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by mr_toad 1y ago
Apparently in France it’s common enough that you can hire people, effectively goons, to harass and intimidate them into leaving.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Unfortunately portraits are what used to put dinner on the table for an artist, which is why you see so many portraits of random rich person. The camera changed all that though.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Part of the resale value is the better long-term support Apple provides.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I used to find driving quite pleasant, except when everyone else was doing it.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The last phone I dropped was an iPhone 3G. People wonder why I don’t like to use a case.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
In the far future the camera will dictate the physical dimensions of the device and the display will be entirely virtual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_and_Bubble
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by mr_toad 1y ago
You could flush a toilet with salt water, the problem is you’d have to pump it all the way from the sea. That’s the expensive part.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The privatisations that go bad are usually monopolistic.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
They’ve being paying out dividends and bonuses while running up debt and not investing in infrastructure. Some of these companies are already worthless on paper. Clearly they intend to make as much as possible and then walk away.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Having the service provider handle the encryption is very convenient for the users. And, it turns out, the government.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> 3) Can you even run Teams from Apple Unfortunately. Teams is just as performant on MacOS/iOS as it is on Windows.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Trouble with enterprise is that the people buying care about the technology, but not the cost, while the people that do care about cost don’t understand the technology. Some businesses (and governments) try and unify their purchasing, but t
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by mr_toad 1y ago
You can have up to three IDs per device. https://support.apple.com/en-us/101661
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by mr_toad 1y ago
If we want to split hairs, technically it’s robbery, which is more serious than theft. In the UK for example, the maximum sentence for robbery is life imprisonment.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Alternatively, without these measures phone theft might be a lot more than 1% of users. People get killed for less than a smartphone costs.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
A lot of legacy tech doesn’t support hardware keys. Last government job I had still ran an old SVN server with unencrypted username/password auth (relying on the VPN for security).
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Empirically, ex-spies have a solid history in reaching commanding positions in politics and business. The only examples I can think of are Putin and George HW Bush.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
You couldn’t simulate time dilation in a multi player game, at least not in any way that didn’t involve some players waiting for others.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Jupiter is between 4 and 6 AU from Earth. So at the speed of light it would still take over half an hour to get there. It’d be a dull game flying anywhere at sub-light speeds.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Unsurprisingly with ~400 billion star systems, less than 0.01% have been explored. If there were galactic empires like you see in science fiction, the amount of administration required to deal with that many systems would be mind boggling,
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I’ve been trying to move away from gmail for some critical services (like banking) for this reason. But my list of random accounts tied to gmail (like the Parisian métro keeps growing).
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> SELECT cars->>'model' FROM cars Can ‘model’ be a variable, or does it have to be a constant literal?
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> getting an IaaS product is not a problem now Isn’t it? Iaas is a lot more than just VPS and a few PaaS offerings, you need object storage, a command line and more. Last I looked the European cloud vendors were very lacking.
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The return of Spinal Tap – an exclusive that goes up to 11(theguardian.com)
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> SQL is definitely easier and faster to compose Sometimes. But sometimes Python is just much easier. For example transposing rows and columns.
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Databricks is targeting large enterprises, who have a variety of users. Having both Python and SQL as first class languages is a selling point.
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Analysts don’t because it’s not part of the training & culture. If you’re writing tests you’re doing engineering. That said the last Python code I wrote as a data engineer was to run tests on an SQL database, because the equivalent in
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I don’t get the trend of vegan restaurants etc selling fake meat products. If you want vegan food you’re probably better off going to an Indian restaurant where they actually know how to cook without meat.
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In the UK they’ll do background checks, and check your salary. They’d ask for six months rent in advance if it wasn’t illegal. And even though it is illegal.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
If you’re telling people to punch other people in the balls maybe you should be arrested.

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