janoc

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by janoc 3y ago
The problem is that the guy didn't "invent" anything, more like had a farfetched idea and left all "the practical details" to others to work out. That's like saying that Meliès invented space travel - he too h
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by janoc 3y ago
I find it extremely disappointing when someone who clearly knows what they are talking about tries to do a bit of a reality check on something that is clearly being uncritically hyped by the press - and then instead of someone actually ref
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by janoc 3y ago
You are missing the point. Sensitive customer data never touch e-mail, period. So there is nothing to "send to the cloud". That's a matter of organizing the work and training your staff, along with appropriate technical measu
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by janoc 3y ago
You have to be extremely careful and conscious about what you are able to upload and what you are not. E-mails are generally OK as long as they are not containing customer info (most aren't). The moment you get a data file from the cus
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by janoc 3y ago
Trust is one thing but it is also a matter of legal and fiduciary responsibility. They simply *are not able* to do it for legal reasons. When a cloud provider contract is signed it is chock full of liability and CYA language to make sure th
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by janoc 3y ago
Maybe build products that customers actually want and not seek what problem you can solve with whatever hype bandwagon you got yourself onto? Otherwise it is trying to convince the customer that they are idiots and didn't drink enoug
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by janoc 3y ago
The problem *is not the organization/categorization*. Any larger project is completely unsustainable if it is a disorganized chaos, with issues falling through the cracks because they can't be kept track of as the scope and team g
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by janoc 3y ago
That's a classic The Sun article - lots of sensationalist BS and no relevant information. DB Cooper's identity is most likely known already. Judge for yourself, the evidence is all laid out there, including the interview with his
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by janoc 3y ago
That would be my worry too, especially since they claim "no harness required". Yeah good luck. No visual references because one is wearing an HMD, shoes with rollers/wheels (doesn't matter how/whether they are brake
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by janoc 3y ago
That "mature startup" I was working at had no Scrum and 6 people, including the two founders. The lack of some sort of formal structure very much was a problem. Granted, some people are so self-disciplined and enlightened/exp
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by janoc 3y ago
Of course it was leader in a market of one. The alternatives were Nissan Leaf and probably the first gen Renault Zoe. Nobody would buy those. The original argument was not that they were "leader" but that somehow people were buyin
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by janoc 3y ago
And why would that feature rely on a phone in the first place instead of letting the driver change the profile when getting behind the wheel? Or e.g. use a fingerprint sensor or interior camera (which some of the Teslas do have)? That sound
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by janoc 3y ago
I suppose that was a sarcasm/irony ...
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by janoc 3y ago
Wouldn't be the first time the dealership was telling customer complete BS assuming that they don't have a clue in order to either get out of a warranty repair or to inflate an invoice. Also dealerships not having a clue is not ra
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by janoc 3y ago
You forgot the very "unimportant" detail which was that electric cars in Norway were zero VAT and tax for electric cars until this year (normal VAT is 25%). Well, gee, no wonder that people were buying them left and right when the
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by janoc 3y ago
> 6. Hire only fullstack devs. There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers. Huh? And those "fullstack devs" will do everything alone or what? Maybe if you are building a proof-of-concept prototype w
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by janoc 3y ago
I wonder whether you have considered the flood of low quality PRs that will clog the inboxes of the unpaid volunteer maintainers of various open source projects now? This has been a big problem already, with people changing a spelling of so
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by janoc 3y ago
That's naive. There are open LLMs already. The problem is not the LLMs but that data they are being trained on is going to be increasingly spammy, scammy garbage. The LLMs don't have any sort of magical way of filtering that out.
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by janoc 3y ago
The problem is that you are outsourcing that information curation to a bot that is 100% happy to feed you bullshit - and you have no recourse and no way to check because it doesn't tell you how did it arrive at the information it is fe
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by janoc 3y ago
It is a matter of priorities. If that was a high priced Bentley where the customer doesn't expect anything but the best for their money, sure, go ahead. But for a Model 3 where you need to carefully manage costs or you will either pric
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by janoc 3y ago
They all do. Yet it still doesn't help. Those 4 little retaining lugs are fixed into the board only by solder, which is fragile and will crack after a while, esp. when the connector is mated/demated constantly and forces are appli
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by janoc 3y ago
The problem with that argument is that that ship has long sailed. Today it is next to impossible to securely use the internet without having an adblocker installed and enabled (or using something like Freetube, which is essentially a specia
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by janoc 3y ago
Probably a third of my colleagues is using Linux at work, me included. And it is getting even more widespread as most of the "office" work moves to Office365 and such which are all cloud/web based, so which OS you are running
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by janoc 3y ago
There is no Python 4 - and may not ever be. If you have downloaded Python 2, you must have done it intentionally, it isn't even available from the Python.org website download anymore - and had not been for a long time. >The problem
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by janoc 3y ago
There have been some very good reasons why Python 3 made those changes. That you find them unnecessary because the original code was "usable as is" for you is irrelevant. The reasons why these changes have been done (for a dev
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by janoc 3y ago
Sorry but that's nonsense. Python 3 has been released in 2008 - 15 years ago. And the last Python 2 version has been EOLed 1.1.2020, three years ago, after a decade of deprecation! With your argument about compatibility no programming
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by janoc 3y ago
You certainly aren't going to run any Javascript on an ancient 580 MHz MIPS CPU with 128MB of RAM. So that is a completely bogus argument.
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by janoc 3y ago
"But... "Proper Linux" is a huge difference and well worth the... " Proper Linux is only worth the difference if you can actually fit the OS and your application in the available RAM (good luck) and the part has mainstre
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by janoc 3y ago
Because they enforce when someone complains. They aren't going to proactively ban stuff unless they really have to (e.g. something that is very obviously illegal/scam/etc.) So if nobody complained about the other apps, they d
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by janoc 3y ago
> How providers do that is up to them. Sure. You are either demanding the impossible - or effectively banning encryption use because there is no other way how to comply with what the law demands, despite it ostensibly not banning anythin

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