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by robomc 4y ago
Nearly a decade ago I played it a bit over a couple of months. I'd guess 30 hours or so (which is a lot for me, I'm a gaming dabbler, aside from the civ and fromsoft games). It was pretty playable IMO, and would really pull you in
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by robomc 4y ago
Isn't the "don't care" part more... "don't think it actually constitutes theft... in anything but the most tortured senses of the word".
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by robomc 4y ago
This website is kind of perfect as a preparation for using desktop linux.
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by robomc 5y ago
This looks great btw - I'm not ready to move yet but this is in my plans.
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by robomc 5y ago
Taken too far, the "what do I hope to gain" thing can be kind of life-shrinking (because it's not always clear what you'll gain from interactions up front, and that lack of clarity tracks with the quality of what you&#x2
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by robomc 5y ago
I'd love to use this product in my organisation, but I don't want to self host, and it's really unclear what it would cost me. Seeing an "enterprise, call for a quote" type tier makes me assume it's going to be
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by robomc 5y ago
In a professional context, desktop software is a pain, and so it's largely dying off now that browser based tools can do so much of it. It's fiddly and annoying (and usually expensive) to license for a team (compared to SaaS subsc
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by robomc 5y ago
Thanks for writing this - I've been using this for ages, and it's a recommended install for everyone at our company.
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by robomc 5y ago
Yeah this is literally found to be the case with back injuries I think?
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by robomc 5y ago
Yes. The security wins of being opensource are really only there if the project is being engaged with and reviewed by security conscious developers, improvements are being merged in, and the new improvements are being distributed. Otherwise
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by robomc 5y ago
It says they need to have a policy. It doesn't say what the policy has to be, what the punishments are for breaching it, what exceptions could be allowed, who signs off on the policy etc. It also only applies for larger organisations.
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by robomc 5y ago
Read the actual law guys, it's nothing like that headline. https://www.ola.org/sites/default/files/node-files/bill/docu...
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by robomc 5y ago
If you need engineers to respond to server issues at 5am you can and should be paying them to be on call, and then paying them on top of that when an incident occurs. I don't think anything in this law (which doesn't seem to even
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by robomc 5y ago
Trying to picture a major website where something like react-dom, via webpack, is the expense as opposed to all the marketing / advertising / analytics fetches, bindings and page updates.
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by robomc 5y ago
It depends on the site and the use case, but I'd have thought that if you do, say, 10 minutes of interactions with a complex application, every few days, a chunked and cached SPA payload, with fairly light fetch requests for json after
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by robomc 5y ago
That's primarily because of third party advertising and marketing / analytics scripts though. I really doubt the core client-side rendering of a page (which isn't even common for up-to-date implementations), and the bundled j
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by robomc 5y ago
What's this guy saying is "worse"? Just that there's a few extra MB of dependencies? What's bad about that?
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by robomc 5y ago
that's also a good example of how it's often mostly or partly faked through displacement as well though. your CD and DVD collection has been replaced by round the clock maintenance of the storage and transmission of that data, fro
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by robomc 5y ago
seems good
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by robomc 5y ago
> Monero also opts for a shorter transaction time of 2 minutes, rather than 10 minutes for Bitcoin. Why are people still pursuing this cringely inadequate technology
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by robomc 5y ago
Sure. But again, I feel like using a "big, everyone uses it" kind of supplier is the best mitigation of the "what if I have to replace this" problem. If a massive vendor shutters or has a long term failure, at least you
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by robomc 5y ago
What do you think the suboptimal outcome was in this case? Is it better for websites to be unavailable at different times as opposed to all at the same time? This seems to be a really common assumption people make re these occasional cloud
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by robomc 6y ago
That's the craziest bit of the whole article.
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by robomc 6y ago
> Put me down as being in favor of additional legislation to hold software authors liable for any damages they cause. um, how about we don't do that?
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by robomc 6y ago
yeah I think the point is that, a typical password validation policy wont be able to spot that risk. although one that cycled passwords regularly would presumably do the trick.
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by robomc 6y ago
i like it as a thing that exists, but I got started programming via self-taught ruby, and the _why guide had almost nothing to do with that, despite wanting to like it.
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by robomc 6y ago
yeah if you're actually 100% new to code, this book is pretty terrible, at least for the way I learn. if you're already familiar with the common programming concepts, then this book is probably more applicable, but still hugely in
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by robomc 6y ago
This is completely misunderstanding what the article is talking about though - this isn't about launching saas products, it's about lowering the bar to creating bespoke software internal to businesses.
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by robomc 6y ago
It's wild to me how many companies are happy for everyone to have that client installed, despite usually having otherwise completely onerous security policies in other areas.
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by robomc 6y ago
Haven't had this problem. And in general, we try to get people to use whereby (also the web version), which we've been very happy with.

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