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by lodovic 3y ago
I believe that indeed, when a large part of their users would switch to Premium, Google will start serving "light" ads to Premium as well, and will try to sell it as a Premium feature
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by lodovic 3y ago
No. this is like skipping ads on a VCR. It's my computer and I should be able to do whatever I want on it, including blocking all ads that I can. If Google has a problem monetising their video business when I do that, perhaps they need
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by lodovic 3y ago
I would expect this to be a nasal spray or similar, any idea why it's a pill?
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by lodovic 3y ago
rewrites of large software projects usually fail in my experience. For example Netscape, WordPerfect, Digg, Myspace, Healthcare.gov. Most large projects have code bases that are decades old. (exception: Facebook)
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by lodovic 3y ago
They could ban and phase out systems with unsecure bootloaders. That would go a long way. Many vendors have already locked down their boot process.
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by lodovic 3y ago
I get the impression everyone is trying hard to ignore Microsoft and focus on OpenAi, midjourney, NVidia etc, but their Bing chatbot is free and extremely good. I'm just waiting for API access.
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by lodovic 3y ago
> And lord knows actual governments, even the EU, aren't going to enforce consumer protections The EU probably has the strongest consumer protection laws. And they do enforce them. Which is the subject of the linked story.
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by lodovic 3y ago
The fact that reality can be described by calculus would suggest that reality is continuous and not discrete. But I haven't seen any real evidence of either claim.
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by lodovic 3y ago
wow, what a read. I'm now convinced to immediately remove that library if I ever come across it.
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by lodovic 3y ago
I'm not convinced that trading a whitespace sensitive DSL for a whitespace sensitive dynamic scripting language will solve the issue.
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by lodovic 3y ago
I'm still hoping someone will create the ultimate linter that can format source code in your desired style on checkout, and formats it back to the repository's style after a push
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by lodovic 3y ago
If I use a credit card, I pay up to 20% on the outstanding amount. If I use my debit card, I get interest on the money that I don't spend. I also cannot spend more than what is in my account. If there is a charge I disagree with, I can
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by lodovic 3y ago
fun fact: Total Commander is inspired by Midnight Commander, which in its turn is a clone of Norton Commander, which was first released in 1986.
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by lodovic 3y ago
That is a scary thought ..
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by lodovic 3y ago
> Mostly the harm a software engineer can do will be in monetary losses and not in the loss of life Software engineering as a profession is so immature that we haven't seen many serious incidents yet. But people have died because of
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by lodovic 3y ago
I doubt that I could love a robot dog as much as a real live one. You can't replace a child or a spouse with a robot either.
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by lodovic 3y ago
I'm just hearing Bill Lumbergh.. "Yeah if you could just go ahead and run that SQL query .. that would be great"
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by lodovic 3y ago
Are patents on printer technology still relevant? Printers were booming in the nineties but as I haven't seen a single piece of innovation in the last 20 years my guess is that all important patents have expired by now.
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by lodovic 3y ago
I'm afraid it is - For example, the gender debate leads to other countries introducing draconian laws against the LGBT communities. Some days it's all they talk about on Russian TV. Same for the race debate, it seems some politici
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by lodovic 3y ago
In the late eighties, Fleischmann & Pons claimed to have invented room-temperature nuclear fusion. Now that was a media circus.
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by lodovic 3y ago
Serious question: does the concept of a webmaster still exist in 2023? Sites are developed and built in dtap, deployed by gated processes, and in many instances nobody but the deployment agents have access to the actual production servers.
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by lodovic 3y ago
The discussion is about taking hard drugs and being ashamed of that, not about coming out of the closet. Stop changing the subject.
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by lodovic 3y ago
How can they object to "unofficial" releases of Free (tm) software when anyone can pull the code and build it.
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by lodovic 3y ago
That's why "Sir, please don't raise your voice" is so condescending and just a way to make it look like the other party is escalating.
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by lodovic 3y ago
yes, it's from a report by Gary E. Mogyorodi from 2003 titled "What are Requirements- Based Testing", and a paper from Jones from 2012 called “Software Quality Metrics: Three Harmful Metrics and Two Helpful Metrics”
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by lodovic 3y ago
This follows the five reasons for failing software projects, which are in order: 1. Vague or incomplete requirements (55% !) 2. Inadequate project management 3. Uncontrolled complexity 4. Over dependence on testing 5. Unreadable code People
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by lodovic 3y ago
But making a copy is never enough. Users are only willing to migrate to a new platform for lower price, superior features, or when the original platform screws up big time. Otherwise it's just more of the same, and now instead of sendi
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by lodovic 3y ago
This reads like a lot of broscience to be fair
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by lodovic 3y ago
But people purchasing an xbox will see the price difference between the models and immediately understand what they should buy.
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by lodovic 3y ago
for example https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/10/14/turkey-dangerous-dystopi...

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