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by croon 18d ago
> So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. Now just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes. > Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows? >
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by croon 19d ago
Much to my wife's chagrin I never have anything on my wishlist since I'm not a huge fan of (receiving) gifts in general, but I did put the X4 on my list a couple of months ago, since my decade+ old Kobo is getting long in the toot
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by croon 19d ago
While some misalignment is due to core principles, I think the vast majority is down to information dissymmetry, and that part could be solved. Ie, would me and this random other person disagree if we had the exact same data.
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by croon 19d ago
> some kind of admin panel where employees can easily CRUD some updates In my experience this is usually the crux. That software always rots, and needs whatever (minimal) on-ramping for employees, as well as access management. If I could
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by croon 19d ago
Me too, because I hear a lot of experiences like yours as well. It might be opinionated architecture not fitting the training norm, size of legacy repos/projects, language, or whatever else. For what it's worth I/we do much l
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by croon 22d ago
Just wanted to say I appreciate your response being both nuanced, clear and with no attempts at misrepresenting any of my points. It's rarer than it should be.
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by croon 23d ago
> If you have a set of opinions and people who vehemently oppose them start pushing a bandwagon where they twist your words to make them sound more extreme and typify them with the worst descriptors they can think of (nazi, antivaxer, et
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by croon 23d ago
I've been using Bitwarden for close to a decade now, and it still works, but given silent documentation changes and increasingly opaque communication following the CEO change, I started considering self-hosting. While vaultwarden exist
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by croon 23d ago
Feature #8 in Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism: > The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more fr
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by croon 25d ago
If it were to happen I don't think Amazon would sell any books to begin with. And even under the current system, I only buy books to pay writers, and even then they only get very little of the amount I pay. I'd much rather pay the
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by croon 25d ago
I'm not going to pile on since there is already a handful of comments stating the same, but I think we can all be guilty of "This thing exists/happens specifically where I and most people I interact with live, so it must be c
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by croon 25d ago
I don't hate it if it's text I asked for, in which case it's also easier to glance through looking for the points relevant to the topic. I hate it if the assumption is that I'm communicating with a human, and I then get
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by croon 25d ago
That's not what logically follows from my statement. It's a conclusion you can make if you believe my premises are false though. It could also be a third possibility of a bug/issue affecting many of these specific batches.
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by croon 25d ago
I just used Fable to thoroughly review a PR, and it came up with 5 "Findings that block approval". I went through each one through the code path (a couple were already considered during implementation), and while all 5 were theore
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by croon 25d ago
Yeah, we've had our CI only run pipelines on proper branch prefixes for many years, so if you for whatever reason had a wip/branch you wouldn't clog up our runners.
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by croon 25d ago
You vote out the worst party. Then the remaining party splinters into groups and you vote out the worst half of those two. Rinse, repeat. Are they both bad? Probably. Are the equally bad? Not even remotely.
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by croon 25d ago
Not only care about; a mistake is unlikely to be repeated, a motivated attack is very likely to be attempted again.
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by croon 26d ago
If it is/can be used to track citizens arbitrarily regardless of crime, it is spying, regardless where the cameras are. You might be right that the issues could be solved without removing the cameras, but they definitely will be solved
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by croon 26d ago
I believe the first Command & Conquer was the one I played that way. But I'm young, so it can't possibly be the same, can it?
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by croon 26d ago
It might be mostly with kids seeking status from materialism, but blue bubbles as opposed to green bubbles was/is still a thing.
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by croon 29d ago
1) (all) tariffs aren't obviously and universally bad, only when applied universally without any coherent long term goal/strategy. 2) retaliatory tariffs are targeting the hostile actor, not widely against all (other) trading part
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by croon 29d ago
I'm unsure how you reach the conclusion of "self-interest". Unions are about collective bargaining power, reaching (ideally) what's best for most of the people it represents, even if it's detrimental to you specific
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by croon 1mo ago
Sure, but I'm not comparing credit cards to cash, but credit card incumbents to hypothetical lower rate ones that don't offer rewards in exchange for risk and busywork.
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by croon 1mo ago
Cashback is definitely capped, I'm less sure on other forms of rewards, but by my napkin comparisons, I do get out more "value" from my credit cards than the fees and cashback caps. YMMV of course.
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by croon 1mo ago
While I hate that it's like this, you're leaving money on the table. Currently you're keeping money in the bank accruing the bank interest to occasionally pay for stuff. With a credit card you would get various bonuses/c
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by croon 1mo ago
Imagine a world where the pipeline from extra fees back to hoop-hopping cashback didn't exist and your services were just cheaper by the same percentage points instead. It's designed to make money off people slipping up instead of
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by croon 1mo ago
No; one is asking, the other is asserting. One can only end in a question mark, the other can end with a period.
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by croon 1mo ago
That isn't the question they posed either.
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by croon 1mo ago
That's not the scenario GP was asking for legal basis for, it was explicitly where police haven't informed you yet.
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by croon 1mo ago
You replied to this: >> Deleting your data is absolutely a crime when you know the authorities could've wanted whatever it was you deleted -- even if they haven't told you yet. > Can you provide a statute number for this

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