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by flkiwi 1y ago
> finding products they love That phrase is a dead giveaway that a very silly group of people have started dominating the conversation at a given company. I don't "love" a product. I certainly don't "love" a
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by flkiwi 1y ago
That's not what I said. I was responding to the parent comment's statement that "I’m assuming there’s a ton of reputational risk in this move" by noting that, in relative terms, this likely isn't something people ar
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by flkiwi 1y ago
There are arguably larger reputational risk issues in a company with significant financial/payment activities not having adequate control of their technology. I'm not saying that justifies anything here as I don't know near
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by flkiwi 1y ago
"local first" to me translates almost immediately into the following: - What if I don't have that device? - How do I reliably sync between devices? - How do I deal with local storage limits of a device? Silverbullet has becom
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by flkiwi 1y ago
That's why I called out that I didn't mean my description of their work as criticism, strictly speaking.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
For example, Florida Bar Rule 4-1.5(a) prohibits "clearly excessive" attorney's fees, while 4-1.5(f)(4)(B) sets several criteria for contingency fees (typically the sort of fees a plaintiff's firm would charge) that, if
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by flkiwi 1y ago
That's true, though I wonder at times how much of that is because of the way plaintiff's firms set the market up. And, again, I don't really mean to criticize them--I tend to err on the side of access to justice--as much as t
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Morgan and Morgan is a plaintiffs firm specializing in personal injury (though they have other areas of practice). For those not familiar with the US system, if someone hits a victim with their car, a victim slips and falls in a store, etc.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
This sounds like the so-called "modern standby" (S0 vs S3, if I remember correctly). I bought a thinkpad a while back with "modern standby" and the thing wouldn't last the night suspended, and would often wake me up
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Me, immediately: ooh Star Wars vibroblade!
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I tend to prefer gnome's simplicity and its desktop metaphor, though I'm a niri guy now. But KDE is excellent. It's fast, pretty, customizable, and enjoyable to use. My gripe with it is that the sheer number of options and th
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Ha, I'm neither conservative nor independent nor particularly moderate. I'm firmly, vigorously left in ideology. It's delightful that your conclusion upon receiving criticism of the left's approach is that the speaker mu
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Name a meaningful victory of the American left's approach in the last 25 years. Stop dancing around the question.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Identity politics. Rejecting identity politics for economic justice. Rejecting economic justice for economic revolution. It goes on and on. There are so many overlapping and contradictory purity tests among the various branches of the left,
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by flkiwi 1y ago
This is typically what I see. There ARE chronically negative people, but more often “complainers” are the smart people who don’t rely on passive voice and jargon to get ahead or, having been ignored for years by the passive voice jargon che
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Sometimes I just ride the lightning to see how off course it is willing to go. This is not a productive use of my time but it sure is amusing. In fairness, I’ve done the same thing to overconfident junior colleagues.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Trying to bootstrap a new-generation Lotus Notes from parts, with Dia as the container.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
Or keep Chrome (or Chromium or even Edge if you have it installed anyway) for the rare use case when Firefox won't work?
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I know it's not fashionable to blame founders, but I genuinely don't understand this. What has he done to deserve "lots of respect" in the context of this conversation? TBC got to a difficult place because of their choic
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by flkiwi 1y ago
What makes that difficult is when you have a legitimate case for time-sensitive notifications and the app owner mixes in marketing spam with no way to disable them. It's either accept marketing spam OR lose a valuable notification. Loo
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I don't disagree individually, but I felt like the 6190 was an excellent balance. If a 5210 (or 5190) rolled a 10 STR, the 6190 was a 9, but a 10 CHR if the 5210 was a 9. It looked good pulled out of an ubiquitous Targus laptop bag but
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by flkiwi 1y ago
The 6190 might have been the most successfully executed technological device I’ve ever had. (Also an American wondering about the assumption we didn’t have Nokia.)
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by flkiwi 1y ago
On the other hand, I have an M2 Air and it's stable, fast, and I haven't thrown anything at it that it doesn't handle perfectly. But the fingerprint reader doesn't work. (The M3/M4 are in progress but not supported.
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by flkiwi 1y ago
That's the underlying point though: spending time dealing with Linux driver issues just isn't as prevalent as it was, certainly on the wide range of well-supported machines (like Thinkpads). Hell, I'm on a Macbook running Nix
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by flkiwi 1y ago
A few years ago I'd have agreed with you, but between (a) Apple giving in to landscape orientation on their tablets as the default and risking the rise of angry zombie Steve Jobs from the grave in the process and (b) the increasing ava
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I don't want to be dismissive of some of the concerns of switching to Linux, but I feel like a lot of the "it's too hard!" in 2025 is "it's needlessly difficult to get a consistent Python container in NixOS Uns
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by flkiwi 1y ago
You're not accounting for teams already being understaffed and overtasked in many situations, with some AI tools allowing people to get back to doing their jobs. We aren't expecting significant headcount changes, but we are expect
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by flkiwi 1y ago
It's great advice for anything AI-generated in a professional production environment. I think the question is whether it's vibe coding with that requirement in place. Or, rather, if the requirement is appropriate for how vibe codi
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by flkiwi 1y ago
I'm sure someone else has said this, but Corporate America (I cannot speak to Corporate $AnywhereElse with any depth) and large parts of the entrepreneur ecosystem reward mediocrity. In this sense, LinkedIn is just a symptom of a large
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by flkiwi 1y ago
This delights me because it really leans into the rage of dealing with ChatGPT and doesn't just slather pandering and unwanted suggestions on me. I can see myself using this, because I can insult it without feeling bad.

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