darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "and it breaks a lot of services." I can't say that's been my experience. It breaks some stuff, but far less than I was expecting it too. (Ditto for disabling javascript entirely with uMatrix..) Talking up
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Basically blame isn't a zero-sum game. Trying to do "blame calculus", figuring out ways to make the numbers add up to 100%, is folly. Two people or more people can be fully to blame at the same time.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't see how that's relevant to this subdiscussion, since the switch from bash to zsh won't effect what he's talking about.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I wasn't suggesting otherwise. I was referring to the WaPo article about Amazon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/02/amazon-...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If the companies in question remain intact until 2020 (which seems certain) then she could still campaign on the premise of "Trump's administration has failed to go after these companies hard enough." So I don't agre
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The Amazon/WaPo article notes the timing as well and hints that it might not be totally partisan. > "Antitrust also has become an early flash point among Democrats vying for the White House ahead of the 2020 election. Sen. Eli
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "the 3 threatened investigations (Google by DoJ, Facebook by FTC, now Apple bu DoJ)" Maybe four, Amazon too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/02/amazon-...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In the past few days or so there have been articles about potential antitrust stuff against Apple, Facebook, and Google. What is going on here? Facebook article, three hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008470
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Most businesses using excel don't even have an IT department. I'm talking about the LONG tail of small business where the owner is using excel and nobody, except perhaps the size of their wallet, can tell them some other piece o
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Without difficulties induced by scale. Some sorts of businesses will hit scale issues with excel, but many will not. The baseline difficulty of using excel is not what I'm talking about and I don't consider it relevant since e
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Right, Amazon's inventory system certainly can't be run out of a spreadsheet. But even for something like a very successful restaurant with half a dozen locations across the state, a few spreadsheets often sit comfortably in th
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by darkpuma 7y ago
With no noxious TSA checkpoint and a streamlined boarding process, it's amazing how much more pleasant travel by train is. I often arrive an hour early, if not more, to an airport. Between unpredictable TSA wait times and the length
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by darkpuma 7y ago
All of that is forgivable because Excel has done something very few other tools have ever done; which is allow 'non-programmers' to effectively program their computers. Excel is empowering software that lets normal users solve
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Tons of businesses continue to function with excel without difficulty. Of course if you're shooting for a SV "unicorn" growth curve you're going to leave excel in the dust pretty quick, but a great many businesses in a
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Whenever somebody talks about a "Unix philosophy" they are almost certainly alluding to some revisionist history or whitewashing of the truth. The only real "philosophy" of Unix that is grounded in reality is the &quot
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Mentour Pilot on youtube, a 737 instructor, has a few videos about it. The gist is that in any plane when you're close to stall, you want to pitch down and increase airspeed over the wings. Depending on the precise circumstances you
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by darkpuma 7y ago
For those not familiar with it, the "caliber" system is in theory the diameter of the barrel in inches, so a .45 caliber handgun has a barrel diameter of .45 inches (except in reality it's .451 inches.) Some, like .380 ACP
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Considering the extreme excesses of Commodus came after his father was no longer in the picture, Marcus Auerelius being unaware of what his son would do in the future seems rather likely.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> " it’s very unlikely that both would provide the same erroneous readings. " You're assuming that faulty sensors will tend to have random output. But since we're talking about a real life mechanism, it seems like
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It handles fine, except it doesn't handle like a Classic/NG 737. This is a problem because pilots were trained to expect it to handle like a Classic/NG. The discrepancy between reality and pilot expectations is the gap MC
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Consider the existence of good people with bad parents. Should those bad parents be credited with the success of their children? It seems perverse to assume parents deserve full 'credit' in either scenario. There are many thing
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That the appification of taxis was innovative is irrelevant. The article very clearly makes the case that the appification is not a competitive advantage Uber actually has, because all their competitors now have apps as well. Having an ap
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by darkpuma 7y ago
IANAL but as I understand it, GPLv3 prevents "tivoization" and AGPLv3 prevents running modified services without releasing the source code. Corporations particularly hate AGPLv3.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
When I was a kid I had a TI-83+ with a chess engine that could whoop my ass. Zilog z80 at 6MHz, a few KB of ram. Of course, I sucked at chess...
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by darkpuma 7y ago
What's so absurd about it? We know that murder-suicides happen, that's a well established phenomena. We know that murder-suicides committed by pilots who crash their airplanes happen as well. That's well documented, with
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Abstract: Fatal crashes of private, business and corporate-executive airplanes have increased after publicized murder-suicides. The more publicity given to a murder-suicide, the more crashes occurred. The increase in plane cr
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by darkpuma 7y ago
How many are unaware, and how many pretend to be unaware because they know they're expected to be unaware?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
What's the deal with naming chess engines after fish? I tried to look up someplace to buy stockfish the other day and instead finding information about dried fish I found a bunch of information about the chess engine.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Why would Google sell Youtube to Facebook?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Only if they fail to adapt. And if they can't adapt, then good riddance. The history books are littered with examples of huge corporations that failed to adapt then died. FAANG isn't special.

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