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by nness 3y ago
With it's shared memory, 8GB on an MBP isn't even analogous to 8GB on a PC... irrespective of how efficiently it is utilised.
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by nness 3y ago
It's hard to be critical of the content — if you take it from the perspective of a mid-senior developer within a non-Big Tech role who is starting to see into the leadership decisions being made or pathways available to them, it's
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by nness 3y ago
That was my belief too, but: "Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work." https://www.copyright.gov/hel
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by nness 3y ago
What should it be replaced with — a system where no one retains intellectual rights over the works that they create?
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by nness 3y ago
Apple does own about three-quarters of the digital music market — so you could argue that UI bugs are not good signal to base organisational failure.
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by nness 3y ago
I've always found this an interesting topic — being proficient at large-scale but niche technical topics makes it difficult to move into roles when you need to be a generalist. This is especially true for mid-level engineers, where arc
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by nness 3y ago
It might be surprising that many countries have such renters protections, as it attempts to equalise the power disparity between landlord and renters, and makes it harder to be a 'scum lord.' If you ignore the Airbnb element — the
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by nness 3y ago
Australia allows the company to pass on credit card fees direct to the customer — if you can be bothered calculating it. For a while, small coffee shops and the like added around a 20 cent fee for card purchases when tap-and-go payments (pa
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by nness 3y ago
Divorce, largely.
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by nness 3y ago
I've noticed this with my parents — for decades they reacted negatively to any changes the regulations around Australia's housing market, since that was and remains the principal personal wealth creation mechanism in Australia...
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by nness 3y ago
The interesting thing for me is that a lot of people assume Skyscanner does what Google Flights actually does... Maybe a decade or so ago it was only an aggregator or maybe it was always a booking agent that just felt more transparent at th
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by nness 3y ago
First time I've actually watched a training video end-to-end... I'd love to hear from someone who uses this system, or systems similar, and whether the learning-curve is worth how fast you can "grok" and order? I suppose
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by nness 3y ago
In recent news; China banned seafood imports from Japan after raising concern regarding the release of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima. ... but that felt like a red-herring. Perhaps this is related.
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by nness 3y ago
Probably most of EU, too. And the extra coins it takes means it is at least moderately clean. But just in case, always good to carry a few Euro coins around for the attendants. The card readers are all over the UK's largest parks, too.
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by nness 3y ago
Short-sighted -- Austraila's unique fauna is a huge source of tourism, a considerable part of Australia's GDP. Protecting fauna is as much an economic interest as an envrionmental. (Why only feral cats, and say, not global warming
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by nness 3y ago
I suppose there's two parts to this question — morally and legally. Morally, yes — You know the intent is not to share that content and you are deliberately circumventing the mechanisms to prevent access. I think about corner shops whi
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by nness 3y ago
> Vertical farming’s breakeven cost of production per pound of leafy greens coming to $3.07 compared to only $0.65 for conventional outdoor farming. Surely some napkin math you could have determined this prior to starting a business? Wha
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by nness 3y ago
Internet Archive is having its own legal troubles at the moment, might no longer be the archival safe-haven we'd hope...
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by nness 3y ago
The site's markup is so old it still triggers quirks mode — I personally prefer it, don't mess with what works.
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by nness 3y ago
Very spot on — consultants are able to navigate the bureaucratic structure within an organisation to deliver work that the orgnaisation cannot navigate itself. I've worked a decade in technology consulting. 10 years ago the client had
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by nness 3y ago
I've had a graft arising from KC — you shouldn't regret the C3R, its the right move to try whatever you can to treat the disease and it is the best option available.
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by nness 3y ago
The larger tech companies all have a presence in the EU, could you not contract with those? (Otherwise, the main issue which comes to mind is double-taxation, you may have to pay income tax in both the US and wherever you are in the EU, as
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by nness 3y ago
Purely from experience — largely, design system or development projects at large organisations are lead from a PMO, design or product teams — with technology often seen as down-stream (at least, in terms of development, there is of course t
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by nness 3y ago
In the start-up space, Tailwind is to product UI as Bootstrap was (or still is) to marketing-focused landing pages. It almost serves as a litmus test as to whether you work in a start-up like environment or an enterprise environment. If you
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by nness 3y ago
As an aside, this would be completely legal in Japan, as classification and statistical analysis are protected as fair-use. I wonder if similar language exists in other copyright systems, but I would imagine it is likely the opposite...
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by nness 3y ago
I'm at a loss how they managed to convert/managed so many different formats — the textures, level data, sprites, etc. Rare games on the N64 made extensive use of "vertex shading" like techniques, and these have all been
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by nness 3y ago
For context, C-Suite roles rarely change without an announcement far in advance or a complete change of leadership. (I know nothing about Telsa's current affairs, but a CFO change this sudden without any other announcement is sure to c
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by nness 3y ago
Screenshots in the marketplace/Github would be useful. (Also, recieved an error during installation that the theme is not compatible with version 1.81 of VS Code.)
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by nness 3y ago
The freedom Google stood for was also a trend of the time — tech start-ups were trying to break out in the burgeoning internet against established giants — and naturally the companies ideologies reflected that rebellion against the norm. Th
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by nness 3y ago
Not worked well for Austraila, before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the...

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