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by rrdharan 4y ago
You weren’t able to use COBRA? Or was the coverage just very poor even with it? My probably naive understanding was that COBRA can be activated retroactively if you get in an accident during the coverage gap.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
How would you know what’s being debated and avoided if you haven’t read any of what you’re criticizing?
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by rrdharan 4y ago
I see this completely the opposite. There’s much more risk to Google to be lying about the privacy agreement applicable to Google Fonts ( https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#what_does_using_the_... ) than there is to
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by rrdharan 4y ago
> Stock options are "cheaper" for a startup to give out than RSUs, so you get more shares, ie your equity is higher-leverage. So if things go well, you end up with much much more money than had you gotten RSUs (and yes obviousl
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by rrdharan 4y ago
If you get ISOs (not NQSOs) and you early-exercise them such that the spread is $0 (or at least negligible/low) and you correctly file an 83b and the IPO or exit is more than two years from date-of-grant and one year from date-of
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by rrdharan 4y ago
This is exactly how Google operates yet many folks seem to define / consider that as “selling the data”. It’s really about “leveraging access to / monetizing the data”. The point is that by paying for EDDM, Brave is funding and su
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Right, but then you need to trust them to maintain a fork of vaultwarden or hope that vaultwarden accepts their patches.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
> BUT throw $1000/month on the direction of the FOSS developers until the issues are mitigated and they satisfy your requirements This is not at all an easy thing to guarantee even if you’re willing to spend the money. The FOSS deve
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by rrdharan 4y ago
You’re referring to the Console OS which they also did open source (it was just Red Hat, sources available upon request). The relationship between the Console OS and the Vmkernel / hypervisor was very similar to the relationship betwee
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by rrdharan 4y ago
This is not true. Google Cloud ‘s FedRAMP offering uses the same regions, zones and binaries and configurations as the regular public cloud offering. Source: I work on FedRAMP compliance for GCP Databases.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
They did publish the source to the GPL drivers as well as to the vmklinux “adapter”, and I don’t believe either the core hypervisor or the ESX kernel were derived from or adapted from the Linux kernel. My impression is mostly people are ann
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by rrdharan 4y ago
How do you propose banning this while permitting open source drivers for Windows? I understand why you might want to, I just don’t understand what the rule would be.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
This approach involves a high degree of risk, i.e. your bus factor is 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
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by rrdharan 4y ago
You're right of course. Although I guess some do exist: https://github.com/arthaud/c2bf https://github.com/felko/bfpy
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by rrdharan 4y ago
I always thought that was part of the capacitor plague but I guess not since the timing doesn’t quite line up with what you’re saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague I had an Onkyo from the bad cap era
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by rrdharan 4y ago
That and it’s a fairly racist place in my experience so don’t bother if you think that would affect you.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck > Although Brainfuck programs, especially complicated ones, are difficult to write, it is quite trivial to write an interpreter for Brainfuck in a more typical language such a
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by rrdharan 4y ago
> is /more/ respectful of privacy than most of the tech industry How do you figure? They own Bing and Windows 1x is full of mandatory telemetry.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
I agree, GitHub is awful.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
> Behavioral science suggests that punishment is the worst way of teaching any human to behave. Even just ignoring bad behavior is better. Citation? And is this actually reproducible? By default I don’t trust any social / behavioral
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by rrdharan 4y ago
Does focus follows mouse actually work on Wayland? https://www.google.com/search?q=focus+follows+mouse+wayland was inconclusive.
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by rrdharan 4y ago
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1225
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Obviously, they aren’t going to stop. Why wouldn’t you just give up and get another email address and set up forwarding? Life is too short to yell at clouds all day.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Well for starters 99.9% of Facebook users don’t use a VPN.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
> Today Rust does not overlap Linux in terms of platform support. Nit, I believe actually the Rust and Linux platform sets would be considered "overlapping sets" in the mathematical sense :), since neither is a subset of the ot
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by rrdharan 5y ago
More like it happens with any large move period, no hints needed, because the expected value payoff of a lawsuit in that case typically makes it a worthwhile exercise.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
I’m amused that the author is allowed to install Logi Options (a massive electron bundling steaming pile of … from a company with a dodgy track record) and not Rectangle or AltTab. Also no mention made of the Cmd-~ vs Cmd-Tab distinction.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Revenue is not the only way to quantify impact. Plenty of infrastructure teams promote plenty of people at Google and other companies despite not directly selling products.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
Yes, I have, maybe 20-30% of them but not zero as your comment would seem to imply.
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by rrdharan 5y ago
What’s the point of not trusting the hardware entropy source while still trusting the rest of the chip / hardware?

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