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by noptd 5y ago
>Your aggressive screed really added nothing to the conversation. Nor did your flamebaiting, uncharitable response to said comment (see 'In Comments' guidelines).
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by noptd 5y ago
Sure, extensions identify the format of a given file but the point is that you can even access the documents as individual files at all, as opposed to having some sqllite db or other combined, binary format that isn't at all portable f
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by noptd 5y ago
I disagree. Prefacing statements with "I feel" only acts to highlight the subjectivity of the statement which makes it much easier for the offending party to dismiss in practice. "That statement was rude" makes the speak
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by noptd 5y ago
Or more accurately, because you didn't say otherwise in the System Preferences.
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by noptd 5y ago
>Without vertical integration they would have been held back by the rest of the industry. Vertical integration is how they were able to move faster. Without supporting evidence, this is nothing more than a post hoc fallacy.
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by noptd 5y ago
What would your preferred alternative be?
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by noptd 5y ago
> My opinion is this will get much worse. I'd argue that it will get much worse specifically because of the false sense of security Apple provides to users through the AppStore. https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/
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by noptd 5y ago
> I, and millions of users like me, like the closed garden. Citation needed.
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by noptd 5y ago
That's intuitive from a population-based standpoint. The more time spent sleeping, the less time kids have to eat or snack which lowers their daily caloric intake.
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by noptd 6y ago
No the parent is correct- malicious commits made it into stable. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/78ac6ee8-8e7c-bd4c-a3a7-5a90c7c... https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/CADVatmNgU7t-Co84tSS6VW=3N...
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by noptd 6y ago
Sounds to me like yet another attempt at shifting the overton window towards language being considered violence, which is authoritarian nonsense and deserves to be called out as such.
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by noptd 6y ago
> bitkeeper This was refuted by the person who named it- https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441 This argument comes off as very condescending in a soft bigotry of low expectations-type of
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by noptd 7y ago
Yelp's eligibility criteria [1]: >To be eligible, businesses must: (a) be in the United States, (b) have claimed their business on Yelp by March 22, 2020, and (c) have five or fewer locations. Additionally, businesses must (d) be li
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by noptd 7y ago
For those considering alternatives to virtualenvwrapper, pyenv-virtualenv provides a very intuitive interface for managing virtualenvs similar to how python interpreters are managed via pyenv. I'd definitely recommend giving it a try.
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by noptd 7y ago
> spin-off projects like Kubernetes Not quite- Kubernetes was an open source "spin-off" of Borg, which has been in use at Google since 2003. However, Docker did quickly become the de facto standard for containerization on k8s,
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AWS SSM is a trojan horse: fix it now(cloudonaut.io)
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UK “Ghost Proposal” Threatens Security, Privacy and Human Rights(hackernoon.com)
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by noptd 8y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately the organizers seem to limit the innovation award to PG-rated products :/
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by noptd 8y ago
OhMiBod's categorization as a personal massager is probably the determining factor- it provides the organizers enough plausible deniability to have it displayed on the main floor.
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by noptd 8y ago
Agreed, this seems like a blatant attempt at co-oping the empowerment movement in order to boost their bottom line. According to Fortune ( http://fortune.com/2019/01/09/the-ose-toy-ces2019/ ), CES responde
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by noptd 8y ago
The Fortune article has more context- http://fortune.com/2019/01/09/the-ose-toy-ces2019/ Considering CES responded two months ago, why publish this response now? Seems more of a strategic PR play in the
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by noptd 8y ago
I absolutely agree- every major cause tends to attract those who wish to capitalize off of it for their own gain, and all it does is provide fodder for those who are looking for reasons to detract from the movement. According to the Fortune
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by noptd 8y ago
From http://fortune.com/2019/01/09/the-ose-toy-ces2019/ "Sex toys and CES have an unusual history. While the Ose wasn’t allowed on the show floor, adult novelty company OhMiBod has been a regular at
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by noptd 8y ago
They claim it is too obscene in the context of the innovation award categories- there isn't one for sex toys ( https://www.ces.tech/Events-Programs/Innovation-Awards/Honor... ). I absolutely agree that they are