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by rodgerd 5y ago
> If it’s your device then you should have 100% control over it. Yeah, but you also don't have the "right" to run your device on shared public spaces with your modifications that make it substantially more dangerous to oth
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Why would regulation result in more permissiveness? Why assume that people who have bought into devices with closed ecosystems want more permissiveness? Who does this benefit? Most of this seems like question begging for ad-tech and si
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It also has a couple of other handy features: 1. It can form up k8s-style pods for deploying tightly-coupled containers. 2. It can understand k8s YAML for deployment (although obviously it doesn't support everything k8s does), which ma
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by rodgerd 5y ago
You either stay unpopular enough that no-one demands that you compromise your vision, or you become popular enough that there is constant pressure to add features that are important to some part of your community.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Ah yes, streaming is being propped up by dastardly tricks. This is the only possible explanation. No reasonable person would prefer to watch The Matrix in the comfort of their own home for any other reason, and certainly not an airborne ill
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Yes
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Something near and dear to my heart - it's painful watching NZ shift its compute footprint from local hydro sources to coal-fired in NSW.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I think the thing in her obit that most delighted me was the note that she developed an analysis of judges' decisions for dog competitions.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
What's very interesting to me is that the Byzantine, multi-day, "we can't afford to make a mistake" hiring practises are so normal in the US, most of which allows easy firing without cause. It's a truly bizarre comb
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Not sure how the protocols themselves help, Web VR is being routinely used to add fingerprinting and tracking. Direct access to USB devices adds so many vectors for abuse I can't even imagine how it will end up being mis-used.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It's always funny reading the different discussions kicked off by articles here; the privacy/confidentiality-oriented folks are in here talking about the relentless pressure to install apps which rummage around your private life i
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by rodgerd 5y ago
A mentor of mine got her start working with a Big Giant Brain as his assistant - he only programmed by reading fanfold paper output and writing his code down. She would type it up, run it, and then bring the output back for him to analyse.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Then you can't implement Doom without paying a few grand for a spec.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
J'accuse led to anti-Semites creating the Tour de France, and one current French Presidential candidate is still battling to smear the reputation of Dreyfus.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
A point which may not be well-understood by people unfamiliar with French economic history is that for much of post-WW II period, France's power prices have been dramatically lower that other Western European countries (for industry, a
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Indeed. And it was trivial to get evidence of neo-Nazis faking "tradie" personae in the Melbourne riots because people could rock into their Telegram groups.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Kind of like running stop signs, I guess.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It's a neat feature for SOHO-type users, and takes advantage of the fact that the RAID layer knows about the FS. The first implementation that I know of is Drobo's filesystem. Asymmetric RAID is probably the only config that I&#x2
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> little known caveat I'm surprised that this would be a little-known caveat; it's been a problem with all RAID-parity systems 3,4,5 and Z) since forever.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Same, but it's largely been that way since the early 90s. It's weird getting pitches from US FinTechs that are solving problems that literally only exist because of how painfully backward that US financial infrastructure is.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
For me, the PowerToys tools are the gold standard here ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone... ), especially the Canvas mode: remember where I like my applications, and put them there,
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> This is very frustrating. But it does serve as yet another reminder of the dangers inherent to closed ecosystems. The bulk of the code in my day job is deeply proprietary and runs on deeply proprietary, closed systems: stuff like 40 ye
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Is there nobody in the room who is the voice of the customer? No. Google have an institutional contempt for humanity. Just look at the support: david.king Gold Product Expert Volunteer since 2011 (not a Google employee) They can't
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It's power. A guy who thinks that the 19th Amendment was a mistake doesn't care about more money, he cares about winding back the clock.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
HomeKit's biggest challenge is that so much of the home automation market balks at Apple's requirement to be able to operate without a cloud service. Can't do surveillance capitalism or extort monthly fees or end-of-life prod
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> much less how to double-clutch one without synchros Yes, well, people don't generally know how to make a horse change directions either.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I trust the developers I work with to try and build code to spec. I verify their code with testing because humans are fallable.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
In the case of Nintendo, they've agreed to support cross-play, which Sony refuse to. And their consoles and brand are very different from XBox. Very few people are buying a Switch instead of an XBox or gaming PC; they're more like
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Prior to their Microsoft deal they produced a variety of games with different settings (the Marathon universe which linked to their earlier games and forward to Halo, Myth I/II which were RTS with rich lore, and Oni which was a close-c
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I miss the Bungie that pumped out Marathon, Myth, and Oni. (I will look forward to people who were screaming that console makers mustn't be allowed to buy game authors and studios seamlessly turn a 180 if it favours their tribe.)

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