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by gyulai 5mo ago
If there's any pinning needing to be done it would be on lax antitrust laws or enforcement in the U.S. In the E.U., all of these companies consistently get slapped on the wrist about all of these things, but there's only so much
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by gyulai 5mo ago
> SPONSORED CONTENT FROM BROWSER CHOICE ALLIANCE Who is the "Browser Choice Alliance" I thought to myself. One web search later: > Our members: Midori, Opera, Vivaldi, Wavebox, Browserworks, and, ... wait for it ... > Ch
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by gyulai 5mo ago
The “magic” of the SERP is that it makes the organics product and the ads product reinforce each other: People come for the organics and don't have to pay. That brings eyeballs, which advertisers pay for. If Google no longer sends us
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by gyulai 5mo ago
What's the law these days in Vermont / the U.S. around anonymous use of the phone system? Are anonymous burner SIMs still allowed?
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by gyulai 6mo ago
If anything, the lesson to learn from the LiMux failure has nothing to do with technology or with project planning + execution, but with politics. If you extort millions from government as a for-profit business, most of which ends up as pu
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by gyulai 6mo ago
Investor narrative pointing out a relationship is not the same as substantive technological overlap.
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by gyulai 6mo ago
> I feel like I really need to learn how to raise money. For $17M, one could probably ... People complaining about investors throwing stupid sums of money at stupid or trivial things unrelated (or only marginally related) to AI? ...soun
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by gyulai 6mo ago
> i am actually fine with how svn works. I came here to say precisely that. I was on svn before git was a thing, and I've never moved off it for any projects where I get to decide such things. To a first approximation, one could sa
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by gyulai 7mo ago
In a perfect society, companies would find that the more negative externality they create, the more difficult a time they'll have finding people willing to do it for them. One case in point is when a civil-oriented software company st
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by gyulai 7mo ago
I normally know better than to respond to "career advice", particularly, coming at it from an angle of vulnerability. I think the primary reason I'm doing it is as a service to my younger self (and people in equivalent situa
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by gyulai 7mo ago
Telling someone they need to learn to be an extrovert to get ahead in a field that people tend to gravitate towards because they are introverts is psychologically quite unsound advice, because personality is quite fixed. I've beaten m
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by gyulai 7mo ago
It's not like "spend more time away from the screen" is a real choice that is actually offered to "codemonkey ICs", like myself, in most workplaces, and I haven't seen AI change a damn thing about that. If any
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by gyulai 8mo ago
Oh boy. Vaporware startup facing an unsolved cold-start problem calling itself the “next era” of something and announcing lofty funding goals. Exactly where I want to put my personal data.
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by gyulai 8mo ago
> Why do people need banking on their phones though? Banks have websites too. 2FA. I was a smartphone hold-out for longer than anyone I know, but banks mandating 2FA with no options for doing it in a standards-compliant way or any way t
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by gyulai 8mo ago
I would have thought it would be about OS/400.
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by gyulai 8mo ago
I'll repeat a critique I've made about Tonies before [1]: I recently discovered Tonies when I remembered the Fisher Price cassette player which was my favourite toy when I was a kid and wanted to get something similar for my son.
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by gyulai 8mo ago
> The EU trails the US not only in the absolute number of AI-related patents but also in AI specialisation – the share of AI patents relative to total patents. E.U. patent law takes a very different attitude towards software patents than
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by gyulai 8mo ago
> curated local book store I used to live in central London, so I know what you mean, but here's the thing: LOTS of people don't have access to curated local book stores, so doing the same thing but doing it online does add val
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by gyulai 9mo ago
...let me rephrase that. I frequently am quite surprised by how poor some people are who still manage to sport the latest iPhone at all times. Conversely, a small amount of money or even no money at all and a dumpster find will get you su
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by gyulai 9mo ago
I am willing to downgrade my statement “exceedingly rare” to “relatively rare”. It is certainly exceedingly rare in my sphere of experience. The last time I worked for a company that had shared computers was 16 years ago. This was on a trad
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by gyulai 9mo ago
Putting Linux on dumpster-find computers is a hobby for some rich Americans. They'd be happy to hand those out to the poor and needy who, however, wouldn't be caught dead with one of those. Because, sporting the latest iPhone at
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by gyulai 9mo ago
Graphical login managers are just a nightmare altogether. Genuine use cases for multiuser desktop Linux are exceedingly rare. (Are university computer labs with desktop computers still a thing? Or is it just Wi-Fi and BYOD now?) On an eff
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by gyulai 9mo ago
Case law isn't directly normative in civil law traditions like Germany and France in the same way it is in common law traditions like the U.S. and U.K. But court decisions that are deemed interesting do get picked up in journals, ci
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by gyulai 9mo ago
I don't know. We don't have any such thing as small claims court in Germany, but my expectation would be that judges in low-level courts will try their very best not to get noticed for setting any kind of precedent whatsoever. T
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by gyulai 9mo ago
> I certainly think it’s incredibly false marketing for Apple to claim I bought an iphone, when in reality I paid upfront for essentially AOL. I wonder if that has ever been tried against Apple or a similar company in a court of law, bec
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by gyulai 9mo ago
I expect that over the next 10 years, one of two things is going to happen: Either Software Engineering is going to reinvent itself as an actual engineering discipline, or Civil Engineering is going to cease to be one and we'll be dri
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by gyulai 9mo ago
I came to this discussion, specifically looking for the term "management 'science'", with the quotation marks where they belong, and I found it right here, so thanks for that :-) ...I don't think I'd be capabl
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by gyulai 9mo ago
I optimize for maximum amount of natural sunlight hitting my retina throughout the day, as that tends to have positive effects on my psychological wellbeing. So I've set up my desk at a 45° angle bridging a corner of my office where I
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by gyulai 9mo ago
I recently discovered Tonies when I remembered the Fisher Price cassette player which was my favourite toy when I was a kid and wanted to get something similar for my son. What I ended up getting: A used Fisher Price cassette player on e-b
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by gyulai 10mo ago
It is quite telling, regarding the state of higher education, if actual teachers actually talking to students 1:1 (which is all that an oral exam really needs to be) is brushed away as a non-starter. I can highly empathise with students wh

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