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by nikanj 4y ago
You are giving advice on how to circumvent region coding technology, which is probably illegal due to DMCA or some other act
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by nikanj 4y ago
I think part reason HP had trouble solving this case is the fact that most skilled people have decent ethics, and refuse to work for Vito Corleone [ink edition].
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by nikanj 4y ago
It’s the ”we have infinite money for lawyers” loophole, commonly used by large corporations
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by nikanj 4y ago
At least 2-3 times per year Backblaze goes into a safety freeze, and the only way to unclog the works is reinstalling+inheriting the backup. Which involves re-uploading every single file. Would not choose Backblaze if I was choosing today.
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by nikanj 4y ago
The older social media platforms were quite popular and successful before they were outcompeted by the more algorithmic rage machines
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by nikanj 4y ago
Isn't this just an US social media protection act? Meta is getting their asses handed to them by TikTok, so they do the obvious and lobby for banning of the competition
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by nikanj 4y ago
It was dying before the iPhone due to Linux overtaking desktops
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by nikanj 4y ago
Windows has been imminently dying since the early 00s, and still seems to be in mortal peril every day.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Their incentives are off. They get a bonus for implementing customer-hostile features, and don't lose anything if the users hate it.
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by nikanj 4y ago
This one was from Canada, and it's full of gems like " In the modern-day vernacular, people often refer to a criminal case “being thrown out”. Obviously, this is little more than a figurative expression. Cases aren’t actuall
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by nikanj 4y ago
They really want Windows to become a tablet OS, and someone misheard and turned it into a tabloid instead
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by nikanj 4y ago
Credit Suisse was too big to fail just a month ago
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by nikanj 4y ago
They give your boss a glossy report, which supports your boss doing whatever they planned on doing anyway
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by nikanj 4y ago
A 50% drop would wipe out millions of households, ruin the economy for decades, and take housing prices back to ~2015 when they were already unaffordable to most. Letting the housing shortage/bubble spiral out of hand was a mistake we’
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by nikanj 4y ago
Time to read https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/spores/ There’s two sequels to the story too, but they’re only available in anthologies afaik
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by nikanj 4y ago
I have noticed a strong correlation between obsessing about typesetting - and having nothing interesting to say. People are more than happy to read text with plain old ASCII dashes instead of em dashes, if the contents are interesting. In m
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by nikanj 4y ago
It’s as if someone asked AI to wac poetic about the human condition and space, for 43 pages
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by nikanj 4y ago
Nerds are upset social people do not respect technical skill, proceed to bash social skills
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by nikanj 4y ago
Rent for a suitable space is one umptillion bucks per month. You need to be corporate-friendly to score a sponsor for the rent
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by nikanj 4y ago
The banking crisis really hilights why It's a Wonderful Life gets shown every Christmas. The bank doesn't have your money in the vault, it's been lent out to other customers. Their loans can be in good standing and the bank c
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by nikanj 4y ago
The same mindset can be seen everywhere, even in opensource: -Build shiny new replacement -> HN front page, exposure, kudos -Fix bugs in existing thing -> No recognition Rewriting is so much more fun than hunting after obscure issues
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by nikanj 4y ago
Alas prosecuting dictators and government officials in third-world countries doesn’t really happen, and the only way to prevent them stealing the nation’s wealth is to block the transfers
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by nikanj 4y ago
Looks like archive.org has added an anti-bot wall, and poor old me on my iphone don’t qualify as human
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by nikanj 4y ago
All free tiers everywhere are going away, because someone always figures out how to run a crypto miner on them.
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by nikanj 4y ago
The downside is your neighbours also having unlimited bandwidth. We had to rebuild one Citrix environment to a different (identical) box, because the first was in a network segment with terrible network performance. If you pull a short stra
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by nikanj 4y ago
The managers are just following metrics. Existing user satisfaction is not one of them.
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by nikanj 4y ago
Because crypto is not currency. It’s more like the fake money at Habbo Hotel
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by nikanj 4y ago
They invest the USD. If the investments work out, they keep the profits. If they don’t, the customers just got crypto’d
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by nikanj 4y ago
No. The author downsampled the image to 170x170 pixels and clipped the white levels so that details were turned to uniform white.
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by nikanj 4y ago
No amount of math is going to save the original detail from getting downsampled to 170x170

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