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by flukus 7y ago
> The latest tech for your pocket from Planet Computers - the people that brought you the Gemini PDA. Running Android 9 OS, Sailfish and Linux operating systems I'd be careful, there's been a few phones like that where it turns
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by flukus 7y ago
Ubuntu, firefox and others bit off more than they could chew with experimental stuff like scopes in ubuntu, or a complete new UI for firefox. Android did the same but had the benefit of google's backing. I think these guys are successf
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by flukus 7y ago
And compliments vim really well if you set your leader key to space.
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by flukus 7y ago
> but their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok. Maybe Hollywood will learn that DRM hurts legitimate users. But they probably won't, I won't be shedding any tears either way.
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by flukus 7y ago
Think about it in terms of the misv ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_ISV ) business model instead of more mass market stuff. Your customers are paying you to install it, upgrade it, create backups, etc. They have no
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by flukus 7y ago
> So the reason quality is lower is because no-one will pay for quality anymore. Unwilling or unable? I can't find a way to distinguish something that's expensive because it's high quality from something that's expens
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The first ever labradoodle wasn't a designer dog, he was a guide dog(abc.net.au)
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by flukus 7y ago
Flexibility is a huge downside to anyone that depends on public transport. When you move in somewhere or buy a property access to public transport this is a big consideration and you don't want it to disappear one day.
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by flukus 7y ago
The trams are a part what made the inner city areas attractive to the wealthy and drove gentrification, but that's only a recent trend, when the lines were first built and for most of their lifetime the areas serviced by the tram netwo
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by flukus 7y ago
Do you just want to log the scripts execution or do you want something more structured? If it's the former you can redirect the output from within the bash script with this (apologies for any condescension, I'm not familiar with y
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by flukus 7y ago
How many of those organisations feature smiling attractive women in their product advertising? It's funny how many companies are happy to use sex to sell products but god forbid someone see a silhouette of a bikini.
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by flukus 7y ago
There's less direct subsidies that would free up some spare cash, like the military budget spent keeping middle eastern oil wells flowing.
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by flukus 7y ago
> The issue is that with the internet, the default option is “available everywhere” This is very often not true. A generic website will be visible everywhere, but new online stores will typically sell domestically only by default and may
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by flukus 7y ago
What's the opt-in? GDPR doesn't allow opt-out as a default.
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by flukus 7y ago
> There are other comments talking about how he has a phobia to plants so women grow them in their offices or wear clothing with plant imagery. A simple google search shows how dubious this is: https://www.google.com/sear
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by flukus 7y ago
> It was the wrong forum Apparently it was the right forum to be inviting people to protest Minsky and to label him a racist and pedophile. So why not to defend him? Were the people calling him a rapist and pedophile sacked as well?
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by flukus 7y ago
Your use case is what mailing lists or usenet are for, of course IRC is an objectively terrible mailing list, it's also an objectively terrible toaster.
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by flukus 7y ago
How much do they make per user? I would have have thought it was in the $10-$20 range and not enough to trigger any price sensitivity. I'm a tightass with an aldi TV but wouldn't have cared if it cost $10 more.
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by flukus 7y ago
Thirded, especially on the pragmatism, this by far the most pragmatic programming book I've ever read. I fell in love with the C as a scripting language parts ( https://github.com/RhysU/c99sh ), now I don't hav
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by flukus 7y ago
Oh FFS I just learned this was a thing, I can't even trust my cables anymore.
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by flukus 7y ago
I find 90% of the complication in large enterprise projects come from the developers trying to write too much architecture and not enough simple, boring, imperative code. At the moment I'm staring at a validation framework and 6 layers
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by flukus 7y ago
If they repeatedly harass women in work contexts they should be fired for that. Waiting until they say something controversial implies the organisation was just fine with the harassment.
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by flukus 7y ago
Fortunately I don't do family tech support anymore, but that's exactly the sort of thing that would result in a panicked phone call and a user having to "learn it all over again". And that's for a purely cosmetic ch
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by flukus 7y ago
> Charging money to fix something because of who they are seems unethical to me Are you aware of how much price discrimination these corporations do to everyone (including yourself) every single day? Most stuff we buy everyday, including
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by flukus 7y ago
Have you heard of groupies? Plenty of young women will throw themselves at rich/powerful/famous people, it's been happening forever. Plenty of young men will too for that matter, but historically there's been far less ri
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by flukus 7y ago
> Extended Support Release (ESR): receives major updates on average every 42 weeks It feels like they're just taking the piss when the life cycle of an extended support release is just 42 weeks. Still a step in the right direction t
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by flukus 7y ago
Notice that almost all the positives of quick release cycles are about how they make it easier for developers? I think is telling of where tech culture is these days. IME frequent updates terrify non-technical users, any given update might
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by flukus 7y ago
You write this like it's an insult, but with a dozen stuff and million dollar budget he's done more for the world than most of us could do with 1000 staff and a billion dollar budget. That's a testament to his vision and lead
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by flukus 7y ago
Fiber isn't rolled out in a uniform grid pattern across the country, so population density is irrelevant. We are one of the most urbanized countries in the world, more so than many who have rolled out fiber.
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by flukus 7y ago
> This incident doesn't change anything since much more chilling precedents have been set so many times before Your not wrong, but in this case he is 2 degrees of separation away from someone that we know was guilty. It feels like t

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