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by indymike 2y ago
Complexity is the enemy of both security and usability. I had a day last week where I had to authenticate 28 times to different services due to forced re-auths. No security benefit. None. It cost me 2-3 hours of my life. The IT team needs t
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> Should computer programmers also shoulder responsibility and be insured like doctors? Computer programmers aren't authorized and licensed by the government to inflict violence like police officers. Computer programmers are not lic
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> dabbling in lobbying for regulations to force manufacturers to make devices that you can buy ifixit (and other) kits... feel as disingenuous Availability of parts and tools is critical to being able to repair anything and iFixit's
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I wonder if sales are down that much now that every new TV has Roku or something similar built-in. The Chromecast's form factor was fantastic, but it really left a lot of features on the table compared to Amazon, Roku, and even Onn (Wa
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Not really. Many companies simply can't stay on the field for 20-odd years to get an airframe approved.
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> I was shocked when learning to fly how much GA tech was stuck in some weird pre-World War II era state. This is accurate. Between regulations and insurability, pilots have the choice of newer, less expensive, and more innovative experi
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> ignorant and greedy. This is going to be the title of my book on AI that I totally need to write.
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Making functions takes substantially more effort (and has some advantages).
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Was someone wrong on the internet again?
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> Alternatives are supposed to cover all uses case I can't think of a single tech product where feature parity was a driver for growth. If all you have is parity, then all you compete on is lower price. Usually, some advantage (bett
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Most of the software you list either has a Mac version or will interop well with Apple's ecosystem and has for a decade.
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> Or is it just that the market for phone providers isn't competitive? The prison operator has a (joke not intended) captive market and that is exploited by contractors who often share the proceeds with the prison operator.
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> core concept that the _only_ purpose of a company is to earn capital. There seems to be an inverse relationship between size of company and quality of service. The bigger the company I suspect that great service is not as likely to le
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> when you say "expansion in poverty" I'm assuming you mean it attracts the poor to the city (ie moves them), and not that it actually creates more poor individuals Both of these can be true. A larger available labor marke
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I think the OP was saying, fixed wing aircraft are safer in general, and that is before the shooting starts.
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Those characters were "control characters" and used for streaming data over serial, parallel and other devices. Control character could cause some real surprises when you used them. > There's no escaping escaping... This i
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This is not actually the case. The problem was you were transporting CSV often using a mechanism that used control characters at the hardware level. Using those characters often would have unpredictable results when storing, retrieving, and
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There are a few lower cost apartment complexes, but for the most part they commute from adjacent communities because wages in low-income jobs are usually pay 15-25% better in Carmel.
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> Lack of any safety net can't be good for society, and this makes it harder for less privileged people to ascend the social ladder I'm not sure about that. They were paying people $18/hr to make submarine sandwiches in Ca
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I always thought this way until I listened to Mayor Brainerd talk about how cities invest in poverty which results in an expansion of poverty, which manifests as low tax income and increased expenses, which limits the city's ability to
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We have too much water here, and many incorporated areas run their own water companies here… so nothing too remarkable. Just don’t try to do cable or internet locally.
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> only cater to rich people" is simply not sustainable at a wider scale. People have been saying this about Carmel since the mid 1990s. What is going on is sustainable as long as long-term economic growth is positive. Growth is the
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> run-of-the-mill gentrification Carmel is an example of investing heavily into gentrification.
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> they made the tough problems somebody else’s problem to solve This is true. A lot of the problems that go with poverty simply moved somewhere else. > engineering equivalent of redefining the system boundaries I think Brainerd's
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> creating being the rich neighbourhood of a larger urban area When I was five, Carmel was a nothingville with two stop lights we lived in a house my dad could afford buying as a college student. It had all the growth problem of a small
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> What exactly does that mean Carmel did not invest in anything that anchors poverty into the community. They were very careful not to overbuild section 8 housing, they aggressively police blight (i.e. people not taking care of their pro
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> Prove it out first Carmel has proven it. Now neighboring cities are following suit with same results see Zionsville, Westfield, Noblesville and Fishers for other examples with results that are tracking right along with Carmel (although
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Carmel Indiana is an example of focusing on growth . * They didn't do austerity. The whole low taxes run the place on a shoestring wasn't the game. Carmel did not do extravagant government buildings until they were affordable, an
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> Linux as a desktop OS is hardware support Things have changed a lot here. I now regularly buy windows laptops, toss windows and they just work. When there is a hardware problem, it usually takes a few minutes to resolve. The hard part
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> 95% of the site's users were men - the company running the site made fake female profiles to interact with men: The interesting part of Ashley Madison was that it was 100% a scam, and that scam was perpetuated by software and that

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