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by majewsky 2y ago
> services like Spotify [...] allow pretty much access to all the music ever created for a 10$ fee. The math just doesn't work with video games. Are you not describing XBox Game Pass?
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by majewsky 2y ago
As far as I understand, they respected decades-old conventions. Just not the ones we needed (Plan9 instead of POSIX/GNU getopt).
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by majewsky 2y ago
You are working off an unusual definition of "rolling release". A rolling release just means that there are no major version bumps that require an active opt-in when upgrading. And besides, the behavior of Fedora Rawhide can easil
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by majewsky 2y ago
Except FairPhone.
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by majewsky 2y ago
"Ignorant" implies that they are actively avoiding this information. A less inflammatory choice of words would be "unaware". For instance, it is extremely silly to consider non-Americans "ignorant" if they don&
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by majewsky 2y ago
Not a lawyer, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but I expect this license to be unenforceable because the statement in paragraph 1 contradicts the very broad grant in paragraph 2.
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by majewsky 2y ago
The full story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
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by majewsky 2y ago
Yes, they made sure that there would never be a refuge from the walled garden to begin with.
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by majewsky 2y ago
Your source no. 2 disputes your source no. 1: > In 2008, a logo very similar to CE marking was alleged to exist and to stand for China Export because some Chinese manufacturers apply it to their products. However, the European Commission
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by majewsky 2y ago
Oh, that's like German "begreifen", no? (Which means "to grok".)
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by majewsky 2y ago
How does this solve 3b?
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by majewsky 2y ago
You could say the same about C library dependency hell. I have not used FreeBSD myself, but if I'm remembering correctly, the main reason that dependency hell does not affect the BSDs is that they have their own internal set of C libra
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by majewsky 2y ago
How would you actually pull that off at corp scale, if not via stack ranking?
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by majewsky 2y ago
Taking my managed container image registry service as an example. - The only critical alert that can actually page people is if the blackbox test fails. Every 30 seconds, it downloads a test image and if the contents don't match the ex
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by majewsky 2y ago
It probably depends on the country, but in my country (Germany), the government only defines outlines of what knowledge and skills the students are expected to acquire. The teachers are expected to design a specific curriculum to convey the
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by majewsky 2y ago
Or, to be more specific, you don't like your company's implementation of their idea. We have the same setup in my org, but we get to define alerts ourselves. All our own alerts are built so that they don't go off if the under
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by majewsky 2y ago
Here's a user stylesheet to make it slightly more readable: #root { color: black; } main { color: var(--text-color); } Regular reminder to all designers that not everyone uses an Apple 50K Retina Ultra Whatever Display in a pr
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by majewsky 2y ago
I played this with a friend at 9 years old. If there weren't articles like this, I would just assume the memory to be an actual fever dream.
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by majewsky 2y ago
That's house style for the Economist.
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by majewsky 2y ago
> Two years ago it was "AI will never be able to write code" GitHub Copilot was released nearly three years ago.
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by majewsky 2y ago
True, if by "every single org" you mean "maybe a dozen orgs". All that the vast majority of companies is doing is figuring out how to run an existing LLM or API thereof and shipping an RAG integration button for their ap
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by majewsky 2y ago
Ref: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
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by majewsky 2y ago
You should see the title text if you long-press on the link, no?
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by majewsky 2y ago
I don't think they were asking for corporate speak. But at least I would find a plain technical error message like "cannot contact file server" much more respectable than something like "unicorns are hugging our servers
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by majewsky 2y ago
I don't think their bias was implicit. :)
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by majewsky 2y ago
Yes. Forgejo is a fork of Gitea.
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by majewsky 2y ago
So what you're saying is they will drive business decisions to ensure the viability of their livestream revenue stream. I feel like we're all in agreement.
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by majewsky 2y ago
In this scenario, if Chrome were a separate business from the rest of Google, they would not be incentivized to stifle adblocking.
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by majewsky 2y ago
Out of Google's 2023 revenue of 305.63e9 US-$, 77.8% (237.86e9 US-$) was advertising revenue. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-reven... They are obviously not only an ad compan
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by majewsky 2y ago
Since Germany was mentioned, I will say that there is a policy debate in Germany right now about taking away unemployment benefits [1] from anyone who refuses a job with up to 3h commuting time. So a 3h commute is not necessarily something

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