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by ric2b 4y ago
It does, even Richard Stallman says that FOSS also benefits non-technical users because they can hire someone to make a change/fix to the program. Crowdfunding would probably be the most realistic way of that happening.
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by ric2b 4y ago
You can with a third party library, Sorbet. It's not the nicest experience due to not being native but it works much better than you'd expect without being native.
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by ric2b 4y ago
Web PKI is not the only way to revoke keys.
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by ric2b 4y ago
The advantage of merging TCP and TLS is improved performance and security/privacy (security/privacy is improved due to fewer session parameters being readable or modified by third parties) So now what is the benefit of sticking to
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by ric2b 4y ago
It does make sense though, our home networks aren't safe these days when random apps on your phone and random websites on your web browser can just make requests to random hosts inside your network, possibly exploit your router and the
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by ric2b 4y ago
I can't even easily split the monitor to have two windows side by side without installing third party applications. I thought this was supposed to be the pinnacle of UX?
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by ric2b 4y ago
With snap you get a notification to close FF to update instead.
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by ric2b 4y ago
You could have saved Musk a lot of money then, too late now.
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by ric2b 4y ago
By that definition Freedom of Speech is a ridiculous idea. Are you saying I should be able to spend my entire day advocating for your rights to be removed, insulting you or whatever else and you still need to treat me like any other person
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by ric2b 4y ago
It's kinda funny that your main complaint about the final logo is that it doesn't tell you much about what the project does. I can't think of a single well known logo that is even remotely close to what a company's produ
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by ric2b 4y ago
Is it below cost though? It might just be very cheap to run.
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by ric2b 4y ago
Always show the number if it's more than 0. It's more informative and might catch your attention better than "something bad might happen"
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by ric2b 4y ago
Warnings can be done completely within the frontend, that probably makes them way more desirable for the company.
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by ric2b 4y ago
They use Rails, right? It's probably a cascade delete but done on the application, Rails makes that very easy.
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by ric2b 4y ago
Some mistakes are accidents, some mistakes are made on purpose. The latter needs some kind of consequence in place to offset the benefits from purposefully making said mistakes.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Force brand new accounts with no purchase history to wait for the transaction to confirm?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Logitech MX Master series has an amazing scroll wheel in almost any way you can think of, including being stable when clicking it.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Tyrannical means " Unjust or oppressive governmental power.", so the justification for the mandate is important, not just the fact that a mandate exists. A mandate with a good justification is authoritarian but not tyrannical.
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by ric2b 5y ago
I'm not sure if they are, you did pretty good at exaggerating them.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> I’m not sure there’s a one true framework that is easy to learn, sticks to idealistic cs principals and is productive. Svelte, the tutorial is short and runs directly in your browser: https://svelte.dev/tutorial/ba
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by ric2b 5y ago
The free software people care about your privacy, AWS and Microsoft don't. They're not forcing you to do anything, just giving you advice.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Are you seriously saying that you would be ok with using the army to violently murder civilians because they use some computers that you think use too much energy and don't provide enough value?
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by ric2b 5y ago
Bitcoin does this with the Lightning Network.
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by ric2b 5y ago
> In fact, I can't think of any resources so abundant that they need no management. Digital data.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Stream count fraud would be much more offensive if the money being paid out was taxpayer money.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Lots of times. Sometimes I oversleep accidentally, as an obvious example. Or when I make short-term decisions like being lazy and laying on the couch watching trash, that hurts my long term utility and prevents me from maximizing it. Or all
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by ric2b 5y ago
Ruby threads don't execute in parallel either, because of the GIL.
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by ric2b 5y ago
Isn't double taxation when a tax applies on top of another tax? I think some people are trying to co-opt what it means to apply the "bad" reputation of double taxation to other things. My own country has a famous issue with d
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by ric2b 5y ago
We're not talking about companies that _actually_ move to these countries, they just pretend to, on paper.
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by ric2b 5y ago
That's what happened when MTGox collapsed many years ago.

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