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by lbotos 4y ago
I'm constantly amazed at how people fail to see that in B2B if your clients are downsizing, well, you should expect less money coming your way. Yes, there is a "follow on effect" as one should expect. If Confluent was build
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It’s been said time and time again. During growth, you make big plans and you invest in growth. You hire people to build new things. Oh snap. Growth is gone. You cancel your lofty plans and you stick with things that are working. Anyone who
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by lbotos 4y ago
I’ve spent the last two weeks agonizing over the design of some API endpoints for a side project I’m working on (clean and tidy). This is stopping me from actually making any meaningful progress on some other challenges in the codebase. (pu
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by lbotos 4y ago
A few weeks ago I rented the Alien: Covenant movie on youtube because I didn't even know it existed. About 2 minutes in I noticed it was playing at 480p. I paid the extra dollar for HD rental. Lo and behold, if you want to watch rented
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I like you have seen that line parroted, and I thought this would be the place that shows the state of affairs: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/s4104/amendm... Hasn't been updated
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by lbotos 4y ago
I suspect that the people buying this coffee are either: 1. Taking the "loss" to support a small business 2. Normies who feel like they are getting a deal on "Specialty coffee" that they normally wouldn't buy. Some
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by lbotos 4y ago
Oh nice! That's def one of my favorites. I think you'd like Kafka on the Shore next. And you'll see a lot of hype around Norwegian wood and it is solid, it's not "fantastic" so if you pick it up you might be su
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by lbotos 4y ago
As a Murakami fan, which did you read? Happy to make suggestions if you are open. Also if you want to hear me blather on about his cannon: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FEkaCe--UR0
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by lbotos 4y ago
I suspect crews timing out also play a big factor into this planning challenge: https://flyingbynumbers.com/cabin-crew-duty-timeouts/
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by lbotos 4y ago
https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=Mickey+Mouse Here are US trademarks. The trademark does not stop people from making a cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse, copyright does. We saw this with “Winnie the Pooh”. New horror mov
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by lbotos 4y ago
This is how it works now. If someone holds a copyright, you can license it from them if they so desire. The fee is determined by your legal team and theirs.
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120 total :)
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by lbotos 4y ago
As someone who lives in NYC, we have a serious trash problem. Like, being young and naive once I thought "that's just how cities are!" but having traveled the world, most cities are NOT like New York. In my neighborhood there
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by lbotos 4y ago
Scale. When I joined 6 years ago, there were 3 products with a team of about 120 people total. A tough decision was made to focus on 2 products to increase velocity. Probably about 2 years ago there were some asks if we offered "single
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by lbotos 4y ago
GitLab.com is a multi-tenant deployment. GitLab Dedicated is for customers who want GitLab team to manage GitLab for them but not on GitLab.com (I work there)
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by lbotos 4y ago
If you have any insights as to what makes it tricky to keep up to date I'm all ears. Would love to know: Single node? Omnibus or docker based? Making upgrades easier for all users is a core part of my plan for the next year (I work at
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by lbotos 4y ago
Also one by Bryan Cantrill recently around the stack of black boxes: https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...
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I think "geysers" are a type of hot water heater, yes?
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> Why would exchanging numbers (or Snap accounts, etc.) with someone be a goal? If you think of apps as locations, you are switching from "meeting at the bar"(dating app) to going somewhere where you both spend more time "
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by lbotos 4y ago
You can get deals. I got 2 3090s for $560 each about 3 weeks ago. (They are working fine so far)
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by lbotos 4y ago
I’m not dain, but your choice of language is confusing. You are attempting to communicate on the internet and you are not being easily understood. It’s your choice if you’d like more people to understand you or not.
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by lbotos 4y ago
My Favorite Ontario Teachers Pension Plan fun fact is that they own the Bristol, UK Airport: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Airport
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by lbotos 4y ago
https://github.com/moyix/fauxpilot is working on an open source variant. Based on https://github.com/salesforce/CodeGen
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Private servers? FF/DM?
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Was twitter "profitable"? https://fourweekmba.com/is-twitter-profitable/ Or do you mean, "They were on track to be profitable?"
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I'm not a lawyer, but if you provide a platform that enables infringement that's different than if you provide a tool that could enable infringement. Popcorn time vs. bittorrent. And you are right the EULA could say "it'
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my response above about intent is wrong, but the rest still holds imo.
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The law will consider "intent". By your logic, web browsers are infringing. Can you use curl to infringe on copyright? Yes. Is every time you use curl copyright infringement? No. Can you in theory tell when you are infringing with
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by lbotos 4y ago
> If I make a piece of software that curls a random gist and then puts it into your editor am I infringing Depends on the license. If it's MIT and you serve the license, no, you are not infringing at all. A trimmed version of MIT fo
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The crux of the issue: Is the code that is being generated being used in a way that it's license allows? That's it. I'm confident that this problem would go away if copilot said: //below output code is MIT licensed

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