marcosdumay

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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Yes, there exist cloud computing companies that took a long time to be profitable. IDK if Oracle ever was. Cloud computing was still profitable the entire time. Amazon alone could cover all of GCP expenses.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
No, it wasn't. Cloud computing was almost immediately profitable. And Amazon was famously "unprofitable" for their first 9 years because they were investing all their very real profits into a form of capital that the US tax c
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Honestly, nowadays I'm tending towards the idea that huge TOS or EULAs (at all) should be criminalized. It's ridiculous that rich people just get to use the justice system as a goon to harass normal people.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Nowadays I expected an opaque dictionary to be amortized O(1). Granted, one can technically call that O(log(n)), but that's not a helpful categorization.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
It's not collecting other people's data and claiming it's your own.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
If you still had that question, you can answer it now. But honestly... "Will the company that was entirely built over illegally acquiring data use some data that is legal to use and is right on their front, or will they not do everythi
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Vanilla CSS can take advantage of features like that "cascading" part that Tailwind goes entirely against. If you are styling a site, there's no competition at all. But if you are styling a single interaction-heavy page, it&#
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
> At the end of the day a map provider has the responsibility to show the official names of places on a map. Not really. They have the responsibility to show the useful names. They are also free to show whatever the local bully forces th
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
> Have the internet cards been handed out now, and are we in the end-game? The big companies are trying to corral and kill everybody else, yes. That's not some "end-game", though. It's just powerful anti-social entiti
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Ironically, they could have learned from Jack Welsh to separate the product divisions and make redundant teams on each one to solve the ownership issues. When people compete internally on Microsoft, what are they competing on if everybody w
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
That seems to not matter for the people that think the way the GP points. (And they are quite distinguishable. The far right is way worse at it than the kind of left party that wins anything.)
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Putting stuff in electric fields while thinking "well, it's stable" is a fool's errand. (As the article says...)
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Yes, you can subscribe from whatever instance you want. (I'm not a mastodon user either. But I've read the docs.)
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
The name you are looking for is "fixed points", not "eingevalues".
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
> No gold dealer will turn down investment grade gold. For sure. As long as you pay the laboratory fee up front to prove that the thing you have is investment grade...
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
As long as the service provider runs an instance in their infrastructure and allows everybody to read. That said, RSS seems way simpler.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Yes. Gold is fungible only within the same custodian. Many people buy (normally small) gold bars only to discover that they can't sell them back by the same price.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
That happens all the damn time... Some otherwise competent developer decides to use AI, and falls into the pattern where AI will pretend to solve their problem for a week, while if they would have to think about it for an entire long hour t
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
> Why the fuck would anyone ever want that? What's so hard about simply changing the innerText or inserting elements or whatever? It's so that you have the page reflecting your data at all times. The browsers should have been w
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
> Maybe humans have an instinct for water management like beavers do. We absolutely do. For both water and fire management.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Tracking those things is important to grow food.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
> you are so busy you never notice you are not making meaningful human connections Until you slow down because you are sick, or you just get a slow day at work, and get time to do a bit of reflection.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Most of it is due to turbulence. But that doesn't mean that a different engine can't make the plane have a completely different noise profile.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Regular aircraft fly with enough fuel to change into at least one other airport in an emergency (ideally two). That aircraft would need a very large battery to do that, and it's way more efficient to have some burnable fuel there that
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
It is (or was for a long time, IDK) a strongly recommended practice from ICANN. I imagine nearly all countries to do that.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
It's very hard to explain the gravitational halo around the galaxies if your dark matter can interact with itself. If it interacted like normal matter, it would have a distribution similar to the gases, and not spread way into intergal
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
> LZ physicists estimate there’s about a one in 200 chance the event is a statistical fluke That's more than 3σ.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
Nah, they are pretty constrained data description. AFAIK, you can't even substitute environment variables. They are also apparently very hard to use, to the point that many people can't and several web sites exist that will take y
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
TOML is quite ridiculous. There are always an infinity of ways one can write the same values. It should really define sections as something different from dot-separated identifier groups.
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by marcosdumay 1mo ago
There's just no way deuterium is radioactive, unless hydrogen is radioactive too.

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