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by ken 6y ago
> If Twitter is going to police people, it needs to be across the board. That assumes that all users on Twitter are equal. By Twitter's own rules [1], there are two classes of users. Elected officials are held to a different stand
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by ken 6y ago
Actually, my use case is clicking on other people's GitHub links from time to time and not wanting 5 MB of download for 100 KB of data.
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by ken 6y ago
"I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would
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by ken 6y ago
What mechanism is at work here? Do FreeBSD hackers write code that doesn't depend on RAM working?
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by ken 6y ago
> There are no guarantees when relying on a system's default fonts, and that's why web fonts are popular. Technically true but misleading. There are no guarantees when including custom web fonts on a web page, either. It&#x27
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by ken 6y ago
> They continue to be used everywhere because they offer a consistency that's impossible to get otherwise. That sounds backwards to me. Using standard fonts is how you achieve consistency. Using a custom font for just your webpa
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by ken 6y ago
> Allowing the user to control the noise cancelling profile on a pair of wireless headphones with a phone app instead of further cluttering the headphones themselves is a good idea. Alternatively: allowing the user to control the noise c
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by ken 6y ago
By definition, that's what happens when its developer community dies off down to size n=0. A source dump without a community is essentially fast-forwarding a (potential) developer community to its death. It should be clear why this i
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by ken 6y ago
For any text with more than a couple paragraphs, I always hit the "reader mode" button. If a webpage doesn't work with that, I'm not interested.
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by ken 6y ago
When MSFT bought them, I predicted they would pivot to adding features I don’t care about. I was right. They went from the best support I’ve ever seen (report an issue, get a personal email asking for details, see it fixed) to the worst (
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by ken 6y ago
And non-remote work means a virus already did.
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by ken 6y ago
"Open source" is both a license and a development model. You're talking about a license, but someone interested in workflow longevity will probably not be satisfied with a source dump from a dead company. They're looki
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by ken 6y ago
Twitter created a special rule [1] for public officials who violate their Terms of Service. They feel there's a genuine "public interest" in being able to see (and respond to) these communications, even though they would not
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by ken 6y ago
Every touch-based one, for starters. I don't know what I can tap, or what will happen if I tap them. Or long-tap, or double-tap, or lightly-tap. Or what the various swipe directions mean, or how swipe-from-edge differs, or the diffe
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by ken 6y ago
I believe capitalism can work well on a micro-scale when the products are simple enough that consumers can exert perceivable pressure on producers. Make a better hammer? I'll buy a better hammer. Where modern capitalism falls down is
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by ken 6y ago
No, this is how Boeing has always operated. It's a cyclic industry. Google "boeing employment by year". The charts are practically a sine wave. "Hire 10,000 when demand is high, lay off 10,000 when demand is low&quot
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by ken 6y ago
Yes, I tried the query in the sample, and it works exactly the same for me here. Are you saying you also get a link to the original URL in the popup?
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by ken 6y ago
Specificity. It's an existing exception in advertising law (or so I've been told). Anyone can claim "we have the best burgers" -- and many restaurants do -- because it's non-specific. Ironically, if you were to a
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by ken 6y ago
That question presumes that crashing is the only axis upon which computer users experience pain. Linux users said the same thing in 1996. It didn’t work then, either. Anyone working on desktop Linux should know they’ve hit saturation with t
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by ken 6y ago
Isn't it more like "Google picked one, and Microsoft/Apple/IBM/Linux/*BSD/Cisco/Oracle/HP/... picked the other"? Besides Google's, the only OSs I see which support IPv6 but not DH
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by ken 6y ago
Who? Not macOS [1], or Ubuntu [2]. Does Windows still use base-2? They probably shouldn't [3]. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402 [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy [3]: https
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by ken 6y ago
We were in no way one of "their biggest accounts". We were a couple guys in a cramped office over a mattress store, with a production service so small we could have run it from my old laptop. I guarantee it cost them at least 10
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by ken 6y ago
I'm as anti-AMZN/AWS as anyone these days, but to their credit, Amazon has their own teams of consultants who will come to your business for free to analyze your usage of AWS and tell you how to save money. They openly joked abou
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by ken 6y ago
I can't see the page (slashdotted), but that sounds just like the puzzle from an old kids' math show we used to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCoGMYV3UPk&t=2m29s
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by ken 6y ago
Interesting hypothesis, but it doesn't explain the pattern. That's also true of a million other categories of dangerous equipment, and yet almost none of them lock out competitors by using proprietary interfaces. A shoddy saw bla
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by ken 6y ago
As an American, this doesn't seem any stranger than our dual-units-of-measure system. One is defined in terms of the other. One is what we (mostly) use locally, and the other is what we use with anyone from any other country in the w
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by ken 6y ago
Not CPUs -- they're rarely recalled. The Xeon in my computer has 50 pages of errata. It's common knowledge that CPUs are terribly buggy.
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by ken 6y ago
That sounds way too high. It's CONFIG_HZ, right? According to this[1], it can be 1ms to 10ms, with the default being 4ms. [1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/Kconfig...
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by ken 6y ago
Was it the "You may also be interested in:" box on product pages? I remember going to a tech talk, many years ago, by the person who wrote that.
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by ken 6y ago
"Python does have access to the abstract syntax tree of programs, but this is not for the faint of heart. On the plus side, the modules are easy to understand, and with five minutes and five lines of code I was able to get this:

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