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by laumars 4y ago
I've noticed this issue with some streaming services too. eg Amazon Prime Video will serve different quality streams for Chrome on macOS than it will for Chrome on Linux.
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by laumars 5y ago
> It seems like there's too much power in the hands of too few. It will bite us. The balance of power has always been like that. If anything, the internet has diversified power more than it has ever been before in history.
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re conflating sales pitches with actual business decisions that management make. I’ve been on the decision making board for a few companies and the pragmatic reality is the only time people cite security as the reason for moving to the
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by laumars 5y ago
And in some instances that’s a valid claim. The problem here is you’re taking two massive generalisations and assuming they’re always mutually inclusive.
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by laumars 5y ago
> One of the top cloud companies who everybody assumes are supposed to have security and security experts beyond what you can deploy, which is one of the main reasons given for why you should move to cloud deployment, I’d say your assump
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by laumars 5y ago
The point of the cloud was never that it’s got stronger security. Even in the early days people were constantly leaking data due to insecure S3 buckets.
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by laumars 5y ago
Transform is also used in data mangling to mean exactly what this tool does. Transformation is also used in enterprise IT to mean modernising. Transformer is also a mathematics term, a kids toy and many other things. In short, ML doesn’t ha
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by laumars 5y ago
Dilbert was a lot more generic too. I think most companies reflected Dilbert in one way or another. But User Friendly was a lot more specialised. At least that’s how I remembered them.
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by laumars 5y ago
It was a series of comics aimed at people who work in IT. You might have come across some of their sketches without realising it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly
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by laumars 5y ago
I’ve seen many cases were version pinning has caused issues at the worst possible time (like missed delivery dates because of a breaking change in dependencies being pushed by maintainers at an inconvenient time for us). Ultimately there’s
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by laumars 5y ago
Most languages offer some guarantee by the time they hit version 1, let alone 2. Take Python for example, v2 took a decade to deprecate. Swift is the edge case on this one. Not the norm.
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by laumars 5y ago
That’s not really fair. For example Go programs written in v1.0 are still mostly compilable (the few tweaks you do need to make aren’t substantial). Rightly or wrongly Apple very much decided Swift should take a different approach to backwa
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by laumars 5y ago
> Ideally you only use Docker official images,or their equivalent to avoid using unvetted code. Docker images don’t ship every dependency in the average development project. They’re also not a security guarantee either. > It is always
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by laumars 5y ago
That’s because technically you can’t escape them: * CSV only supports one data type: string. Thus formulas are just strings processed as code by some applications based on the content of that string * CSV doesn’t support character escaping.
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s not as cute and dry as you claim. CSV only plays nicely with big data where your CSV encoder and decoder both agree on how to read and write CSV data. The problem is CSV is not formal standard, sure there are documents on how CSV shoul
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by laumars 5y ago
You’d be better off using jsonlines than creating a bespoke format that is neither CSV nor JSON. https://jsonlines.org/examples/
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by laumars 5y ago
Also every instance of ‘usr’ has been autocorrected to ‘use’. Autocorrect does make me laugh some days :D
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by laumars 5y ago
And this is exactly why I’m always playing the damp squid when people advocate for more features being supported via shell escape codes.
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by laumars 5y ago
That’s not quite how it works. Companies argue that there’s no brand confusion in order to coexist with similar trading names and use market sector as evidence but there isn’t any specific law that says this has to be the case. To use your
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by laumars 5y ago
Just a word of warning that Argos is already massive established retail brand in the UK (and some over sees territories). I appreciate naming things is hard so don’t take this as a judgement about what you should do, just be aware that you
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by laumars 5y ago
The list is massive. It probably covers most open source projects from Linux (which might not be single personal now but it certainly was when it started) and git, cURL (still single person AFAIK) etc. even GNU started out as a single perso
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by laumars 5y ago
This is weirdly specific for Netflix. What about Prime Video? Disney+? Apple TV? Do those have Russian-based subscribers too? I can see the point of keeping YouTube, Facebook, TikTok etc active because they allow people to share their own f
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by laumars 5y ago
Unfortunately the GUI world seems to be settling on web rendering. While this is a massive bonus for cross platform support I’m still having a hard time agreeing that running a dozen Chromium instances is a good thing.
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by laumars 5y ago
> UNIX you mean. Not the GP but generally speaking it’s not a great reach to say that Linux is more widely supported than POSIX. GNU-only flags are often used in shell scripts and you’ll often find binaries are packaged as a snap or Doc
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by laumars 5y ago
There’s a few different sets of ansi escape sequences for managing colour. The ones you’re on about are the 8/16 colour palette. Unfortunately there is a trend these days for developers to use 8-bit (256 colours) pallet or even the tru
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by laumars 5y ago
It really depends on the style of music being played and the quality of the DJ. I’ve heard some DJ really elevate tracks with the way they’ve mixed them. I myself would typically have two or more tracks playing at once (more than 3+ deck mi
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by laumars 5y ago
> It sounds like you are opposed to them coming into existence because it means they exist in existential agony. No, I’m opposed to stupid arguments where you justify being a carnivore because you’re somehow doing these creatures a fav
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by laumars 5y ago
That project and the programming language were both named after the famous artist, Piet Mondrian. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian My post wasn’t to complain about the name collision though. I don’t see an
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by laumars 5y ago
I was really confused about this, at first thinking it was related to the Piet programming language ( https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet ) which is also comprised of 2D drawings. I kept thinking this was some clever implemen
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by laumars 5y ago
I’m not a vegetarian and I still really hate that “if I wasn’t farmed I wouldn’t exist at all” argument because it’s really just an excuse to be shitty to other life forms. The fact is if you didn’t exist then you wouldn’t care either way,

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