indymike

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by indymike 3y ago
I think their problem is trying so hard to sell something that most people don't really care too much about (even though they should): Firefox is more than a browser. Learn more about Firefox products that handle your data with respec
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by indymike 3y ago
> If a project ends up in Apache it feels to me like it has gone out to pasture. There are many Apache Foundation projects that are active and important or complete and important. Unfortunately OpenOffice is not any of the above, and it
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by indymike 3y ago
> All that sounds great, but how do you actually assert those things without your child missing out on their classes? Just make sure there's no excuses the school can use to deny your kids. Make sure they have a device they can use.
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by indymike 3y ago
In many areas in the US, state funding for schools is done using attendance data. tardies and absences result in the school losing funding partially or fully for the day (even if it is averaged across the school population). So, "no bi
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by indymike 3y ago
Rebates are usually legal in the US, but go to the distributor or the final buyer. I used to sell huge amounts of computer hardware at a small loss, and a month later would be making 15-20% profit once rebates were paid to my company. Bribe
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by indymike 3y ago
It usually starts with an email, and is resolved pretty quickly when these boxes are checked: [ ] We are supplying the hardware. [ ] We wish to protect our kids and our own rights. Letting the school surveil my home network or office (when
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by indymike 3y ago
I've had to deal with this over the past six years with five kids in school and every time they back off. Honestly, I would love to litigate this one (the bill will suck), but there comes a point where we are no longer taking care of k
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by indymike 3y ago
> Has anyone attempted to force you to allow your kids to use a school laptop full of spyware? Every year. The back-off point is usually when I ask for a meeting with the superintendent and suggest the school bring their lawyer.
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by indymike 3y ago
> which they would be deprived of in a safer school environment with cameras? My personal experience with bullies is that they will leverage the cameras to make their bullying even more effective. Most bullies work inside the system, a
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by indymike 3y ago
God seems to notice a lot less bad behavior than the school resource officer.
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by indymike 3y ago
I agree with the headline, but for a very different reason: Kid's online activities are criminalized when schools snoop and hand that information over to the school resource officer. I don't ever want a visit to the wrong websit
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by indymike 3y ago
> Without an alternate disincentive that problem will only get worse with this change. The ER is the only place that people can get care when they are uninsured and not wealthy. Your family doc will say no. Immediate care will say no. Bu
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by indymike 3y ago
> People do 90% of their work "on the web" or "in the cloud", I'm much more excited about embedded applications where cloud connected might not be the answer for running an LLM.
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by indymike 3y ago
The advantage of TOML over INI is that you can use a generic TOML linter or TOML validator to check files. This is very helpful when dealing with deployment and CI pipelines where it would be nice to just fail if the config file(s) are not
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by indymike 3y ago
> Seriously, the avoid-crashing-at-all-costs anti-pattern is what made HTML, JavaScript and PHP the messes that they still are Forgiving syntax made HTML and PHP easy, and because it was easy people were quick to learn and use them. Ever
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by indymike 3y ago
YAML and XML both get their reputation from the software that use them poorly. XML is a pretty decent markup format. YAML is a decent serialization format. Both are brittle when used as a human edited configuration file format.
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by indymike 3y ago
CRM should never mean Sales Prevention as a Service.
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by indymike 3y ago
> SQLite is pitching that you, as an "app" owner, force the SQLite format upon your users to make it a de-facto standard, without putting the work in to make it a de-jure standard. From TFA: Note that this is only a thought ex
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by indymike 3y ago
> there's no ISO standard defining how to interpret an SQLite file in excruciating detail. There comes a point where ISOing things doesn't help. The SQLite format belongs to SQLite, and an ISO standard would result in that stan
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by indymike 3y ago
The issue at home is that I do not expect noise and distraction. So when noise does happen, it really is annoying. My solution to noise at home is active noise cancelling headphones and music. If that doesn't work, I find going somewhe
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by indymike 3y ago
It was 1991's Turbo C++ 3.0 (they merged Turbo C and Turbo C++ with that product) that had syntax highlighting and code folding, so it wasn't the 80s :-). Hard to believe, but Turbo C came out in 1987 and was pretty primitive. I s
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by indymike 3y ago
There are a few things Unity needs to address (I'm about to go write a couple of games because I've spent a career writing boring business software) before I will consider using Unity: * One of Unity's spokespersons actually
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by indymike 3y ago
The change happened in the 80s with Borland’s Turbo products.
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by indymike 3y ago
Most of the time MS BASIC came with the computer (or OS).
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by indymike 3y ago
"Our terms of service provide that Unity may add or change fees at any time... Consent is not required for additional fees to take effect." -- Unity spokesperson Never do business with a company that thinks this is OK.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Unity says they're shifting away from revenue shares, presumably because they can't track purchase revenue and are tired of having a bunch of small fights with people who have every incentive to hide revenue from them. So now
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by indymike 3y ago
This was the way.
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by indymike 3y ago
> I don't know a huge amount about it, but naively I'd rather have my machine present this kind of data than have a network of unknown third-parties collaborate by sharing bits about me to build a profile. I don't want eit
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by indymike 3y ago
> The recollections of an 88 year old person about an event 60 years ago are simply not credible. My experience with aging family members is that their memory of old events tends to improve as their short-term memory seems to get worse.
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by indymike 3y ago
> I cannot prove it, but I think some of these UI and UX horrors are caused by the ever present need for software to change in order to demonstrate it is alive. The sad thing is this is largely driven by managers trying to keep their tea

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