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by la_barba 7y ago
Because I'm not an idealist, and I don't want to be one. I'd like to think I'm a practical person who looks at what can be done realistically. It has worked out OK for me so far. YMMV.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Many standards are simply guidelines or arbitrary rules. Someone just makes it up. For e.g. i++ has a specific meaning according to a language standard. Or the width of a door should be 36" inches. That is something someone just made u
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Today many people's expectation is that a standards body will make the standards freely available, since there's no excuse to do otherwise. How many people have this expectation and how do you know?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Why should it be free? What is your rationale?
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by la_barba 7y ago
I view ISO standards as a tax on companies who are willing to stand by their product and processes. Modulo obvious caveats, if they can get certification/compliance/accreditation , the end user can have a modicum of confidence whe
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by la_barba 7y ago
"What they should be" is always an arguable position. We can only hold them accountable to their own charter.
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by la_barba 7y ago
>I would like open source to be a viable model for projects run without maintainers needing to be independently wealthy or full time employed elsewhere. This article is pouting out that we’re a long ways off. You can somewhat get there b
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by la_barba 7y ago
Is this a general assertion that "government" is corrupt, or do you have any specific assertions? Can you describe how you think drugs are approved and at what stage the "corrupt" FDA manifests itself?
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by la_barba 7y ago
> I believe that the efficacy of many of them should be put to the test. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc... Here's the list. Which ones do you have a problem with? &g
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by la_barba 7y ago
No, the trust is not gone, and the opinions of an uneducated fringe groups such as the anti-vaxers do not represent the majority in any way. The only reason they get any coverage is because of the perverse click-bait atmosphere of news. Its
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Does the fact that people comply with invasion of privacy mean that the issue doesn't matter? Maybe it does if you don't think that the behavior of the masses can be manufactured. By that same token, convincing people to be ei
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by la_barba 7y ago
Not all, but part of the outrage is political. A lot of (D) folks are looking for someone to blame for the current political climate. I'll stick my neck out a bit and wager that a lot of news outlets running privacy stories wouldn&#x27
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, all the rigid policies like no dropbox or no FTP or no whatever, also arise from serious concerns. I just wanted to point out another seemingly innocuous one. Most of our equipment is not internet connected, and we need to manually ch
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by la_barba 7y ago
The lack of legitimacy is not an imagined made-up fear of lay non-expert people. It has been in the news that over half of psych papers are not reproducible. Maybe thats why people have a hard time accepting related fields as science. Sure,
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by la_barba 7y ago
Hehe, if you think this is nuts, come to pharma. We can't do jack shit with our machines. If you so much as change the time on your machine, that is a 'data integrity breach', and if your actions are determined to be maliciou
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by la_barba 7y ago
>If you actually care about privacy and claim to not be using or selling our information for anything, why don't you make it easier to avoid giving information entirely? Hmm, I don't see it that way. It seems like people are le
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, its the same concern with any eCommerce website that takes your CC, or really, just about any website that has a form input field. Few people in my office click on pretty much any link random people email them. I've even told fri
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by la_barba 7y ago
I think its just like 'reference' or 'studio' headphones. Ideally you wouldn't want the output device to 'colour' the reproduction of the underlying media, but in practice you'll see a variety of stud
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by la_barba 7y ago
I have a feeling they might be outside the US, where Macs are less common.
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by la_barba 7y ago
You can prevent that by using the NX or the XD bit. Its a CPU feature and I believe the support was added over 15 years ago in most popular OSs. Here's the commit for Linux https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux
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by la_barba 7y ago
>I think the idea that the program can load files as code is insane in itself. There shouldn't be such a mechanism in an ideal world. What do you mean by loading files "as code". Do you mean setting the execute bit on memo
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by la_barba 7y ago
Sad, but people don't like paying taxes..
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yeah, voice based interfaces have huge potential but maybe its easier to we adapt ourselves to match what its expecting. Like a shorthand for voice. We already learn seemingly random words/numbers/spcial characters in terms of pro
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by la_barba 7y ago
That's an excellent point. Having a higher lowest-common-denominator to cater to will definitely make for an interesting UI. The sweet spot is to match the UI specialization with tangible productivity gains. All the modern UI simplific
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by la_barba 7y ago
Nobody said those were improvements, so what is your point?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, users would be happier with websites that showed fewer ads and had fewer tracking JS scripts slowing down the website. Will Google ever rank by that metric? Google is slowly but surely becoming an ad-infested link-farm kinda website,
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by la_barba 7y ago
>The real advice is to always be ready to abandon your platform at any moment and move on to a new one should its policies no longer be in your favor. Okay, but how is this advice useful or practical? You can't build or grow a busin
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well, we already have numerous explanations of why things are the way are. Is there any proposal for changing the status-quo that people can get behind? That is always the stumbling block. Only a handful of people seem to be bold enough to
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by la_barba 7y ago
You will not be editing raw 8K video using the tiny 8 core CPU and 256GB storage space of the base model which the parent was referring to ($6000). Its true that for Hollywood projects, the price of this might not be a huge deal, even with
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by la_barba 7y ago
>Only if the software you're buying meets all of your current and future requirements, and is maintained indefinitely. Nobody expects 3d design software to be maintained indefinitely or expects 3d design software to satisfy future r

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