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by dwild 7y ago
> We simply have different expectations and that’s O.K. I wasn't arguing about your opinion on repairability, I was arguing about you stating that ifixit shouldn't defends my case. > And as for repairability, it’s subjective
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by dwild 7y ago
> I believe there is a fundamental difference between the two -- google's play is about control, not physical limitations. Control of what? The search result are from Google, they already have control over them. The existence of AMP
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by dwild 7y ago
They send it to Google Colab. It allow you to run model over a powerful server for free. 6 GB of download at this crazy bandwidth cost would still be cheap versus offering themselves that kind of beast of a server to 60k persons each day. I
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by dwild 7y ago
I was able to win by saying "live happily ever after" which was then followed by: > You live happily ever after. > CONGRATS YOU WIN That was quite interesting to play this game! It's crazy the amount of content it was a
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by dwild 7y ago
> If websites use the Comcast AMP framework, Comcast will cache their sites and make them faster for users. They probably do it with Netflix, some ISP do it with Steam too... there's nothing wrong with multilevel cache (except cache
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by dwild 7y ago
>They advocate for thicker less secure products so that their margins increase if they win my business. They advocate with me (a customer) for a more repairable product. Just like Apple advocate with you for a less repairable product. Th
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by dwild 7y ago
> But they plummeted because of Activation Lock and similar features. Activation Lock != kill switches A kill switch is a switch. It's an action. The activation lock is always there, the action is required to remove it, not to kill
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by dwild 7y ago
> They really have no way of knowing that you're selling/giving away the phone, so they can't have the phone tell you to unlock. They have a way to contacting the owner to remove the lock. Why don't they do allow that
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by dwild 7y ago
> The whole "this is garbage and this company should make this in a way that we like" is really annoying when it is written in an authoritative tone and rallies a mob. Don't your whole comment do the same? They are giving
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by dwild 7y ago
> I block ads on the web because web advertising networks proved that they had no respect for user privacy, lacked security controls around their ad delivery, and were targeting using data that they probably shouldn’t have had access to.
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by dwild 7y ago
> Weird fallacy. If I am paid to dig ditches in Haiti, is my true value different from digging ditches in Monaco? Yeah your true value is different in that case. Being at the right place at the right moment represent quite a bit of value
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by dwild 7y ago
> These deeds and these contract precede this administration, but there were no such efforts then. There was no broad knowledge of it too.
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by dwild 7y ago
> The only question that matters in this argument is whether a corporation's freedom to do business is worth more than stopping the action you consider immoral. Can you explain to me how does people pressuring them to stop a contrac
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by dwild 7y ago
> because it's currently controlled by the opposition party. It's not because it's controlled by the opposition party, it's because it's doing something we believe is immoral. The distinction is important.
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by dwild 7y ago
> Maybe I'm being naïve here, but isn't it kind of crazy to raise 3.5M in funds for a business that has no plan but to be acquired by someone else? I offer you 3.5M to start a business, without needing a business model, why wou
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by dwild 7y ago
As the article mentions, the O was already in the unicode, it's definition was just updated, thus your font does already include it, while the I is a new symbol, and is too recent to be in your font and thus shown.
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by dwild 7y ago
His link was to the updated agreement. The sale doesn't allow the owner to write their own rules.
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by dwild 7y ago
> Actually Quebec is one place where the regulating body has been most successful controlling the use of Engineer as a title (and that isn't saying much). I hate repeating myself, but here again: there's no laws that surround s
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by dwild 7y ago
> I'm leading with this because 5 percent on top of CC payment processors' 30 cents + 2.whatever% is completely unethical from where I'm standing. You can integrate Fosspay [1] with fewer bells and whistles but totally fre
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by dwild 7y ago
If you have 2000 nodes and you generate 2000 updates a second, you will never have more than 2000 things to update per frame, as you only have 2000 nodes. Thus even at second 2 or 3, you will still only have 2000 things to updates, as the o
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by dwild 7y ago
> There actually probably is a law where you live, but in almost all jurisdictions I don't think it's enforced. I'm from Quebec, there's no laws that surround specifically software engineer. There's some for engi
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by dwild 7y ago
Sure, having a UL tags doesn't guarantee that it has been UL certified, but missing one guarantee that it hasn't been UL certified.
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by dwild 7y ago
There's no law surrounding software engineer though, so we have no power over their own work. In civil engineering, if someone else takes your plan and still use them even though you still haven't signed them, they are the one res
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by dwild 7y ago
JSLinux is running an X86 emulator. You can start Windows 2000 on it.
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by dwild 7y ago
> I wonder if a newer design would really help users or sites with "more shiny" visuals are just following a trend without thinking too much about it. This isn't about shinny visual, it's about what feeling someone ge
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by dwild 7y ago
> Publicly bad mouthing the company you work for is definitely grounds for termination. We aren't talking about termination on that ground though. We wouldn't have this discussion here if it was, I would actually agree with it
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by dwild 7y ago
I came to a conclusion based on what Google said. I explained how I came to that conclusion in detail too. You makes it seems like my position is wrong, can you details that a bit more? You may have misunderstood the last paragraph, where I
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by dwild 7y ago
Is everything perfect where you work? If it is, I want to know how can we apply?! Most likely, you aren't agreeing with all what your company does. There has to be some decision, either in management, or in product direction, or anythi
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by dwild 7y ago
> There are many reasons why Google wouldn't want to give a comment too, but they did it anyway. Which only show that Google has more to win by giving a comment than if they didn't. That could show that steering the public opin
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by dwild 7y ago
You certainly can, what stop you from it? You never had a disagreement at your work? You never tried to convince them that their decisions were bad? Then you were "subverting them"... The fact that you were disagreeing with their

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