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by rlpb 2y ago
There is a third place: a common library that all the apps use. If it is in the OS then it becomes brittle. If there's an improvement in the technology which requires an API change, that becomes difficult without keeping backwards comp
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by rlpb 2y ago
Distributions patch to get consistent and integrated behaviour across the platform, including new features that require implementation into multiple places to be even minimally useful, and ports to newer APIs to make everything work against
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by rlpb 2y ago
In that particular case upstream _was_ consulted and had acked the patch.
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by rlpb 2y ago
> which in most cases is the practical difference I would argue that the main difference is that a civil judgement usually results in "only" some combination of a damages award and (when damages cannot remedy) an injunction, bu
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by rlpb 2y ago
> I still think it would be very anti-entrepreneurial culture to make company operators liable by default for everything their company does. Again, by missing out the distinction in this sentence, you're using the implied (valid) ca
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by rlpb 2y ago
> And so you really don’t want to set up a situation where the operators of a company are by-default responsible for anything that their company does. I think you're conflating criminality with civil liability here (covering legal r
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by rlpb 2y ago
There are many wannabe security researchers who find issues that are definitely not exploitable, and then demand CVE numbers and other forms of recognition or even a bounty. For example, there might be an app that crashes when accepting mal
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by rlpb 2y ago
If all that's needed to those 80% of prematurely discarded phones is a repair shop battery replacement then they would retain considerable value and a secondary market for them should develop. You can't stop people from throwing m
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by rlpb 2y ago
> ‘I was simply not aware of the duties on a prosecutor to make sure an expert witness was fully aware of their duties.’ We cannot have a system where people can be wrongly convicted while being denied a proper defence due to incompetenc
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by rlpb 2y ago
The article says that the litigation began in 2005 or so, so hasn't reached a settlement after nine years, but this rejected settlement would have limited their behaviour for only five years. That doesn't seem equitable. If it tak
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by rlpb 2y ago
Again, the answer to your question is well established. Linked from the page I linked you previously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce) """ The company doing this bundling may have a signifi
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by rlpb 2y ago
This is far from a novel question. There is extensive statute and case law in this area across many jurisdictions. You could start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law
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by rlpb 2y ago
A friend told me about how his workplace have switched from Zoom to Teams for video calls because they use Office and Teams is now bundled with Office so they don't have to pay extra for Zoom. > This sure seems to say it's ille
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by rlpb 2y ago
In the UK at least, the government offers an incentive to build wind farms by providing a price guarantee: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67430888 So they don't have to shut down to 0 kW, since they are guara
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by rlpb 2y ago
The same argument could be made about the cost of a commute, though.
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by rlpb 2y ago
That sounds like the browser isn't doing video codec offload to me.
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by rlpb 2y ago
A deletion flag is acceptable under EU rules. For example, they are acceptable as a means of dealing with deletion requests for data that also exists in backups. Provided that the restore process also honors such flags.
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by rlpb 2y ago
That's all very well for those lucky enough to be employed. In a future where an increasing amount of necessary work is done by machines, what about those whose labor is not needed? Eventually, that's going to be nearly everyone.
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by rlpb 3y ago
That article states that it's unlikely that they forgot, and much more likely that it was deliberate.
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by rlpb 3y ago
I did wonder if it was Lodi before even reading the article. I don't have any direct experience to know if the reputation is deserved, but indeed it does have one.
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by rlpb 3y ago
I think it's more than an individual or an organisation. The industry as a whole has favoured not caring about dependencies or where they come from in order to increase velocity. Concerns about supply chain (before we even had the term
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by rlpb 3y ago
> in order to steer the business in the direction they are convinced is the right one It's also necessary to be able to accept that others have other opinions and that to make progress everybody needs to be pulling in the same direc
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by rlpb 3y ago
> In the UK, any historical hordes are considered property of the crown and not the property owner, and it doesn't seem to stop treasure hunters from trying to find them or cause conflict between the crown and the property owners. U
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by rlpb 3y ago
> ...it'd have to involve a serious overhaul of the very concepts of corporations and liability in America Don't insurance companies solve this problem? Require the nuclear corporation to have liability insurance by regulation.
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by rlpb 3y ago
How would one be sure this guide were safe to follow? Ultimately one has to trust someone , which isn't really different to trusting a hardware manufacturer. One still has to decide on trust based on reputation, etc.
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by rlpb 3y ago
I don't see why not. Simple visual inspection confirms if it does what you expect, unlike languages that use braces.
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by rlpb 3y ago
What does "on the side" mean? A controlled landing surely means the engine points down and has some element of lateral control to achieve some stability. If relative to the engine you land on the side, that's an uncontrolled
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by rlpb 3y ago
Indeed. The Wikipedia article says: "The gömböc, as the first physical example, is less sensitive; yet it has a shape tolerance of 10−3, that is 0.1 mm for a 10 cm size."
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by rlpb 3y ago
> In fact, pulling the stick back, even when applying full power, never has been, and never will be the way to get out of a stall. It works perfectly well in an Airbus when operating in normal law AIUI because of envelope protection. The
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by rlpb 3y ago
The app was awful anyway. I installed https://www.openvehicles.com/ and it's much better, with MQTT metrics and control as well.

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