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by makeitdouble 25d ago
Why skip this part ? > legislation needs to either make it just as hard to merge two companies as it is to unmerge them
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by makeitdouble 26d ago
> a browser is a complex program A browser in the class of Firefox or Chrome is for all intents and purposes a full OS constantly exposed to the world. I understand open source OS development to be sustainable thanks to the the effort pu
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by makeitdouble 29d ago
> nobody You're saying there's 2% of non-Apple laptops with good trackpads. Apple laptops are below 10% share, so by your own account that 2% is nothing to sneeze at. Yes, there's a pretty decent number of good trackpads o
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
These problems will surface whenever they get big enough, whatever size the agency is. As an extreme, if there was one single guy in charge you'd still get recalls every time a problem reaches national levels, and you could get a lot o
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
Could be part of it. Another angle is payment processors longing for stronger KYC. Felica is bound to a phone with a carrier on a national network, which basically guarantees full traceability of the user. Same for WeChat. PromptPay also bi
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
> resignation is the proper action Why not act according to your conscience and get fired if your employer really feels like it ? Otherwise, in many circumstances a simple "is this legal?" question in a chat or chain of emails
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
The chip is not missing, the configuration is. I assume it's a licensing issue, where Google is too cheap to pay JR for the phones sold outside of Japan, so only setup the JP models and only pay the license for those.
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
There is a perhaps a trend of local payment means being less accessible to tourists. I haven't experienced it first hand but WeChat/Alipay are in the same boat as I understand, and PromptPay in Indonesia can be somewhat be used bu
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
Tremendous effort and circumstances were needed for that, and as parent points out there were significant numbers of defectors, sometimes to the point they tuppled the whole process. No system is perfect, but I read the whole thread as need
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
You're arguing for diffusion of responsibility, and we've seen it leading to outcomes that screw the whole society. Engineers, as everyone involved, should definitely assess whether what they're doing is legal or even ethical
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
Just some anecdata, but I have yet to be asked by Microsoft for some bitcoin ransom to get back my computer data.
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
> the cost of switching is just not that high. For you. I mean, obviously it's still high enough that they're not switching. Beside the point, I'm bouncing between the different OSes at home and work, and honestly they&#x2
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
I see "deforestation" as the destruction of an existing ecosystem. Convincing people on the internet to care for local ecosystems is a fool's errand. I see your point about cartoon ecologism, but you seem to be jumping way to
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
I think most people reading a headline about tree count would care primarily about deforestation and loss of habitat of indigenous species. This article isn't about that, and explicitely states it doesn't touch deforestation per s
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
This case has a very specific legal framing to it, but border agents don't actually need anything more than suspicion to keep you locked for a day or two. Then it could last a lot longer. Technically they don't have the right to
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by makeitdouble 1mo ago
> It is quite believable that it's easier to describe what a program should result in versus actually programming it to produce that result This is obvious for the central cases of a program. It becomes less and less true when going
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
To note, this isn't just banning random scams: calls coming from a known entity, but abusing their existing relation to push marketing calls also fall under this law. For instance your main bank calling you for "special offers&quo
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
I always wondered how actually cheaper a QR menu is, compared for instance to an android tablet you set there or pass to the client so they order. People immediately see the cost of a tablet, the issues with charging, building the app and u
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
Good point. IMHO we're thinking of too much in single entities doing everything. Right now it's kinda the world we live in, with Apple or Google doing the total vertical integration from chip design to retail shops, but it doesn&#
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
> They don't want 100 apps that do the exact same thing. I read it as the "insane" part parent is pointing at. It's nothing new, has been going on basically since the existence of the App store and Apple has explicitl
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
Slightly besides your point, but it's interesting how many here naturally ponder about how the current winner could or "should" keep winning, instead of how another company could become a competitor by doing the more clever
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
You're right on the principle, and this camera is purposefully aimed at a subpar viewfinder experience. As a comparison point, many people shoot street photography "from the hip", aiming the camera at the rough spot they want
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
Absolutely not defending anything the US gov is doing now or for the past years, and in general agreement (Iran is targeted for totally stupid reasons), just to point out: > With the abundance of onshore oil through fracking revolution F
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
> He didn’t get the job because even though the technical attributes were all good, he should have pressured the customer. I'd say he didn't get the job because they would have asked him to pressure customers day in day out, he
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
For most foreign dishes you can't just compare the total price to local food. I'm saying that having ordered pizza in Japan, and an actually good one with Buffala for instance will be twice to three times the price you'd pay
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
If the tooling allows rollbacking X, Y and Z as a set, it could make sense ? I'm also on the "compare to the main branch" camp in general, but will sometimes end up with a set of X,Y,Z branches that have different purposes bu
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
> high ranking Apple employee Jony Ive basically works for Open AI (it's more complicated, but it's a good approximation), and has more or less rebuilt a designing team over there. He's not the central person mentioned in
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
Yes, but the situation got a lot better and a lot worse... Sadly there has been a bunch of pretty devastating earthquakes in recent years. In particular in Kumamoto the one in 2016 (magnitude 6.5) was huge and many of the houses built at lo
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
On top of that, one of the toughest part could be the extent of the power outage. It's reported at around 46000 homes, the region has many elders and the outage will impact air conditionners, but also medical equipment they keep at hom
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by makeitdouble 2mo ago
Can you think of anything open-source that has to go through mandatory tests to be distributed and still survived ? There is a reason to it, that's as good as any angle to find why IMHO.

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