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   by fifticon 3y ago

   i'm opposite the guy who 'critiqued' you. I appreciate 'programmers' approaching 100year old crafts, and instead of blindingly accepting 'you MUST do it this way!', they curiously investigate and consider
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   by fifticon 3y ago

   and google continues their efforts to convince me to never rely on one of their products :-/
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   by fifticon 3y ago

   like us..
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   by fifticon 3y ago

   well, that breaks all schemes, as my experience in 52 years is, that most people don't or won't operate their indicator signals properly. They seem to believe they are for special holidays, or for a particular audience they have s
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   by fifticon 3y ago

   the term for them is 'agent provocateur'.
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   by fifticon 3y ago

   it might not have been clear - I very much want to find/identify it again
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   by fifticon 3y ago

   in the 80s I had a color brochure/catalog for console games with insanely beautiful ..airbrushed? color cover illustrations. The contents were pages with a grid of coverart+blurb. I do not recall WHICH console it was for. It might ha
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   by fifticon 3y ago

   I do not share that optimism. I see it as far more likely the technology will be demanded and satisfied, that the ai chat bot acommodate immature and depraved maladaptive behaviour patterns, e.g. allowing a sadist by habit and pleasure to i
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   by fifticon 3y ago

   I fear it is too easy to erode open standards the way microsoft is infamous for. There is power in babel attacks (babylon languages).
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    How can I upvote this enough.. Luckily, often the timestamp is visible as a tooltip. Case in point: When you browse npm versions of packages, it will date them with "version 5.3.27 was released 'about a year ago' craziness.
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    it is also about buying users for their ecosystem, "life lock in". my kid is already a microsoft user with an ms account, just because she wants to play minecraft. consider all the other usecases she will 'slide' int
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    never mind the downvotes, I agree with you. My kid plays minecraft, and the amount of microsoft bullshit we have to put up with to be allowed to play the game we already bought before the acquisition boggles the mind. I have a suspicion,
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    the current state of scrollbars is a civilization lowpoint. We have lost our way since the year 2000. Too many crayons are eaten :-/
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    "well excuse me for lacking sufficient amounts of metal:-)"
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    I second pandoc. I managed to get a book published with sources in markdown. And I can confirm that you can run from latex, but you cannot escape it.. Before you are done, your markdown will typically end up moving through latex2pdf. I thin
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    It might be his last essay.
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    in particular, what does 'mean' actually mean?
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    I wonder why the Robin Hood issue is never a problem when money is moved in the opposite direction :-)
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    Particularly if his knock-back sends you into the hole.
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    You can. Just find an online forum for Rick&Morty show.
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    The confusion revolves around _who's_ status. The blue LEDs were not to signal the status of the device, but to signal the high status of the OWNER, in the same way an expensive iphone communicates the high status of its owner. I too m
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    To phrase what another said in a different way/take: They don't care about whether they themselves are the source of the source-code. What matters to them is the ability to inject their control and telemetry in the user's pi
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    I see a lot of propaganda expended on convincing the voting public of this "public incompentence", almost as if someone is paying to maintain this status quo.
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    I was in a successful company that nearly died in 2017, where our entire production system corrupted itself due to a sneaking scale bug we had ported the system into. The problem was, the system with data had been running migrated for 3 mon
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    there is a further problem: a lot of the profits instead go to the too big distributors they sell their produce to.
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    Another favorite of mine: EF will sometimes generate constraints on your tables or columns, that can't really work. But the generated migrations are generated with drop-reversers that don't work (ie if you try to execute them, you
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    I can see that people have already heaped plenty of fuel on the fire, but.. The amount of time I have wasted babysitting Microsoft's EntityFramework stuff :-/. That is stackoverflow-googling 'why does EF suddenly behave this
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    you get V times VII ?
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    We ask 'does this bring joy?'
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    by fifticon 3y ago

    I misread that as "poops on twitter every morning", but it didn't change the meaning of the paragraph..