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by detuur 8y ago
Or, consider this, people really don't like companies imposing personal values. Would you approve of a company denying you certain benefits for having children out of wedlock?
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by detuur 8y ago
No, your company isn't special. Look at it from an engineering perspective. The law, by which I mean all laws that you operate under—local, regional, state-level, federal, international alike—is really not much more than a specificat
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by detuur 8y ago
Red Hat entirely operates on a business-licensed version of a fundamentally free product. Oracle does pretty much the same. Many large, widely deployed and lucrative software packages are completely open-source. Because there's very fe
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by detuur 8y ago
You couldn't be any more dead-on. EDA feels like Scientology, where with every level closer to the core you first need to invest half your life savings + a firstborn. I have an FPGA lying on my desk I can do barely anything interesting
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by detuur 8y ago
Actually, Discord does this pretty well. I honestly consider it a 21st century successor to IRC. The unfortunate fact is that Discord is still a closed system, with not even the ability to run your own instance, instead with the owners insi
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by detuur 8y ago
Because it's a natural thing to do. It's very tiresome to watch yourself all day to make sure you're not making any assumptions. We hear "CEO has relationship with employee" and our mind immediately goes to work fab
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by detuur 8y ago
If you make the stuff that powers your way of doing business free, you'll push out everyone who tries anything different. If your way is rule, you're king.
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by detuur 8y ago
Honestly the overhead of a modern OS, especially one like Linux which has been finetuned for these sorts of workloads is negligible. More importantly, any gains you make by stripping out parts of the OS you don't need you immediately t
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by detuur 8y ago
I'd say that's baseless speculation, considering the amount of people who treat bitcoin mining as a grow-op. Sure, the industrial operations are the ones getting articles and showcases and blog posts, but at the same time I'v
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by detuur 8y ago
A portable stdlib does not a portable language make.
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by detuur 8y ago
I have several e-mail addresses, that I use in combination with several passwords across services. While there's some consistency in which pw I use where, it's not definite. This leads to situations where I have to soft-bruteforce
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by detuur 8y ago
> plenty of companies have gotten very large fines for gross non compliance of other regulations/directives Gross, wilful, intentional, deceptive non-compliance. To be honest you have to put quite a lot of effort into managing to ge
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by detuur 8y ago
Websites would run into the same situation as banks: anytime you open an account at most banks in Europe and probably around the world, they specifically make sure that you're not American, because then they have to comply with America
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by detuur 8y ago
Yahoo is bad, especially concerning the opt-in, but by far not the worst. Those are Google and Facebook, which have made all of their services "all-or-nothing". If you don't accept every single bit of data processing, your on
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by detuur 8y ago
I really hope you didn't mean GarageBand, which is just entry-level music production software.
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by detuur 8y ago
Can't believe I've gone so long without knowing about sparse files.
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by detuur 8y ago
Worse yet: "the opposite policy of my enemy is my policy". We're seeing situations on both sides where people are taking positions in arguments solely because it's the opposite position of their opponents. Because taking
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by detuur 8y ago
Genuinely the only way I use du is like this: du -sh * which shows total disk usage for every file and folder in the current directory. I've actually aliased it as `dush` because I use it so often. Bonus tip: if you're usin
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by detuur 8y ago
There's just one thing I don't get with this approach. How do you make use of the space savings? You've explicitly created an outside disk image which is larger than the ddrescue image, and the ddrescue image is inside that
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by detuur 8y ago
So you're saying that a service which targets businesses who are trying to avoid a piece of legislation that is shaping up to become a worldwide industry standard turns out to be shady and doesn't respect the law? Well I never.
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by detuur 8y ago
In Belgium, my provider's (Telenet) IPv6 connection is better than IPv4. Every now and then some network applications and websites will stop working, and invariably they're the ones that depend on IPv4. Meanwhile the IPv6 internet
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by detuur 9y ago
But those are the apps themselves. This is about the WhatsApp Web protocol which allows you to use WhatsApp from a browser window by pairing it with a live session on your phone. Since the API endpoint are their own servers and the client
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by detuur 9y ago
No, very much the opposite. Most minimum-wage jobs are actually the one that specifically create or add value. When you work as a fruit picker, for every fruit you pick you just added value into the economy. With every figurative swing of t
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by detuur 9y ago
It's not a store of value. It's a speculation asset. A store of value is something that is good at preserving the value that went into acquiring it. A store of value is not volatile, runs no chance of losing all its value overnigh
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by detuur 9y ago
Using uMatrix together with uBlock Origin is a little bit redundant, as uBlock also offers a matrix functionality (enable advanced options). As a matter of fact, iirc uBlock is developed upon uMatrix's codebase by the same author.
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by detuur 9y ago
The porn filter springs to mind.
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by detuur 9y ago
Every few months an article gets to the top of HN claiming "EU IS GOING TO LEGISLATE TABS VS SPACES CODE STYLE" or approved names for your dog or maximum amount of light bulbs you can carry for personal use or some other really du
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by detuur 9y ago
People don't seem to understand that the entertainment industry doesn't just lobby in the US, but worldwide. A few years ago we had the SOPA scare which imposed draconian measures to stop copyright infringement, and those were pro
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by detuur 9y ago
Shorting is legitimate—under certain conditions. In many markets throughout history, shorting has been explicitly forbidden. This is because it encourages destroying value. It's much much easier to destroy a company's value than t
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by detuur 9y ago
To give you a straight answer: no, it isn't. Intel isn't afraid to get its hands dirty and will take a close look at every opportunity to sabotage AMD, but this was amateur hour. At the very very least, Intel would've exposed

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