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by high_5 5y ago
> Another failure was not grasping the services-based model They've experienced the first services-based model by the IBM et al. in the 60s and ran away from that by looking into alternative computing. That's where the personal
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by high_5 5y ago
All that productivity is standing on the shoulders of (infrastructure) giants.
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by high_5 5y ago
I wonder when will Hollywood make a movie where they hire someone explicitly not social media just because that's the most perfect cover for an undercover position. An then they make a fake social media presence to cover the un-tracks.
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by high_5 5y ago
It's actually quite old - here's a humurous take from WWII: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URwmZq70_DU
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by high_5 5y ago
Google Wave was my first association when I've heard about FB goin full meta(verse). The whole thing is just so "meta" it just shows how they're trying to solve all the problems of humanity by being blindsided by the opp
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by high_5 5y ago
> According to data from the Education Department, calculus is not even offered in most schools that serve a large number of Black and Latino students. The data mentioned does not show if the problem is in the schools or the Black/L
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by high_5 5y ago
Yes, if you get high on virtue-signalling in public sphere. But the sins and virtues are first and foremost personal categories to be measured against the person you used to be before now.
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by high_5 5y ago
Have you ever tried to wake up a sleepwalking person?
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by high_5 5y ago
Banning anonymous social media accounts would just amplify the similar behaviour to swatting.
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by high_5 5y ago
> People need to realize you don't always have to come to a conclusion when you're presented with information, it's possible to just say here is some uncertain information and I will treat it as such. Then most of the poli
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by high_5 5y ago
> “Only a vision of the whole, like that of a saint, a madman or a mystic, will permit us to decipher the true organizing principles of the universe.” The mystic or a saint won't be understood and would be swiftly rejected in the We
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by high_5 5y ago
Microservices have a marvelous long-term potential to trash the service with a myriad of legacy and obsolete languages instead of just one. So you just have to run faster to stay in the same place.
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by high_5 5y ago
Maintenance windows are not a bug, they are a feature. Users should learn that there is no such thing as 100% uptime, so everyone should have a contingency plan for downtime. As many just learned the hard way with the FB/IG/WA fal
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by high_5 5y ago
Also, don't forget the reviewers who approved the change. And the designers of the whole system/process that enabled this thing to fall through this process.
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by high_5 5y ago
If they really wanted to hide it, they would cover it like they do it with new cars when testing them on public spaces. And construction workers would have been much more vetted what they have in their pockets. This is not TikTok failure, b
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by high_5 5y ago
I for one, can't really make anything out of this article. Is it a joke or just a poor attempt at comparing monasticism with corporate life? Or is it both?
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by high_5 5y ago
Just a sidenote, use of chording keyboard in computing is as old as the mouse: allen-riley.com/internetstenography/chorded_keyboard_engelbart.jpg
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Psychology of Pandemics(theguardian.com)
3 points by high_5 5y ago|1 comments
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by high_5 5y ago
That's a delivery raven fearing for its job.
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by high_5 5y ago
I bet that the sysadmins don't miss the BlackBerry :-)
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by high_5 5y ago
So it actually did you good? :-)
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by high_5 5y ago
yeah, the slowly boiling frog one
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by high_5 5y ago
I'll just wait for the Chinese government to ask Apple to implement CSAM for Tank Man pics.
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by high_5 6y ago
It's ridiculous we're trying to prevent three letter agencies to track us directly, but we then install all sorts of apps that could get the same information via apps from some 3rd party shell companies set up or funded by those a
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by high_5 6y ago
And in the process burnout yourself. Quit the job or exit game of life.
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by high_5 6y ago
My company got burned badly by this move but to play a little devil's advocate: there's no such thing as free lunch as it turns out sooner or later. Free/Open source != free as in beer. You either pay it in financial support
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by high_5 6y ago
Although this isn't something I would buy, I'm glad it's being done with open hardware. It gives me hope that there will always be some hardware to support open source software.
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by high_5 6y ago
Social scientists emphasize culture over nature so, to each their own reality. There's always a bigger fish ;-)
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by high_5 6y ago
I would pick the same books but Dune (now I'm intrigued). Especially 1984 is much more than just about surveillance technology which I think most people tend to be focused on.
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by high_5 6y ago
My messy room.

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