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by bsimpson 2y ago
In Nevada (and I'm sure others), unions get to set the "prevailing wage," which is the legal minimum wage for work they bid on. So if your shop is more efficient than the union shop, you don't get to compete on that pric
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Sounds like an effort of the CWA, who is also behind the efforts to unionize Google, the Apple Stores, Mapbox, the NY Times, NPR, and the gaming companies mentioned at the bottom of the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Nice that people have options. Setting up a desktop on your own isn't always easy. I tried COSMIC and was disappointed that it didn't work well on a touchscreen (a common refrain for Linux environments, and a motivator for me try
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by bsimpson 2y ago
For those who have heard of Bazzite, the frontrunner in gaming/home theater Linux distros, it's based on Silverblue.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Remembering the uproar when Apple said 3rd party apps would have to be web apps, but didn't ship the features needed to write good web apps on the first iPhone? The term PWA wasn't coined until 8 years later, and Apple has long b
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Apple has also shown its not shy about geofencing the remedies to only help people physically located in the EU's jurisdiction, with a billing address to match.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I had Macs growing up and missed out on all the Half Lives until I finally got to play Alyx last year. I tried HL1 after that, but couldn't really get into it. That said, Valve released the Anniversary Update for Half Life 2 a few mon
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Tap to pay felt like it took off in the US as a reaction to the germ hysteria of the pandemic. Swiping a card was arguably more convenient than getting out and unlocking your phone. There wasn't much demand for it here when it was po
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by bsimpson 2y ago
This feels ripe for gaming. Building a system that's resilient to a bunch of smart people going "what if I retire a few years early if I realize my kid might go to Harvard?" seems nontrivial.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I feel like the US has a history of inventing a thing and having an early version of it become popular. By the time it's mainstream in Europe, it has been improved and standardized, giving the appearance that Europe has more modern te
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by bsimpson 2y ago
One part of the company designed infrastructure, and another part used it. The results feel disparate because they're very separate markets. Amazon did it on a shorter timeline and shipped the usage before the infrastructure, but it&#
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by bsimpson 2y ago
The yellow|white|red jacks on the back of your TV are "RCA jacks." RCA stands for Radio Corporation of America. The same RCA launched NBC, which launched CNBC, which is a dominant source of financial news in the US. You plugged
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Can you imagine if someone just turned off the sky?
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by bsimpson 2y ago
One use case is developing reference boards for homebrew hardware. https://santroller.tangentmc.net/ is an open source firmware for plastic instruments (think Rock Band and Guitar Hero). Their primary target is the Raspber
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I honestly wonder how legal that is. If you bought something under the pretense that you could disable cloud stuff and then it silently starts uploading to the cloud, that's a violation of your agreement. If they start dropping all req
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I consulted with them briefly. Felt like it was stimulant-fueled hustleporn. They had an interesting concept, but not surprised they didn't turn out a sustainable product.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> Additionally, the arbitrator ruled that so much as Wynn-Williams can control, she is prohibited from further publishing or distributing the book So she can't do press. I wonder if this means there will be only one run, or if the p
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I don't understand how this worldview coexists with countries like Russia and China. If the feds kneecap US companies, it's not going to make the next generation of US companies stronger, just cede influence to worse jurisdictions
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> Firefox and Safari Exempted It's been long enough now that there are significant differences, but Chrome started from the same base as Safari. The teams had different perspectives, so Chrome forked Safari's internals and cal
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by bsimpson 2y ago
It's a phrase I learned from my mom/grandpa growing up. "On the square" means "but I also mean it."
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by bsimpson 2y ago
> No one works for any BigTech company because they think they are making the world a better place. I'm sure there are plenty of people who work at big companies for precisely this reason (or at least, with that as _a_ reason among
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by bsimpson 2y ago
There is a prominent subset of the tech crowd who are ladder climbers - ruthlessly pursuing what is rewarded with pay/title/prestige without regard to actually making good stuff. There are countless kidding-on-the-square jokes abo
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by bsimpson 2y ago
This sounds like something Douglas Adams would have written about.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've had an account since it was Google Music All Access. YTM wants to be a peer of Spotify in the same way that Google Music was positioned against iTunes. Google Music was actually a better product if you're used to buying musi
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I've never even considered Spotify because I already have YT. Modulo the social bandwagon, seems like it's the same offering and one also gives you ad-free YT, so it's been a no-brainer for me. Makes me wonder how many peopl
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Yes, but still splintered into a bunch of different conglomerates. KTM has the motorcycle brand, but it's going through it's own restructuring/bankruptcy at the moment.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
I'm surprised it's a relatively low percentage, considering the thing came with a Windows sticker (and might have shown the logo while it turned on).
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by bsimpson 2y ago
Reminds me of when Steve cut all the numerical suffixes from the product line and drew the grid: home work portable iBook | PowerBook ----------------- desktop iMac | PowerMac
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by bsimpson 2y ago
<but-why.gif> For those that don't remember the Dreamcast, it was Sega's final system before they left the hardware business. It was based on Windows CE, another Microsoft OS without the NT kernel.
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by bsimpson 2y ago
FUD for who? Feels like a quirk that some of its originators are open source hackers that ended up with Fuchsia being published externally at all. Google definitely doesn't want to attract more killedbygoogle headlines for its experim

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