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by nikanj 3y ago
Because this is the only place to actually get any support from Google, instead of just canned responses from a chat bot
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by nikanj 3y ago
Imagine all the "WinBLOWZ is bullshit, I deleted 200 gigs of shit and my C: still has no more free space" posts if Windows started doing soft deletes
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by nikanj 3y ago
Maybe you don't deliver products like that, but Apple delivers them all the time. Then you have to desperately raise noise on all possible forums, and hope to catch the eye of someone who actually works at a relevant team at Apple, bef
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by nikanj 3y ago
The other side is funded and heavily influenced by the ”buy our Goji berries to shield your body from toxins and our shielding bracelet to stop harmful radiation from altering your chakras” quacks. There are no neutral parties in the argume
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by nikanj 3y ago
Most openssl-CVEs suffer from massive severity inflation. ”If you can fool a client running on AIX to connect to a server with deprecated hashing algorithm from 1986, you can make the client take an extra 40 milliseconds to process the pack
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by nikanj 3y ago
It’s like meeting someone in 2023 who hates Micro$oft WinBLOWZ. Have they been stuck in stasis for 20 years? What other values from the 9/11 era do they hang on to?
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by nikanj 3y ago
It’s true. I’ve done a number of trips to Japan and learned to pack winter clothes after the first one. The evenings get really cold
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by nikanj 3y ago
The emphasis here is on chill, those are all outdoor spaces and Tokyo gets quite cold during the winter
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by nikanj 3y ago
It’s 0x777, making fun of all the l33+ 666 groups
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by nikanj 3y ago
Any guarantees and warranties have the same caveat: if the company goes under, you got nobody left to sue. And there’s no squeezing water from a rock anyway, a defunct company can’t pay for the updates nor the damages
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by nikanj 3y ago
Have you ever been wrong on anything, and should you still be listened to?
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by nikanj 3y ago
Bigger number for marketing
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by nikanj 3y ago
So aspiring authors should avoid all reading, because they need licenses for all works that inspired them?
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by nikanj 3y ago
We keep going back to taxes, because that’s what it’s really about. People get on the soap box for a passionate gospel about personal freedoms, facism and unalienable liberties - but actually they’re mostly mad that they gotta pay taxes for
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by nikanj 3y ago
And Americans have the opposite problem, where they’d rather have an incredible list of social issues than a government. I guess it comes down to perspective: is it fair to force everyone to pay their taxes?
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by nikanj 3y ago
The state does indeed try to rob you of your Freedom to Choose Paying Taxes.
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by nikanj 3y ago
There was a decent xkcd comic about this in 2007 https://xkcd.com/224/ Essentially all of our biggest software systems are made with php, c++, java etc. Elegance and beauty somehow always lose to the hack-together-itud
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by nikanj 3y ago
It’s illegal, but only for radio stations. Spotify et al are free to do ”product placement” deals all day
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by nikanj 3y ago
All the big players also take kickbacks from record labels for pushing selected artists. Essentially hit song astroturfing
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by nikanj 3y ago
Call your buddy at the towing company, give them $20 cash. Criminals are quite efficient at getting things done
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by nikanj 3y ago
Probably quite a bit faster if you do not have to instantiate a new V8 for every single file, considering how many files your average npm project has. I'm not certain if any contemporary build systems reuse the compiler process for mul
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by nikanj 3y ago
Then it failed spectacularly. How was FTX possible, if Bitcoin was invented to solve that problem?
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by nikanj 3y ago
For some reason people have mostly ignored the incredible technical achievements of the early Microsoft people. It was all sorts of unbelievable what e.g. Windows 95 was able to do on contemporary hardware
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by nikanj 3y ago
In crypto, those two seem to mean the same thing. Three yards of ironclad terms of service inform customers that the deposited funds are fully and permanently the exchange's funny money
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by nikanj 3y ago
At least in Canada 5g comes with $50-for-15GB levels of data cap pricing
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by nikanj 3y ago
That comes with a major assumption that switching ISPs is an option. Most people get to choose between their cable company, or a fleet of ill-trained pigeons
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by nikanj 3y ago
Which Apple product had this predatory pricing?
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by nikanj 3y ago
Where do the startups burn all that cash? The first one mentioned burned $20 million without even finding a product-market fit, the second one burned a BILLION in a year. A decent programmer costs you maybe $250/y in wages, tools, offi
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by nikanj 3y ago
Oh no, not free and unlimited access to art! Anything but that!
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by nikanj 3y ago
They are not, but HR / hiring managers are keyword based and won’t entertain the idea of hiring someone with the wrong experience. See also: https://versastudio.com/blog/if-carpenters-were-hired-like-p...

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