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by chii 2mo ago
The problem with QA is that from the POV of management, all they do is find issues and delay releases. If the QA team did their jobs well, then once all of the reported bugs are found and fixed (passes QA), the software runs fine and there
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by chii 2mo ago
> Cancel could also be implemented by hiding a UI element, for example. Sometimes this can be confusing, because the hiding of the UI element doesn't prevent the submission of the form later. If the page is a giant form, with indivi
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by chii 2mo ago
> They should pay a fair amount. they should pay the marginal value that the next buyer would buy. Do you also think that a person dying of thirst ought to pay the maximum price they could possibly pay for water?
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by chii 2mo ago
> the investment mania in SK and it's really scary. i mean, it shouldn't be scary, because their failure is their own, and i doubt there would be collateral damage outside of those high risk investors. It's scary for _them
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by chii 2mo ago
This is a form of legal evasion similar to warrant canaries imho : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary i m not sure how legal a protection it is, and whether the courts would interpret your choice of OS as com
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by chii 2mo ago
There's a chilling effect from even just the arrest.
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by chii 2mo ago
The police are there to enforce laws, but enforce it by punishment, rather than prevention. The potential deterrence effect still applies, as people do get discouraged from crimes by the mere presence of the police. However, there is zero l
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by chii 3mo ago
> I wonder if the shares without these special rights will be substantially discounted it should be, but the market might be a bit irrational.
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by chii 3mo ago
> Does anyone still believe there's some hope for personal freedoms? as long as such personal freedoms gives users the ability to skirt the profit motives of companies making these devices, there will always be a force to try restri
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by chii 3mo ago
TINA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative
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by chii 3mo ago
> send a photo to your mac/PC is "upload to google photos and hope it decides to sync". and conveniently, google now has access to your photo, the meta data, and potentially able to scan it for advertising purposes.
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by chii 3mo ago
They securely share your private info with their advertising partners. You know that no hackers that didnt pay google would get access to that information.
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by chii 3mo ago
Security, but not for you, is no security.
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by chii 3mo ago
> Android world is so vast and full of resources and google is doing all they can to try shut it down, because they saw how profitable a walled garden like iOS really is.
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by chii 3mo ago
the question isn't whether you still have a reason to choose android - the question is what alternative do you have but android (or iOS).
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by chii 3mo ago
> Everything should be delivered in the fastest way possible, in the shortest time possible, on the tightest budget possible. because companies that did this is rewarded with more users and more revenue (than a hypothetical competitor th
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by chii 3mo ago
you can still do it: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=windo... hopefully it doesn't get removed.
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by chii 3mo ago
> bundle all changes in "required security updates." And that is why i have setup a managed organization setting in windows to stop automatic updates (which includes security updates). I manually vet each individual security up
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by chii 3mo ago
And where is that model Y manufactured? Surely you're not suggesting that it's imported from the US.
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by chii 3mo ago
> Is that objectively true? objectively true. And there's zero need to factor in things like "human rights" or "environmental protection", because these are costs that have been externalized and the consumer don&
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by chii 3mo ago
The words of george orwell has never been so accurate. "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength"
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by chii 3mo ago
> Let’s hope the next one is better Trump has shown the world that you don't need to "be better" to get into the top job. I bet the more conniving machiavellians will pretend to be better, but secretly operate even worse t
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by chii 3mo ago
-$3 trillion! That's the highest earning investment that has ever existed!
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by chii 3mo ago
> SQLite is all you need if it really is all you need. most use cases are really capable of being satisfied by sqlite, but the "architect" imagines they need more (or is preparing for the potential).
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by chii 3mo ago
> which is why there’s a subsidy required for people to buy them? the gov't also offers interest free (but inflation indexed) loans to tertiary education. Just because there's a subsidy, doesn't mean the tax payer is payin
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by chii 3mo ago
while i somewhat agree with that reasoning, it can go too far - most people would murder and kill if there weren't any consequences to doing so. But is it right to say who they really are as being murderers?
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by chii 3mo ago
> It looks practically photorealistic. what has improved a lot recently is the physically based rendering - specifically, the lighting. Looking at the steam page, this train game has that type of lighting. Another game that uses similarl
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by chii 3mo ago
> No, it's a signal from the market that the product being sold is not wanted by the market. to me, it is really a signal that the cost of production is high - ala, they're inefficient, rather than the market not wanting the pr
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by chii 3mo ago
> not committing prompts. nothing prevents people from committing their prompts. I've started seeing prompts being committed into repos, or at least as part of the commit message. In any case, if in the future there's a prompt
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by chii 3mo ago
> relies on the creator clicking the link and that's why google calls it social engineering. But i still do believe this is a vulnerability. It catches people offguard, and makes social engineering easier. An attacker controlled lin

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