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Amazon has been historically very stingy with their donations. Internally, employees have begged for literally decades for an employee donation matching program (similar to Microsoft's donation matching) and have been stonewalled for y
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Amazon (via Smile) and Microsoft (via employee donations) are probably the two biggest funding sources for the FSF.
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Electron supports WebUSB. Just saying. As terrible as this is to say, it could have been an Electron app .
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Rust-base64: restore {encode, decode} convenience functions(github.com)
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Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: AWS (AppRunner/CDK/CloudFormation specifically), Linux, KVM, ARM64, Docker, Golang/C (particularly embedded)/C#/Python. Résumé/CV:
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I showed this to someone who works on Windows distribution in enterprise and who previously worked on core windows. Their response was a resounding "That's hilariously stupid". For those who think "oh I can do this on wi
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Spotify absolutely fit an access problem dead on: They're subscription, unless you can tolerate ads and various limitations*. Limits like not being able to control exactly what you're listening to (no beginning to end playback o
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I thought this too for the longest time. Then I heard an anecdote from one of my colleagues that does licensing: The music licensing industry heads (RIAA/MPAA/ASCAP/etc) are tiny fish monetarily, but they own everything and
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The issue here isn't that it's Google, it's that Google is doing what they're told to do. Movie and music licensing has been absolutely destroyed recently and the hoops that you have to agree to are becoming untenable. R
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So, sometimes you really don't anticipate the kinds of failures you can have. A really good one to remember is the "Camera Shy" Pi 2. For those unfamiliar with this issue, or who forgot: The power regulator IC on the Pi 2 w
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Earlier, there was a large discussion on screens and kids, internet usage, etc. I'll present Cory Doctorow's approach: Use the computer with your kids and talk about the media they are consuming. You can easily find places where C
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Cory Doctorow: Jack and the interstalk (2010)(theguardian.com)
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I work with someone who went through that. They resent their parents for it. Wholly and completely resent their parents. Growing up in the later 00s/10s, right as stuff like SMS and especially "social group by text message" c
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So you can hide the scrollbars in CSS if you want to, but doing so is also an accessibility pipe-bomb waiting to happen: things in motion in visually impaired systems plus no scroll bars when navigating a space is hellacious. Framer takes a
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They tried that. It was called Windows Me. Also, the selling point of the Professional editions was and continues to be use in Active Directory and business environments, not developer workstations.
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That's probably your disks cache catching up with what you've done. NTFS likes making sure that disks flush their caches regularly, and congestion caused by cache bloating makes it harder. Getting an nvme (or better, while you can
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Very dated. I help maintain on occasion the /r/mechanicalkeyboard wiki entry for Ergonomic keyboard buying suggestions. After using an Ergodox for five years now, I can hands down say that this is one of the best choices I made fo
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I have several ex-SpaceX coworkers. All have said, basically, "I want off this rock, Elon has the money to make it affordable, but the biggest threat to that happening is Elon and his ideology. If he doesn't become the first murde
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In Seattle and some of its extended metro, 10yo kids on the bus isn't uncommon. There's packs of them that transit their way to local skate parks near me.
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CDK makes Cloudformation easy to use. Tight integration between cdk and services. Lots of reusable bits and parts. Forces you into component (construct) mindset to handle complexity. Pulumi bypasses CF by making and breaking the resources d
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You can, but it takes a little bit of wringing your hands. You can inspect the entire construct tree that is created (minus anything created by Custom Resources, which are opaque to the CDK) via the Aspects visitor pattern. It allows you to
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> only ask for permissions once you actually need them Hard on Android, where "did my wifi go away" means asking "can I have access to your phone's internal state including call logs and if you're in a call right
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Money is fake. All money is fake.
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Hi, I work on (part) of the CDK at the moment. If you've found bugs, we'd love to hear about them with an appropriate reproduction over on github[0]. Thus ends my corp-speak. The following is my opinion alone: The thing that is ha
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They have no better choice. Name me, today, a desktop class ARM SoC that isn't made by Apple and represents the median performance band of the class. Fundamentally, ARM Holdings is what Antitrust legislation was supposed to break down.
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Whenever I look at the Win32 runtime I realize that it is one of the fundamental reasons that Windows has dominated the desktop market. One of the major reasons Windows is still the powerhouse for gaming that it is revolves around the fact
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All this makes me yearn for the days of Windows 10 Mobile again. I built a very simple websocket based app and there was not only support for "you need a long lived TCP connection and occasionally might need to read from it" but &
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Similarly, the same thing happened in C#. Where Go and C# have differed is where generics are common. In the introduction of generics into C#/.NET, their use was added everywhere . Microsoft made a huge point of including built-in Lis
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Ah, yes I can read the headline now “GOVERNMENT PROGRAM TO CHIP HOMELESS PEOPLE LIKE DOGS TO PROVE IDENTITY” I implore you to read The Scarlet Letter and perhaps read up on [similar such things]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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You took a step that requires a lot of skill, wealth, and privilege.

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