mrbadguy

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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Google’s entire business is based on scraping stuff no-one asked them to so they can go fuck themselves if they don’t like it. The same applies to Facebook. The gall of these companies trying to “ban” public web scraping when they’re the pr
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
The duvet cover is, in effect, the second sheet of which you speak ;)
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
> trained pilots following procedure would have responded appropriately and avoided a crash. Boeing acted like there was nothing different about the new aeroplanes and therefore did not train the pilots in how to react to the new system.
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
I’m sorry, why does it matter that no one has died on an American carrier for a while? Not so long ago, Boeing sent over 300 people to their deaths with their shoddy MCAS scheme. It’s pure chance that this didn’t happen in the USA so I’m no
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
That’s interesting to hear. What problems did you have with push? Having used this setup before, I found it pretty easy and the only time I found myself reaching for pull (on a service deployed to K8s rather than cloud run) was to achieve g
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Ha! When you know - you know ;)
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
I think the self-checkout suffers from a fairly common fact: it doesn’t actually save any labour, just now the customer does the scanning instead of an employee. Of course, the argument goes that you can have more of them as opposed to sta
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Christ that escalated quickly…
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
The density of misapprehensions in that sentence is impressive.
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Oleato? Is that pronounced like “Aviato”?
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Just because money was paid to someone doesn’t make it legitimate. Certainly, even if the purchase were legal, then that doesn’t also confer the right to ethnic cleansing, so it’s kind of a moot point. There was a UN resolution in 2019 that
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Yeah I agree, the push towards digitalization combined with a lack of care for "edge cases" is kind of scary. People might say, oh, it only affects 0.3% but, in the US, that's roughly a million people so hardly trivial. The p
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Wow, that is bonkers. Could you maybe get them actually to try sending you an email to that address and show them that, yes, you do receive the damnned thing?
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Yep, been there. It’s an absolute nightmare.
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Could you please elaborate on this? Your reply is witty but it seems to me that those companies only start doing shady things once they become more capitalist (ie try to “monetize”) so I’m curious to hear more.
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
The point is that you don’t need to reason about the relationship because the name, in the local language, tells you everything you need to know. Of course, if you don’t speak the language then that’s not useful but the code is written for
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
If everyone's working on their own local copy of the database then the select for update isn't going to do anything. The issue is later syncing and detecting conflicts. It's actually easier to do this with a centralized DB, h
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Agreed, frequently "newer and better software" simply isn't and for something that you rely upon, such as audio processing software or image/film editing tools, cannot be left to the whims of tech companies who have prov
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Why does everyone have to be on the latest version?
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Good point - using a wrist rest with a mechanical keyboard feels a lot more comfortable for me, since they tend to be a bit bulkier and more raised from the desk. Without one, I rely on the armrests to have the forearms higher than the keyb
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Funny, I always feel like I’m about to get injured using really low travel keyboards like the new apple magic keyboards. Hence I prefer mechanical ones. Guess it varies from person to person. Good to find what works for you.
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Ha! Maybe not, at the scale of the US it might well be intractable. That said, the Netherlands made such a transition over the 80’s and 90’s so it is possible to some degree. You do need a population willing to undergo the transition though
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
Agreed, I find it much more freeing not to have to drive and deal with the various stresses and expenses involved. I think mostly people are talking at cross purposes though. I too live in a large European city and getting around by car is
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
It might be easier to free up some of those man-years by planning and constructing towns/cities such that people don’t have to drive in them, than developing self driving cars. The two things aren’t even mutually exclusive, you could h
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by mrbadguy 3y ago
> There is no situation I would be comfortable making a transaction with that much cash (unless I was in so insanely wealthy that this amount of money meant nothing to me) That’s fine for you but why does that mean it should be illegal f