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721.
by orev 4y ago
NN has never aimed to ban throttling traffic. I see this repeated often enough I assume it can from some opposition talking point. NN aims to ban paid prioritization, and specifically allows for throttling for network management purposes.
722.
by orev 4y ago
My main issue with services is that they’re degrading the general experience in favor of pushing them. The Music app is barely functional for listening to your own music files, and they make it very difficult to find broadcast radio streams
723.
by orev 4y ago
I hope when the Chrome v3 Manifest changes launch, it drives a lot more users to Firefox when suddenly sites on Chrome are infested with ads. Firefox has a real opportunity there.
724.
by orev 4y ago
A solution to this might be to plan the breaks ahead of time, or shoot for chains in defined lengths (like 5 days in a row). This gives you time to rest without feeling guilty, and prevents having long chains that can let you down if broken
725.
by orev 4y ago
I don’t think you’re accounting for other costs like fuel needed for a truck which is an ongoing cost.
726.
by orev 4y ago
So the wealthy are concerned about their investments, while the poor are concerned about where they’re going to get their next meal, or if they can afford to pay rent next month. And that’s an equal amount of “hurt” in your view?
727.
by orev 4y ago
I find it equally suspicious that there’s such a number of pro nuclear posts here, given that nuclear has nothing to do with this. Seems like an astroturf campaign on its own, or at least people with zero insight into market dynamics. Nucle
728.
by orev 4y ago
Similar sentiments have been showing up in many venues lately. I suspect this is an oil company campaign aimed at damaging renewables. We saw a similar campaign about how “bad” wind turbine blades are for birds, and also that disposing the
729.
by orev 4y ago
When someone asks for a trade, my typical response is that I will trade them for cash, then they can use that cash to trade for the other thing they want. It usually makes the point of why money was invented.
730.
by orev 4y ago
How early are we in the cycle? Nobody knows. One could point to the huge dip when Covid hit as the start of it, so two years isn’t long enough to wait? You’d have to be Nostradamus to know anything at this point. This is why DCA is the reco
731.
by orev 4y ago
They don’t. But the typical response when you point this out is something like “if it doesn’t, then we have much bigger problems to worry about”, and then the conversation stops there. Nobody has a plan for this, or even seems to consider i
732.
by orev 4y ago
Those “real” people are likely driving those vehicles because they can’t afford anything else, not because of a conscious choice. And the most-selling SUVs are built on car chassis, so the idea that people are buying them for some imaginary
733.
by orev 4y ago
> I suspect that the proportion of the population who are predisposed to be "computer nerds" as we were often known in the 80s/90s, is pretty much the same. Possibly. But the fact that owning a PC essentially forced the ex
734.
by orev 4y ago
False Dilemma fallacy: capitalism vs socialism
735.
by orev 4y ago
Every company is different, but the vast majority are moving to a subscription model where users are charged monthly to use the same code over and over. For licensed (non-subscription) software, code can live through many major revisions wh
736.
by orev 4y ago
I agree and not going to argue that here. But that’s the way the rules are right now, and publishers have the full weight of the law to enforce their rights as that’s what the current state of things allows.
737.
by orev 4y ago
Not knowing anything about you, I’m going to assume you mean code that you created and chose to release as OSS. That’s your choice, and publishers have the same right to release their works under different terms (through agreements with the
738.
by orev 4y ago
Using your same logic, I will single-handedly decide that all software companies (and the developers working there) have received enough compensation for their efforts, and demand all their services and code be made available for free. As l
739.
by orev 4y ago
They are using the past tense of Java. In case you don’t know, the primary use of Java when it came out was to run “applets” inside the browser. And it was terrible. It was later when it became mostly a server-side thing (which at the time
740.
by orev 4y ago
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is challenging the assumption that people thrived. Most of the time they didn’t. Hot summers were essentially downtime where people didn’t get much done. You can still see this in occupations and proje
741.
by orev 4y ago
I wish both Rocky and Alma well, as having multiple projects active keeps everyone on their toes. Glad to see this release from Rocky!
742.
by orev 4y ago
The thing about the future is that it hasn’t happened yet, so we need to predict based on history. 1) Things that start in high-end luxury items eventually trickle down to the base models. 2) Always on mobile connectivity is getting cheaper
743.
by orev 4y ago
> Teaching kids how to use the technology responsibly and appropriately at an early age seems the exact opposite of "batshit insane" to me. Giving them unrestricted access to phones is not how you do this. That’s like saying th
744.
by orev 4y ago
Having a profit motive drives a behavior of raising prices as high as the market will bear. That inherently excludes citizens who cannot afford to pay the “most efficient” price, who are often the ones who need the service the most (e.g. bu
745.
by orev 4y ago
The work is there regardless of who does it. It’s a net zero change in total amount of work. It’s more efficient to have the user with the problem to write up the initial report, as they’re the ones with the most details. And it’s better to
746.
by orev 4y ago
There is no Perl 6. They finally woke up to the fact that the Perl 6 never-ending development was hurting the language, and now it’s a completely different project (Raku).
747.
by orev 4y ago
Running with no slack is the definition of every company on the planet, except FAANG where they are swimming in money. From a business standpoint it makes no sense to pay people to sit around doing nothing just in case someone comes by with
748.
by orev 4y ago
And how much time would the IT guy have wasted finding that screw? So you think everyone knows exactly what screw goes in that hole? There’s likely a not insignificant amount of time needed to just figure out which type of screw it was. Bey
749.
by orev 4y ago
The down votes you’re getting here just really highlights how out of touch many developers (HN users) are from the reality of IT. All of your points are spot on, and anyone disagreeing with them simply doesn’t have enough experience to have
750.
by orev 4y ago
As someone on the receiving end of dozens of these audits per year, it’s extremely obvious that both sides are just checking off their boxes and don’t have any actual understanding of anything. One side has to perform that audit, and the ot

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