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by rodgerd 4y ago
Similarly, see the way that Chevron crippled electric car development by at least a decade, and used gagging orders to hide the fact that they'd done so, via ICC arbitration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RA
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Because it's worked well for Amazon (ignore sales taxes), Uber (ignore... everything), AirBNB (ditto), and a long list of other "existing thing, but on a computer" businesses.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
There are a lot of collaboration tools for a company that insists that its staff have to live and work in one neighbourhood in California.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
It's a general problem of being, as the Brits put it, "penny wise, pound foolish". Some bod in accounts can show an obvious change in the bottom line by cutting a cheap perk. The problems in retention, hiring, delivery are al
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Given how pluggable k8s is, it should not surprise you that there are companies at every integration point. Of course, this is pretty much what ended up destroying OpenStack outside a few niches. HP OpenStack that only worked with 3PAR
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Sure, but he's never taken any action against Nvidia, whereas he has against OpenZFS (which is open source, I note).
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Yes, but are those Linux circles are committing changes to cripple Nvidia's stuff?
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I think Spotify is basically the best thing ever for indie artists. Funny, I know a couple who think that Spotify is the worst thing to happen. Streaming, especially at Spotify's rates, might as well be piracy. The income's n
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Epic's only interest in it appears to be to pad out their litigation. I expect they'll lose interest in it if they can bribe and sue their way into making it easier to get gambling in the hands of pre-teens.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Some of us will NEVER accept ZFS's licensing. And yet the kernel community has been remarkably relaxed about Intel's golden screwdriver code and NVidia's binary blobs. Nothing if not inconsistent.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The main thing I found btrfs was good for was testing the restore process of my backups. I was using it in supposedly known-good configurations (RAID 1 or RAID 10) and it consistently destroyed data. The fact that it turned out that the scr
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I actually think the loss of retailers is part of the problem: without places to go and touch and play with things, we've become increasingly beholden to reviewers and shrill opinion factories to try and evaluate things. Niches, especi
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by rodgerd 4y ago
They've essentially shitcanned their entire animation division. Given that it's an area where they've gotten a lot of praise and attention, and is a point of difference, it seems like an odd choice.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Professional footballers can make that in a week.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I'm a fairly large person (185 cm and decent sized hands), but I prefer the mini, and in my Android days used the Xperia mini. I don't particularly want a large phone on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately it seems that it's a
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Yep, and the cool part is you don't need a lot to start feeling relevant. "Being relevant" isn't really my goal on Twitter. Chatting to people is. Sometimes I get to learn stuff. It's supposed to be social .
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I auto-delete my tweets after three months so shrug
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by rodgerd 4y ago
The only talk of "public forum" comes from people who are desperate to force others to listen to them. I don't need TERFs and neo-Nazis in my feed, but they want to be there.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Yes, it's certainly provided North Korea with a reliable flow of funds for their nuclear weapons program.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Depends what you consider mainstream - the licensing gouged for everything from HDMI to Atmos, DTS:X, and so on means that there aren't as many price differences as there used to be, so anything above (e.g.) bare-bones Denon will be in
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by rodgerd 4y ago
This is amazing - not just for the possibility of viable treatments emerging, but given that previous advice has focused on sleeping position, bedding, and other possible causes, there will be many parents who have lost children to SIDS and
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> What is Putin's play? He's been very clear: before the second Ukraine invasion he criticised Lenin for allowing the SSRs to exist and for accepting the loss of Imperial Russia by e.g. accepting Finnish independence. His ambit
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by rodgerd 4y ago
How has appeasement worked out in Chechnya, the invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea, Georgia, shooting down a civilian airliner? What shall we give Russia this time? Then when they come for Poland or Romania, who do you suggest we off
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by rodgerd 4y ago
He has poured considerable amounts of time and money and other forms of backing into regime change in a number of NATO members; he extensively backed Le Pen and Zemmour, Trump (and enjoys public support from a number of US senators), has cl
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by rodgerd 4y ago
So as I feared the unwritten sentence for this headline is "so we can fuck them up, too".
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> AFAIK, no other manufacturer does this for their systems (which capabilities they often make rather wild claims about). What's interesting is the level of nit-picking scrutiny this is attracting compared to the uncritical defence
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by rodgerd 4y ago
I, too, find devices prevent exhilaration these days. Seriously, though, paper is better for most people that managing device cloning or the like. Most people can have a notebook in their house as a backup-of-last resort. Asking folks to be
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> Most people have no clue how shows gets selected and blame “wokness” for troubles at Netflix. Well, the people blaming "wokeness" aren't connected to reality anyway, so I doubt that any evidence will change their mind. B
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> and that's because those get moved to MTV and fast tracked to the executive suite. "The Goon" is the analyst from an investment firm who tells your directors and CEO how many of you are going to be fired to make him happ
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Scrivener. It's very focused on the task of writing - novels, short stories, screenplays. It pares away the parts of e.g. a word processor that are distracting (layout and the like), adds the functions of a database for tracking charac

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