jpalawaga

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by jpalawaga 1y ago
One thing my colleagues and I do is expressly offer up a starting point when reviewing changes: "the meat of the change is in xxx.go; the rest is ancillary/supporting". This allows the reader to contextualize themselves more
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
mature markets end up 3-5 competitors because further mergers end up blocked. capitalism would otherwise allow them to contract to a single player. So I'm sure that's one government control that you'd agree is worthwhile.
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
You mean one group that is ignorant costcutters and another group that are subject matter experts? Hmm who to listen to.
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Google also has AI models optimized to run on phones, they're just in a lot better of a position to actually build purpose-built LLMs for phones. It's not clear to me why certain classes of things still end up farmed out to the cl
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
If you assume only way people are obtaining the media is by unlicensed reproduction, then it doesn’t matter. Big if. Practically, the movie studios aren’t poor because their product has instances of infringement.
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
You're saying that a copy of a digital thing is the same as the "only" of a physical thing. But that's not true. You can't sell grain twice, but you can sell a movie many times (especially when you account for forma
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
you've created a very obvious category mistake in your final summary by confusing intellectual property--which can be copied at no penalty to an owner (except nebulous 'alternate universe' theories)--with actual property, and
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
I don't think that's new. google set precedent for that more than a decade ago. you're allowed to transform a book to digital.
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Postgres backups are tricky for sure. Even if you have a DR plan you should assume your incremental backups are no good and you need to restore the whole thing from scratch. That’s your real DR SLA. If things go truly south, just hope you h
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
It’s a small bag. 7kg is hardly anything. Like a purse or a laptop. Definitely would fit under the seat in front of you. Since that space is reserved for the ticketed passenger, billing for that really feels like double dipping anyhow. Good
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
I feel like I might be the only one who thinks Windows 11 is a good OS. The only tweak I needed to make was to turn of bing searches from the start menu. I wish user accounts were still local only and did not back up to OneDrive, but I can
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Has anyone made a plugin that forces your browser to resize slightly to help avoid fingerprinting? I feel like this is an annoyance I could tolerate, even if over the course of a day or two it causes me to resize it manually to something la
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
they also never required many of their users to pay. whatsapp allegedly cost $1 a year, and I never paid a dime despite using it for years.
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
(The VPN service is Proton VPN, for those coming directly to the comments.)
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
A source that what? That says Right wing/small government parties generally tend to make the government smaller by privatizing services? There’s no conspiracy theory, it’s literally their MO.
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Analog bikes
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
tbf, mature tastes are often different. it's not good or bad, it's just different. for example, people who drink a lot of old red wines have developed a taste for it. yes, it drags people away from the mean, but that doesn't
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Except you’ve already swapped terminal for iterm, and orbstack already exists in part because docker left so much room for improvement, especially on the perf front.
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
That's not really born out by... anything. Well, born out by people who have something to gain by privatizing the public good.
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Whiskey Media was top tier back in the day. A group of folks producing really fun content, and having a great time doing it. The community was top notch too. I have no idea where the diaspora ended up, since the forums and wiki are comparat
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
Molly addiction risk: low. Once your brains serotonin is depleted, the drug stops working, and the hangover isn’t really something to be avoided. Cocaine addiction risk: moderate. Similar to alcohol. Most people won’t end up otherwise a bon
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
can you come up with any other reasons why an out of the box mac might be faster than something involving vdi engineering?
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by jpalawaga 1y ago
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-electio...
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
plus an hour on the train, or a hundred bucks in a taxi on the new york side, and likewise on the chicago side, plus security screening. and luggage is free too, I think? so mostly just faster.
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
that your name is tokio yoyo is sort of funny to me because if you look at shinkansen build/planning timelines, it is absolutely on the order of 2050 for extensions. the japanese have a world-class trainsystem and it's built by pu
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
I have no idea why you're getting downvoted. A lot of highly-paid software developers are complaining that nintendo doesn't cheapen their offerings by discounting them to $5 a game like steam sales. why not cheapen your product&#x
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Despite all of the negative/critical takes, I think the switch 2 looks great. The hardware improvements look nice. The top usb-port is a great addition with the kickstand, so you can actually charge while you play (this was a bust with
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
microsd express is a standard, the cards are available today. the nintendo branded ones will probably be extra $. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1868814-REG/sandisk_s...
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
So you're not denying climate change, just the effects of it. I'm not sure that's any better. We call it climate change because warmer weather produces higher variance in weather patterns--you're adding entropy into the
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by jpalawaga 2y ago
Do those same people also care about quality of education, availability and utility of public transit, etc? Or is the size of your home the only factor in what makes somewhere livable?

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