blowski 4y ago
Check out the book "There Is No Antimemetics Division". A brilliant tour of all things meme (and anti-meme).
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by blowski 4y ago
One of the most common high-impact issues is failing to expire sessions. In one case, the expiration date was set to be a whole year - once a user had a valid JWT, the system would accept it for a whole year, even if the user's account
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by blowski 4y ago
I imagine the model assumes all countries are adopting such technologies at the same time, so the base rate will be consistent.
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by blowski 4y ago
> When used properly That's the whole problem. The majority of the time I've seen of JWTs, they weren't "used properly".
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by blowski 4y ago
Fast and safe feedback loops supported by lots of freely available information.
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by blowski 4y ago
For the novices like me, whats the benefit in producing fewer free radicals?
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by blowski 4y ago
My LG tv shows ads, streams all sorts of data to LG that I’d rather they didn’t, and the UI is pretty ropey. Given I mostly watch Kodi, I’d love that to be the primary UI.
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by blowski 4y ago
I think your original should be clear that you work for Google. It may certainly affect people’s judgement of your comment.
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by blowski 4y ago
You know what data Fastmail sells about me to advertisers? Nothing. I have no idea what Google is collecting or selling, beyond legalistically phrased ts and cs. Working for Google, I wonder if you have a conflict of interest in defending t
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by blowski 4y ago
Better privacy - I imagine it’s based on not allowing the world’s largest advertising company to sell their knowledge of everything you do.
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by blowski 4y ago
Wow! I took the 1913 date from the Etymology dictionary, so I'm surprised it goes back another 100 years before that.
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by blowski 4y ago
There's that, and there's also the tendency for humans to feel nostalgia for a time that never was. Memories are poor. I suspect if people were asked to guess whether a thread was from today or 2008, they'd get a lot wrong (a
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by blowski 4y ago
I suspect someone was making that complaint by day two. Every community (online and offline) has a tendency to talk about how the community has changed, typically in a derogatory manner.
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by blowski 4y ago
Feel free to call it whatever you want. I will call it piracy because most people do. EDIT: Interestingly, the first recorded usage of "pirate" to imply copyright infringement is from 1913, talking about "pirate broadcasts&qu
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by blowski 4y ago
You're hardly the first person to moan about that, and you won't be the last. Your moaning won't make the slightest bit of difference, though. The vast majority of the world already uses the word "piracy" to describ
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by blowski 4y ago
That pirate ship has sailed.
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by blowski 4y ago
O’Reilly offers this for a huge proportion of technical and business books. Amazon has a sort of offering for fiction, but it seems to offer only the back-catalogues, not current best-sellers.

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