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by kdtsh 6y ago
No advice I'm afraid - when someone finds the answer to that question they'll change the world.
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This is great, but the video has 1000 views and no comments. This is part of the problem - how do you get people to use a platform that no one else is using? It’s not a ‘build it and they will come’ situation, there are already working (non
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Firefox really seems like it’s doing everything right in terms of application development. If it doesn’t break into the market again and start increasing its user base, I don’t know where it goes from here. Of course it doesn’t need to have
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by kdtsh 6y ago
This is all really making me rethink any future purchases of an iPhone. I don’t want to be anywhere near this.
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I think it’s highly unlikely they would exit the Australian market - the threat could be useful, but they have little to gain from responding to what is effectively a bargaining process with a lockout, at least as a permanent solution (e.g.
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by kdtsh 6y ago
I don’t see how this is the case. What is being put at risk if not the price tag/lack thereof?
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Or that Google thinks that it would be useful for users to think that running the service for free might not be viable.
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>Google did not state this. The ACCC - the supposed detached "fair" regulator, in charge of creating this code, just made something up to suit their own ends. From Google's open letter: `A proposed law, the News Media Barg
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by kdtsh 6y ago
If division can be fomented by giving everyone a megaphone, then the people were already divided, they just didn't know it. I don't agree with all of Twitter's moderation, but this is a symptom, not the disease.
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by kdtsh 6y ago
Absolutely. If you’re looking to just learn about Linux, you can’t go much further than Slackware. It’s as Linux as you can get: you can learn distros (which admittedly is easier now that many are built on a few different platforms - GNOME,
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by kdtsh 6y ago
The one that really, really gets me is I can’t RDP onto my work computer after a reboot which was initiated after an automatic update. Meaning my computer is completely useless to me until I go into the office again. Unreal. If I had the ti
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by kdtsh 6y ago
Seeing as new reddit feels like new Google as far as UI elements are concerned, I’m not surprised - it’s made for Chrome.
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We could argue about this, or we could agree to disagree and just acknowledge that the US' domestic and international spying programmes are some of the most far-reaching and intrusive in history.
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He knows what he’s doing. If he’s quiet about Russia’s crimes against freedom of expression, it’s because he’ll be in serious danger if he says anything about them - and Snowden going under for saying something true doesn’t do him or anyone
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by kdtsh 6y ago
>Any union that does not represent its members to the best of its ability is not a good union. I absolutely agree, but there are unions and unions. The SDA in Australia for instance is, for some members, useless, and for other members
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This is definitely not unique to unions, nor are all (or many) unions like this. Of course the examples you list are ridiculous and shouldn’t happen, but the more boring instances of bureaucracy are just part of the mundane process of work
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Clearly words don’t have meaning to you if you’re happy to reword what they said like that. Digital piracy is not and never has been theft. No one has been deprived of their property. It’s illegal, yes, and you can argue about the ethics su
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by kdtsh 6y ago
Nix is a package manager. NixOS is an OS which includes the Nix package manager. My understanding is that a feature of Nix is you can declare an OS (I.e. declare the collection of configurations and software etc for an OS) which Nix will pr
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by kdtsh 6y ago
What do you mean?
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This isn’t an expansion of government power. This is an expression of exactly what government power is supposed to be for. If a government can’t effectively respond to a major pandemic, what good is responsible government for exactly? (I kn
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by kdtsh 6y ago
> People cheer for fascism when it aligns with their own ideas. I truly resent being told I’m cheering for fascism because I don’t want my friends or family, or myself, to die from a highly contagious disease. I can only imagine that the
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>Experts urged caution, suggesting the report may be based on limited commercially available mobile phone data, and that there could be other reasons for varying levels of phone usage. Is there much more to it than this? Much more will b
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These things reduce the input human labour required to produce some good. They are inputs to the process of production, but do not themselves produce value. In fact, as I mentioned, they may well diminish the value of some product, because
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Each of those things ultimately reduce to human labour though. Energy because it requires human labour to produce; material scarcity because of the human labour required to extract certain rare materials. It’s very easy to say that this is
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Where does value come from besides labour? If gold was everywhere, it wouldn’t be as valuable as it is - but it’s not, you have to dig it out of the ground and it can be hard to find; the labour input into the process of producing gold is w
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by kdtsh 6y ago
I went back to Safari on iOS. I really quite like iOS - it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but it is mine. I also quite like Firefox, and have used it since Firefox 3 (except for a few years when I bought into the Google project and used Chrom
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Well ... it might not be what a developer is paid, but it's the value a developer creates for a business (experience and training withstanding of course), if you catch my drift.
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That sounds awful, I'm really sorry to read this. Do you live somewhere where there's been a big uptick in hiring from grocery stores? I couldn't say whether it's a 'good' or a 'bad' move career-wise,
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Right, I definitely wouldn’t say they’re just an intellectual curiosity (although it’s certainly intellectually curious), they’re both very practical daily driver for many use cases. Both are still in active development, but for plenty of a
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by kdtsh 6y ago
Depends on your contract. It’s not uncommon (or even necessarily unreasonable if you’re a full time employee) for a contract to stipulate that any code you write during the period of your employment that you make use of at work is owned by

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