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by s_kilk 9y ago
Why? Has the formalisation of previously implicit rules harmed you in some way?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Pure undiluted hype, nothing more.
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Update the image and roll out new containers?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Well this is a pleasant coincidence, in the last episode of my podcast ( http://generalintellectunit.net ) we discuss Red Plenty, and at one point we talk about the notion of Amazon being a planned economy very much in line with w
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> I have a hard time understanding why devs choose / chose MongoDB. Postgres with JSON columns gets you so far, why would you go with MongoDB, given the issues it's had? Jsonb is a pretty recent addition to postgres, when compa
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The Shoemaker's Children Go Barefoot(spinellis.gr)
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Thinking the unthinkable What we cannot think in programming(tomasp.net)
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> I think this "conclusion" depends strongly on how you define "worse outcomes". One example would be how the US has one of the worst infant mortality rates in the developed world.
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> IMO the goal of good UX is to help users to fulfil the purpose of the product in as pain free way as possible. This seems completely upside down. So the user must act in service of the product, rather than the product acting in service
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Quitting online.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
The recent thinkpads have hi-dpi displays, and they're perfectly fine for anything other than intensive colour work. The touchpads are fine too. I regularly bounce between a macbook and a T460, and I don't have any problems operat
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by s_kilk 9y ago
If they're operating on data supplied by the attacker, they're potentially a single hop away from executing untrusted code.
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Yes
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But remember, it's mathematically impossible for this to be a bubble.
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Yeah there's absolutely no way I'm going to use something like this if it doesn't have a web interface.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It's all class signalling. As you say, the homes themselves are nice, but they're "for poor people" so...
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Having their technology not kill people?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Were you... born yesterday?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
[Meta] Do we really need to rehash the same discussion about tree-style-tabs/insert-favourite-extension-here every time Firefox is mentioned on here?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
The answer is to (re)-impose capital controls to prevent the capital flight you mention. If we're going to live in a bright future then the days of corporations strip-mining the societies they exist in with impunity have got to come to
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by s_kilk 9y ago
So Breitbart, Fox and all their chums should be deranked too.
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A lot of that barely-scraping-by class see themselves as aspirants to the middle and upper classes, which is equal parts laughable and understandable. The term generally applied to this phenomenon is "False Consciousness", as oppo
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Python2 is the new Perl. There are gargantuan Python2 projects out in the wild which are expected to continue, and can't realistically be migrated to Python3. In 15 or 20 years we'll be looking at those jobs the same way we look a
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by s_kilk 9y ago
The word you're looking for is Decommodification.
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Firefox was, up until today, noticeably slower than Chrome. Today it's faster.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Not the most exciting release, but boy am I glad Fedora exists. I switched over from Ubuntu around this time last year and it's been so much better, more stable, better packaging, more up-to-date packages by default. A really great OS.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I wonder if this has caught on because the business want's to move fast with new email campaigns and such, but their IT people forbid them from getting a new subdomain? I wouldn't be surprised if in some organisations it's ea
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I'd suggest that the kind of people who get things started are often not well adjusted to the kind of guard-labour that's so often typical of management and C-level roles.
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>> but removing the raw access is removing what made Firefox great in the first place. The raw access is also what made Firefox slow and cumbersome compared to Chrome. The recent performance improvements would have been impossible wit
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by s_kilk 9y ago
This is amongst the silliest things I have ever read. > I simply do not care. Right, so you live in the kind of comfort and privilege that allows you to detach from society and the political process. Acknowledge that the vast majority of

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