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by rodgerd 4y ago
The thing that is most striking to me about your explanation is that the change was made six years ago; it seems that anyone responsible for a company's tax position and cashflow (CFO, accountant, etc) should have been planning for thi
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I see that you are blessed to work in an environment where your day is not a stream of Jira tickets linked to timesheets.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
While I think that a lot of the "right to repair" and "right to tinker" folks dramatically over-estimate the value provided - just look at the complaints about self-repair of iPhones now that it's possible! - projec
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I'm having trouble imagining how some TV could possibly be damaged by software Modern OLEDs perform image manipulation to avoid burn-in. Your XDA Developers firmware is going to end up with your screen being garbage in a year. And
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> How can they know/figure it out? Sony's answer for Xperia phones used to be that you'd unlock the bootloader with a key you got from them by entering the serial number/IMEI. As part of that, they warn that using cus
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> The original promise of the cloud was that it was cheaper than on prem. As soon as it became clear that this was not the case, the selling point swivelled smoothly to "enablement" and "agility" without missing a bea
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by rodgerd 4y ago
At the moment the problem is mostly the other way around: Mastodon preview fetches function as a DDOS on your site; given the intransigence of the Masto BDFL on this problem, I would be delighted if it were inverted.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Now add "all GM cars".
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It's where being able to have strong guarantees about how customer data is being used becomes critical. I'm required to keep evidence about your KYC information and your financial transactions for compliance purposes for (e.g.) 7
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> What kind of legal guidance were these people getting? The kind that looked at the Microsoft anti-trust lawsuits in the 90s, and instead of saying, I dunno, "let's not try and gain and wield illegal monopoly powers" but
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I admit I am playing the devil's advocate Are you literally appointed by the Pope? Part of the process of canonisation?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Not a lawyer. When a legal hold is issued, the company is instructed not to destroy potential evidence related to the case. Not a lawyer, but I have helped implement record management systems, and a requirement is always support for le
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by rodgerd 4y ago
A lot of city (and country) subs on reddit are overrun with people who don't live in the place commenting on what a hell-hole it is. We see this in New Zealand every time something gets international attention, and it's very obvio
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Ah yes, low-crime Tokyo, where there are definitely no problems with organised crime, standover tactics in bars, construction companies using thugs to drive people out of homes, or a plethora of other well-documented problems.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I am impressed at a noisy neighbour problem where the noisy neighbour convinces the noise control officer to evict everyone living next to them!
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by rodgerd 4y ago
There have been open and de-facto open mounts though: the Pentax K-mount was such pre-autofocus, and micro 43, Sony's E-mount (albeit with many strings attached), and the L-mount all have varying degrees of openness about them. At the
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> What surprises me is that even within a single brand there are multiple standards. It's kind of annoying, but less so if there's at least some logic to it. I can get pretty much everything I need as a shit-tier home handyman
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> You go from Monero to cash Then you end up like the guy asking for advice on how to sue his banks for freezing the accounts that he'd been using to run his Monero to UKP gateway.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Don't buy a GM car, then.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
If you follow any artists or writers or similar on Twitter you'll note that the biggest reason most of them cite for being there is because they have a conversational community that feeds into support for their art. Substack has a perf
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> And Musk seems to be pissing away his non-technical barrier-to-entry just about as hard as he can. He's completely pissed it away. The skills at finessing the demands of different regulatory regimes were some of the first he got r
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Anyone ever think about what a nightmare driverless cars will be if they actually work? The scenario you outline was part of Mega-City One's landscape in the 2000AD/Judge Dredd comics: cars on the road all day every day, with
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I am less convinced that China is really good at playing the long game The main difference is that China is good at ensuring that the state is not run for the benefit of a handful of companies and investors. Which is not an endorsement
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Is there anything comparable surviving today? Surviving? No. The most recent is arguably Sun's Rock processor, which was one of the final nails in their coffin, was quite an i432 redux. It promised all sorts of hardware support fo
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Another way to look at the Itanic is that HP somehow conned Intel into betting the farm on building HP-PA3 for HP. Which is pretty impressive.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I don’t know at what point it stops being a photo any more. Considering that Ansell Adams would spend weeks reworking his negatives to get the perfect print I think that you'll find that horse bolted a very long time ago.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
ASR are absolutely not science-driven. See the thread where Amir tested a speaker, trashed it, when others couldn't reproduce the result fought with them, kept trashing it, fought with the designer, and then it turned out that the spea
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The reason that banks generally take AMLAT rules so seriously is that the fines are vastly higher than any profit that can be generated by breaking them. Where I live they're in the order of up to a million per transaction that viola
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> i think when a court finds you have deleted evidence, that the information deleted is assumed to be evidence against you This is why Alex Jones lost his civil actions: he was so intransigent about refusing to produce evidence that the
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by rodgerd 4y ago
From popular genres I would think hip-hop would be the one to target; pop and rock have had pretty much for its entire existence encouraged listeners to link a recording with a band, and not to think about a producer or composer/writer

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