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by jjav 7mo ago
> Honestly, this doesn't seem unreasonable to me. At some point, you have to cut off previous technologies because virtually everyone's moved to something better. It is completely unreasonable, but for a different reason. This
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by jjav 7mo ago
There needs to be a law that every cloud-based service which has accounts for more than (say) 1% of population, must have a physical service counter presence in every major town staffed by an employee who must be empowered to resolve all ac
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by jjav 7mo ago
In a world of continuous change, at least we can always rely on oracle being consistently evil.
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by jjav 7mo ago
> It's becoming clearer and clearer that open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified, it's just a matter of time. Stallman was always right, af
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by jjav 7mo ago
> I DO take responsibility for my own mistakes, I just don't want to be held responsible for OTHER PEOPLE's mistakes. That's a sensible position. But if you want to lead a team then you must be responsible for any failures
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by jjav 7mo ago
> You're missing a very important aspect of how managers impact your career: Opportunities. Indeed! In basketball terms, a manager should be the MVP in Assists. They don't score directly but they set up plays for you so you can
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by jjav 7mo ago
> Am I missing this, or are you assuming that I am incapable of finding opportunities myself Somewhat, yes. It has nothing to do with you. Some opportunities you can create yourself, go for it. Other opportunities only arise in the conte
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by jjav 7mo ago
> The most phonetically consistent language I know is Finnish. I believe there is exactly one way to pronounce every word and it's clear to all speakers. It's even better than that, there is a single sound for each letter indiv
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by jjav 7mo ago
I have no idea, so I have short term bonds, and gold, and commodities, to diversify.
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by jjav 7mo ago
> Apple should not be the final arbiter of who is allowed to develop mobile software. That is the big picture here. Details aside, one company should not have the power to dictate how developers write software for their customers, just b
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by jjav 7mo ago
> it sounds like you were sharing one Apple Developer account between multiple developers which is also against their T's & C's Whether the case or not here (I don't know), taking a look at the big picture: Imagine if
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by jjav 7mo ago
> Even if it is run by 'the big boys' (in this case Apple), your success is dependent on their good graces. Not "even if" though, it is "particularly if". The big boys don't have to care, so they don&#x
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by jjav 7mo ago
What happens at 76mph?
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by jjav 7mo ago
> The moment the government has ever step into controlling production of food, we’ve only seen subpar performance and starving people as a consequence. You might be surprised to hear how heavily government directed and subsidized food pr
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by jjav 7mo ago
> > a home is the largest purchase they will ever make and the bulk of their net worth > That's bad and a central part of the problem. Why? Or to ask in a different way, how could it not be? For nearly all regular working peop
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by jjav 7mo ago
> That means there’s an invisible hand keeping prices up Construction labor is quite expensive and so are the raw materials (and going up). Means there is a hard lower bound on cost and unfortunately it's not that cheap even if they
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by jjav 7mo ago
> I guess at some point the yearly maintenance costs exceed the value of the car itself. This is often mentioned but is not relevant. In terms of cost, what matters is whether an equally good (for whatever metrics a car is "good&quo
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by jjav 7mo ago
Are for instance the Knuth books "behind current technology"? No. A CS degree is not about the javascript library du jour, it is about the fundamentals of computation which don't really change.
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by jjav 7mo ago
> Why do you have a lot? Seems people think I'd like wireless headphones and I have received many as gifts. I give them a fair shot since it's a gift, but it's just too much hassle to have to keep charging them. If I had a
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by jjav 7mo ago
> They don't need charging. This is it. I have a lot of wireless headphones and every time I need to use one, it isn't charged. It's very exhausting and I don't want to deal with that. So I use them as wired headphone
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by jjav 8mo ago
> is well loved by everyone who participates (except management) Most of management hates it too. I manage a team where everyone is remote, yet I have to go to the office few days a week to sit on zoom, why? And up a level, my manager ha
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by jjav 8mo ago
> A live human detective confirmed it. I doubt it, due to human nature. Perhaps the process says the human must consciously validate, but a lot of humans in many cases will just rubberstamp what the AI said. That's the risk.
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by jjav 8mo ago
Not the same due to language. Any US city is still US english, so will not feel very international.
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by jjav 8mo ago
You are very much correct, but they don't steal from stores, it's a whole different level of corruption for them.
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by jjav 8mo ago
> ideologues Ideologues? No, profit at all cost and oil companies are particularly powerful in politics. Everything else follows from that.
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by jjav 8mo ago
> The bottom 50% shop at Walmart. The top 50% at Costco. If that is true (not sure), then why does Costco treat all its customers like hardened criminals by demanding to scan receipts at the door? If they are targeting higher income hous
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by jjav 8mo ago
> It's not really "exotic". I don't know about "exotic", but for anyone living in the northeast of the US, the easiest way to visit Europe (sort of) is to drive up to Montreal/Quebec.
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by jjav 8mo ago
> Linux can fool you into that sense of security for a long time. But there will come a point where the facade crashes down. All my laptops through multiple jobs have been running Linux starting in 1994 (way before the "Year of the
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by jjav 8mo ago
> I have an old 2013 laptop that is the "couch machine". It still works adequately. Sure, because it is from when Apple still was good. I am writing this right now on a 2014 Mac Mini (running 10.13). Works perfect! Great machin
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by jjav 8mo ago
Not really. Sure you can find something on ebay but some parts can be hard to find (I collect old SPARC machines). More importantly, you can't go back to the time where you could interact with the world with the older machines. My SPAR

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