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by cwyers 7y ago
I don't always feel great about sending my kid to school, but until you can get a critical mass for some kind of alternative, the cost in social isolation for keeping kids out of school seems way too high to me.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I don't think I've experienced either side of this. I've never seen people who otherwise have reasonable expectations of response time go crazy because of Slack. And I have never, ever seen someone with unreasonable expectati
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by cwyers 7y ago
If it wasn't for this blog post, I'm not sure I'd know right now how much I'm paying for Backblaze, and it's very possible I will forget by my renewal date.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I don't really think it depends on people working for free. The salary of a single person working on curl could be absorbed by any of a dozen companies (or foundations, like the Linux Foundation or Apache) without blinking. And I don&#
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by cwyers 7y ago
It sounds like the web of trust is an incredibly difficult problem to solve, and also not a problem that the kernel needs to solve. Why do the kernel developers need a decentralized way to verify signing keys?
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by cwyers 7y ago
The difference between the needs of Mailinator ("Email can reside in RAM because it is temporary (3-4 hours)") and most corporate e-mail services are... large. If you treat e-mail as ephemeral, sure, you can run on a single box so
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by cwyers 7y ago
My favorite, although one I have to take with a grain of salt: "Despite all of the attention Serverless, AI/ML, etc. get on stage, the majority of AWS's income comes from EC2."
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by cwyers 7y ago
What Lessig's piece seemed to completely ignore (and what this seems to touch on but never quite state plainly) is that under the conditions of anonymity where someone can't use their donations to launder their reputation, someone
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by cwyers 7y ago
Why should federation play into anything here? This is specifically something for people to talk to each other under the auspices of Mozilla's work efforts.
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by cwyers 7y ago
People are eager to work overtime when they're not making enough money working for their regular hours.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Apple can do math. Apple can look at what they're getting and what they're paying for it and run the figures and see what that comes to in terms of pay for hours worked. At a certain point, asking for X and putting down rules that
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yes, but part of keeping your application code stateless is that you need to actually do things to keep it that way. If you haven't done those things, it's easier to set up Tarsnap in a cron job than it is to make sure your deploy
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by cwyers 7y ago
Well, I think we have an answer to "what end" now. Yes, if you have a deployment strategy where you can reproducibly deploy from your source code repository, then you don't need to back up the servers. But until you've t
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by cwyers 7y ago
I live in Iowa and was an Eagle Scout and can figure out what the point of the anecdote was just fine, thanks.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I bought a few cheap (under $100) Nokia Lumias back when Nokia was Windows Phone's last, best hope, and it always annoyed me how a cheap Lumia with Windows Phone was in so many ways nicer to use than a mid-range Android phone -- much m
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by cwyers 7y ago
I like a lot about the Surface Ergo, but the lack of any kind of a front riser option was a dealbreaker for me.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I have a Sculpt because it's a lot easier to take with me for long travel than the Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, but it's a lot less comfortable in my opinion for $30 more.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I would buy one immediately. And hell, they brought back the Intellimouse, so it's not unprecedented.
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by cwyers 7y ago
> The Amazon Basics is $13 incl shipping ($10 each if you buy ten) whereas the cheapest configuration (no tilt kit, no wing rests) of your board is $270. Or you could get a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 for $35.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Signal is really three things with the same name (four or five, if you count the foundation and/or the LLC): 1) The Signal protocol, which can have multiple implementations (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype all use it), 2) The Si
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think China getting that information from Apple is sort of a second-order concern at this point. In a more stable situation, yeah, you don't want the police to have a reason to knock on your door. When you're gearing up to go pr
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by cwyers 7y ago
1) It doesn't seem to be a principled decision to stay out of the App Store on the part of Serval's author, who says "trying to get the app approved for release on the Apple App Store. But that will be an adventure for anoth
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by cwyers 7y ago
Because Serval isn't in the App Store yet?
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yes, but people typically want addresses to be identifying to _somebody_ otherwise they're not actually all that useful. If I am Alice and know Bob, I want to know Bob's address. Using the cell phone number, an address I already h
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by cwyers 7y ago
How would it being open source solve the problem of addressing?
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think a few things hampered Nintendo. Their (laudable) commitment to backwards compatibility led to them getting stuck behind the curve technologically -- the POWER architecture they stuck with from GameCube (when it was a mostly mainstre
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by cwyers 7y ago
Stack Overflow announced changes to the site intended to help combat these issues less than a week ago: https://dev.to/stackoverflow/what-s-in-the-works-at-stack-ov... I think the criticisms of Stack Overflow in genera
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by cwyers 7y ago
I agree that people still play it. But looking at the system requirements: https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_Global_... I am hard-pressed to say that it looks like a suitable benchmark. It'
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by cwyers 7y ago
There are, it should be noted, places in the US where there are not readily-available supermarkets. But those tend to be urban and rural, not suburban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yeah, large supermarkets tend to have salad bars, suburban or urban. Wal-Mart has grocery items, but you're not going to find a salad bar at one. Same goes for Target. You're also not going to find a salad bar at a Trader Joe&#x27

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