ragall

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by ragall 6mo ago
> core tenant tenet not tenant
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by ragall 6mo ago
> You don't know what will be best for most users until you try something. That's because you don't understand your users. If you did, you wouldn't need to spy on them. > you rarely find the global maximum on the f
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by ragall 6mo ago
The past is not a good predictor of future performance.
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by ragall 6mo ago
I expect the smartphone market to switch to a sales model where devices are somewhat more expensive, but more durable and to some extent more serviceable than in the past, so many will buy refurbished phones instead of new ones. I can see s
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by ragall 6mo ago
Here's a replacement battery for last year's S25 Ultra: https://www.mobilesentrix.ca/replacement-battery-compatible-... . Retails for 14 CAD or approx 9 EUR (11 EUR with a 20% VAT). So yes, 79 EUR would be extremel
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by ragall 6mo ago
You are making a grave mistaking here of thinking by analogy. Just because parents said something similar about something else long time ago has no bearing on the current situation.
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by ragall 6mo ago
To expect is different from it being impossible.
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by ragall 6mo ago
> For every Mississippi there is an analogous place in Europe, and for every Liechtenstein there is an analogous place in the US Neither are true.
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by ragall 6mo ago
WhatsApp is a much nicer platform for business (and messaging in general), and the rest of the world would find the American idea of "professional" rather laughable.
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by ragall 6mo ago
> I thought those had died long ago. No, it's always been true. It's just that at some point people got bored and tired of pointing it out.
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by ragall 6mo ago
That's in fact not true.
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by ragall 6mo ago
You're fine with how git works, many others aren't.
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by ragall 6mo ago
Why irresponsible ?
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by ragall 6mo ago
It's "the last straw" or "the drop that overflows the cup". The "cherry in the cake" is in need to be a good thing.
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by ragall 6mo ago
It needs no Clarification. Skills, dude.
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by ragall 6mo ago
An 11 years old vehicle could be a Corolla or an S-Klass.
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by ragall 6mo ago
I suspect it's not, but it's also hard to prove something has occurred in private communication between third parties.
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by ragall 6mo ago
The last mile is owned by the local monopoly and can be switched over to any provider. In that sense it's shareable, but the physical medium is not shared. This is very good. > The article made it seem like everyone in Switzerland h
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by ragall 6mo ago
> But there is nothing stopping other companies from laying fiber. Yes there is: the cost. > Fiber is rarely shared at the last mile. It is in Switzerland. That's the whole point of this setup. > Just a little research says 25
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by ragall 6mo ago
> But that's just the cherry on top. That's not the right metaphor here.
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by ragall 6mo ago
In our case this was only a month ago, and now we're stuck because management thought it was a good idea to sign a hefty spend commitment.
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by ragall 6mo ago
We migrated some services to AKS because the upper management thought it was a good deal to get so many credits, and now pods are randomly crashing and database nodes have random spikes in disk latency. What ran reliably on GCP became quite
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by ragall 6mo ago
It's true. The real numbers are most likely 80-90k.
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by ragall 6mo ago
That's just a small part of it. EU has a better quality of life, better food, better housing, better public infrastructure.
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by ragall 6mo ago
> considerably freer and richer than the EU Cope harder. The US doesn't offer a single example of being better than the EU.
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by ragall 7mo ago
Now that's just silly.
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by ragall 7mo ago
Things that are dependent on each other are, essentially, the same thing. People can try to redefine whatever they please as long as the rest of society can point out the silliness of it.
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by ragall 7mo ago
> I'm arguing that it ought not to be a polite lie A lie is defined in terms of it not being the truth, not in terms of effects on someone. Those effects are entirely irrelevant. > My understanding is that the worst side-effect o
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by ragall 7mo ago
Still, yes. I can trust that if I were in an accident, people passing by would be decent enough to try to help me. To see a place where you'd have the rational expectation of being robbed by passers-by, see Russia.
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by ragall 7mo ago
> It's not a sex characteristic, it's a gender characteristic. They're one and the same. > But denying the idea that humans have both characteristics derived from biology (sex) and from societal expectations (gender) is

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