mikro2nd

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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I was a little baffled by the (legally void, and thus pointless) cookie notice on the site -- a site that clearly does not need cookies in order to "operate correctly". It clearly states that they use Google and other 3rd partie
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
One good way of dealing with that sort of rudeness is to confront it directly, being extremely polite . "Excuse me???" with a directed look. "I'm not sure I understood you correctly, but did you really mean to imply...&
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Kickbacks from the "approved" manufacturers to the phone co in return for exclusive access to their market. Yet another revenue stream... All supporting my growing conviction that phone co's are constitutionally incapable of
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
... especially since I choose to no longer have a phone/tracking device.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
And not just the power cables. Network (and phone) cables, too. They're effectively long antennae. I've lost Ethernet ports and DSL boxes to lightning.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I don't think those hiring should make any such assumptions. I have lots of experience. I'd like to get paid accordingly, but * my mortgage is long-since paid off * my kids are grown and independant (no more school fees, unive
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
See also: Joy's Law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_law_(management)
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I find this attitude to be enormously, fatuously ableist. "We have control over fitness" except when we don't. Many people live with restrictive medical conditions that limit or prevent any level of "hard" exercis
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Yep. My notion isn't so much that you need a general purpose computer to do software development, but more that people who are interested in doing development are more likely than most to be interested in general-purpose computers.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I'm willing to accept your argument that a Mac is not a general purpose computer. It then begs the question of why these devices are so popular for software development...?
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
"Could have been condensed into a blog post" Thanks for that! I've wasted far too many hours of my life on books like this that could easily have conveyed all their useful information in a couple of pages. I had the distinct
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
What I'm trying to say (poorly) is this: every hour the artist has to spend on doing marketing (probably not well) is an hour they're NOT spending on their art. Me, I'd prefer to see them arting. (Not sure I understand your r
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
"Everyone can distribute" only if they're willing and competent to take on the jobs of marketing and distribution. Having heard much the same argument in relation to writers and self-publishing, it's a complete nonsense.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
"not allow for architects to pull off what the modernists or the post modernists did anymore" Thank all gods for that!
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Probably being downvoted for being completely irrelevant to the topic at hand (Thunderbird doing Matrix). (Not downvoted by me, so just guessing here.)
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
"Required" or not, it's called "being a grown-up".
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Sometimes (frequently) you want an arms-length/plausibly-deniable relationship so that government can do edgy/illegal stuff but duck the blowback if it all goes pear-shaped or gets exposed to the sanitising light of day. See also
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
And if you literally do not have a cellphone...?
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
You just do it. They invoice you in whatever currency suits you both, you pay them. PayPal is, unfortunately, likely to be the easiest way, unless you're willing to hack direct bank transfers or cryptocurrencies. The contractor's
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Time to ditch Ubuntu, then.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
No, it removes the entire snap ecosystem from your machine, including the snap backend to apt. It does mean that installing snap-only packages becomes more problematic, but that's a price I'm willing to bear.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
No. No they're not OK. Sometimes I am forced to live on eye-wateringly expensive bandwidth (because dodgy rural DSL and trees falling) and I'd go broke letting things autoupdate during those times.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
sudo apt purge snapd
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
I'm pretty close to that age, too, and getting work as a developer is certainly far from easy at our age... companies want young blood that's willing to work stupid hours.Fortunately for us, they write shit code, so... The thing
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Trouble is, you're conflating the distribution mechanism with the payment model. There's no reason a desktop app couldn't/can't implement a pay-as-you-go model; a one-off lifetime/per version payment model isn&
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
vi Not 'vim'. The original 'vi'.
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
Well,... "Samsung". There's the problem, right there. I wanted to buy a new fridge a couple of years ago, my emphasis/overriding criterion being energy efficiency. I could get actual energy use stats (not mere "A*
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
!meat != vegan
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The technological case against Bitcoin and blockchain(lukeplant.me.uk)
39 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|35 comments
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by mikro2nd 5y ago
> You cannot have imperialistic ambitions of this scale in 2022 via warlike means Really? I'd like to see the reaction if you were to suggest this to the USA.

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