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by roryirvine 2mo ago
But if AI art is causing customers to turn away, then "nothing" (or, more accurately, an amateur in-house creation by someone who may or may not have had some level of formal design training) is going to be the better choice. That
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Not FOSS? That's a real pity. I learned to program on 8 bit micros, and created a rough boot-to-BASIC experiment ~15 years ago following the JeOS pattern. So this project sounds really exciting, but I'd be more interested if I wer
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Dell have pre-installed & fully supported Ubuntu on a bunch of their Precision, XPS, and, more recently, Pro laptops for over a decade now. Those supported models are always a good choice for running other Linux distros, too (I've
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
FHSS was actually used by the original (2 Mbps) 802.11 radio modems in the mid 90s. It wasn't until 802.11b/a came along a few years later that the world moved to DSSS (along with other innovations such as, er, proper intercompati
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Er, what crash did Enron cause? I mean, there was the messy end of the telecoms/internet boom from early-ish in 2000, and the dot com bust with the bottom in mid-2002. In amongst those were the September 11th shock, and the various acc
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
I strongly suspect that peptide use is more common amongst the botox/filler crowd than techies in the UK. Most aesthetics clinics have been pushing peptide-based skincare for years, so it was only a small step into injectables for them
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
The highest intensity TENS kit used in BDSM won't feel worse than a harsh elastic band snap, and most units produce way less than that. These gloves are substantially more powerful, so will feel more like being whipped or caned - unbea
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
No future employer is actually going to credit you with any additional years of experience, it'll just be "oh, they did a year at a failed startup". And if you claim to have done 10 projects in your first year of paid employm
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Do they think their clients aren't going to notice when the engineers they're paying $5k/day for are turning up on a Monday morning already dog tired? This is a glorified consultancy, and there's a reason why consultanci
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
You'd need better ventilation for that, surely?
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
And they don't define what they consider to be commercial anywhere that I can see. It's not mentioned at all in https://caligra.com/legal/terms-of-sale/ Does checking work email count? Or buying somethin
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
The form factor and "designed to run Workbench" bit made me think it was aimed at nostalgic Amiga enthusiasts without running afoul of whoever-owns-Commodores-trademarks-today. But https://caligra.com/workbench&#x2
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
And it came from the days of floppy disks, so we often needed the chance to put the correct disk back in the right drive!
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
America has tried this with Cuba too (the 'Helms-Burton Act', I think), but they've only been successful in making it stick in very limited circumstances (mostly to companies who are technically foreign-owned but which primar
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Internal pricing always turns out to be problematic because the various divisions have neither the incentive nor the leverage to negotiate prices in the way that "real" customers do. In addition to your Samsung example, I know of
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
But lots of alternative music at that time was explicitly embracing glossy commercialism either ironically or (more often) as a form of escapism. It was particularly prevalent in a lot of New Wave and the various branches of post-New Wave m
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Honestly, I've seen a lot less of this than I'd have expected. Lots of discussion, plenty of experiments or toy implementations at the level of individual teams (often driven by one or two enthusiastic individuals), a few proofs o
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
So the reality they must face is that the social media giants will try to circumvent regulation. Fine. And the most reasonable response to that is therefore to implement some form of general anti-avoidance rule, of the sort that's used
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
I'll never forget the sound of those old 5 1/4" full height drives: <thunk> whiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRR <chk><chk> ...and don't forget to park it when you're done!
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Isn't the passport-sized Samsung Z Fold simply a rerun of the original Pixel Fold format? And, as I understand it, it tends to give more usable screen space for viewing videos but is actually more difficult to use one-handed than the
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
My understanding is that, because they can plausibly deny being complicit in the illegal dumping, the landowner is currently able to refuse to pay for the remediation of the problem. So why not attack that aspect of it? There could be some
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Debian weighs eight options in vote on LLM usage(lwn.net)
8 points by roryirvine 2mo ago|1 comments
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Oh yeah, we were early adopters of MySQL's master/master replication at an online retailer. Certainly an "interesting" experience, and I remember becoming very well acquainted with the vagaries of the binlog! (I rememb
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Ugh, yes. They trigger my hay fever almost as soon as they start budding, a good month before pollen season kicks off properly.
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
In the early days, PostgreSQL was so much more awkward to deal with. Crash-prone at first, and then there was the whole business around having to drop the db during upgrades. It didn't really match MySQL operationally until around 2002
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
This is excellent! I particularly like the clear methodology page - my only suggestion is to link to an explanation of what the NOVA classification is for those who haven't come across the term before.
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
In this case, I think the problem was that it was urgent (multiple fire services were on the verge of being overwhelmed, and that was considered to pose an immediate threat to critical infrastructure) and it was the severity that was argu
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Even if it's hard to conclusively prove intent, I think it's easy to see how there must have been at least recklessness in play and perhaps even wilful blindness. In other words, even if they didn't know that what they were
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
An ordinary text message might well have sufficed in this instance from an end user point of view, sure. But there isn't an existing system to manage that. You'd need to get the mobile operators involved to build the list of recip
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by roryirvine 2mo ago
Changing the operating model can be surprisingly tough for an established business. Imagine the outcry if they started charging per git push, for example. Clearly, something needs to change. But if they're not careful they might provok

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