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by cwyers 6y ago
I don't really know if this is a head's up comparison -- Apple maintains very tight control over their hardware compared to Windows. So you're trading off, in that Microsoft has to manage an ecosystem with much greater comple
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by cwyers 6y ago
There is a difference between deciding "we don't need to be fast" and deciding "we need to be slow."
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by cwyers 6y ago
x86 and the platform around it didn't become a standard, it was _made_ one. The standard platform for PCs is WHQL Testing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHQL_Testing The only way you get a standard like that is if
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by cwyers 6y ago
The naysayers don't believe that there aren't projects that rely on OpenPGP for security, they just think that it's not reliable.
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by cwyers 6y ago
But then the VPN product is the revenue driver, not the browser. You still aren't making money off the browser. The whole point of the article is decrying the lack of focus on browser in order to focus on other revenue streams. I don&#
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by cwyers 6y ago
Well, there's two things here. One, typically executable code is packaged in a file along with other content, otherwise, the OS doesn't know that the contents are intended to be executed. The broader problem is, if you could someh
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by cwyers 6y ago
They're not buying the info. The info is worthless. What they're buying is the deal flow.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Well, sorta. I'm not surprised it's k8s under the hood. But it's not a managed k8s product like GKE -- you don't have to _care_ that it's k8s under the hood. To the consumer, it presents like ECS or Lambda.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Warren Buffett knew what he was doing, but the median Robinhood trader doesn't.
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by cwyers 6y ago
But that's true of brokers that charge customers per trade too: they too are incentivized for customers to trade more.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Yeah, from the blog post: > I’ve a good friend at a startup who found a co-lo data center in a small college town in Virginia, where they were able to build out a massive MongoDB database, sharded across 4 massive servers, each server ho
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by cwyers 6y ago
ECS and Cloud Run are options to get containers without k8s.
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by cwyers 6y ago
From Red Hat's release: ```There are different kinds of CentOS users, and we are working with the CentOS Project Governing Board to tailor programs that meet the needs of these different user groups. In the first half of 2021, we plan
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by cwyers 6y ago
Red Hat has developer licenses. It might not end up being a shakedown, depending.
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by cwyers 6y ago
I think people should start thinking of Stadia as "a console that happens to use the Linux kernel," not as a server running a Linux distro. It's getting the equivalent of a console port.
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by cwyers 6y ago
I don't as such blame them for not wanting to do it for free, but they did want to do it for free until they didn't, and you could argue they're under no obligation to keep doing so, but given the way they have introduced the
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by cwyers 6y ago
What mission? It's a CI/CD platform. I think the far more likely explanation is that updating the websites was very low on the priority list of the people who made this decision.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Thanks, the video helped explain some things, along with this post from the R-devel list: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2020-December/080173.... The reason for announcing the new lambda syntax at the
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by cwyers 6y ago
The R "userland" pipe magrittr has been altered to make it more compatible with the proposed base pipe, as well: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/11/magrittr-2-0-is-here/
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by cwyers 6y ago
There are a lot of great parts of AWS that aren't in LightSail, even for small projects. S3. RDS (with or without Aurora). ECS and ECR. It takes and manages a lot of complexity for you. (DigitalOcean, to its credit, has offerings in th
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by cwyers 6y ago
The reason for Racket and its large library to embrace a large standard is the amount of things that Racket doesn't have to implement itself because it's in the standard already.
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by cwyers 6y ago
My understanding is they initially developed the tech beneath WSL to run Android apps on Windows Phone, actually. https://mspoweruser.com/windows-subsystem-for-linux-started-...
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by cwyers 6y ago
The problem isn't any one individual who is/isn't involved, it's the consensus mechanism. If you bring in a great sous chef and ask them to make you an omelet, they will make a great omelet. If you bring in a committee o
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by cwyers 6y ago
> If you have used his work, push your companies to sponsor/donate. That's not how any of this works. Most people work for companies that do not just donate to random software developers. If you want companies to send you money
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by cwyers 6y ago
I mean, that Pentium III he shows up top probably cost $900, and even with inflation, a Windows laptop with 4gb of RAM costs $250 off Amazon.com right now. The "low-end PCs" that the author complains are being left out by Electron
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by cwyers 6y ago
No. What I'm saying is that if you want to know how much developer time Debian's donation buys, you need to look at how much it costs Peertube to buy developer time, which includes all taxes Peertube must pay on employment, not ju
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by cwyers 6y ago
The point here isn't how valuable the employee is, it's how much of a developer's time this donation buys.
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by cwyers 6y ago
That just kicks the can down the road a step, though: that just makes the folklore knowing where to find the good GitHub issues.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Optional security isn't security. Especially with the sort of metadata that is in _someone else's phone_. Basically, everybody who has my phone number probably has it in their iOS/Android contacts. I can't opt out of _th
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by cwyers 6y ago
...anyone with a packet sniffer?

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