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by mapgrep 6y ago
Rhetorical question: Why must we charge annually to control domains? Should we stop doing this in the name of greater URL stability? The article states early on, “Except insolvency, nothing prevents the domain name owner from keeping the na
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by mapgrep 6y ago
This is why I no longer buy AppleCare or any other extended coverage product from Apple. In 2008 I bought a new 15” MacBook Pro and two coverage policies: AppleCare for manufacture issues and Safeware for any accidents. One day in the first
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Democrats in the US House of Representatives just approved a $741 billion defense spending package. It will almost certainly clear the senate and be signed by the president. Imagine taking enough of that money to support these 40 LibreOffic
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by mapgrep 6y ago
How do you sync to iOS? Sync issue caused me to switch from keypassxc on Linux to browser based 1Password there. Not thrilled to use browser crypto but sending passwords to myself via Signal was getting old.
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Doesn’t have anything to do with firefoxes or electroplated chromium either. Shrug.
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Awfully convenient reasoning for engineers. Making half a million dollars a year optimizing the invasion of people’s privacy, for a company that dodges taxes, after four years of government subsidized education is real work and if you get r
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Selective leaking and selective redaction do not correspond to any US crimes and if they did could be leveled against many publishers. What is the point of raising this in the context of a criminal indictment? I haven’t even examined what y
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by mapgrep 6y ago
>It is well known the incentives at Google are aligned at working on new features than maintaining them and keeping users happy I'm not so sure that's the case. It seems like historically certain products are starved of feautur
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by mapgrep 6y ago
This (or some of it) seems like “shot in the dark” engineering where the author finds an error condition and instead of doing the work of finding root causes simply twiddles some values until things work. For example, a 21MB upload with a 7
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by mapgrep 6y ago
>I have even more respect for him now knowing that he actually worked on Clojure for years without any income!! Hickey mentioned in one of his talks that he actually burned through retirement savings (at least some?) while taking these y
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by mapgrep 6y ago
The fact that the US government, largely through Open Technology Fund, originally an arm off the State Department (via Radio Free Asia!), has arguably done more to fund core internet privacy technologies than the private sector is an indict
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Like chown-ing /usr/local to what is supposed to be a non privileged user, reducing this security of everything in there. It’s like people don’t realize there’s a reason port (and apt and dnf and pretty much every package manager)
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Great book. Another interesting wrinkle that’s been somewhat lost to time is that (as the book documents) NT was developed simultaneously on x86 and a RISC architecture (MIPS I believe).
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by mapgrep 6y ago
>there is little incentive beyond the government, and they don’t typically work nights and weekends The government certainly doesn’t pull long hours. Beyond the military. They do pull some late nights and cold field deployments in the Do
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I've been using Signal PINs for a long time to lock the app to my SIM card and unfortunately they are a real pain. This sounds exactly the same. First off the app is incessant about asking you to enter your PIN to prove you know it; th
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Apples and oranges. FreeBSD is providing the userland too so it’s not like the ABI change is going to break all the things it might in a Linux distro if the kernel broke ABI.
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by mapgrep 6y ago
A great example of why not just maternity leave (per the link) but parental leave broadly is a good idea. And why both parents need to take it. Otherwise it will be used by some as an excuse to discriminate against birth parents. Of course
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by mapgrep 6y ago
You buy Acrobat DC the impacted product because you’re using it as more than a reader. OCR image to text (laying the text invisibly within the pdf as metadata behind the image) is a common use case. Slim down a bloated pdf eg that came out
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by mapgrep 6y ago
In this Rolling Stone video she and her brother walk through how they made "Bad Guy," I don't know audio software enough to know if this is Logic but I'm sure a Logic users would recognize it in some of the shots if so:
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I would argue you can say the same about foundations of rdbms systems as well. People build similar elaborate caches around those, for example rails has a “russian doll” cache layer built in, not realizing how much time has gone into develo
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I use an x1 and this is my biggest issue with it; mine is from 2017 maxed out from the factory at 16gb and it’s amazing the ceiling has not been raised even three gens later. That said, the forthcoming x13 mentioned in the linked piece goes
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Their co founder Bryan Cantrill gave a talk at Stanford on what they are trying to do, essentially offer on prem servers comparable to what “hyperscalers” like Google and Facebook put in their data centers — highly efficient and customizabl
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Wall Berlin was indeed lovely! I believe they called their house brew “rocket fuel.” As I recall there was also an unholy drink involving milk, sprite, and melon Torani syrup? And the people at the tables outside were a key part of the Berk
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by mapgrep 6y ago
I use both Qubes and SmartOS (like OpenIndiana, an illumos derivative) although not together. One advantage to using OpenIndiana directly on the laptop -- and I've not tried this, maybe it's too much pain -- would be you should ge
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by mapgrep 6y ago
No, the alternative to being a wage slave isn’t to be unemployed. The idea that all gig economy jobs will go away if labor costs rise and they pay more humanely ignores basic economics.
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Just to spell out the obvious rejoinder: removing the option for Uber to exploit them forces Uber to pay fairly for the labor that it needs, which helps them by creating much better jobs in a line of work they are qualified for. Rinse and r
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by mapgrep 6y ago
> Small orgs don't have the resources to hire lawyers to figure out if they can do 1099 or "new thing" Well there you have it. If small orgs don’t generally have the legal capability to correctly classify employees among t
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by mapgrep 6y ago
> AB5 was a terribly written law with good intentions (aren't they all?). Not at all. How many bills have you read? Did you study political science? Have you not seen how you’ve personally benefited from the laws (and case law) on t
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Yes, this was a state test: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-anti... “ In New York City, about 21 percent tested positive for coronavirus antibodies during the state survey. The ra
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by mapgrep 6y ago
Makes no sense to separate people from their children or partners who they live with. Not everyone travels alone.

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