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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
I always wonder how stupid people can accumulate $100Billion being stupid.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
No. Amazon has had outages on holiday shopping days throughout its history. Amazon has always been toxic and frugal, so obviously it didn't interfere with whatever mythical software quality it had in the past. And today's failures
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Can it be shared to a non-Mac, or is it a bundle (directory) that Safari has special support for navigating?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Telling your customers to carry a laptop/tablet because you feel linebreaks are just a nice-to-have is quite user-hostile.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
> accessible Let's take perhaps the simplest most important accessibility feature: How do I increase the font size without making the content absurdly wide, while viewing a PDF?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
They could add a single-page view. It's not very hard to automatically generate single-page and multi-page views of the same form.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
In USA, institutions have run into problems with ADA and similar, blocking posting of videos unless they have been transcribed to text.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Of you give dumb people more money, they will get swindled by smart people.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
The number of people who are poor enough to choose to have fewwer kids, yet rich enough to maintain effective birth control, is a narrow sliver.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
In our automation age, it is if you are labor seller and not capital owner.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Just mark it as spam. If they aren't spamming the internet at large, they won't get blocked at large, and your local bayesian filters will block them from you.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why not make the whole business model "pay what you want"?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
TempleOS did fine.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
BIRGing and WIRSing?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
In general, visualization improves performance of ant activity.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
What does this mean? Do people usually kick table legs while earing?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Pretty common to have clickbat headlines that don't match content. This was true even before clicks were invented.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
People in general love buying home gyms and computers and clothes and vehicles and stuff they never use to their potential.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
This quibbling semantics. That's like saying a ball isn't really a ball because it's not curved at a molecular level. It's true and it'd interesting in it's own sense, but not at all relevant to the real world
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
You skipped the middle ground between "no basis" and "ad hominem is the only basis". Lying about things and people is a bad way to force people to accept decisions. Calling someone or something stupid isn't a techni
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Humans aren't robots.
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66329/creating-a-ra...
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
I think Linus understands Linux files. Reread the message: > In UNIX, a file descriptor is pretty much anything. You could say that sockets aren't remotely file-like, and you'd be right. What's your point? The fact that y
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
What if you want to modify the color on vertex 473? What position in the file do you seek to? A dumb file interface would force the client to simulate the internal state of the GPU engine so it could reverse engineer the necessary commands
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Phillips was specifically designed so that cheap screws (or drivers) would take damage instead of the expensive thing being screwed into. http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2013/04/05/a-better-way-to-sc...
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Why is the resource fork better than having say a foo.rsrc file alongside foo? Or operating on directories instead of files, like MacOSX bundles (like .app and .rtfd)?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
By accident as in the creators didn't intend it but it was discovered later, or just not directly expressible in the language (so "by accident" is via anthropomorphism of the type language)?
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Checking dynamic types us not the work of a compiler. Checking types at compile time is static type checking. If a type is wholly dynamic (determined at runtime via something like casting to a type specified in user input), the compiler can
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
Partition tolerance is about preventing inconsistency (as you say) OR availability (turn off the system when it partitions). That's what the CAP theorem is about. You can get partition tolerance at the expense of availability,for by re
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by fjsolwmv 8y ago
There's no point in having a system if it's not available. There's no point in having a system if it gives incorrect answers (inconsistent). In the real world, you have to make tradeoffs. Partition tolerant is "most impo

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