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by bradford 7y ago
[disclosure, MS employee] With the absence of telemetry, how do you know Linux is doing just fine? (specifically in the desktop world, not server world). Microsoft has an interest in knowing how well Windows is doing, and Windows has liv
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by bradford 7y ago
Could be wrong, but I feel that you interpreted my statement about 'free enterprise' as an opening salvo in a political discussion, which isn't exactly where I was trying to go. That said, to elaborate on what exactly I'
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by bradford 7y ago
You're right, you can make basic furniture with those tools and lumber bought from a home improvement store, and the furniture will still be better than what you can get in many department stores. That said, I wanted something with mor
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by bradford 7y ago
Take a class, get in touch with someone who's experienced. Ideally, re-use an existing shop when you're a novice. I had about 40 hours of shop time with a teacher before I felt comfortable working on my own. Fortunately, you sho
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by bradford 7y ago
While I like the concept of maker spaces, they vary so much from space to space. The space nearest to me was started by people whose primary interest is Burning man. I toured the shop and it was... chaotic at best. They reconfigured the sh
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by bradford 7y ago
It's a non profit. They know how to play the donation game very well. They also offer classes and charge daily or monthly fees for general use. The model works in a big city with lots of potential users and well-off people who are will
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by bradford 7y ago
So, I had a problem. I wanted furniture that would last at least a decade. Without going into too much detail, I cannot stress how poorly constructed modern manufactured furniture is. It's also super expensive to pay a craftsperson t
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by bradford 8y ago
A common joke among students when I was in my computer-science program: when asked a how-many or how-much question that involved basic arithmetic, one would reply: "Yeah, I can't do that. That's applied math".
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by bradford 8y ago
the lazy newb pack is great! I can't play dwarf fortress without it, but even with it the game has a steep learning curve.
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by bradford 8y ago
I've played DF a lot. Biggest problem that I had is that it eventually becomes a challenge to manage the framerate. I realize there are ways to fix this that are intertwined with the gameplay, but I'd rather play the game instead
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by bradford 8y ago
> Government subsidies are what enabled the huge agribusinesses to take over the market. That might be so, but that's not what the article discusses. The word 'subsidies' is only mentioned once, and it's not in a con
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by bradford 8y ago
I feel that we didn't read the same article. This article is absolutely about modernisation and optimization. The dairy business has been guided, partially by government policy, to maximize milk production while minimizing human labor
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by bradford 8y ago
A lot of American cultural institutions are being lost in our effort to modernize and optimize production. This affects a lot of industries, not just dairy. Sadly, like the author, I can't really think of a good solution. The only pr
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by bradford 8y ago
I'm not sure if it's going to impact your trust in Windows either way, but regulators do 'wiretap' the communication sent off Windows boxes in an effort to keep Microsoft compliant with law, and Microsoft is financiall
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by bradford 8y ago
8 hours max. My intellectual productivity peaks 3 to 4 hours after I wake, and it's pretty non-existent 7 to 8 hours after I wake. It's not fair to yourself to work beyond a sustainable amount: once you pull a weekend shift or tw
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by bradford 8y ago
I work at MSFT. There's a difference between being critical of a product in an effort to improve it, and classifying the product as 'crap'. My opinion, and I think most msft employees would share it, fall into the former, and
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by bradford 8y ago
I think the resulting pieces are simply fragments of metal. Better resembling buckshot or small metal bits than flechettes. i.e., more like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(weaponry) https:/&#x
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by bradford 8y ago
> That's not enough for me. I often encounter people building complex systems message queuing, despite failures being rare, retries being cheap and fast, and the hardware already being resilient to load. I'm a bit familiar with
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by bradford 8y ago
Microsoft employee here. I still regularly see engineers use notepad as the default text editor. back in 2001, I met a windows kernel engineer who used notepad as his primary source code editor. I don't really understand it but notepad
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by bradford 8y ago
Intentions and prior knowledge matter in a situation like this. It would be wise to see what information the prosecutors have before declaring the death of free press.
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by bradford 8y ago
You sure it's not one of the other violin species that were discussed in the article (loxosceles deserta, for example)?
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by bradford 8y ago
Ok, I'll admit mistakes on my original post. The regedit method clearly isn't seen as a suitable fix for the broad population, and 'basic' telemetry isn't the same as 'no' telemetry. Some other points: &g
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by bradford 8y ago
No, I'm saying that if you want to view or delete the data that MS has collected, you need an MSA. If you want to downgrade/disable it, you follow the instructions in the links provided.
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by bradford 8y ago
Bottom line, if MS is going to show you telemetry data that's been gathered, they've got to know its you that they've gathered it from, so authentication has to occur. Without going into details, it's hard enough to d
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by bradford 8y ago
<disclaimer, MS employee> MS adheres to GDPR regulations and has applied those protections to all users. You can opt out of telemetry, you can view what they've collected on you and delete it. https://www.techrepublic
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by bradford 8y ago
Eh... there's a specific legal bar that needs to be met in order to invoke anti-monopoly laws. Whether or not that bar is met is an entirely different matter from a companies freedom to speech.
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by bradford 8y ago
Anyone know what the unemployment benefits are like in CA? In WA state, "Unemployment benefits are made available through taxes paid by your former employer(s) to partially replace your regular earnings and help you meet expenses while
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by bradford 8y ago
> The problem is that the twelve-tone system was designed for a very specific "use case" This isn't really correct though. Twelve is used because it has certain properties of divisibility that make life easier for the mus
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by bradford 8y ago
an inclusion list (i.e, only these apps are allowed to run) would help. Really, though, the thing that I want (and I'm probably not thinking through the ramifications too deeply, so bear with me), is a remote kill switch that is physic
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by bradford 8y ago
Parent dealing with this question myself. The two main challenges that we face: 1) A smartphone is increasingly required for getting by in society. My kid doesn't really need it, but I worry about him navigating the transit system

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