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by rodgerd 4y ago
Exactly. It was the device well-heeled parents might get for their teens, or twenty-somethings might buy for themselves.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> I’ve always gotten the impression that Ive may be a truly great designer be he needs an editor. You aren't a brilliant designer if your design choices make a product less functional. And there's a long track record of Ive doi
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by rodgerd 4y ago
> memory-bandwidth-bottlenecked task. The thing that's interesting for me around this is: I hate the on-die memory. I hate the idea of not being able to upgrade after your order, or a few years down the road. It has both practical
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by rodgerd 4y ago
There has been one case - the Addison Caine lawsuit - but the fact that it's only one shows how ineffectual the provisions are as a counterbalance.
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by rodgerd 4y ago
Lyndsay Ellis documented the mis-use of the DMCA by an author, and attempts to invoke the perjury penalties for same, across a couple of hours of video that will teach you more about wolf porn fiction ("The Tiger King of wolf porn&quot
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> They cancel stuff so fast it’s not worth getting into. This is honestly the key for me. From Vulture's piece on the cancellation of Babysitters' Club (a good series, by the way): "As far as I can tell, everything Netflix
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by rodgerd 5y ago
An Irix workstation is like buying a Countach. It's a thing you have because it's the thing that you always wanted.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> this isn't a significant one of them IMNSHO. "You can't have systemd in Debian, what about kFreeBSD" "You can't use Rust until it supports DEC Alpha" ...there are no shortage of examples where open an
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> but when I did it was anything but user friendly I have always found it very easy to use, but I spend years at a job where I wrangled Quark and PageMaker as part of my job; it felt very familiar and comfortable.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
At one point - and perhaps still today - Java would refuse to JIT class files with more than a couple of thousand lines in them, falling back to interpreted mode. So in that case, you really, really wouldn't want the 5,000 line file.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I saw a meme last week which sums up Python's appeal perfectly: "I keep writing pseudocode and it keeps working!"
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Change the people, or change the people.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> IIRC the Ubiquiti 'hack' was an insider attack from an employee lying and intentionally breaking things while pushing his lies to the press to hurt his employer. "Their undetected security breach was by an insider"
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Yes, Kreb's reporting wasn't great and he should have retracted the original article once the facts came out, I mean, his source wasn't great, but the fact is that they were suffering a breach. The fact that the breach w
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Poe's Law in full effect.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
1. You're a tankie (in which case, good riddance). 2. You're an anti-Western contrarian. 3. You've got sound criticisms of the US, NATO, etc, and haven't thought about how you can end up a useful idiot (see also: Ed Snow
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> simply prohibitively expensive. No, it isn't. Google wouldn't go out of business. I doubt that they'd even take a hit of a few percent in profit.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Is an electron app really a desktop app? I don't have a hate on for Electron apps as such, and use quite a few, but they really are the worst of all worlds, particularly from the security point of view: you have all the ability of
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Do big companies actually do enough due dilligence to know? I was talking to a company about a role, and one of their ex-employees warned me that one reason they'd left was that the company required contact with shitty upstream co
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I'm surprised at the ire around this question. Because even if you exclude the concern trolls who aren't actually interested in your answer, just fighting with you, it is a never-ending stream of people who want to bikeshed y
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by rodgerd 5y ago
You've just described Olympus, and they mostly get shit for it. Apparently it's cheating or something.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> The DSLR/mirrorless workflow is still, conceptually, film, except replace a darkroom with Lightroom. It’s terrible for run-and-go casual shooting, which was a huge part of the lower-end market. Yep. And there's a whole cultur
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Sounds like the definition of a good economy is fundamentally broken, then.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I find it weird that "Silicon Valley" is to blame here. Even before FOSTA/SESTA companies like Facebook, CloudFlare, and PayPal have fought far, far harder for the rights of far-right groups than they even have for sex w
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by rodgerd 5y ago
This article https://www.ft.com/content/503fb110-f91e-4bed-b6dc-0d09582dd... touches on it, mostly with a focus on the transition from Yeltsin's robber-barons to Putin's inner circle of billionaire nationalis
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by rodgerd 5y ago
If you aren't competent to evaluate whether software is production ready, choose another profession.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> They're learning how to set boundaries and not let crappy people bother them. Abusive mindsets parse boundaries as an illness. So saying that someone "seems unwell" simply because they want reasonable boundaries is defin
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> And even if it is actually your job, it's just common sense that you shouldn't publish content that makes your employer look bad. Given the output of the CEO of Tesla I feel like this would be a pretty amusing argument to mak
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The undertaker and his daughter get some measure of justice.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The movies weren't intended to, but audiences came away with an intended respect for the mafia; indeed, trying to hammer home the message that Michael's life is a disaster was the motivation for the ill-fated Godfather 3.

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