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by jzb 3y ago
If the whole world adopted this stance maybe I wouldn’t an overflowing box of useless, obsolete cables. Maybe I wouldn’t need separate chargers and cables for my phone, tablet, ebook reader, and other assorted devices. The amount of waste p
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by jzb 3y ago
Allow me to quote you back to you. "It’s also not really serverless to begin with, because at the end of the day code is being executed on a physical device that many of us might call a “server” [1] A critical mass of people have ado
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by jzb 3y ago
This is one of those issues where I have strong feelings that are in deep conflict. I agree that grammar / usage pedantry can be bad in many ways, that language evolves and you have to accept that. On the other hand... there's val
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by jzb 3y ago
The obvious response to this is malicious compliance. OK, every week or every day NPR tweets something to the effect of "to get the latest NPR news, go to [URL]" where URL is a page on NPR's site with its preferred social med
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by jzb 3y ago
I don’t know if there’s an afterlife or not, but if there’s such a thing as a soul I wouldn’t think it’d operate on a technicality. That is: our medical definition of death wouldn’t be what determines freeing a soul from the body. I can’t i
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by jzb 3y ago
Leaning hard into delivering content that you can "trust" would be an interesting direction for Mozilla. I suspect that will put some crosshairs on Mozilla as an organization, though. While that would be good for users, there will
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by jzb 3y ago
This assumes that IBM is not serious about trying to replace jobs, but is trying to make a strategic 3D chess move. I'm very skeptical that this is the case. But, let's say it is. It might play well with investors, but the idea
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by jzb 3y ago
It won’t be. AI will be trained on human input, after all. And it will be even harder to appeal or reason against.
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by jzb 3y ago
This makes as much sense as “guns don’t kill people, people do.” AI tech is being driven by capitalism. The reason companies are so eager to embrace it is to replace people. If you’re in the AI business or advocating for it, you’re (at leas
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by jzb 3y ago
“The “i” branding is extremely powerful with the average consumer and removing it is bound to cause confusion amongst consumers who aren’t technically-inclined.” Who’s the “average” consumer here? I’m skeptical that the majority of PC buyer
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by jzb 3y ago
Interesting - I used exactly this example (AI used to give recent McCartney music his young voice) not very long ago. While there are a lot of applications of this technology that make me uncomfortable, I'd love to see this used in thi
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by jzb 3y ago
A friend made me a copy of Robyn Hitchcock’s “Black Snake Diamond Röle” when I was 16 or so. Totally floored me, it’s imprinted on my brain. It was re-released a few years ago, but the opening track is missing the sax because they no longer
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by jzb 4y ago
It's not invalid to ask whether companies are making real, strategic and well-thought moves or just jumping on a bandwagon. Many of us have worked for long-standing public companies with thousands of employees that have embarked on pro
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by jzb 4y ago
Yeah, but I have little interest in pointing a finger at developers for inflated salaries while there's the Sundar Pichai crowd being paid north of $200 million a year. A mediocre developer can be a drag on a company or just keep the l
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PostgreSQL Indexes Can Hurt You: Negative Effects and the Costs Involved(percona.com)
2 points by jzb 4y ago|0 comments
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by jzb 4y ago
Yes, but this article is about developers getting laid off - not c-suite and VPs.
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by jzb 4y ago
So all the $0 that CentOS brought in wasn't replaced by the $0 charged for CentOS Stream? I know people love the idea that CentOS was somehow bringing business to Red Hat and/or the change to CentOS Stream caused Red Hat to lose r
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by jzb 4y ago
Care to elaborate? I'm not sure what "lack of funding after the CentOS Stream thing" is really supposed to mean.
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by jzb 4y ago
Not sure how this is surprising to anyone paying attention to how Twitter is being run.
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by jzb 4y ago
"At what point of scale do people start imagining they have a right to make demands on how something somebody else built and owns should be run?" Well, presumably the point when they no longer own it and turn it into a public comp
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by jzb 4y ago
"Social media companies; stop letting random governments of the world hold you accountable for censorship. Put the onus on them, provide them the tools, and blame them for their own failing strategy that they can't enforce."
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System76 Teases In-House Built Laptop(linux-magazine.com)
11 points by jzb 4y ago|5 comments
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Upgrading to MySQL 8: Tools That Can Help(percona.com)
1 points by jzb 4y ago|0 comments
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by jzb 4y ago
Sadly because the industry actively fights against it, and people can be punished for it. Also "sadly" because it's not exactly a dependable process -- we're depending on people to spontaneously choose to preserve /
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by jzb 4y ago
I sort of agree. I don't want a larger number of friends, but I do crave having deep relationships with people that (currently) I don't really have. Those infrequent hangs where it's primarily a catch-up and then go about you
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by jzb 4y ago
Every time Microsoft does something (e.g. WSL2) that makes me think "maybe using Windows wouldn't be so bad" they counter with something that really puts me off (e.g. Ads in Windows, constantly trying to shove their browser d
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by jzb 4y ago
Would help if the comment expanded on what a Shufflecake is . For anyone else reading this, apparently it's "plausible deniability for multiple hidden filesystems on Linux." More: Shufflecake is made of two components: dm-sf
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by jzb 4y ago
Microsoft has often been good at the Vaporware / stall approach. If a competitor/underdog looks like they're getting traction, announce something similar even if it isn't available for a long time (or ever). If you can s
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by jzb 4y ago
You should find a new job.
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by jzb 4y ago
Ah yes, more fodder for the RTO movement of managers and execs who can’t stand not seeing offices full of unhappy people.

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