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by geocar 3y ago
> Did you ever publish to appstore ? Yes. > The amount of bullshit you have to go through so that an alternative payment method isn't reachable from mobile is insane, and they want % of a lot of things You say insane, but you don
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by geocar 3y ago
Sounds terrible. Here in socialist Europe it is exactly as easy as I just made it sound.
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by geocar 3y ago
Erm, Apple shares the cable subscription revenue with the people who make the content. People like me. You are literally talking about stealing my money. To me. And this doesn’t seem strange to you?
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by geocar 3y ago
It sounds more like you’re upset about apples revshare model on their channel; Why do you care if all your competitors also have to pay it? I don’t think the world got better because we got more channels on Tv, and I even think some of them
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by geocar 3y ago
Better: it’s a menu option. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212780 eSIMs also have the advantage of an activation card can be sent instantly from almost anywhere (it’s a QR code) which is great if your phone (and phy
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by geocar 4y ago
> I believe the connection you make between LSD and the discovery of DNA is apocryphal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/ “Would I have invented PCR if I hadn’t taken LSD? I seriously d
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by geocar 4y ago
Or the bribe is structured in a (recurring) way, such as a regular consulting job so that the observer has something to look forward to.
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by geocar 4y ago
> Anyone who spends enough time studying biochem... ...knows about how LSD was used to discover DNA. Agreeing it possible is one thing, but to actually expect it? That is magical thinking. I don't think putting random chemicals in
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by geocar 4y ago
> If it had been available freely one year earlier, Linux wouldn't have gained momentum. I doubt that. Real Unix was a pretty horrible experience for a lot of hobbyists starting right from the disklabel, and many of those smug basta
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by geocar 4y ago
> I think the European Commission did indicate that the UK was an Adequate Country? Every so often I see something like this: https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/publicatio... I suspect the UK is
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by geocar 4y ago
Depends on the CDN. If you pay the CDN, and they're not using your customers' data to make money, then probably not. If you don't, or they do, then it's a violation of EU law if you do not allow (at least) EU users to ea
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by geocar 4y ago
Specifically, a website operator using Google Fonts was ruled to be non-compliant, for not disclosing that they were doing so, and refusing to honour their preference of the user. I think a pure-play hosting service is probably fine for hos
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by geocar 4y ago
> Common Lisp is not good at being pretty out-of-the-box, it's not good at minimalism, and it's not good at prescriptive or dogmatic programming styles These things help you learn to program, but they do not help you program. A
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by geocar 4y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t know. Is a raw onion as good as a nice caramelised one? Maybe some people think they’re just different. Maybe it’s like coke and pepsi. Maybe they taste no difference at all. Or maybe just with some spices. Maybe some
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by geocar 4y ago
> there are spices that are toasted and some which are not. No, I'm telling you that you can toast all of them, and you might like it. > For example, toasted cumin is just divine, toasted clove is also interesting. However, I&#x2
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by geocar 4y ago
You should try toasting all your spices before you grind and mix them: It only takes a few extra minutes and it adds so much extra flavour, I really miss it when the spices aren't toasted. Seriously. Google search how to toast spices
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by geocar 4y ago
> It's the only system where you can do this. Linux is the only kernel with a stable user space interface. The system call numbers are stable on most unixes (including XNU/Darwin). It's just Windows that doesn't have
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by geocar 4y ago
> > Almost every language in Europe shares a lot of words and idioms, and English took every one it could, so training on English is training it on those other languages > Knowing English doesn't make you even close to compete
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by geocar 4y ago
One of the arcade games is playable...
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by geocar 4y ago
> 1. GPT-3 can speak native-level french despite the language only being 1.8% of it's training corpus. I personally think 1.8% is a lot. If I lived in France for 1.8% of my life, and aggressively consumed only French for that time,
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by geocar 4y ago
> we just put 16MB of working memory on each chip. Just? The chips we've got have between 32kb and 64kb -- maybe 128kb in some really big chips, and it's been that way for forty years! Everything else has to swap or cache throu
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by geocar 4y ago
I think the real issue is this: Can management trust business continuance with "only" prod? If you are a programmer who also understands the business requirements, you know the answer, but everyone else has to guess and can only
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by geocar 4y ago
No. At the end of the day, the customer pays, because I charge more for bullshit. They need an SOC to use my cloud product it cost me 150k USD to get an audit from a big-four for a single site in 2016. Maybe it’s a little more today, but it
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by geocar 4y ago
> Here is an experiment - tell your employer you will be hosting on (insert no-name provider here), to same a literal million dollars, and see if you can get security team to sign off on it. SOCS/PCI/etc is going to take maybe
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by geocar 4y ago
You can use an MDM solution/Apple Configurator. I do this so (among other things) my iPhone connects to my home network and won't connect to my young friend's wifi "pineapple" or even suggest it's an option whe
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by geocar 4y ago
> SS came out in 2008, HLS in 2009. Oh you're quite right! I was definitely mis-remembering silverlight. > Separate manifests and non aligned segments have a real impact on the ability of the client to switch qualities in respons
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by geocar 4y ago
How can HLS be a move backwards if it came out before DASH and SS? Why do you think users care about “separate manifests and non-aligned segments” more than the video playing and not stalling and having to refresh?
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by geocar 4y ago
I'll watch out for ruffle (60% of AVM2 sounds promising!). Thanks for that.
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by geocar 4y ago
I think Pepper was just the name of Google's extension API, and so Pepper Flash was just a (re)packaging of the flashplayer artefacts from Adobe. My memory of this was that it was pitched (to users) as a "safer" flash, since
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by geocar 4y ago
> It's pretty backwards I think it's pretty clever. There are a lot of usability issues with firewalls and proxies that make implementing other streaming protocols very difficult, and the HLS design basically causes the impleme

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