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by nikanj 3y ago
So far he seems to be right. NB I’m not Musk fan, but it’s pretty amazing how far vendors and landlords are willing to bend to maintain the prestige of having Twitter as a client
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by nikanj 3y ago
I’d like to understand how we keep losing planes. Satellite internet+GPS could enable semi-realtime location tracking for all planes. Instead we get cases like MH370, where we are completely clueless where a plane went.
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by nikanj 3y ago
Seems like you already answered yourself. Crony capitalism and nepotism are the traditional EU way of doing business. That’s why our companies tend to lose on the global market, when faced with a level playing field and real competition
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by nikanj 3y ago
Their real end game is living comfortably for years on large salaries financed by EU development grants.
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by nikanj 3y ago
EU is pouring huge amounts of money into development grants, because they want to decrease their dependency on the global markets. Expect GAaaS startups (grant applications as a service) to pop up left and right, offering extremely slick pi
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by nikanj 3y ago
Only if you have more money for lawyers than Google
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by nikanj 3y ago
In modern programming: Someone a dozen dependency-of-dependency-of-dependency steps removed from you reads an RFC tome they found under the sofa, promptly changes the API to return EINVAL for a call that previously succeeded and breaks half
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by nikanj 3y ago
The last point ("we don't break userspace") has always been a core tenet of Linux. Linus essentially refuses to alter kernel behaviour just to be "correct" according to POSIX lawyers
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by nikanj 3y ago
But punishing russia is bad for the economy so EU will issue very strongly worded press releases instead
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by nikanj 3y ago
Spotify makes money from record labels who pay good sums for a placement on various ”hot new metal”-lists. Managing those deals takes lots of personnel
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by nikanj 3y ago
When did TPB get shut down? I somehow missed that piece of news
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by nikanj 3y ago
This is a lot of steps for what’s essentially just a cronjob @reboot rm -rf /Users/me/Downloads/* Throwing away _all_ downloads / items on the desktop is not the hard part. The hard part is deciding if there’s any w
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by nikanj 3y ago
I’ve followed this advice for years, with a 100% success rate
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by nikanj 3y ago
No point in suing them unless you have more cash for lawyers than HP does. And you probably don’t.
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by nikanj 3y ago
The IRQ remapping / A20 / segmented memory happened years before the AMD benchmarking / Dell payouts / etc.
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by nikanj 3y ago
I’m most surprised with you getting an answer from SO, instead of getting your question shot down by overzealous mods
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by nikanj 3y ago
Getting your app on more phones means more access to data. Not sure if that explanation is good-faith, but that’s the explanation. Same reason all sorts of websites try to force their apps on you
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by nikanj 3y ago
I would agree with you if didn't only include Nintendo. Without good games, the consoles would not sell. But how is that insightful? Of course people buy game consoles for the games.
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by nikanj 3y ago
Eh, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese constantly shipped 24fps and people were still very happy with their work. FPS does not good entertainment make.
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by nikanj 3y ago
But must they be paid for bad work?
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by nikanj 3y ago
You can't eat your cake and have it too. You can't have cheaper homes and simultaneously not lower real estate prices.
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by nikanj 3y ago
The people who already own in the community vote against lowering real estate prices. The prospective future residents don't get a vote, so they lose every time.
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by nikanj 3y ago
It's a hedge against Intel.
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by nikanj 3y ago
Nintendo save: bit-optimised tightly packed binary NBA savegame: json encoded in xml, run through a base64 because < in team names was breaking saves, all packed in YAML because the new summer intern couldn’t find a parser library for an
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by nikanj 3y ago
I did the same. Aloy is supposed to be the chosen hero who destroys massive killing machines with just a stick, but instead she’s stuck dealing with a petty bureaucrat who refuses to open a gate. PS: I tried shooting the dude, to see if tha
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by nikanj 3y ago
Apple bad -HN
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by nikanj 3y ago
I guess they don't think optimization is evil
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by nikanj 3y ago
This is what you get when you’re tasked with writing about programmers, but don’t bother talking to a single one
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by nikanj 3y ago
Electrical trades have been sliding up the skills scale. I don't know about plumbing, but I'd guess they also have to deal with more and more automation / electronics
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by nikanj 3y ago
SEO AI is furiously generating crap for Google AI to index & analyze.

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