indymike

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by indymike 3y ago
> Seems like a pretty open and shut case of unconstitutional restriction of speech I wish it didn't cost a lot of money and years of your life to beat these over-reaches.
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by indymike 3y ago
Almost everyone I know who pirates at this point does so for one of two reasons: * Getting back content they've purchased that was removed by the vendor, or where their account with the vendor was closed without giving the customer a w
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by indymike 3y ago
> All the browsers are probably counted as Firefox. Firefox for iOS uses WebKit as the rendering engine, and the others are significantly divergent from Firefox proper and take significant development resources away from the core product
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by indymike 3y ago
> only if you cherry-pick the ones that you like. As did you. Every item you've cherry-picked used a multimedia app paradigm (similar to a CD ROM of the era) or was a novelty (Winamp). If you look a best-selling titles of the era,
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by indymike 3y ago
> limited tech options (Eli Lilly, Salesforce, Rolls Royce, Cummins, Roche, Beckman, Corteva, Hospitals, … maybe a few others I'm forgetting) Aside Salesforce, these are just big companies. The startup scene here is pretty good (I r
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by indymike 3y ago
A quick look at Mozilla's product page with 12 products of which five are different browsers, explains why the decline has happened: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/ That's a lot of products t
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by indymike 3y ago
Indianapolis Pros: easy to get around town, great airport, lots to do, and very very affordable. Cons: Not pedestrian friendly. Sprawl.
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by indymike 3y ago
Confusing web design and desktop UI design in the 90s does little to dispute the assertion that desktop UI design peaked in the 90s. In the late 90s, the browser was completely new - so there was a lot of skeuomorphism, borrowing from other
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by indymike 3y ago
It’s not an add blocker. It is a competitive as blocker.
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by indymike 3y ago
I'm not sure this is "more affordable" in total, it's just more affordable per projectile. It's a lot like a 5" gun on a destroyer. If you ignore the cost of the ship, it's about $1,200 per shot. A bargain
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by indymike 3y ago
> That’s one part. The others are deterrence, incapacitation, retribution and restitution [1]. Deterrence (fail) - 44% of criminals go to jail again. Retribution (fail) - Not sure what the value of retribution is other than deterrance. S
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by indymike 3y ago
Since "terminal" often really means the shell that runs in the terminal, try searching for tutorials on bash or zsh. "bash tutorial" "bash basics" for most unix-ish operating systems for recent macs, "zsh
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by indymike 3y ago
Takedowns or counterclaims?
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by indymike 3y ago
Right now, all that happens is the content goes back online which is simply no where near enough. Perhaps some kind of "Ernest money" should accompany a takedown request that would be split between to the person or entity that the
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by indymike 3y ago
Thanks for making this. Immediately useful.
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by indymike 3y ago
Oh, they are Emacs extensions.
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by indymike 3y ago
I'd like to see DMCA updated with a simple addition: Anyone who fails to file a legal claim within 10 days after receiving a counter-notice shall be liable for $10,000 to the company or person the DMCA claim was made against and $2,00
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by indymike 3y ago
Now I see why all the "I'm a not a (fill in the blank actual tech role) but I am a tech person" (who are actually not at all) people really like GPTs: https://github.com/linexjlin/GPTs/blob/main
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by indymike 3y ago
Interesting how similar this is to my family's favorite game: pictograph. 1. You start by describing a thing. 2. The next person draws a picture of it. 3. The next next person describes the picture. repeat steps 2 and 3 until everyone
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by indymike 3y ago
This line, to me, caused me to become much more critical of the article: "such as Windows, which is leaning heavily towards Rust, a memory safe language,"
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by indymike 3y ago
> If people on the other platforms don't notice or care about these bugs, they're better customers. Or they are experiencing the bug and are slowly but surely becoming ex-customers. > Clearly these users aren't profitab
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by indymike 3y ago
> Isn't a stable connection more important? Support is for the times where the connection isn't stable, and it appears AAISP handles these situations better.
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by indymike 3y ago
I've been burnt by "open core" in the past. Never again.
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by indymike 3y ago
It's intuitive to look at size (as in lines changed) as a complexity metric. What is interesting about this article is that they measured what effect the number of files changed in the PR had on review and time to merge. The more files
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by indymike 3y ago
The baby is that copyright provides enough incentive for the creator to create. The problem comes from rent-seeking later down the line.
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by indymike 3y ago
> typically if the CEO and Chair of the board depart under these circumstances there was something illegal When they are fired by the board, it sends a very different signal.
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by indymike 3y ago
> in a non-profit I am not even sure of who really has control over things The board is in absolute control in a not-for-profit. The loophole is that some have bylaws that make ad-hoc board meetings and management change votes very diffi
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by indymike 3y ago
There is no time requirement or requirement in general for the host to restore your content.
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by indymike 3y ago
"applications either would not meet the legal standard to win court approval" Which translates to we will not be able to go around Constitutional protections or ignore laws with impunity. The FBI has it tough (and rightfully so).
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by indymike 3y ago
VBA has a few interesting things in common with Javascript: 1. The development environment is already installed. 2. The platform does a lot. Being able to program using Office components or program using browser components gives the program

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