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by indymike 3y ago
> RHEL has 10 years of support, with the option of 13 years. The problem here is that the people who need 13 years of support are perfectly OK with paying Red Hat for that. No one is saying that doesn't have great value if you need
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by indymike 3y ago
From experience (was lead dev at company where sales let a bitlocker in and IT had mis-configured backup... which is normal for backup in most companies): It's all about what the infected machines can access. When my employer got hit,
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by indymike 3y ago
I think they lost their way when they made the foray into operating multiple TV channels. Suddenly, they went from slow, deep, content to having to have lots of content quickly all the time. I'd still be a subscriber, but the quality d
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I asked you.
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I really hope sanity breaks out at Red Hat.
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by indymike 3y ago
CTO here. I spend little time with the board, and most of my time with customers and employees figuring out how to use tech to make life better (and make more money) for those customers and employees. I do a good job, the main interaction I
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by indymike 3y ago
> Suppose the war in Ukraine ends today. Time skips forward a year with no change from the present. A committee recommends reparations for the Ukrainians affected. Do you do it or not? Is it the same if you wait five or six generations i
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by indymike 3y ago
That was saccharin. I remember the label on my granddad's Tab cola. It caused bladder cancer in lab animals at high doses, and it was later found that the metabolic pathway that caused the cancer did not exist in humans. https:/&
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by indymike 3y ago
From NIH's National Cancer institute: * Approximately 39.5% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes (based on 2015–2017 data). This is no where near 50% of people "having cancer". *
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Storing is one thing, computation is another :-)
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> There are pros and cons but as long as you do rounding and comparisons correctly it works perfectly fine. This is exactly the issue with using floats where an arbitrary precision decimal with proper rounding is really needed. Easily s
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This is a great little article, and I can't emphasize what a big deal #2 is.
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I think the point is that .config would make more sense, and as a bonus would mirror the XDG spec.
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Just type in markdown :-). It mostly works for input.
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Sounds a lot like something like Notion?
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Google docs can only represent a subset of the document formatting and features in markdown (yes, there are html literals in markdown, but even then it isn't enough). Markdown could be an import/export format... but I can't s
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by indymike 3y ago
Where there are existing standards: * Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, KDE, Gnome, etc... all have existing human interface guidelines, and those should be respected if you are making software for those platforms. * For the web, PWAs and electro
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Actually, Google drive does work with Markdown. I store markdown there all the time. (after all markdown is just text)
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I agree with this. Most people have know idea what markdown is, and if they do use it, it is usually the text format behind a WYSIWYG editor... Some examples: Slack, Github...
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> What happened? It mostly worked.
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I'd love to have a light, inexpensive electric (or even ICE) I can use to transport kids. It would save my family thousands of dollars per year. I don't need the tons of metal.
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Regulation requires mass for survivability in crash tests.
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I once thought the same, but there is not a universal answer on how to store data that delivers the combination of performance, reliability for every use case. Files are the lcd and leave room for optimization - and end up being a nice abst
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by indymike 3y ago
> From my experience, the benefit of Markdown is that it eliminates the need for WYSIWYG, because WYSIWYG is awful to work with. For most users, the opposite is true. They understand WYSIWYG well and that is how most things work. For dev
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> At best we'd've had a civil war. The best part of that January was that a coup and/or civil war did not happen. The US got on with business. It could have went bad, but it did not do so.
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> How can this be unexpected? If you routinely work with junior developers this will come up because UUID4 seems miraculous at first. There's always a bit of surprise when the question gets asked about why we have so many sequential
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After raising five kids, I wish I had just not had phones and tablets in the house.
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Maybe. But there is always the possibility that the case gets sucked into some bigger legal action (e.g. a reorganization), and when that happens, compensation amounts may drop substantially.
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> Seeing the Twitter legal team overwhelmed from the reverse of a thousand paper cuts type of situation is pretty funny from my chair. The popcorn is quite tasty. Get ready for the strategic bankruptcy where all of these cases are sucked
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> I think Free Software suffers from the misaligned incentives. It's really hard to tell what the motivation of any given free software author is. That makes it really hard to even know what incentives matter to any give author, tea

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