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by mnd999 4y ago
They won’t have a choice. Low quality crap is cheaper to make so in a lot of cases that is all there will be.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Users don’t want crappy PWAs, they want something that follows the platform UI conventions. It’s good that Apple care enough about about UX to actually enforce this.
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by mnd999 4y ago
> The interpretation of Brunel’s opinions, and applicability to today, are left to the reader I don’t think Brunel would have much liked SOC2.
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by mnd999 4y ago
It’s my understanding that if you are subject to unusual fasting conditions - 24hr daylight / darkness / in space you follow the rules as if you were in Mecca.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Very common. Much easier and less dangerous to snatch it when someone has it out quickly than to hold someone up.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Expecting all their products to get cancelled in ~6months.
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by mnd999 4y ago
This needs to be a screensaver.
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by mnd999 4y ago
I think unfortunately the ‘we’ll fund anything, no matter how stupid’ era of VC (not specifically YC) is over for the time being.
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by mnd999 4y ago
So now I have to read the article and summary to see if it’s a reasonable summery. Thanks. But seriously, these low effort ChatGPT posts add very little.
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by mnd999 4y ago
That doesn’t stop media firms after faster results and American voting machine manufacturers lobbying to change things every time we have an election.
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by mnd999 4y ago
It’s not technical debt, it’s a feature. Being able to boot and run software from decades ago has served them well in the past.
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by mnd999 4y ago
The Nokia N9 was slick. The Windows ballcrap they shipped on the devices instead was a shit show.
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by mnd999 4y ago
That would be illegal in most jurisdictions.
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by mnd999 4y ago
I guess pip wouldn’t pay the researcher cash, so they’re not interested in that. This blog seems like a pretty desperate attempt to get google to pay them. I think my response would be two words and the second one would be off.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Like today’s. No clue.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Pre acquisition it was based on Soundclouds most popular 250, and most of them were well-known enough to be guessable. I've no idea what source they switched it to, but there's a lot of obscure songs which makes it a lot less fun.
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by mnd999 4y ago
LLMs are not as clever as you think they are.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Same, I used to run it a lot, but I went back to it recently and have not really managed to make it work. I'm using sway, and I have hit a whole bunch of issues: * Have to use 14-CURRENT to support my RDNA2 graphics card at all. This w
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by mnd999 4y ago
Firefox on Sway with wayland enabled seems to lose the compositor connection almost instantly.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Outlier profits are further evidence that the salespeople are underpaid and should seek to remedy that by collective action.
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by mnd999 4y ago
I was hoping this was an open source implementation of the Frostbite engine.
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by mnd999 4y ago
It hardly seems worth the effort. If they want to unionise, let them. It’s not like retail stores employees are a huge part of the business.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Because developers love writing documentation.
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by mnd999 4y ago
It depends. Maybe the 1 min fix is to add a missing test case for something that already works. Spending 20 mins creating a templated Jira for that is a waste of time imho, but it depends on what you do. In some places that have externally
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by mnd999 4y ago
That’s what he blew all that cash on. It’s the whole point.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Or combining the two worst things in tech.
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by mnd999 4y ago
Those in power both in government and in the private sector seem to have completely lost interest in the bigger picture and are optimising for short-term personal wealth at pretty much any cost. Perhaps a benevolent AI is the only way forwa
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by mnd999 4y ago
The smart ones don’t paste in all their private data. And yes, if the bypassing the block is combined with disciplinary action, it does work. It’s not worth getting fired over. This is likely what heavily regulated industries like financial
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by mnd999 4y ago
Not all public code on GitHub is licensed in a GPL compatible way.
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by mnd999 4y ago
I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole for this reason.

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