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by jzb 2y ago
I borrowed the title from a talk he did in 1999, but didn't find a way (mea culpa) to work that naturally into the story. I do believe that, yes, he has enjoyed the work and "hijack" is employed tongue-in-cheek.
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by jzb 2y ago
I think people are conflating “kind” with a range of other behaviors. You can be kind while addressing poor performance, etc. You address the behavior, you might even have to fire someone, but those are not incompatible with kindness - if y
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by jzb 2y ago
Isn't Spotify about to raise its fees again for the second time in about two years? I dropped it a while back after the whole podcast push. Not (solely) because I'm not a fan of the people they chose to fund, but because they penn
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by jzb 2y ago
Some folks may find collecting biometric data inherently creepy. I mean, yeah, there's also "what might happen when* it's leaked" but ... I just don't like it. It feels maximally invasive. * These days, I'd ass
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by jzb 2y ago
"The taggers are fine. The information model is a nightmare" *Truth*. I find it really frustrating to only be able to assign one genre and one grouping to a song or album. Rating is another one. A 0-5 system is woefully insuff
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by jzb 2y ago
Kid3 has been my go-to for a long time, but lately I've been using Strawberry[1] as my all-in-one music player, organizer, and tagger. It has a built-in tag editor with MusicBrainz support and will auto-organize files. My only complain
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by jzb 2y ago
Mdou Moctar is amazing . I think I stumbled on "Afrique Victime" via Bandcamp. It absolutely blew me away on first listen, the guitar work is simply amazing. I don't understand a word of the lyrics, but it doesn't matte
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by jzb 2y ago
In a perfect world, perhaps, everybody would align behind a single effort, and they would all agree on a vision and be able to all coordinate and work together effectively and make use of all of the time that everyone has available in the m
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by jzb 2y ago
I've tried it, twice, with Zenni Optical - both times it's been a bust. They've allowed me to put in a prescription and place an order for things they don't actually support (e.g., prism). That said, I know a lot of peop
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by jzb 2y ago
I'm gonna need a bigger NAS...
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by jzb 3y ago
This suggests what they’ve become is desirable - it’s not.
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Open source Apache Airflow 2.9 advances data orchestration as AI usage grows(venturebeat.com)
1 points by jzb 3y ago|0 comments
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by jzb 3y ago
No. Really no. Some employers do credit checks. It can also impact your ability to just rent an apartment. Way back in the early 2000s I had a poor credit score and it meant 1) having to put down onerous deposits for services* and 2) being
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by jzb 3y ago
Congrats? I can’t remember the last time I slept 10+ hours. Probably once in the last few years when I was exceptionally sick. My range would be more like 3-7.5 hours, with (thankfully) few nights in the 3-hour range. 4.5 is not uncommon, a
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Tridge returns to rsync(lwn.net)
56 points by jzb 3y ago|7 comments
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by jzb 3y ago
This headline doesn’t really match the tweet. A better one might be “OpenTufu refutes Hashicorp claims”
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by jzb 3y ago
Pity that they don’t handle music. That’s my primary use of Plex: managing a music library. I feel like that’s a secondary focus for Plex, too, but it’s good enough.
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by jzb 3y ago
Can't speak for OP but - I already own several Roku devices. I'm not going to run out and buy new stuff right this second just because Roku is going down this path. When I do need to buy new devices, though, they won't be fro
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by jzb 3y ago
I don't think this is the case. One of my younger brothers is in a way lower income bracket and only streams things via free services like Tubi. I tried watching a few things on that service - couldn't stand how many ads there wer
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by jzb 3y ago
Or 1848: “Prospectors spent 17x more on picks and shovels than they recouped by finding gold.”
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by jzb 3y ago
The bundling thing happened after Sourceforge was already well in decline, 2013, which was five years after GitHub launched. Google Code shutdown was announced 2015. IIRC Sourceforge was becoming less relevant because it hadn’t introduced g
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by jzb 3y ago
Author of the article here. There may be some scenarios where there's a company just tossing code over the wall under a FOSS license and people complain when it stops. This scenario is not that. The company now known as Redis did not i
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by jzb 3y ago
So if I understand: Starting today, a pair of 20-somethings has kids, hands them off to their parents to raise - OK, their parents had experience now they are doing double-duty, but they know what they're doing raising kids. Now... 20
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by jzb 3y ago
I refuse the idea that I need to solve the problem of raising as many successful children as possible. If a person chooses to have children, then raising them successfully is a problem they need to face. I totally refuse the idea that havin
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by jzb 3y ago
It weirds me out a lot when people talk about parenting and family planning like this. Like, having kids should be planned around strategically based on factors like "are my parents young enough to be supplemental child care" over
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by jzb 3y ago
Even leaving aside the ethics (which...yikes) I think this kind of falls down, logically. Parents want to become grandparents after having the experience of being parents. If you cut the "being parents" out of that cycle, why woul
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by jzb 3y ago
The Funeral Lady would agree with you. Well, if she's still around. This was 30 years ago, and I would have guessed the owner of the voice on the other side of the phone was already north of 80. I've no beef with the genre but I t
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by jzb 3y ago
This reminds me of my first job in radio. I worked weekend mornings 6-12. The station had started with a "beautiful music" format, then recently had switched to adult contemporary. They retained a lot of the old advertisers: funer
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by jzb 3y ago
s/they work hard/somebody decides to tip which may or may not reflect any effort the worker put in because some people just don’t tip and depending on tips is a shitty way to scrape by/
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by jzb 3y ago
It doesn’t really make sense to transfer the concept of first sale to digital goods. Even assuming a scheme that allows a library to fully control lending so that only one copy is in use at a time, a digital copy is not going to wear out. S

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