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by kobalsky 2y ago
> If you’ve given users the best software ever but your executive management doesn’t know, or even actively hates it, you haven’t shipped. you think you've given users the best software... people overestimate their ability to know
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by kobalsky 2y ago
you need a different voting method first, either ballotage or any of the other systems that don't destroy parties with overlapping voters
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by kobalsky 2y ago
is there a gold to big mac index to track the valuation drift?
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by kobalsky 2y ago
the point is that if some screwdriver is objectively better (doesn't snap and takes your eye off when you make a mistake) then the decision to use it shouldn't be affected by who recommends it.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
we gotta admit that not using, let's say screwdrivers, because some annoying people made a silly religion around them calls for some introspection.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> that disabling Recall via DISM works fine this whole deal with recall slowly creeping in after the initial rejection is the worst case of just-the-tip I've seen people accept. will anyone be surprised when it gets enabled in an up
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by kobalsky 2y ago
~~it's supposed to be optional.~~ it's supposed to be local. <------ YOU ARE HERE you can supposedly disable it. it's supposed not to send your information to the cops if it's sees you being naughty.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> From my experience, it's still not a 100% replacement if it were a perfect replacemente, there would be no Windows. for some it's good enough to endure the rough spots. if you want to replace Windows and give yourself a gray
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by kobalsky 2y ago
I'm getting a free game from Epic every week for having their launcher installed. Competition is awesome.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
I grabbed a random page from the manual: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable-systemd/cha... Every step is explained and every used parameter is documented.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> Or do you mean the “Micro$oft is evil” people you know, I live in one of those countries that traded licenses for power. Microsoft demanded a software self-audit from our company (we use Linux on 100% of our computers). When we refused
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by kobalsky 2y ago
Could they get sued in a different country? I know when Argentina defaulted on bonds a naval ship was impounded in Ghana https://archive.is/Q7pB9
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by kobalsky 2y ago
2 mW would work better than Sony's generator in some cases. https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/news/2023/2023090701.html
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by kobalsky 2y ago
some minimal due diligence to check the electronics maybe. in simple devices charging and protection circuits are usually logically isolated from the rest of the device, and you cannot draw enough power from them to damage the battery. mayb
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by kobalsky 2y ago
the canary is there for a gas leak, not for an asteroid destroying the earth. the canaries that are left are worth several million of USD combined, if there's any incremental progress towards cracking them, that's a strong incenti
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by kobalsky 2y ago
controlled arms race to improve things on both sides and it doubles as a canary.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
you can search about it all you want, google won't threaten to ban you. and google gives everyone the possibility of being excluded in their results.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
you can use chatgpt to learn about anything ... except how an ai like chatgpt work.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> (or at least, non-dorky). I always expected the tinfoil hats to raise up when many mainstream series made fun of prius owners being pretentious dorks, or when Musk came out of the closet as a republican and everyone started hating the
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by kobalsky 2y ago
add sunglasses to the avatar while typing
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by kobalsky 2y ago
With that take Apple would still putting 32gb on the base models.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
There's a really good game called the "Return of the Obra Dinn" where the events happen in a 18th century ship and the creator strived for accuracy. To beat it you need to learn a lot about the ship and crew. If you like dete
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by kobalsky 2y ago
Mind explaining?
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by kobalsky 2y ago
From linked article: > If the disk replication status is catching up or degraded, then one of the zonal replicas is not updated with all the data. Any outage during this time in the zone of the healthy replica results in an unavailabilit
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by kobalsky 2y ago
You have to understand that if you don't need this kind of security on your computer, the question wasn't addressed to you. "just don't do risky stuff on it" doesn't cut it for those who need it. Leave room for
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by kobalsky 2y ago
Well King and Blizzard are in Activision, and at least some years ago in their balance sheets we saw that King has a similar operating income as Blizzard. Those silly mobile games rake in some cash.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> That fancy encryption system is worthless when someone can hijack the session of any of the users in a chosen group what do you mean? user sessions are remotely hijackeable?
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by kobalsky 2y ago
> It's more of a bad and broken transliteration that if you struggle to think about you can parse out and understand. it seems to be more common to see sign language interpreters now. is it just virtue signaling to have that instead
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by kobalsky 2y ago
I give him the benefit of the doubt since I'm not immune to propaganda and he was an obvious target for character assassination.
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by kobalsky 2y ago
For reference, an Apple TV 4K costs $129.

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