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by eadmund 1y ago
> Do you want to sit next to my three-year-old? Not particularly, no. What I want is for you to purchase the seats your family needs ahead of time, not ask me for them for free. I know that travelling with kids is really tough. I since
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by eadmund 1y ago
> [Elimination of] Automatic Refunds for Cancellations Does this mean when the passenger cancels or when the airline cancels? If it’s when the passenger chooses to cancel, this seems fine and fair: he paid for a flight; he chose not t
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Jaguar Land Rover hack 'has cost 30k cars and threatens supply chain'(thetimes.com)
3 points by eadmund 1y ago|0 comments
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by eadmund 1y ago
That looks so terrible, but they could have been so easily transformed into an S-expression language similar to Lisp: (if (equals foo "bar") (then (echo "The value of property foo is 'bar'"))
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by eadmund 1y ago
The client’s ID for a resource and the server’s ID for that resource need not be the same. Of course, adding two IDs for a resource complicates things. But so too does trusting client-generated IDs to be universally unique.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Somewhere along the line in the French Revolution, they adopted the freed slaves’ head gear as their own symbol of freedom, but picked the wrong one. That’s just so typical of the French Revolution.
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by eadmund 1y ago
The Constitution doesn’t mention slavery once. That’s intentional .
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by eadmund 1y ago
Not all computers are Windows! And not all computer-users worry even a little bit about compatibility with Windows.
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by eadmund 1y ago
Generating a kWh emits 0.8 pounds of CO2 on average (source: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11 ); burning a gallon of gasoline in a car emits about 20 pounds of CO2. That means that 800 kWh (=
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by eadmund 1y ago
> 400-800 kWh/year savings The average all-sector U.S. price per kWh is 13.20 cents (source: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph... ). Even at the high end that’s a savings of $1
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by eadmund 1y ago
> But would you want the NRA to control the social credit system regulating a firearm purchase? I prefer that to Chase controlling it: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/19617/00019768782300... (
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by eadmund 1y ago
> The only difference between your phone and China's social credit system is that China tells you what they're doing. And that I have a choice of phones, or even no phone at all, and none of my phone options is legally permitte
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by eadmund 1y ago
> enabling these companies to ensnare unsuspecting users in a web of both their own proprietary software as well as all that free and open source software has to offer. That’s why the AGPL exists.
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by eadmund 1y ago
Which copyleft software does AWS use? Linux, certainly. And MariaDB/MySQL (but also the BSD-like PostgreSQL). I was under the impression that it typically avoids GPL software when there is a BSD- or MIT-licensed alternative.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> People can license their software however they want, but it is worth reflecting on why almost all open source authors go with a permissive license like MIT: because it is basically a "buyer's market." When choosing a dat
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Unfortunately over the years there have been cases of people forking the project in the attempt to set up a competing service. And it hurts. It hurts to see something you've worked so hard on for so long get copied and distributed
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by eadmund 1y ago
Or overpaying them. Or sometimes underpaying and sometimes overpaying them. Or paying them the right total amount, but incorrectly labelling subtotals. There’s no reason to leap to ‘stealing’ (which requires intent) from ‘ambiguous rules.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Personally I found the whole thing frustrating to read as it underscores how traditional banks operate 'look after rich people' and 'be indifferent to not rich people'. Would you expect the fellow who earns the bank
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by eadmund 1y ago
I prefer stable packages on my desktop and laptop, both for professional and for personal use. I hate the current Javascript/Python/Rust bleeding-edge, left-pad, if you haven updated to yesterday’s latest version which breaks c
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by eadmund 1y ago
Doesn’t that give Mozilla the ability to replace any package on one’s computer? I trust Debian, and I trust the Debian Firefox team to secure Firefox, but I do not trust Mozilla.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Again, beer isn't boiled - as long as we're quashing myths here. It is heated. I think that you are confused. Mashing is used to convert the starches in malted barley into sugars, and is done at temperatures below under bo
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by eadmund 1y ago
> It's basically just INI/TOML That’s a dealbreaker for me. I like something that I can use grep and other Unix utilities on. There’s a reason that the tabular style formats of /etc/passwd, crontab and inetd exist.
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by eadmund 1y ago
• Neatly-formatted lists Neatness could be a sign of a machine, or it could be a sign of a diligent human author. • Subtitles only a committee would come up with That seems to me like a matter of opinion and taste — and we all have diff
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by eadmund 1y ago
There is nothing wrong with em-dashes — they are awesome. Definition lists are built into HTML. Pull quotes have been a common style for at least thirty years. I have no idea if the article was LLM-written or not. It didn’t have that smell
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Attackers convincing users to side-load malware is a thing. Sure. It’s also not Google’s problem. It’s not Victorinox’s problem of someone uses a Swiss Army knife to cut someone else. It’s not Toyota’s problem if someone deliberately
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by eadmund 1y ago
This is completely, absolutely and totally unacceptable. My phone is my phone, not Google’s. They have absolutely no right to prevent me from running whatever software I wish on that phone. This must not be allowed to stand.
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by eadmund 1y ago
> I always thought it quite weird that somehow by virtue of being in beer, that the water somehow becomes sterilised. The reason that water in beer is sterilised is that beer is brewed — i.e. boiled. > If you've ever tried home b
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by eadmund 1y ago
> Does anybody know how many active projects are still left there? https://sourceforge.net/directory/ shows hundreds of thousands, but I can’t see a good way to filter out inactive projects. > And who wound up ow
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by eadmund 1y ago
Apple displays the pistol emoji as a squirt gun. That’s wrong. It has always been wrong. It will always be wrong, because a squirt gun is not a pistol. Time doesn’t erase an error. ‘Get over it’ is the wrong response: ‘Apple, stop be
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by eadmund 1y ago
https://github.com/emacs-jupyter/jupyter exists. No idea if it’s awesome or terrible. FWIW, Org Mode is what a native Emacs user might reach for as alternative to Jupyter notebooks: https://michaelneuper.co

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