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by chipdart 3y ago
How many bait-and-switch cases has Tesla so far been caught with? The self driving car promise is perhaps the longest running claim.
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by chipdart 3y ago
> That covers pretty much all of unix. I think Unix critics completely miss the point. Contrary to your claim, Unix's basic architecture principles were proven to be key to it's success. Contrary to your claim, this does not me
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by chipdart 3y ago
From the post: > GNU M4 only exists because RMS wanted GNU to have what Unix had, and while I wanted to do something different and better, RMS convinced me to do M4 first. This remark sounds awfully ignorant and clueless, and with accusa
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by chipdart 3y ago
I'm wondering why are they completely cutting off their hosted DB services instead of scaling it down. Is this something that's so time-consuming to provide at scale? I'm also questioning their decision to put all their chips
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by chipdart 3y ago
I have no idea what you tried to say. Your comment sounds like machine-generated garbage.
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by chipdart 3y ago
> You're spreading misinformation. See other comments about RSAL/SSPL. I think you are commenting on things you know nothing about. Take the time you need to read through the license you are quoting. Here's a link to the R
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by chipdart 3y ago
> So the contributions from collaborative effort is still usable under the same terms in those versions. So what’s this “bait and switch”? It's undoubtedly bait and switch. You have a company that portrays itself as the host of a pr
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by chipdart 3y ago
> And redis doesn't want to pay contributors. Same gist, same shortsighted take on the whole matter. People who parrot these mindless rants on licensing purity would do well to learn what Redis inc actually is, what's it's
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by chipdart 3y ago
> It doesn’t want to pay license fees. When a business is strong-armed to pay for something, doesn't it make sense to spend the money on an alternative that is cheaper, more reliable, trustable, and preserves its control?
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by chipdart 3y ago
I don't think OP is right at all. Just because a company offers managed instances of any random FLOSS service that does not mean they are profiting out of that service. From the customer standpoint, the choice is between running self h
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Stange that they would lose ground in a new architecture. Is it strange though? AMD needs to ensure backwards compatibility with x86 and AMD64 architectures, and can't simply tell it's customers to just run their old software
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by chipdart 3y ago
> And you'd be wrong. I've joined internet groups that use Slack and left specifically because Slack is so bad (...) I don't know what counts as good in your book, but to me Slack is by far the best professional-oriented m
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by chipdart 3y ago
> I mean, for the majority of people, does this really give us something good? I think it clearly does the world a whole lot of good. It would be disastrous if a single company leveraged it's monopoly over a platform to force-feed t
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by chipdart 3y ago
The Taiwanese government funded the project and certainly contributed to unblock problems, but why are you singling out in this case the importance of funding and who are the investors in detriment of who is actually making things possible?
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by chipdart 3y ago
> He could study and work in less known places but could had the knowledge, drive and was in the right place to start a business. I don't think your take is grounded in reality. The man lived through the tech sector age, and was rig
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by chipdart 3y ago
> I'm not sure why I feel this way. I feel very strongly that people can reinvent themselves. I'd turn it the other way around. These inspirational stories tend to be extremely biased towards young, no-career, highly-driven, hi
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by chipdart 3y ago
I doubt that people with established careers in top executive positions can't lead unless they read an article on someone having done that already.
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by chipdart 3y ago
I don't think Elon Musk is advertising visions, or hopes and dreams. He advertises concrete features, and gives his word they are just around the corner, but has been always doing what looks like blatant bait and switch.
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by chipdart 3y ago
> It's all about branding and name recognition I don't think so. The only thing they need to let their customers know is that they offer a memory cache service that is compatible with this or that interface. Whether it's R
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by chipdart 3y ago
> He sold the trademark to some random company. Amazon / Google / Microsoft could have thrown him $30M for that and put Redis in an OSS Foundation. It sounds like a very bad deal for the likes of Amazon et al. The likes of Amaz
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Only 20%? I think you're focusing on absolute numbers, while losing perspective of how traffic dropped. Twitter now runs rampant with disinformation bots from nation-states which were previously countered or outright banned. The 2
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Likely none: It's counted by looking at what a panel of users do with their smartphones. I take it you never saw a bot farm before. Do a quick Google image search for some perspective.
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by chipdart 3y ago
> But the thing is the 7713P itself is such an old processor that it can be found for even cheaper If you're pointing out used hardware, doesn't it make sense to factor in service life? Google tells me that the service life of
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by chipdart 3y ago
> (...) without warning or designating another maintainer. Why would he?
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by chipdart 3y ago
> One of the four forming parties IS the farmers... They keep holding up these signs that say "no farmers no food", while we all know a huge part of it is for export. Huge swathes of land in the Netherlands are used to grow flo
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by chipdart 3y ago
> But say something negative about farmers and you'll have protesters in big tractors blocking highways and city centers. At this point they should be called what they are: agricultural corporations.
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by chipdart 3y ago
> I'm a prodigious note-taker with pen and paper, and have made peace with the idea that I’ll never reference 99% of the notes I write. I abandoned pen-and-paper in favour of text files and maintaining a dir tree structure because j
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Homeownership rate over time has moved around within a fairly narrow range. I don't think your graph says what you think it says. The graph shows a time series of the rate of homes which are owner-occupied to those that aren'
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by chipdart 3y ago
> Annual wages are about 15% higher today compared to 1971 in real terms. Since 1971, the cumulative inflation rate was around 700%, with an average annual inflation being well over 3%. So while wages increased 15%, the price of everythi

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