rswail

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by rswail 5y ago
Why is the game industry going to give up one of their major channels of revenue or allow it to be shared between properties or even other companies?
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by rswail 5y ago
Proving that the initial act by the airline staff was complete unjustifiable.
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by rswail 5y ago
Is the airline staff that caused this in the first place due to their lack of professionalism required to accept consequences? Are they responsible for their actions that caused an innocent person to suffer both the physical and other injur
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by rswail 5y ago
It's easy to criticize, because it was a bullshit response by both the airline staff and the security staff. They needed the seats to move their staff operationally. To do that, they needed some passengers to volunteer to not fly. To
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by rswail 5y ago
It's highly regulated because the airlines like it that way. For example, the whole "only the person named on the ticket may fly on it and you can't sell it to someone else yourself". That came in after 9/11 because
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by rswail 5y ago
I deleted my profile a while back after a data leak and I was getting spammed on that email. The cringe factor of continually being "recommended" for crap was pathetic. That was even before the feed and the posts and the inspirati
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by rswail 5y ago
Watching the Webb unfold has been both heart-stopping and amazing. Just the heatshield itself is astounding and bodes well for future human travel.
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by rswail 5y ago
Why aren't insurance companies enforcing the equivalent of UL listing for human factor engineering in cars? Cars will not be self-driving for a number of years, so trying to evolve the UX/UI before that happens is setting up for
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by rswail 5y ago
Oh come on, that would have been awesome as a pic :)
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by rswail 5y ago
What they should have done from day one. The kludge they used in /usr was broken-by-design.
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by rswail 5y ago
The way it handles ownership (or at least used to) is completely broken with screwed up stuff happening inside /usr land. Macports puts everything under /opt/local and you add /opt/local/bin to your PATH. I&#x2
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by rswail 5y ago
Effectively it was in the PM's department directly, which means it was not subject to cross-department jealousies etc. Watch some series of Yes Minister, even though set in the 1970s and 80s, it's still all true.
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by rswail 5y ago
ITIL configuration management has nothing to do with K8S cluster management. ITIL configuration management is process driven, whereas K8S is declarative. It's in the names of the processes, Incident Management, Problem Management, Chan
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by rswail 5y ago
certbot is just one of many, many ACME clients and libraries now available. If you don't like how the nginx plugin works, then fork it. Wrapping "certbot renew && nginx -s HUP" into a systemd service doesn't seem
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by rswail 5y ago
Excellent execution in the payments space and expanding beyond that to support business infrastructure and development through things like Treasury and Atlas etc. Not sure that qualifies as a monopoly, but in general Stripe is an example of
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by rswail 5y ago
That's the underlying implementation decision, not necessarily caused by the language syntax/semantics.
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by rswail 5y ago
> Can I take two queries and squash them together in a reliable way? I feel like I end up with a lot of theme and variation in my queries, often involving optional filters. That's essentially what SQL views do. Each view is a query
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by rswail 5y ago
Lately I've noticed that Google wants me to "open the youtube app on your phone" even though I've configured 2FA. This is a work account, I have no interest in associating it to the youtube app on my phone. My own email
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by rswail 5y ago
Aside from the replication issue, Postgres is just a better SQL database for actually managing your data than MySQL. It has proper typing, proper validations, standard SQL and its documentation is second to none for any software product (
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by rswail 5y ago
In Australia, the merchant surcharges are allowed, but not more than the cost to the business, with the regulator (ACCC) paying a lot of attention to that. Most small operators will have a 1-2% surcharge for credit cards and Amex sometimes
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by rswail 5y ago
Visa as an American corporation is subject to American law. So it's not just a matter of who is making the profit.
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by rswail 5y ago
The end merchant pays 1-3%, then there are a whole bunch of middle-people that take a cut. The merchant acquirer (eg Stripe), the merchant bank, the issuer bank, the tokenization service (if using Apple/Google/Samsung Pay), there&
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by rswail 5y ago
Maps in Commonwealth countries made by their geophysical departments tend to have Crown copyright rather than Crown authorization. Unlike US government products which are by definition and law, not considered subject to copyright (ie are
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by rswail 5y ago
In Asia, it's a mixture of whatsapp, LINE (Japan/Thailand/Korea), Alichat, Wechat. Australia is a mixture of FB messenger and Whatsapp for families. Kids use different services depending on how old, snapchat, tiktok, instagra
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by rswail 5y ago
It doesn't have an open API which would mean I could build a service that searches google and then takes those results and merges my own information and present that to the user on a website.
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by rswail 5y ago
Other than RCS is tied to the 3/4/5G carrier networks and cant work over other media or physical protocols. It's more of the same bullshit layers on top of GSM instead of messaging being independent of the device. iMessage is
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by rswail 5y ago
Framework Laptop provides customization and upgradeability which sounds like what you want. https://frame.work
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by rswail 5y ago
Epson sells ecotank printers that have refillable tanks that don't require you to buy cartridges.
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by rswail 5y ago
The primary reason Whatsapp had to change the forwarding was because of the social impact of forwarding in some nations that lead to social unrest and deaths. So while there was a loss of privacy, the alternative was to remove the offer of
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by rswail 5y ago
Awesome work and clean website, I clicked on Decks and could work out what was happening straight away. The only bit of advice on the UI, Decks should be "Deckz" :) Although that joke with the "z" may not work when trans

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