jabbany

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by jabbany 3y ago
> You can take out $50k per year Try buying a house with 50k a year... This is exactly what the "scheme" solves. You have new immigrants who have (in many cases) legitimate money (e.g. by selling property back in china) but can
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by jabbany 3y ago
What you really care about here is not resale value but "depreciation" curves. Traditional PCs kind of depreciate like cars: you get a massive hit at the beginning, but then relatively slow depreciation there on out. Which makes b
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by jabbany 3y ago
Hmmm. That second one reminds me of the Flavr Savr ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavr_Savr ). More shelf life in exchange for likely worse taste...
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by jabbany 3y ago
If Go why not something like Python though...?
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by jabbany 3y ago
Not particularly? The number of "words"/distinct concepts is not that much different between languages. Having more characters just makes the words look shorter... That said, Chinese is an isolating language, so there is litt
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by jabbany 3y ago
It's a modelling tool. Pretty sure there are plenty of users (e.g. artists) who don't care at all about source availability. And, this is why I say the license is lenient: most freeware creative tools will also try to lay their ha
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by jabbany 3y ago
Go into the previous versions link (or the Releases on Github). Not all builds have macos but some do.
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by jabbany 3y ago
Seems quite lenient to me? This is just fully freeware. It's not OSS and not even "source available".
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by jabbany 3y ago
> I don't want operating systems to be a government-provided 'public good'. Huh. Interesting example. I actually do want to see a government produced public good operating system. Where we're going, operating systems
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by jabbany 3y ago
I know about this. Unfortunately it is in no way sufficient. I want it to stop dropping these _anywhere_, and I'd be more than happy to give up thumbnail functionality for this. However, afaik the "easiest" way to do this is
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by jabbany 3y ago
Can you get macos to stop dropping .ds_stores all over the place? (I really do want to know) Because you can get Windows to never drop thumbs.dbs without much hassle.
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by jabbany 3y ago
I've heard that tetrapak are like the worst type of material to recycle. IIRC they're a combo of paper, aluminum foil, and a plastic inner coating. Individually, the paper and aluminum are relatively easily recyclable, but I recal
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by jabbany 3y ago
That's why I'm curious... I feel like people figured out how to do this in the past in a cost effective way (even including delivery!) but then we somehow moved away to something (arguably) worse. My hypothesis here would be perha
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by jabbany 3y ago
> I guess no one was willing to put in the infrastructure. This is kind of surprising. I remember when I was a kid (not that many decades ago), things like milk, soda, yogurt etc. would come in glass or ceramic bottles under a subscripti
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by jabbany 3y ago
> on all future releases of HashiCorp products Anything before the change is still MPL and can be forked and built on top of freely.
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by jabbany 3y ago
> people need their computers to run old software So? They can force you to pick between running old software or running new software. This is hardly new if you look at the broader "compatibility" scene. Old hardware and softwa
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by jabbany 3y ago
> Not sure which computing analogy Probably akin to "testing in production". But, as is in computing, it's still done all the time despite the dangers.
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by jabbany 3y ago
Again, what's the risk that a first time visit to a site is going to give you a fake certificate? OTOH SSL has done nothing for preventing phishing, since no CAs actually verify anything beyond you owning the domain.
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by jabbany 3y ago
My guess is that if only encryption were the goal, then browsers should trust self-signed certs or at least upon first visit, present the cert and ask whether to trust it in the future. * Instead the current system depends on some set of bu
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by jabbany 3y ago
Almost reminds me of the whole parallel debate around nuclear... Better than fossil fuels but has some of its own (comparativly smaller) waste problems, and its also getting phased out.
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by jabbany 3y ago
That's a fair take. Which kind of begs the question: How much innovation in tech is actually just people getting around limitations imposed by monopoly/high influence players? I'd guess not an insignificant amount.
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by jabbany 3y ago
Right, but a kitchen can't push out a proposal to make your mouth incompatible with non-approved food. ;-)
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by jabbany 3y ago
Has that been extracted already? I have to admit I'm behind on the current state of browser DRM... Also I wonder if in the future this would require attestation of the entire chain: secure UEFI validated by key burned in CPU, validates
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by jabbany 3y ago
They wouldn't have to. Unless you use an iDevice you're not using an Apple made browser. (The content blocker API is WebKit so it's used across multiple browsers) As for revenue from Apple users, they already want to have con
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by jabbany 3y ago
I wouldn't necessarily view it as malice from the beginning. It's entirely likely that early Chrome was really trying to solve usability problems in hosting complex applications like GMail. A goal that was attempted throughout his
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by jabbany 3y ago
I agree with everything except the last part... It's not a "threat to" the industry... It literally _comes from_ the industry... Unless the tech industry is willing to lose one of its biggest sources of revenue, this is exact
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by jabbany 3y ago
Or (most likely) they will negotiate how to split the money. Maybe through some kind of safe advertising consortium. Apple is just fine with collecting user data on platforms so long as they're the only ones doing it. Apple even runs i
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by jabbany 3y ago
It's not even phrased like that... If you read their examples it's very clear that they're not hiding the goal of using it as DRM for advertisiers. In fact, their first example (!) outlines how this would be appealing to adve
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by jabbany 3y ago
Step 1: Sites require a "secure" (read proprietary) browser like "Google Chrome", "Microsoft Edge", "Safari" or refuse to operate. Step 2: "Secure" browsers change the behavior of their impl
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by jabbany 3y ago
Yeah I mean the first of their examples is literally: > Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but th

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