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by rlpb 4y ago
AIUI, Z-Wave means interoperability at device level, without even a controller or a compatibility shim, across a variety of manufacturers. Niche devices can exist because it's easy for a niche manufacturer to integrate. And if my Inter
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by rlpb 4y ago
The point of Air Force midair refueling is for when there isn't a convenient long, straight road that they can get a tanker to. Otherwise they would just land :-) (also jet engines are really inefficient at low altitudes and it takes
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More like the opposite of what you asked, but a car park with a traditional pay machine didn't have much in the way of terms and conditions. Now that they have apps, suddenly there are pages and pages. But they managed before, so they
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by rlpb 4y ago
Your gripes all seem to boil down to your unfamiliarity, rather than anything specific that stands on its own as a problem. Unfamiliarity is understandable, but if that were enough to avoid progress, we wouldn't never have progress. &g
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Maybe it's difficult to justify a takedown if simultaneously they're responding to requests from search engines with full content for indexing, as part of their business model. Either the full content is available to be indexed, o
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> ...where Ubuntu just unilaterally reverted Mozilla’s removal of a cert in their package, because it was breaking nuget It wasn't unilateral. Ubuntu followed Debian here, who did the same revert: https://tracker.debian.o
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The bug report quite clearly states that Ubuntu followed the same revert that Debian did: "The Debian ca-certificates package removed this CA for both TLS (expected) and other uses (like timestamping) (unexpected). Trust was added back
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It's slow and tedious to dial numbers with many high digits in them. And there's no quick dial function for commonly used numbers. Both of these things directly impact UX.
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> To be frank, if these purchases are no longer worth supporting, those customers should receive a full refund. English law generally accounts for the benefit received. For example, if you buy a physical product that works for only half
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> You'd think that an organization like Canonical would benefit from faster builds, but they still use bfd. In practice, switching this kind of thing isn't trivial. The edge cases fall out as build failures. See for example: h
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> ...so if the actual copyright holder complains about copilot spitting out their code without proper attribution and license, they could indeed transfer to the liability to the uploader. The defence would probably claim that GitHub effe
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Consider that you can post somebody else's code to GitHub, and that may be licensed AGPL (or anything else). In that case, somebody else is the copyright holder so clearly the ToS doesn't magically give GitHub any additional right
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Snaps run sandboxed. It's not perfect, but it's a whole lot better than debs.
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Is this really accurate? Usually when I'm doing something I consider important, I get partly through the flow, go offline to prepare further, and then come back later with a more detailed answer. This is especially true if it isn'
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There's a big difference between being conscious and being mentally competent to make choices like that.
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Only if liability transfers to the state. Even if state-owned, plenty of state-owned enterprises have limited liability.
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It'd be much like trying to recover money stolen by a drug addict though. Instant bankruptcy and proportionally nothing recovered, to the point that it's not even really worth it.
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by rlpb 4y ago
We bought a second hand EV with ~60 miles range, and a standard 240V (UK) outlet wasn't enough for us. We got a charger installed. It turned out that around city the range was fine, but if we wanted to do [multiple] outings in a day, w
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by rlpb 4y ago
> Firstly, because this is a civil matter and not a criminal one, there is no protection against double jeopardy. He can keep getting sued over and over for the same thing. Not by the same people, though. If he damaged ten people, he mig
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by rlpb 4y ago
No flying guarantees no accidents. This creates incentives in the wrong direction. See for example the safety achieved by modern technologies in modern light aircraft designs, and the lack of certification of most of these because of the ex
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by rlpb 4y ago
That's just wishful thinking. Any opportunity for a network effect to assist with Signal's adoption is long gone. It never managed to hit the necessary threshold and without platform ownership, there's little chance it will.
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> Definitely the end of my Signal usage anyway. It's my main SMS app: my primary motivator is SMS UX, the ability to securely message a tiny subset of my friends is a very nice but ultimately non-vital bonus. I think this is the cru
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by rlpb 4y ago
"Optimized out" doesn't just cover a variable simply being in a register. The code might have been adjusted such that the variable's value isn't stored anywhere any more, or some derivative value is stored instead.
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by rlpb 4y ago
Landlords and homeowners compete between themselves for real estate near where jobs are, since there's a limited supply. This causes the market price to purchase a property to adjust to the cost of capital that is equivalent to the val
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> A UBI that’s financed primarily by tax increases would require the American people to accept a level of taxation that vastly exceeds anything in U.S. history. It’s hard to imagine that such a UBI would advance very far, especially giv
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by rlpb 4y ago
> Livepatch is closed, unlike kpatch. It's the same. For example https://ubuntu.com/security/livepatch/docs/faq links to https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master&#x
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> I went with building an isolated network, but I think that's outside the relm of what most consumers can do. An off-the-shelf consumer PVR that uses wired ethernet typically has its own integrated PoE switch on its own subnet. May
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Meanwhile, the majority of spam I receive on my non-Google-hosted email is DKIM-validated from @gmail.com. This seems to have developed in the past few months.
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Not all open source developers are poorly paid. I think it's a free market, and I don't see that as a problem. I don't think open source developers are really being exploited, because typically they are capable of earning wha
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> The OSS community almost seems to require OSS maintainers to be in poverty, while allowing large corporations to freely consume all of their work. It's a weird sort of exploitation, because OSS maintainers who don't think the

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