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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Sometimes I worry about this but everytime I see an example of it I feel better (because most examples involve the person doing weird things).
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Disagree. Even with their issues, they're still less evil than MS, Apple and especially Oracle or Meta. If they didn't have all their issues (discontinuing products, bad customer service) they'd probably be bigger than MS an
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Some at least recognize that being pro-consumer is better long term.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
This has been said many times over years and even decades, but here goes again: Microsoft doesn't care about users, open source, nothing except their own pocketbooks.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Most non-US countries only award money for actual damages, not punitive charges. It's also assumed that people have at least a little common sense and that your average adult knows more than a toddler.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Tons of people did and do this to get higher resolution on a certain streaming site.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
> individual contributers have copyright on the code, and potentially even trademark They're not the original authors of Rubygems so it's doubtful they have anything more than copyright on the code they contributed.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Try actually reading this article?
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Is anyone asking them to invade?
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
This is just the way MS is and always has been. It was inevitable. It's part of their longstanding EEE strategy. Anyone who thought otherwise was fooling themselves.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Gitlab.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Not bad. I picked First code which is acceptable. My fav though is 0xProto, which has ligatures that still maintain separation between the symbols and is otherwise a very nice, legible font.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
The posted article is literally about banning non-competes.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Previous owner can start the same business immediately and poach all the clients, reducing the value of the sold business to zero. Buyers obviously anticipate this and won't buy the business without the non-compete.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Not all businesses are wildly successful. Some are just successful enough to provide a single family with a middle class income. For some people, selling that is their only hope of retirement. It's not like the seller never has an o
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
> What's the actual steel man argument for why noncompetes are good? It makes it possible to confidently buy a business that's mostly or all goodwill. Otherwise the previous owner can simply poach all the clients. Also lots of
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
This feels a tad heavy-handed and will make it tougher to sell a business without hard assets. It should just be banned for employees or require a payout of (previous salary) * (length of non-compete).
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Not only is it a "box of numbers", it's based on statistics, not a "hard" model of computation. Basically guessing future words based on past words that went together. If it's saying something like "you a
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
I bet everyone around the world is glad that Canada decided virtue signalling is more important than exporting LNG and oil.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Is it? I know of that word in at least 3 languages.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Because trans men have no advantage in men's sport, whereas trans females do. It's not even about trans people at all, it's about preserving fairness in women's sports. Before trans issues were widespread in culture, in
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
Or defenestrate...
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
> It’s crazy that Hegseth has a Christian nationalist tattoo on his chest Who on earth thinks a Jerusalem cross is a "Christian nationalist" symbol? https://www.pieceofholyland.com/blogs/christian-articles&
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
> Same for Zig, Odin, C3 etc Not a game but similar in terms of programming, all of JangaFX's products (which do very impressive visual effects in real time) are made with Odin. Yes, it's perhaps easier to glue C++ libs togethe
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
> Which means among other things that they didn't have the capacity to sustain manifest v2 while Google pushed the browser into v3. No but they did build an ad-blocker right into the browser so the main reason people were against th
446.
by dismalaf 7mo ago
Eh it's got a lot going on... UI has way more features, it's got a built-in ad-blocker, email client, etc...
447.
by dismalaf 7mo ago
Vivaldi is the new Opera (literally same founder), but Opera still exists as Chinese spyware.
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by dismalaf 7mo ago
> You could get a pint of nothing but head as well, if you wanted. True but a mlíko pour is a special request and usually cheaper.
449.
by dismalaf 7mo ago
In Czech Republic they usually pour 3 fingers of head. But the measure line is also part way down the glass, the foam all above the line...
450.
by dismalaf 7mo ago
Right? Just top it up, let some of the foam cascade over the side... Foam always forms in the keg if it sits for too long so you need to let some of it out anyway.

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