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by paledot 3y ago
Usually when there's an obituary on HN, I go straight to the comments to read all of the tech-is-a-village "I took his intro to computing course at MIT" or "I worked with her at Atari when we were 15 people in a basement
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by paledot 3y ago
I bought into the Eufy ecosystem on the same premise, but it's still internet connected, so all you really get is a pinky swear that they're not copying your data for their own purposes. Just because it's on-device doesn&#x27
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by paledot 3y ago
But not necessarily internet connectivity.
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by paledot 3y ago
Note that this method isn't particularly reliable with cell phones since they regularly go into low power mode and disconnect from the network.
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by paledot 3y ago
Likewise with our Canon laser, but at least it prints . It's been running on an "empty" cartridge for a year now. I don't mind an (inaccurate) effort to indicate the level of the consumables, so long as the system doesn
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by paledot 3y ago
Returning to add: the benefit to employers of acting like their (ex-)employees are human is that we finished off with a very friendly "if you're interested in coming back, the door is always open", and indeed during my time
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by paledot 3y ago
Or exfiltrate their session cookie, or post spam/phishing links on their behalf...
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by paledot 3y ago
Major [citation needed] on that 1%/99% separation there.
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by paledot 3y ago
Ah, but this isn't about ethics, it's about corporate Darwinism. If a company is making pots of cash, what's it's doing must be right. QED
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by paledot 3y ago
Sid, the unstable build, is named for the child antagonist in Toy Story.
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by paledot 3y ago
Personally I find "bus factor" to be one of the less egregious pieces of corporate jargon. It's a problem that mainly hurts the rank and file and is utterly irrelevant/invisible to management until it becomes very visibl
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by paledot 3y ago
How far we have come. Back in my day, a program could only crash a few thousand times a second.
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by paledot 3y ago
I gave something like 6 weeks notice at my last job and by mutual agreement spent most of that time doing presentations and updating docs to sunset my bus factor. The mistake isn't on the part of the worker who has the courtesy to mini
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by paledot 3y ago
Does the DSM-5 redefine "suicide attempt"? Self-reported mental health? This is what is being discussed in TFA. And yes, it is concerning.
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by paledot 3y ago
*higher profits on the same ticket prices
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by paledot 3y ago
I would be utterly shocked if any MBA program in the world had a mandatory ethics component, for all that an unethical MBA is in a position to kill many more people than an unethical engineer.
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by paledot 3y ago
I don't think the FAA or NASA, as organization policy, care what the NLRB thinks. "Government" is not in fact a single monolith with emotions and grudges.
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by paledot 3y ago
Honestly, in this day and age, any discrepancy from Chromium/WebKit is probably broken. But if we're talking about a few pixels' difference here and there, plenty of sites are more broken than that on every browser. I have en
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by paledot 3y ago
We should all be worried about that. If journalism is replaced with AI, truth is replaced with the AI hallucination du jour.
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by paledot 3y ago
Android's equivalent can be disabled with the "reduced motion" toggle in the accessibility settings. You also lose a bunch of other totally extraneous animations in the process, boo hoo. Perhaps the same is possible on iPhone
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by paledot 3y ago
That is also incredibly scummy. Your point?
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by paledot 3y ago
Wow, I appreciate the warning. I have a similar fountain that also uses a 7.5 V "USB" connector, and that adapter definitely would've ended up in my big box o' orphaned USB bricks when the fountain inevitably gives up th
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by paledot 3y ago
> The Internet of today is little more than a (distorted) mirror of people's offline lives. Our offline lives are a distorted mirror of the Internet of today.
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by paledot 3y ago
I've been in your camp on all fronts for a while, but Spotify has been getting worse and more expensive, and there are some meaningful gaps in their catalog. I got rid of my CDs a decade+ ago, but I think it's time to start buying
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by paledot 3y ago
Publishers do also have the option of including their own DRM, which Steam proactively discloses , one of the things that I love most about it. But it's rare enough (basically just Ubisoft and EA) that I can fully boycott anything wit
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by paledot 3y ago
The copyright notice on the output is a poor choice, since you almost certainly do not own the copyright to any of the content. You've gone to impressive lengths to ensure that the result is true to the source material, which means tha
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by paledot 3y ago
Not all heroes wear capes.
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by paledot 3y ago
When I've encountered it, the interface has looked like this (as I'm in the process of filling it in): $_.__ $_._1 $_.12 $1.23 $12.34 Typically it also rejects non-numeral inputs, so if you muscle-memory a
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by paledot 3y ago
Most likely you won't have that problem because the power grid will be offline.
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by paledot 3y ago
<3 WTF-8 If we're competing to be pedantic here, the problem is that Windows encodes paths as UTF-16 and Linux can support just about any random jumble of bytes in a path regardless of if those bytes are valid UTF-8 or not. Neither

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