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by mfer 5y ago
His exemption was a process provided by the Australian Open tournament. More than twenty people applied for it and only a handful got the exemption. The process they outlined was a blind process (those evaluating the applications did not kn
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> The only reason we cannot have a single browser engine that everyone uses is governance and ownership. Consider the governance and ownership angle a little more. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are LARGE companies. These companies do thin
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I had GI issues and talked to doctors about it. Not a single one of them said anything about diet. Looking back at it is rather frustrating. When I first learned about diet the advice was terrible. It didn’t work. Now that I have a good con
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I’ve been reading, from medical doctors, about how inflammation is tied to diet. There are a bunch of papers on it. “Fiber Fueled” was an interesting book to explain what’s going on. Have you looked at the impact of diet?
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From Wikipedia... > The foundation was started with an initial $50 million loan from Acton, who had left WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook, in September 2017.[8] The Freedom of the Press Foundation had previously served as the Sig
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Acton has had an interesting road since selling WhatsApp to Facebook. That includes leaving Facebook with $850 million USD in shares on the table for leaving early and telling people to delete their Facebook accounts. Looking at what he&#x2
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Basically, applications should use a lock file for dependencies based on known tested good versions of dependencies. How is it that people aren't doing that today? For the sake of security and stability, lock files should be used.
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I have the same configuration as the author and get similar results (except I don’t have hibernation setup yet) I had touchpad issues but there was a fix for it in the forums With windows (I setup dual boot) everything works done. I had to
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The article doesn’t show evidence or direct to evidence that it does an equal or better job for safety. The people who set the requirements (e.g. insurance companies) care about safety effectiveness.
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Looking at that paper, the criticism isn't around effects other than their ability to make things safer. The beeps are annoying but what else does a better or equal job? Any solution that doesn't do an equal or better job will lea
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I'm familiar with cases of people wearing noise canceling headphones on a job site being killed because they didn't hear the beep and were struck by a machine they didn't notice. The beep is for safety. The annoyingness makes
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> Learning science is at the bedrock of critical thinking, reasoning and rationalizing and enables people to actually apply the scientific method. Many people who learn how things function don't learn critical thinking or reasoning.
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The school system is one place everyone goes through. It's a single point. What are the most common jobs people have coming out the other side? According to the US Bureau of Labor (sorry I couldn't find the Canadian equivalent so
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> Pumping so much stuff into the browser makes it an impossible task just trying to maintain feature parity nevermind compete on quality. To compete or gain a market doesn't mean you need to have all the features. Doing things diffe
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> Chromes dominance is not going to be changed outside of government action. This is because business tactics rather than technical or product ones are the reason for their domination. While I love technologies, it's so important to
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Our society needs people to haul garbage away. I would bet many of them don’t do it because it’s rewarding. It just gives them money to pay for things they care about. Should all those people leave hauling our garbage?
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You bring up some great points. There are two that I see. First, there are internal processes. All too often they end up needlessly slowing velocity. This isn't a technology problem but a people problem. Using a public cloud enables pe
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> The money is not the issue. Money is COMPLICATED and THE issue. Money is complicated because you have income and expenses. Time to market and velocity can help you get more income. This needs to be balanced by expenses. When you'r
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There are 2 advantages I see... 1. Many great workers either won't or don't want to live in SV. I've known a bunch of them, over the years. Moving more development to where these folks are brings them in to the fold. 2. The p
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This is a great example of RSS being useful while almost no one realizes is. People have podcast players. There are podcasts. They subscribe to them. RSS is the technology behind the scenes that powers it which almost no one notices. I bet
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> If RSS dies, what is the alternative then? I understand that technically speaking it's not a good solution, but let's have something else before killing this. Instead of focusing on a technology, let's focus on a problem
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by mfer 5y ago
I was responding to the parent comment not the article. The article makes great point. It essentially talks about a services and support business around open source. Some have been doing this for decades. When you have contracts and support
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by mfer 5y ago
A few thoughts... I've long known people who modified cars. Sometimes they did it as a business. Sometimes they helped friends out. Sometimes the work was on nights and weekends. The car manufacturer never had a responsibility to suppo
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> Public companies also have accounts for goodwill in their books, don't they? I've worked for multiple public companies and have yet to see this. I have seen different models. For example, when they want a feature in an open s
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> So, large SV companies and startup should also start agreeing to pay for open source, when it's the core of the tech. Companies usually have a reason to keep their expenses low. Sometimes they are a public company with fiscal res
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> removed local news from existence Removing local news has created a hyper focus on national news. People forget about their local communities where a ton is happening. This isn't good for local communities. We need more focus on t
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I’m currently reading the book, Design of Everyday Things. Suggestions in this post go directly against the teachings of successful product designers. I would LOVE for gnu Linux distros to have an amazing experience that delights people. F
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Right now there is a popular YouTube channel talking about Linux on the desktop. The timing is related to that. It’s not an in general thing
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One thing I don't see being talked about is how virulent (rapid onset of severe illness) omicron is. The rate of spread isn't the only element. The viruses that are the common cold spread wildly but don't cause major issues f
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I wonder which smart TV provider will be the first to use this instead of home wifi where people can disable or black hole connectivity.

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