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by hrktb 6y ago
The interesting part to me is the notion of cost for the product: how much you pay upfront, or how much you intend to pay in integration work etc. With cost in mind, documentation quality brings the total cost up or down and can change the
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by hrktb 6y ago
My mental image is that people want to spin off AWS for society’s benefits because Amazon grew too big and abuses the integration. Amazon squarely resisting this idea seems uncontroversal.
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TBF it is not the best coffee table, I think it’s such a popular product for all the other uses. The use cases for us was to shove 10cm off the feet and use it as a ground table (e.g. a kid can do homework on it while sitting on the floor),
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by hrktb 6y ago
To me, the parent is describing a functional circular dependency that we all have to live with, but when we’ll design the system it will be masqueraded in a many to many association in a third object/table and we’ll proudly say “we hav
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by hrktb 6y ago
I agree in principle. Then in real life example you will have real doctors and nurses giving conflicting advices and having wildly different viewpoints on the details. The easy to point to example is how a lot of doctors viewed masks at the
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by hrktb 6y ago
My point was more that what most people want to express is “guts”. But they’ll go for “balls” because it needs to be about sex and hormones, what else could it be, right ?
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by hrktb 6y ago
The "don't hate the player hate the game" approach only works if the player has no influence on the game. Corporations and politics are not two separate entity that act independently.
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by hrktb 6y ago
It’s as different as how jokes flying by in a locker room would have never been told in a restaurant. I think for better or worse old days IRC was more of a locker room, while most Discords are wide audience places, more of the restaurants
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by hrktb 6y ago
It still fascinates me that everything goes back to having a pair or not. For me it’s not the profanity but where it goes back to that makes me pause.
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by hrktb 6y ago
I have the same base thinking, but had to adjust a lot as reality quickly becomes complicated. For instance running after moths at night isn’t fun, and they don’t bring much troubles so I gave up on the in/out separation for them. Or s
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by hrktb 6y ago
Does it need to be a binary thing ? Elastic made a strategic mistake, and Amazon made the jerk move that was open to them.
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by hrktb 6y ago
It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that a project would die if it’s original developper community dies. Some projects survive that shift, but it’s the exception more than the rule.
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by hrktb 6y ago
I feel your pain. But also ended up completely moving out of most "native" tools for a reason or another (from TextMate to VSCode, Mail to Gmail tab, FaceTime to Skype/Meet etc.). At this point deep platform integration looks
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by hrktb 6y ago
“We just need to find the appropriate XXX” is a good approach if no one gains from keeping a sub-optimal XXX (whatever it is). A dumb but easy to reach metrics helps if you’re employee that wants money on next evaluation. An ad targeted at
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by hrktb 6y ago
That’s interesting, Google > “disable personalized advertising” On this bit, tracking concerns are not just for advertising though. Extending your reading on how they replace cookies with the Google id, I’d see them replacing ad targetin
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by hrktb 6y ago
I did know what jingoism is, but only barely, and mostly from history lessons and didn't think about it at all looking at the OS name. I agree that is still used, but arguably in very specialized contexts, and has many better and less
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by hrktb 6y ago
Most blue light glasses seem to be just fashion accessories [0] As sister comment recommends Axon and other brands seem to block a different wavelength and tout better results, but I have no first hand experience and I don't think ther
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by hrktb 6y ago
Education and supervised access can strike a good balance. Not really a recreational drug, but for instance paracetamol is mostly free of access while having a potential for severe damage on overuse, and it kinda works thanks to having some
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by hrktb 6y ago
Interesting question. In France as far as I know they are not illegal, but almost completely disappeared from physical retail, and I had to identify myself to get a prepaid SIM card from one of the major operators (Orange). 10 years ago I&#
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by hrktb 6y ago
In a number of countries there are legal provisions to prevent cutting access to vital resources for non payment. E.g. in winter times booting out renters or cutting heating/electricity is forbidden. Applying the same for internet isn’
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by hrktb 6y ago
Sadly paying through the nose for a Thunderbolt hub doesn't guarantee a good experience, it still sucks in a number of ways.
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by hrktb 6y ago
> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over something they said or who they associated with? Unthinkable. Or imagine not being able to use the banking system because banks don't like you&
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by hrktb 6y ago
That's a good point. We used to partition our disks and assign space budgets to specific partition/mounted directories. It was to me a PITA, and juggling with partitions, redimensionning them because circumstances changed, moving
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by hrktb 6y ago
I think there is the effect of weeding out people with strong technical skill but low focus on “people” skills (not talking about jerks, just people who don’t play politics). Honestly I don’t think it’s a good trend or that it’s unavoidable
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by hrktb 6y ago
That's addressed in the article: > A primary argument against using devices in bed is that it can further erode the boundaries between work and home, and disrupt your sleep cycle. Basically the adjustment is to rebuild routines and
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by hrktb 6y ago
TBF, coding 8 hrs in any single posture is bad for you.
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by hrktb 6y ago
"never" doesn't feel instantaneous though. Joking aside, email never coming is a pretty common occurence for me on new services, especially small orgs (local clubs, small merchants)
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by hrktb 6y ago
Lego bricks are fine, but you’ll still need to make custom parts to build anything mildly complex. In particular to make your motorization system hook to them (the native Lego system is pretty limited) It depends on where you live, but the
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by hrktb 6y ago
I wonder how far you tried robotics yourself, as in what is your frame of reference. Here’s my framing: Setting aside sheer knowledge, building anything will require power, motors and parts. Power is doable up to some point, buying batterie
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by hrktb 6y ago
> Nobody questions it, I don't know why. Money. In our society it pays more in average to be a leader. On the why it pays more, I’d posit leaders are closer to the money source so get more negotiating power as they have more informa

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