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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer but afaik the DMCA takedown process is prescribed by statute, and platforms must comply to qualify for the legal protections that make hosting user-generated content possible. Friedman would certainly be removed by Mic
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Whatever the public perception is, they did indeed get Napster et al offline, which I think is the thing they cared about. Not sure that they interpret the Streisand Effect in the conventional way. If anything, temporary increase in usage o
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
The beauty of `git clone` is that there are copies of the repository on many thousands of hard drives (including mine -- last pulled a few days back). The main loss at this point is the metadata stored in GitHub's proprietary addons, l
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I'm not familiar with Authorware specifically, but there's a whole lost world where computing was extremely rich in visuality, dynamism, and play, and the striking thing is that these qualities were expected to enhance peoples&#
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Partial agree here. HR can be useful but it depends on the company's culture and under good circumstances, it won't be needed. You want a place that will appreciate your contributions and appreciate the value of their long-term in
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I should clarify. I'm not saying that Postgres is unworthy or that its adoption is fashion-driven -- it's part of the 5-10% that is driven by practicality. That is only the case now because, as you said, there is no fashionable
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
afaik, MySQL never had a better replication story than PostgreSQL, you've always had to use Percona's add-ons to get something workable. Even then (many years ago), we had multiple data loss incidents that were precipitated by w
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Do people ever look at how much more they're paying for Aurora? I've saved companies thousands of dollars per month just by switching them to standard RDS instances for systems that see tiny load and were only on Aurora because th
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> Anyone can share what makes PostgreSQL so successful? Maybe other projects can learn adopt a few of these good practices. Since honesty is a theme of this thread, let's be real here. PgSQL is popular now only because Oracle kill
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Just missed the edit timeout, but noticed that GeekBench run was on battery. Here it is with the system plugged in. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/3689889
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Fedora 32 works reasonably well, just some minor hiccups, such as: * There is no driver for the Goodix USB fingerprint reader yet * Occasionally thin lines of pixels don't update correctly (hard to describe, might get a photo soon) * d
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
FYI those letters are, afaik at least, typically grossly overestimated. The number is meant to scare you into calling a CPA to straighten it out, essentially. So for anyone else with the same kind of letter, don't just pay unless you k
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Definitely the case, people don't realize how much a weak link in the chain can break the whole structure, and just how much influence the command structure can have. I've worked places where all my peers were very smart and well-
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
PowerShell is underrated, but it's its own worst enemy, stubbornly insisting on LongForm-VerbNoun syntax for all but the most common commands that anyone familiar with the shell would expect. A few UI touchups and it could go substanti
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Yeah. Consider that BigCos end up writing transpilers and new runtimes for their target platforms before rewriting the application, which would entail discarding the decades of built-in bugfixes and application logic as well as reconstructi
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Yeah, there are many reasons that people like driving for Uber and/or Lyft, and it's very closed-minded to say that the market can't exist if it doesn't fully and completely replace a "real job" for all of its
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
My guess would be that he is being tried as an adult and thus not eligible for the protections afforded to juveniles.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Yes. The reality is that COVID unemployment checks have made it so that a lot of people can finally afford this type of upgrade. Many people are receiving a larger "paycheck" now than they've ever earned in their life.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
They're serving different market segments. Costco literally charges an admission fee. "Pay me money to come spend more money inside my store and it'll be really cool, promise" is the antithesis of the Walmart philosoph
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I don't think Brave's attempts to integrate BAT are either a scam or a pump-and-dump. I think they're sincerely just trying to figure out how to move "the internet" to a revenue model that doesn't necessitate h
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
The thing is that no one cares. It's a cultural issue. If Elastic makes it "harder" to get off the starting line by setting secure defaults, they'll get their lunch eaten by a fork called EasyElastic that people perceive
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I think that technique probably works a lot better with high-resolution professional headshots than it does with candid photos at the family reunion, for example. However, if someone is willing to go to that level of effort, the target prob
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
The goal, afaik, is to stop facial detection software from learning to recognize you and put a face to a name, not to frustrate visual similarity searches. The images are supposed to be visually similar -- so similar that they're ind
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
It's not just Rails, it's basically any semi-modern development toolkit. JavaScript's minimal standard library is one of its biggest flaws and one of the richest sources of exploitation, as exemplified by the left-pad fiasco.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
> What we really need is Fawkes face paint. Check out https://cvdazzle.com (archive link, because honestly I'm surprised the site is still up: http://archive.is/v39xI )
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I've got to commend the OP here for having the guts to title this appropriately whereas Cambridge titled it "Institutions, the social capital structure, and multilevel marketing companies" when the abstract states that they e
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
No, we've had several experienced users immediately disengage because they felt overwhelmed and/or confused (not using as synonyms here, but common related reactions) by the interface. Performance issues, especially on mobile, hav
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
Most ISPs don't require this -- you can use your own equipment if you wish. Most customers take them up on the rentals, though, either because they don't know any better or because it's easier than buying and maintaining thei
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
I think the point is not that Perl's rules don't make sense -- it's that they're much less obvious than those in many competing languages. In Python, lists are `l = [1, 2, 3]` and dicts are `d = {"key": val}`.
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by cookiecaper 6y ago
It's not Gentoo, but in practice, many frequently-used packages remain in the AUR and an AUR helper to make that transparent is standard kit for anyone using the box as a workstation. It's much more "source-based" than

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