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by iso1631 9mo ago
I've used vim instead of vi for decades and haven't seen an issue with speed. I went into the article expecting some nonsense about how I should be using vscode or whatever, but this was just about how having vim as the default ed
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Empower parents. Parental controls are a minefield - especially with competing companies (ea, microsoft, steam, nintendo, apple) all doing their best to get you to turn them off so they can push lootboxes and other junk more easily.
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Switzerland has a wealth tax while people like you wring their hands and the wealthiest see their wealth increase far beyond anyone elses. In From 1965 to 1995 the richest man in the world had about $30-40b in today's money. This was m
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by iso1631 9mo ago
It really doesn't. It should of course. But SV cheers it on
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by iso1631 9mo ago
While Everest (8849m) is the highest point above Sea Level, Chimborazo (6267m) in Ecuador is further from the centre of the Earth (about 2000 metres further), due to the equatorial bulge. It's very measurable.
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by iso1631 9mo ago
You can infringe a patent even when you haven't seen it.
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Hell you don't even have to actually break any copyright law and you'll still find yourself in jail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd .
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Training seems fine. I learn how to write something by looking at example code, then write my own program, that's widely accepted to be a fair use of the code. Same if I learn multiple things from reading encyclopedias, then write an e
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by iso1631 9mo ago
90% of people on IRC in the 90s used mIRC or BitchX. What features are missing in the modern slack client?
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by iso1631 9mo ago
So how do you stop a function democracy becoming a non functioning democracy Ultimately it comes down to who has the power. The more that power is concentrated the more fragile it becomes. It doesn't change overnight.
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by iso1631 9mo ago
> , Constitutional systems will enumerate the rights of its citizens such that they cannot simply be taken away by a simple majority of any body. Only if those are enforced. The wealthiest are the ones with the power, as they can pay for
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by iso1631 9mo ago
> now threatening to seize Cuba (he's already stopped all oil going to it, in order to cripple this struggling nation that CIA destabilized since decades), Greenland, Columbia, Canada and whatnot. Interesting you don't mention
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by iso1631 9mo ago
> If Keir Starmer, or any other British Prime Minister, gave one press conference where they attacked a female journalist instead of responding to her question, and then criticized her for not smiling enough, they would be out of Downing
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Higher corruption tends to be associated with lower tax-to-GDP ratios, which seems the opposite to your assertion. Of course there's the cause and effect issue -- does the high corruption cause lower tax, or do the lower taxes enable t
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by iso1631 9mo ago
"Here are three ads that are scammy; the first two were clearly generated by AI, and the third may have been created by AI."
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by iso1631 9mo ago
I don't know about you but I really don't want my laptop to be the hottest thing, it sits on my lap. My thinkpad is from 2017, but I bought it in 2022, it's still working fine - I upgraded the memory to 32G (£70) and I'v
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by iso1631 9mo ago
In the headline - the word Now implies "Ads before weren't scams but they are now"
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Do you want the power to fix or do you want the paper to wave so you aren't held accountable. The main benefit of outsourcing to aws etc is that the CEO isn't yelling at you when it breaks, because their golf buddies are in the sa
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by iso1631 9mo ago
I've got thousands of devices over hundreds of sites in dozens of countries. The number of hardware failures are a tiny number, and certainly don't need 24/7 response Meanwhile AWS breaks once or twice a year.
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by iso1631 9mo ago
Zoom came along with a securre video/voice chat, sure it's American, but it was by far the world leader Microsoft then used its monopoly in office tools to push Teams to everyone You can't compete with a trillion dollar compa
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by iso1631 9mo ago
> Heroku was wildly popular with startups The world's a lot bigger than startups
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by iso1631 9mo ago
> I’m a bit scared of managing the services on my own (like Postgres, Site2Site VPN, …) Out of interest, how old are you? This was quite normal expectation of a technical department even 15 years ago.
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by iso1631 9mo ago
That's because of company policies. An SME owner will buy a server and have it in the rack the next day. Of course creating a VM is still a teraform commit away (you're not using clickops in prod surely)
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by iso1631 9mo ago
> jurisdiction This is the big thing, but Elon's child porn generator in orbit will be subject to US jurisdiction, just as much as if they were in Alaska. I guess he can avoid state law. If jurisdiction is key, you can float a DC in
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by iso1631 9mo ago
My car costs far more per mile than the bare cost of the fuel. Why would starship not have similar costs?
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by iso1631 9mo ago
UK law, and I assume other countries, specifically says that playing the movie to the public is a breach of copyright, not playing it to your family. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/1
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by iso1631 9mo ago
A healthy state is an oil tanker - slow to steer, predictable in its direction, and it's broadly steered by public opinion rather than voting. With a large mandate you get to push a few polices through. Ideally if you get a leader push
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by iso1631 9mo ago
> The current administration is an outlier Is it? What stops the next one being an outlier, or the one after that? Its going to take decades to recover from the whims of the US population (the plurarity of whom voted for this)
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by iso1631 9mo ago
A few weeks ago I was interested in median price paid in the UK for property. I pulled down a 900,000 line csv from gov.uk and asked chapgpt to give me a python to parse it based on price (col 2) and county (col14), then output the 10,25,50
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by iso1631 9mo ago
I needed to track the growth of "tx_ucast_packets" in each queue on a network interface earlier. I asked my friendly LLM to run every second and dump the delta for each queue into a csv, 10 seconds to write what I wanted, 5 second

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