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by gcb0 8y ago
YAML is useless because it replaces JSON (tree structure that is minimally verbose to not be confusing) with something worse (a tree structure that is just less verbose than JSON to be slightly confusing)
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by gcb0 8y ago
data caps are not the reason. $5bi of free government money is. Remember that one?
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by gcb0 8y ago
then they realized they could get away without even that modicum of respect to the clients, because, well they run a legal monopoly. Either you only have one option (fiber, or even cable in some markets) or the 3 to 4 offerings have the sam
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by gcb0 8y ago
As I see it, cloud is exclusively about price (and maybe convenience and not being locked-in, not in any order). If anyone care about all this security you talk about, they would encrypt it before uploading.
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by gcb0 8y ago
this would be a better link for HN https://mesibo.com/documentation/get-started/
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by gcb0 8y ago
I honestly did. But since my employer uses git, i ended up forgetting all the hg routine during the week. In the end, it is nicer, but not as nice to miss it that much over git (granted, i do know by heart all the dances to make git bearabl
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by gcb0 8y ago
a.k.a a librarian.
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by gcb0 8y ago
You need to stop pretending they are not globals. Just accept you work on one continuous memory patch and are simply passing pointers around. If you don't lie to yourself, you can't shoot your own foot when the compiler do not see
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by gcb0 8y ago
differently from Google, reddit was bootstrapped by dark patterns! their founders even brag of it! my point being that with Google your complaint is valid. But on reddit case, you are just signaling that you liked one dark pattern (which p
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by gcb0 8y ago
for younger people, this is already solved by noticing each online system corruption of the image. e.g. some social networks add a greenish tint, other have a bug that adds an also greenish (but stronger) tiny to only the last column of pix
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by gcb0 8y ago
just like most news outlet ever worked. sometimes you get it even from cheap favors like a couple plane tickets so their staff can attend your grand opening. other times you have to talk to their ad seller and say "gee! I wonder if you
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by gcb0 8y ago
yes just like every car company has a sports cars but make most money on minivans. not saying there's no good content now and then
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by gcb0 8y ago
there's a comic that goes : - it wasn't elective surgery. I would have died! - but you elected to live.
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by gcb0 8y ago
your list just show the yearly churn of the news-repost industry (i.e. companies that have zero investigative journalism, needs fresh people to get fresh news sources to repost) vice (not the site) and buzzfeed news (not regular buzzfeed) a
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by gcb0 8y ago
ironically how there are guns designed exactly for target shooting, for example, the models used by Olympic shooters are even cheaper than some rifles, yet all the people with a gun hobby will promptly ignore those and buy the ones specific
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by gcb0 8y ago
what's your expectations from guns exactly then?
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by gcb0 8y ago
only because a good fox will be mobile and not transmitting all the time.
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by gcb0 8y ago
nobody is. just the moderators. it's recursive.
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by gcb0 8y ago
by robot they mean a fake finger that touches things on a phone screen repeatedly. I honestly can't decide if this is all fake news for such an effort to steal something so silly and simple, or if there is a deeper supply chain monopol
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The Matamoros auto strike and internet censorship(wsws.org)
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by gcb0 8y ago
it's not private until it have an owner. or are you normalizing the criminal behavior of godaddy where registrars can rush and buy the domain while you're doing the check out process just to sell back to you for more?
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by gcb0 8y ago
if you're an authority on the matter and consider the news pure noise, why share it anywhere?
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by gcb0 8y ago
this sounds like a textbook false flag "think of the children" action on public opinion. enemy, or Grey zone neutral power, announce they will use something a state always wanted a reason to jump in but didn't really had a le
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by gcb0 8y ago
I was shocked when i saw how remote tests work. They are essentially a rootkit! At many UC campuses, this is required. And the students only learn about this after they are halfway on the class. The vendor of that immoral spyware to UC is p
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by gcb0 8y ago
Spam got us here. In the fear that we would see one spam message, we gave up all our liberties to Google et al, so they can choose how they want to mediate our online interactions. To people thinking this is blowing spam fear out of protect
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by gcb0 8y ago
> julialang.org > no mention of "license" > "Julia is a NumFocus project" it is a non-profit corporation, but still a corporation. Whose life depend on donations from the owners of the other languages you compar
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by gcb0 8y ago
Google is doing a Yahoo. (trying to) Forcing bad products (g+), adding a top bar everywhere (look! we are a portal!), and cheaping out on labour which leads to missing out the only people capable of innovating.
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by gcb0 8y ago
and then there's the shortsighted view on money. that work was paid by the subscribers. now it's paid by the news. see the fast rise of puff-piece-for-hire type of press, like wired and vice and Bloomberg (the video branch). they
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by gcb0 8y ago
so, because in this one time the company was as vulnerable as the person, the law is.... what? I can't even guess where you were going with your point!
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by gcb0 8y ago
it probably won't impact you.

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