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721.
by jzb 4y ago
I wonder if that’s part of the point. Increase discontent with Oracle licensing practices and nudge some customers off Oracle.
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by jzb 4y ago
A lot of public figures are under scrutiny like this. You ask others to imagine what it’s like to have location shared without consent. But, you’re ignoring all the shit Elon does as well as all the ways he voluntarily forced himself into t
723.
by jzb 4y ago
It’s been a while since I listened to commercial radio, but it seemed like commercials were at a higher volume than music. Adjusting volume can be useful to keep ads from being jarring. (Also used to work as a DJ, but not since the nineties
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by jzb 4y ago
If you have too many people, who made the choices to hire them? Is the problem, if there is one, that people aren’t grinding hard enough? Or could it be lousy strategy (or none), bad management, and just a hard limit on returns in a down ec
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by jzb 4y ago
I think “value” is the wrong word here. These businesses created nothing of value, they were only exercises in accumulating capital and speculating on worthless currencies. This collapse was entirely predictable (and predicted). Agree on th
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by jzb 4y ago
This spends a lot of time on stats about how much time alone but just seems to rely on the assumption that alone time is bad. Where’s the backing for why we “should” reverse this?
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by jzb 4y ago
It's a poor example, it probably should have been something like a default option or a potentially destructive one. In the wild, the "dark pattern" mode I see more often is when the option isn't even a button or presente
728.
by jzb 4y ago
There's nothing magical about startup founders, nor anything to suggest they're any better about figuring out the right number of hours to work than the rest of the world. Nor are their incentives necessarily aligned properly - if
729.
by jzb 4y ago
A lot of reasons. People don't like being watched. There's additional cognitive load in having to decide all the ways you might later regret giving that information away. Once the information is out the door, it's out. You ca
730.
by jzb 4y ago
I like Fedora and Pop_OS! I'd recommend Pop_OS! first for newcomers but Fedora is great for a work desktop if you're reasonably technical and don't mind upgrading at least once a year. Pop_OS! offers an LTS edition so you can
731.
by jzb 4y ago
"Can we just admit this isn't about logic or statistics, and never was? It was always a persuasion game either way." Kind of? The fact is that we've turned into a society where we can't even be unified in trying to
732.
by jzb 4y ago
Discord, Reddit and Mastodon all feel very different to me. - Discord's dominant model feels like IRC++ to me. Emphasis largely seems to be on real-time conversations. - Reddit is like a slew of mini-Slashdots, where communities have a
733.
by jzb 4y ago
I had one before they introduced the subscription. Pretty much soured me on the device. The software was still kludgy, and it was clear the direction they were going wasn’t a direction I wanted to go in. Pity, because the hardware was prett
734.
by jzb 4y ago
I have an HP EliteBook 850 G8 that I didn't choose, my employer chose it for me. I actually asked for a ThinkPad but they were out and I just got a HP. It's... OK? The keyboard isn't horrible, the touchpad is OK, it has a rea
735.
by jzb 4y ago
The thing is a lot of machines get a second life running Linux. So these controls will end up making that hardware less useful in the longer run.
736.
by jzb 4y ago
Um. Cheaply to 10+ TB SSD? Where are you shopping?! I want to go there.
737.
by jzb 4y ago
I think the license change is a lousy move, but the software isn’t suddenly behind a new license. New versions will be. If there’s a community behind the software they can fork it. You’re not entitled to someone else’s work forever just bec
738.
by jzb 4y ago
I just want a fresh supply of the old Microsoft Natural Ergonomic keyboards from the late 90s/early 2000s, before they started using chiclet keys or mushy switches. (The model with a USB and PS/2 option.)
739.
by jzb 4y ago
I haven’t seen any side by sides that seem like a lift. Any examples? I don’t see Midjourney (et al) as remixes, myself. More like “inspired by.”
740.
by jzb 4y ago
Awful, but a lot less awful than canceling the offers after the moves. I don't think this kind of thing is going to change anytime soon as long as corporate America works the way it does today. - Budget cuts, layoffs, hiring freezes, e
741.
by jzb 4y ago
That's a weird take considering it's a company that's been very publicly and loudly saying it plans to make cuts due to falling revenue. They got hit hard by Apple's privacy changes and some other "macro headwinds.&
742.
by jzb 4y ago
Interesting and listenable in a “don’t mind this, but forgettable” way. It’s currently okay as disposable background music. But it seems very far from generating music that I’d actually connect with. Years, at least, away from creating a so
743.
by jzb 4y ago
The job market seems to have cooled substantially from where I'm looking. I have friends at a lot of different major tech companies and hiring has slowed or stopped in all cases. Earlier this year it was full steam ahead hiring, now it
744.
by jzb 4y ago
So, ironically, advertisers are right back where they started. The relentless desire to track leads gutted publishing because the ad dollars got sucked up by Google and Facebook. Publishers that survived did so by chasing “clickbait” and SE
745.
by jzb 4y ago
tl;dr - COVID and Influenza may have similarities, but the comparison is premature, faulty, and doesn't reflect the actual threat of COVID as we understand it currently. At this point I'm no longer asking people to change their be
746.
by jzb 4y ago
I had some unkind feelings about Patreon when it was announced / made public that they laid off their entire security team. I still think that was a poor move and any company responsible for handling payments ought to have an in-hous
747.
by jzb 4y ago
The thing is, the term sounds like "just waiting to be fired" but every thought piece I've seen about it is "employees are just meeting expectations and that's bad." The first crop of articles, etc. about thi
748.
by jzb 4y ago
You have to do both. You can't just look at data & you can't just talk to users / customers without looking back at data.
749.
by jzb 4y ago
I had to do a second loop over that myself.
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by jzb 4y ago
But, someone has to care enough to do so, and it has to catch on. FreeBSD lacks the network effect.

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