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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Please don't encourage this type of "activism". A Mac becoming completely useless when the previous owner did not intend to part with it is a feature. It's a brilliant feature. As someone who had a Mac stolen in the past
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Wine can run 32 bit Windows applications on the latest versions of macOS just fine these days - easiest way to do this is via the (paid) Crossover, who actually wrote the insane code to make it work and contributed it back to Wine as usual,
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Pretty sure layoffs decrease productivity of the remaining employees, unless you're a H-1B visa worker, no one "works harder" after layoffs. Morale is low, resentment over "now I have to do X as well" grows and prod
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Don't forget the part that you now have to "love" a song or an album in order to download it because there's no "Add to Library" anymore, completely ruining the concept of "likes". How would I know if
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
When the rule was made, it would not be uncommon to write Java in, say, Emacs. Nowadays it's practically guaranteed everyone writing Java will be using a fully fledged IDE (or if you did stick with Emacs, there are now packages to basi
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Was this blog compromised in some way? "Idea" in the second paragraph links to to an obvious content farm/spam site for no particular reason. Strangely enough, there doesn't appear to more instances of this from a cursor
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Isn't this (you devs own your app, I don't give a shit about it, I just want it to not page me) the classic old school "Sysadmin" approach that supposedly DevOps was supposed to counter? How can anyone say this and claim
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I've had this, twice, in different addresses. Map edits seem to do nothing for wrong road names or roads not suitable for traffic. Causes havoc for deliveries. Other mapping source datas (TomTom, HERE) all fix mapping issues, even if t
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
This is what does it for me. This was entirely of his own doing. He didn't want to negotiate, didn't want to get his agent involved for either no reason or a reason that he's not explaining, he managed to annoy the CEO of a t
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
He had multiple opportunities to get his agent (and he had one the whole time, which he mentioned early in the story) do the grown up talk for him, and he passed it up every single time. Every time, it's excuse after excuse about why h
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
The map did feel a bit skewed to the East based on my perception. Interesting to know it wasn't just my imagination!
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Metaverse's biggest adoption issue is simply going to be its association with Meta/Facebook and, to add insult to injury, with Zuckerberg itself. Both the general public and the media have a severe dislike of both Facebook as an i
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Unfortunately, I think this is the most practical take to take here. WMF is "only" doing what pretty much all other large NGOs do, only they are in a highly visible position where: a) they operate on the Internet and b) their volu
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Not exactly. You are correct I was being slightly duplicitous, but the point I was trying to make is the claims of being "flooded" by personal requests for conversation are, in my experience, almost entirely overblown – note that
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
It depends on your practice. Mine has booking appointments and messaging currently disabled, which is annoying, but I imagine it must be to overcapacity.
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Of course. With the ease of communication we have, and considering we no longer have servants or a designated person in the family that is tasked with maintaining the house to a perfect standard at all times as their full time job, it goes
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I'm sorry you feel talking to other human beings synchronously is the same as being forced to systematically adhere to a norm that is now commonly accepted to be determined by epigenetic factors.
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
This is a surprisingly popular take, so I'm curious. If texting didn't exist and everyone you talk with had to switch to talking over the phone, how many people would you have to answer per day? This is assuming everyone would tur
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
This take is so incredibly obnoxious, and it's particularly obnoxious because it is so prevalent in my generation (Millennials) that it actually started poisoning others that never had a problem with this (Gen X comes to mind). Phone c
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
No, if this passes, tech companies will just stop operating in Texas outright. It's really as simple as that.
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
It was the first of the series that was a Windows game, was it not?
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
This comment is really buried in the discussion. $2000 per vCPU for a library is absolutely insane pricing, unless you're running Akka on a single bare metal server, this is a non-starter for anyone. Really unsure what Lightbend is try
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I think English is the exception rather than the norm, many languages encode politeness and formality within words and variations of words themselves, although where the differences are encoded may change. Eg, https://en.wikipedi
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Then turn off the issue tracker and DON'T call yourself an "OSS maintainer". Or leave the issue tracker open but make it explicit on your readme this is just a personal project that's not being actively developed so peop
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I'm glad to see this attitude expressed in the current sea of "reluctant maintainers". I don't really get why so many people get stuck maintaining a project when they don't want to maintain it. Just step away? If so
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
What do you mean? > made by people, often as a copy of something natural There is absolutely no requirement for the "copy" to be functional. See: artificial flowers. Things like "artificial hearts" are the exception a
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Are you factoring in the hit in productivity in the production line so that you have to do N variations instead of 1 for all of these things? At some point, if the heating element is cheap enough, it costs them more to NOT put the heating e
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Exactly. You're not "buying a car with heated seats that you can't use", you're buying the car without heated seats because you didn't pay for them. The difference is that BMW has to cripple the car before they
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
Car extras always existed, and they will always keep existing. If someone doesn't want to pay for heated seats, right now, the car manufacturer will ensure that the hardware just isn't there or is somehow disabled, even if it cost
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by disruptiveink 4y ago
I'm torn about this. One one hand, the slippery slope of this is car microtransactions, so the pushback is very much needed and understandable. People had to vote with their wallet until manufacturers gave up on charging subscriptions

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