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by indymike 3y ago
> Microsoft in particular seems hellbent on putting touchscreens in everything. They REALLY want to make it happen but seemingly no one is having it. There's ONE person I know who owns a touchscreen laptop and genuinely touches its
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by indymike 3y ago
If the state you need at startup isn't the same as you need for production, this could be incredibly useful. It also means that you can save a lot of time starting and stopping containers for many common configuration changes in produc
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by indymike 3y ago
Windows was getting better until MS started preventing users from deleting files, even if they are the owner of the computer. Yes, it is a foot gun, but it also makes fixing problems difficult and sometimes even impossible. Windows 11 seeme
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by indymike 3y ago
Some of these terms are likely just illegal, unenforceable or flat out unpractical.
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by indymike 3y ago
I would like involuntary labeling for: 1. When the device manufacturer will discontinue support. 2. Up front disclosure of subscription fees if required to make the device work. 3. Software or hardware locks that prevent the user from modif
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by indymike 3y ago
Whatever is generating the infringement.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Androids no better. That does not make the situation right for Apple.
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by indymike 3y ago
Software decays, some of it faster, some of it slower. Aside decay, we periodically have extinction events, like the switch to the web that killed a lot of thick client software, the shift to mobile, and even the shift to AI. Sometimes it&#
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by indymike 3y ago
I just had a horrible thought: what happens when there's a DMCA takedown request to remove an infringement in a widely used LLM? I've seen requests against training data, but never against the output of an LLM.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Nor is there historical evidence. Migratory hunter-gatherer tribes have spawned some of the worlds "greatest" conquests - a good example would be the Mongols (who to this day hold the record for largest empire by geography).
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by indymike 3y ago
> Einstein talks of a planned economy towards the end. It's easy to see how someone in 1949 might think it's a good idea, but in 2023 the idea seems antiquated From the article: "A planned economy, which adjusts production
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by indymike 3y ago
I'll did so. Thanks for the encouragement!
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by indymike 3y ago
I'd be really happy with products having to be labeled with: 1. Final date the manufacturer will provide firmware updates & security updates 2. If the manufacturer will support open source alternative firmware & security update
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by indymike 3y ago
> Did people really line up to buy an Operating System? Yes. I worked in government sales (think wear a suit, meet with people at their office) for CompUSA in Indianapolis, Indiana. I had to come in the night of the release and work on
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by indymike 3y ago
Actually, we'd just see the web part of an attack on a hacked webserver, often with an wildcard EV cert. something.majorcorp.com/some/backwater/director/index.htm. The funny part is the phish would look like somethi
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by indymike 3y ago
By tricking people into affirming a paid off, non-existent or expired debt and then attempting to collect it.
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by indymike 3y ago
I'm not so sure this is the case. Even less safe 2FA like SMS and email seems to prevent a whole host of cheap attacks. TOTP is much better and can be as anonymous as your login is. What is sad is that misuse of 2FA data is rampant and
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by indymike 3y ago
> The problem is that rural areas ("flyover states") have been left to rot: no reliable electricity grid, I live in a flyover state in the US. Quality electricity is not a problem, save for areas that are Amish and simply don&#
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by indymike 3y ago
You have literally no information from which to make this comment.
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by indymike 3y ago
Father of five with the last two in high school and middle school. We took away the phones after four years of mental health issues. After 4 months of the cutoff: were now backing down the meds and the kids are doing much better. Sorry, but
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by indymike 3y ago
> I had no issues switching to a new, unlocked iPhone. I had to buy an unlocked iPhone, and call in 7 times before I got a CSR who would allow me to move my number to it.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Did they allow you to keep your existing Sprint contract terms while doing so? Even worse: I cannot change to an equivalent T-Mobile plan.
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by indymike 3y ago
> No one is using Python like that in the professional world. The most complex you'll see are simple comprehensions. I'm always surprised what I find when I move into a codebase. A lot of it is just what was fashionable when th
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by indymike 3y ago
> So getting rid of 5,000 (out of 70,000) employees will help deliver on customer expectations? I'm a T-Mobile customer via Sprint acquisition. My experience post merger is that they simple view customers as monthly payments that T-
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by indymike 3y ago
> Please don't redefine KPIs to trend with your experience at small business that will never scale to public ones. Your comment is exactly why business fail. Here are some marketing KPIs: - New customer acquisition - Customer acquis
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by indymike 3y ago
> Marketing: KPI: understand the message to the market - KPI: understand how competitors are marketing their k8s offering - KPI: understand how to advertise new offering - etc These are objectives, not performance indicators. Please do n
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by indymike 3y ago
Actually, parallel is a drop in for xargs as xargs has been around longer. Parallel has a few big improvements: * Grouped output (prevents one process from writing output in the middle of another's output) * In-order output (task a out
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More people would do this if it was easier to do.
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Give this time, and it will change.
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by indymike 3y ago
>Trust comes from building a healthy ecosystem of users Trust comes from the publisher/author being truthful and honest with users, nothing else. By publishing source code, an open source software publisher is making a strong statem

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