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by drbig 3y ago
Nah. All the Telemetry^TM is already built into the OS. No need for any even first-party additional software!
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by drbig 3y ago
My personal opinion is that I would very much prefer all those smart and hard-working people be doing _more useful stuff_. So I think we're at the same sentiment here. As for CEOs of public companies I do not know but my _impression_ s
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by drbig 3y ago
And to add some context, given a couple of lifes ago I was rubbing shoulders with those people: Please don't go over to either extreme of the spectrum (of opinion). Those companies make the obscene amounts of money because they do gene
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by drbig 3y ago
Because what they give you is priceless: 1) If it worked then it's all thanks to your impeccable ability to get the right tools to get the job done 2) If it fizzles out it's all still OK because you've tried best and hired th
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by drbig 3y ago
I didn't really either way. Which given a) how long ago that was and, b) I specifically declined to look at bounties - the only thing I'm close to being sure about is that I don't remember any drama nor ruin from that.
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by drbig 3y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to claim "no way", given our past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula%27s_Giant_Ship (about 312 feet... done about two thousand years ago). I'm sure that isn't the on
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by drbig 3y ago
Yes. It assumes the asymptotic end condition, because to me that is the only reasonable way to judge such policies. Cases of "nothing was done because bounties weren't interesting", or "we had a feature bounty program an
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by drbig 3y ago
I have always been of the same opinion, which I formed years ago helping with Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead development: "development by bounty" leads to inevitable "(un)designed by a whale", i.e. a few with cash to spend o
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by drbig 3y ago
I still long for the approach many software used on the AmigaOS - the app is a folder, the folder has the main exec and any assets it needs (libraries, images, etc.) and documentation and... That's it. Install? Copy the directory to wh
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by drbig 3y ago
So instead of the original long-winded pour-down: Python is good enough and easy enough. And it made it a thing for people interested in solving stuff with software - as opposed to people making software to do stuff - and that is a crucial
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by drbig 3y ago
Temperature without humidity is like voltage without current, or per-capita GDP without the Gini coefficient. Many measures alone are of little practical value. Stay _comfortable_ there!
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by drbig 3y ago
The management (heavy air quotes) is listed :-) Given the above I can only say it worked head-first back in the day. You can't """organize""" and not even "promote" when there's no _good stu
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by drbig 3y ago
My take on this has always been that contrary to any other engineering field even the fundamentals change at a relative blink of an eye. A Roman-era civil engineer transported to _now_, a good 2000 years into the future, would still find gr
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by drbig 3y ago
> HP Envy 6455e ...I give myself the benefit of doubt as not technically a native speaker... but "Envy"? Really? I still have my HP LaserJet P<numbers> I got when I was a student, many lives ago, and I got it to the point
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by drbig 3y ago
A great reminder that what one deems obvious (i.e. existence and utility of `rlwrap` to me) may not be obvious at all to others. And while I'm here: maybe you are unaware of `nohup`, which makes a lot of software that really expects a
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by drbig 3y ago
To clarify: I did not intend to to imply nefarious reasons. I guess using the "tinfoil" implied it? I had the impression Telegram has also, even if not fully official, "state" users. Thanks for point out the "...and
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by drbig 3y ago
> Interestingly Telegram is still not blocked in Russia. Could that be taken as a sign that it is not blocked _for a reason_, or is it already too much tinfoil on the head?
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by drbig 3y ago
It is a very versatile piece of software indeed. The minimal mode window is a great pop-up calculator that can do a lot, including conversions and working with physical units. Highly recommend!
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by drbig 3y ago
Makes you realize that having an electric kettle, a microwave, a turkey-sized oven and a four burner range - all in the same room - is not mandated by the laws of physics. And now I'll go and buy some frozen spinach. Just like those no
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by drbig 3y ago
I do. Casio fx-991ES - for the sole reason I was an engineering student a couple of lives ago. About two years ago I started doing projects in real-space, as opposed to software-space, and would you believe it - I do sometimes need some tri
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by drbig 3y ago
Gives a nice mental image for "digging through shit". _Literally!_
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by drbig 3y ago
> were able to make the trip in a minimum time of six minutes. (The longest journey took about four hours, per Wired.) Between 6 and 240 minutes... How come such a wild range? Some take time sightseeing?
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by drbig 3y ago
https://archive.ph/S0gU3 (ehh, such times)
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by drbig 3y ago
My initial thought was exactly the compartmentalization idea. Also, as far as I understand Lithium-based battery tech you can't really have/ship a "flat battery", it has to have some charge in order not to break down on
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by drbig 3y ago
Relevant news: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-dead-cargo-ship-fir... Seems to me the problem currently is that while the probability of an electric car catching fire is very low, if it does so the fire i
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by drbig 3y ago
Don't worry, you're not alone. And I think we didn't notice because... there are no markup tags anywhere to be noticed!
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by drbig 3y ago
Instead of thinking in terms of "list items" think in terms of... days. There is only so much that can be done in a day but it is very reassuring to see just at a glance what was actually done. Also, this makes never-ending lists
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by drbig 3y ago
It is not a markup language, period. ...It's a great convention on how to do common stuff in plain text. Plain text. Let me repeat: plain text. (I'm accidentally doing "a different todo list approach" now due to it, and
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by drbig 3y ago
> the pesky humans are an annoying hindrance in the process of extreme optimization. This warrants emphasis, as this is the logical outcome of how the socioeconomic systems are nowadays. "Evil people conspiring together" are ab
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by drbig 3y ago
My own experience in the Android land, after making that jump from Nokia N900 to Nexus 4, is that you can get a new $CURRENT_GEN-1 (or -2) device for much much less while still having most of the performance/features . As such, I have

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