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by rodgerd 3y ago
The EU is about to make it literally illegal for them to do so, so no they can't.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Unfortunately the RUC in New Zealand is strongly regressive, with massive subsidies for heavy vehicles.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Developer time is always the biggest bottleneck at any org I've worked with. Also: you are an expert in something. Half the time the SME will spend a large chunk of their time being lectured by a developer with no domain knowledge
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Turns out that growth based on an assumption that your model of "slot machines for children" is not infinitely exponential and cannot subsidise "free games on PCs to compete with Steam while trying to dictate to Apple how the
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> It's not like War Thunder is a hardcode simulator People work themselves into prison due to stalking and death threats to game developers over balance issues; "what my in-game tank can and can't do" is a balance is
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Chrome is already a monopoly. Youtube is a monopoly. Point me to the EU action against them.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
So you want everything like Android, but you want a magic wand that means you won't get exactly the same outcomes as Android.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Something along the lines of, "Our brand is trust. It took 90 years to build it, but it would take just one day to destroy it." A security architect at a Bank offered a very pithy version of this to me: "People hate bank
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The other aspect that pertains to AI is the data-maximalist mindset around these tools: grab as much data, aggregate it all together, and to hell with any concerns about what and how the data is being used; more data is the competitive adva
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I mean I'm in New Zealand and it's fine for me.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Localtalk was great Over the other side of the Atlantic, Acorn had an example of parallel evolution in the form of Econet, which used the same serial protocol, but over bigger connectors (the same 5 pin DIN that you see used in DMX net
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> There's just no way this change is actually gonna happen. You under-estimate the degree to which companies can be driven by an exec determined to have their way.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Yeah, and this is the sort of thing that I think drives Apple's care in recommending the most secure modes; they don't want people causally turning it on and discovered that they've buggered themselves up.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Do you refuse to use NVidia cards for the same reason?
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Fly my own 737 to a new city every day? That's literally the billionaire lifestyle. Meanwhile cryptocurrency is seeing decades of power efficiency undone as miners bring old power plants online and want to burn tyres to power thei
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The UK plug is the gold standard, and for me it's one of those things that would have been great if they concepts had become the norm.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The Consumers' Institute of New Zealand has people sign up for membership, and that funds their reviewing and advocacy. I think that models like that, co-ops, and the like are the only real way to make it work. As soon as your reviews
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> the language of coastal elites For someone wanting plain language, it's surprising that you say "New York Jews" this way.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Erm, qmail had lots of bugs[1], when compiled for 64-bit processors (lots of integer overflows), but djb pushed back and said 64-bit wasn't supported. qmail is a great demonstration that if you declare enough things out of scope,
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Thanks for that. I found this exchange quite a stark difference from the "wisdom" of the Paypal Mafia: WARNOCK: Oh, I’ve always liked mathematics; problem solving has always been fun. My saving grace in life is that I was not intr
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Her role appears to be fronting anything that would be too much of a humiliating climb-down for Musk, which is why she's doing all of the work on trying to assure advertisers that there will be a way for ads not to appear in the middle
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by rodgerd 3y ago
A Surface Go or Surface Pro, which this is essentially a clone of, will happily run for a school/business day, and that's with the weight of Windows on it.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> My guess is that they are arguing fair use, but I just don't see how that applies here when they make copyrighted works available, for free, over the Internet. I worry that they're going to end up, as with Lessig, ending up i
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> "you don't need more than 60k/year because the quality of life is so good, you know we keep winning most livable city in the world" It would be amusing to see a list of "most livable city in the world". V
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The majority, perhaps even super-majority of the people I work with are immigrants. It's not a problem. The problem is that New Zealand employers are absolutely allergic to paying their staff; they are cruising on the idea that "N
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I mean we played the originals on screens where 14-21" TVs were very normal for people.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I bought a black-and-white Brother laser circa 2000. It ran an ran until around 2020 when it finally broke (physically) in ways that weren't worth repairing. I bought a Brother 3770CDW colour laser to replace it. It has run and run wit
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Oracle have a sales pitch - I've been on the end of Oracle's - that is "we'll sell it for less, we don't care, name a price we just want to hurt Red Hat." OEL is just rebuilt RHEL.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
There was the famous "Bill Gates memo" early in the century that stopped work on pretty much everything except security, citing Windows' atrocious reputation as an existential risk to Microsoft. It lead to a big improvement,
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I'm sorry that knowledge offends you.

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