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by davey48016 1y ago
I assume that first refusal required price matching. If the $250B is at a higher price than whatever AWS, GCP, etc. were willing to offer, then it could be a win for Microsoft to get $250B in decent margin business over a larger amount of b
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by davey48016 1y ago
It doesn't explain it on the landing page. Even skimming their docs, it seems like you mostly have to infer the purpose of this based on the features.
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by davey48016 1y ago
The Ford Ranger is still (or once again?) sold in the US.
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by davey48016 1y ago
The survivability of aircraft carriers in modern warfare has been in question since the 1980s. https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa134.pdf
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by davey48016 1y ago
I think it's very cheap right now.
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by davey48016 1y ago
Banner ads, pop up ads, pop under ads...If browsers added a feature, then websites used it to show you ads.
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by davey48016 1y ago
I don't like it, but I dislike it less than I dislike the name JavaScript.
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by davey48016 1y ago
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63904 Skimming this issue, it seems like they weren't expecting to be able to use this GC. I know C# couldn't either, at least based on an earlier state of the pr
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by davey48016 1y ago
>Sent from my iPhone 13 mini, which is also Too Damn Big. As someone with small hands, I kind of regret my iPhone 13 mini. I really want something smaller, but if I have to have a phone I can't hold well in one hand, I might as well
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by davey48016 1y ago
Where I am, the taxi from the airport is about $5 more expensive during off peak, but it can be $20 cheaper during peak hours. I always take the taxi since it's right there, but I usually check the price on Lyft or Uber just to compare
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by davey48016 1y ago
I think it's that. I don't think that the .gitignore file is meant to reflect anything about when this BASIC interpreter was written, it looks like it's just a MS managed .gitignore that accounts for everything that was ever
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by davey48016 1y ago
I've seen on perm Jira at large companies get that slow. I'm not sure if it's the plugins or just the company being stingy on hardware.
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by davey48016 1y ago
That's a single point of failure. If you email code changes around and use an email client that copies everything offline, then the history of your code base is distributed across all of your developers' laptops.
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by davey48016 1y ago
It says "ships themselves". I interpreted that as meaning through their own delivery service versus UPS/USPS, and I thought those third party shipments were still picked up at Amazon warehouses. Meaning this could have much m
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by davey48016 1y ago
The blurb at the top says "Republicans in Virginia", but the article body only mentions it was signed by a Republican governor. I think those blurbs are often added by someone other than the author, and that someone probably over
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by davey48016 3y ago
The nuisance lawsuit business model employed by all of our favorite patent trolls.
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by davey48016 3y ago
I don't know a lot of people who love Uber, but I know a lot of people who are only ever going to use one ride sharing app. If Waymo's app is limited to a 180 sq. mile territory and only half of their trips are in that territory,
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by davey48016 3y ago
The way Google released "experimental" features behind prefixes instead of configuration for years always seemed like a way to get developers to break their sites in non-Chrome browsers as much or more than a way to test features.
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by davey48016 3y ago
I've read that the challenge with a lot of these conversion projects is plumbing. They only have pipes going up certain areas, and apparently that makes it pretty expensive to get a kitchen and bathroom in every unit when you convert i
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by davey48016 4y ago
The Reddit link that latchkey posted says "A speeding car heading North careened into the opposite lane and hit a cyclist."
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by davey48016 4y ago
Any suggestions on projects to look at?
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by davey48016 4y ago
I see Uber as a very expensive land grab for self driving taxis. Once self driving technology works, especially if multiple companies get it working around the same time, merging/integrating with Uber gets you into the app that everyon
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by davey48016 4y ago
Github Copilot being trained on (presumably) any/all public repositories on Github without any sort of consent seems to be the last straw for at least some people.
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by davey48016 4y ago
From the article being linked to: >GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.
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by davey48016 4y ago
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199710093371506 It's possible that smokers actually end up saving Medicare and Medicaid money, because they die sooner. I've seen articles that estimate it
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by davey48016 5y ago
I used to get recruiters messaging me on LinkedIn about my impressive Java experience, in spite of not mentioning Java on my profile. At the time, I was working for a company that used a lot of Java, but I was working on a .NET based produc
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by davey48016 5y ago
The first time I used Uber was about 6 or 7 years ago. I was living in the DC Suburbs and I had a plane to catch. The night before my flight I called and booked a cab for 6 am. At 6 am there was no cab so I called the dispatcher and asked w
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by davey48016 5y ago
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala... This is from Europe, but I think it's true in the US as well. Software engineers at large tech companies and venture funded startups get paid a lot, inclu
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by davey48016 5y ago
>Either that, or it’s just the negative opinions being amplified and folks who are happy/satisfied just keep it to themselves. I think that's it. I like this change, but not enough to post anything about how much I like it.
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by davey48016 5y ago
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/support/policy/dotnet-... Dotnet LTS versions have three years of support. LTS versions come out every two years, so there is a year of overlap. The non-LTS (which they c

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