miah_

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   by miah_ 3y ago

   Amazing. All nazis deserve a fist in their face.
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   by miah_ 3y ago

   Being a Nazi is not being political.
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   by miah_ 3y ago

   For those without a subscription: https://web.archive.org/web/20230817161027/https://www.nytim...
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   by miah_ 3y ago

   Some stores (generally high end clothing) offer 'Personal Shopper' service that does what you described, its not just Nordstrom. There are also small businesses, and people who will do 'Personal Shopper' services across
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   by miah_ 3y ago

   I also saw that parallel with Chef. I think its the story of all VC funded software that attempts to be "Open Source". For them, Open Source means "You can read the source code, and potentially fix a bug", for us, it mea
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   by miah_ 3y ago

   I think this is awesome. I highly doubt Hashicorp will do the right thing, so I look forward to the new OpenTF foundation and their fork of Terraform.
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   by miah_ 3y ago

   Firefox Mobile allows you to use addons, so you can Ublock Origin your way to an ad-free mobile experience.
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   by miah_ 3y ago

   Oh its from Google? Eh. Pass. It will either be killed in 5 years, or be pitted against Git in an attempt to take over the community.
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   by miah_ 3y ago

   Internet Explorer 5 also had a few UNIX releases.
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    All "brands" do this now. Rather than selling one thing, they sell a variety in a "Good, Better, Best" tiered system so that a customer is never priced out of buying from them. TTI does this too: Ryobi (Good), Ridgid (Be
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Same is true in the OKR world, but your most productive are leaving because they don't want to play the game or perform theater. You still end up with demoralizing situations as people who don't want to play the review game are go
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    "is back" on a site that is going downhill fast. No thanks. I'll follow the new programming magazine on kbin. https://kbin.social/m/programming
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    If you ever do anything "risky" you'll fill out a similar form. Go look into skydiver liability forms, they also mention the possibility of death or injury. I suspect most people embarking on expensive & risky adventures
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Stack Overflow is under a moderator strike at the moment too! The company has disabled the data dumps of the content after a recent layoff. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/390106/moderation-s...
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    You can get a addon called 'SponsorBlock' that fixes in-video sponsored segments. It allows anybody to submit timestamps for sponsored segments, and tag them in various ways. Its on Chrome too I think. https://addons.mo
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Siding with whoever in power meets your financial goals.
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    My big problem with paying for Youtube is I have a workspace account for my personal domain. None of their services inter-operate with workspace services. For example, our Google Home. My wife cannot register her voice with the system becau
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Their CEO just got hundreds of millions of dollars as a bonus. I don't think their infrastructure costs are that big of a worry for them.
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Youtube has ~500 hours of video uploaded every minute. Netflix only has content from the past few months/years, and probably only a few thousand hours _total_.
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Or maybe archive.org..
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    FWIW gift links don't work if you turn off all tracking stuff in Firefox. It still always asks me to buy a sub to nytimes. archive.today/archive.org links are so much more useful.
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    If you live in California, they still have to give you actual PTO and it _does_ accrue even when they say "unlimited". I had to use this banked PTO (I lived in CA, my company was in OR) during medical leave after a surgery (PTO me
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Because many of the companies funded by venture capital benefit from abusing those systems and this is a pro-venture capital site.
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    When they released a product for UNIX servers they didn't even mention Windows. "Advanced File and Print Services for UNIX". If you wanted to run a WindowsNT Domain on a UNIX (SCO) server while ignoring SAMBA you forked out t
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Its not just software though, even the lights on your cars now are not easily user serviceable anymore. New cars with LED lights built in have core charges/deposits attached to them, they cost multiple hundreds of dollars and if you wa
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    I went to a "tech school" to learn computers while in High School in the 90's. The tech school also had classes for 'the trades', it was set up to prepare Michigan kids for careers (Careerline Tech IIRC). Anyway. A
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    by miah_ 3y ago

    Either that, or we wouldn't be living in the ethical and morally absent world we live in today.
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    by miah_ 4y ago

    I'm sure we'll see a upward trend in 'accidents in the workplace' with all the regulations on child work age being lowered.
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    by miah_ 4y ago

    I honestly would rather see a BSD get 21m in funding versus another database startup that won't exist in 4 years.
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    by miah_ 4y ago

    We should design a protocol that bootstraps newly booted systems via some protocol.. We could call it the Bootstrap Protocol, or bootp for short...