robertlagrant

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by robertlagrant 3y ago
It feels like too complex an example that would need to be constrained in various ways to make it apply. Simpler example: if you've used an Electron app e.g. VSCode, you've used Chrome under the hood.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> That's why these drugs are so much cheaper in the UK than in countries such as the US. Well, sort of. The drugs come to us in the UK after the US customers have paid for the R&D. That's why they're cheaper; they&#x27
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> That is the usual mentality in FOSS circles I don't know what this means. > "Windows PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, macOS, iOS, Android, ARKit, ARCore, OpenXR, St
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
Isn't the idea of PWAs that you aren't doing it through Chrome, or not knowingly. You're just running an app, and Chrome (or Blink) is a library that the app can use?
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
One issue might be that Microsoft (as ever) launched a milquetoast competitor that sounds the same to a purchasing department in 2020[0]. [0] https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/09/25/microsoft-declares..
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> versus the amount of additional development effort in supporting GNU/Linux The 3D APIs will be a decent chunk of that effort, I thought.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> Team topologies are somewhat orthogonal to power topologies This is a great summary.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> For example, instead of having one team responsible for kakfa, now 3 teams all owned slices of it, but in a way that we each had to become experts in order to satisfy our oncall obligations (I'm oversimplifying, but hopefully you
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> You could also make the argument that both “complicated-subsystem” and "platform" teams, are just another "stream-aligned" team whose primary clients are internal to the company. That seems overly generic. There are
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
The headline doesn't match the article: of the three people interviewed, the first loved it, but taxpayers paid for hers. The second liked it, but doesn't know if he'll ever make the money back, and the third didn't like
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> So it must be defined as illegal in the law to be considered discrimination? No, I'm saying it's confusing to use terminology that's also separately legal teminology to describe something. > Just because they are a la
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
No relish observed.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> WWe don't have minimum wage laws because we think that every person produces at least (say) $15/hr of economic value. I agree - that's what creates some of the adverse outcomes. Jobs that are worth less than that need to
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
I was under the impression the tipping point might be around adoption of Vulkan in game engines. If enough do that, would that make it simple enough to make a Linux/universal build?
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> My only concern is that "out of the box" is what most people expect. Not all gamers would be knowledgeable about how to compile proton for their vanilla Ubuntu. Although who knows! You just install Steam.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
If you like, you can look at the data[0] I'm looking at. 15% on defence; 67% on health and related; education; social security; etc. [0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
You're confusing two things. If the government pays for healthcare, that is for people, but goes to organisations to implement what's being paid for.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
It's included in the ticket price on more expensive airlines.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> Of course that assumes it’s falling facing its largest surface That was what I was thinking: surely it wouldn't be stable falling face-first? Wouldn't it be more likely to either tumble or settle on an edge?
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
Not the OP, but check out any software pricing page[0] for the sorts of things enterprises are after. E.g. larger-discount pricing; annual/monthly invoice billing; team management; SSO; etc. [0] e.g. https://www.git-tower.co
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
Yep, although short term end of life years are deemed more valuable (e.g. if you have 3 months to live and we can get you another 3 months, we'll pay more for those 3 months)[0]. And the number is a bit flexible based on other factors,
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> Take the wealthiest top 10,000 Americans out of the equation They are much less likely to be the recipient of all the money spent on entitlements, no? A giant bucket of money is spent on regular Americans.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> regulation will tho If only the perfect regulation-writers and interpreters existed.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> That does not sound like a non-idealised concept. No, I mean in an ideal world everyone has a job that pays, and progresses towards better jobs. Minimum wage is to cope with this not being the case. > Is there another good definitio
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
> That's why someone's financial situation should be considered before deciding to have kids. It is a conscious decision that is actively taken and therefore no reason to put younger people at a disadvantage. That is a good ide
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
I didn't say inherently. E.g. if you draw a graph of what age people have kids it's going to show you that the older you are, up to a point, the more likely you are to have kids. Kids are a massive expense, up to and including dic
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
As I say, it's probably more complaining for higher wages for people who are likely to have higher expenses, than lower wages for younger people.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
If you told an 80 year old they're a kid they would also tell you they aren't. There is no proof by irony.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
That's up to the shop owner. Minimum wage is a minimum, not a cap.
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by robertlagrant 3y ago
That was a particularly crazy time for Windows UI development!

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