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by eecc 5y ago
So much this, well said. Only issue is with SASS strip-miners muscling you out of your commercial license space. On the one hand Amazon adoption certifies the success of your product, on the other it puts any ambition of financial return t
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by eecc 5y ago
I guess that's not including mortgage/rent, food, automobiles, etc. If that's the only source of income for the household and there are children involved it rapidly downgrades to sufficient but not wow, insane profit. It&#x27
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by eecc 5y ago
Because you think installing another Store and its flavor of apps wouldn't also come with various degrees of pernicious privacy invasion? What's the point of choice if all choices are bad? This whole "Consumer Choice™" d
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by eecc 5y ago
> Apple shouldn't be in charge of commerce on iPhone. So who should be? Facebook? Google? Microsoft? Adobe? Disney? Samsung? How many APIs and app packaging do you think app developers would bother working with? How much time do you
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by eecc 5y ago
Good point, see: https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-entrepreneurial-state
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by eecc 5y ago
whose tech are they repackaging this time?
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House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder(theregister.com)
2 points by eecc 5y ago|0 comments
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by eecc 5y ago
Private vs. Public is not the discriminating point, centralization is. The Soviet Union went down because it represented an attempt at strictly centralized management, coupled to punitive information management where any feedback was assume
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by eecc 5y ago
Uhm, perhaps that’s why it’s better to delegate this kind of impactful organizations non-personal institutions driven by long-term societal discourse and paid by the general public through taxation?
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by eecc 5y ago
I got it, and indeed if you read it at “talking speed” it works ok. By the way, I also appreciated the post. I’ve been in similar situations in several occasions and never quite figured out how to avoid stigma and bad feelings for stepping
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by eecc 5y ago
I think she used the wrong conjunction, but the meaning is quite clear
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by eecc 5y ago
Yeah but that puts the burden of verification on Apple. This way the application author has to (legally) undersign their intentions. Makes sense to me...
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by eecc 5y ago
Hopefully this won't cause selective pressure on flu viruses to become more aggressive.
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by eecc 5y ago
> Also, there are better diagrams for protocols than message sequence UML, but those don't have good tooling. Interesting. What would those be? TIA
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by eecc 5y ago
> Overcorrect if necessary. Hell no, that’s what all our legal systems are not about and there are also provisions against this sort of zealotry. And rightly so, it’s such a historically proven road to hell and unintended consequences.
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by eecc 5y ago
Yup, very much so: https://www.treehugger.com/praise-dumb-box-4853131 I live in a relatively new building in NL, where many of these configurations are applied and on its own it won’t go lower than 21C in winter and 25C in
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by eecc 5y ago
Well, an attacker would need to first steal the private keys before they could generate the forged signatures. So, while you could still change the public keys in the instructions and trick first-comers to install a back-doored archive, you
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by eecc 5y ago
To be fair, the instructions on https://swift.org/download/#using-downloads are fairly straightforward and copy-pastable. Indeed the prominence given to pgp signature verification is a breath of fresh air compared to t
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by eecc 5y ago
I think what he means is that everything in Haskell is "async" because the language runtime is lazy and types can encode parallelism: monads and functors fro sequential, blocking code, while applicatives for independent code. Not
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by eecc 5y ago
Maybe the problem is risk aversion? I mean, your skills probably led you to a series of good, well-paid positions that gave you enough credit score to buy a scarily large amount of debt (and sink it into property.) So now you can’t afford r
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by eecc 5y ago
> Seems to be asking for some sort of optical FPGA thing with the hope that light will be immensely faster than electricity. Maybe not knowing that it's not? But really it is. Except for interconnects or analog RF stages, ICs aren’t
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Ingenuity Is Airborne(twitter.com)
1 points by eecc 5y ago|0 comments
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The Anatomical Machines(museosansevero.it)
1 points by eecc 5y ago|0 comments
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, unfortunately it’s something inevitable like entropic decay. The guy that hired me was someone like you, but was kicked out and replaced with a more ambitious gentleman who must have promised to squeeze us more efficiently. The proble
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UN expert says “collective persecution” of Julian Assange must end now(ohchr.org)
4 points by eecc 6y ago|0 comments
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by eecc 6y ago
> They don't expect me or my fellow employees to work past our normal hours [...]. Yet people do work a little later to finish stuff, or check in to make sure something they did earlier in the week isn't causing problems over t
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by eecc 6y ago
Yup, same shoddy, lowest common denominator, inconsistent UI across all devices and manufacturers. And to complete the scenario: 1 dominant supplier whose interest is not ideal UX but just invasive and pervasive tracking, and all other ac
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by eecc 6y ago
Can you elaborate and link to sources plz?
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by eecc 6y ago
Why? I'm European, what's so special about US market? (rhetorical question, I know)
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by eecc 6y ago
They are intentionally protecting their ecosystem from the thread of an incumbent strangling their growth and marginalizing their strategy. From a market dominant position it would be Antitrust material. Not in this case: https:/&#x2F

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