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by sealeck 2y ago
> I don't think a "reasonable person" from the perspective of a court (non-developer, non-technical, end-user) can be expected to know (or even learn) how to compile software in this way I mean I don't think the EU ca
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by sealeck 2y ago
@dang would it be better to change the link to an article from another (reputable) newspaper?
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by sealeck 2y ago
My understanding (and I am not a lawyer) is that under European data protection law the important thing is to obtain user consent for this; I think there's a very reasonable argument that informing the user that you collect telemetry
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by sealeck 2y ago
Wouldn't that would imply that Windows support is necessary for software to be good? Often it's easier to write good software when you target a specific platform (rather than spending time troubleshooting problems that occur acros
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by sealeck 2y ago
It's a pretty decent editor to be fair. The AI features are probably there to raise money from investors.
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by sealeck 2y ago
I'd rather use a tool that has footguns X,Y as opposed to one without them so that when (separate) footgun Z arises in both languages the developers are more used to handling lots and lots of bugs?
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by sealeck 2y ago
Sure – Apple are trying to stop people who don't know what they're doing from getting hurt. Hence the strong scrutiny on what is allowed on the App Store (whether it's reasonable to charge 30% of revenue is an entirely differ
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by sealeck 2y ago
> "grading on a curve" is a good idea, and if athletics wasn't run that way, nobody would watch. Good thing that enterprise software and athletics are different things!
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by sealeck 2y ago
> This is why the "no sql" family of databases see more predictable results for a lot of uses. If you can't do complicated queries, then you don't have that peril to worry about. Can't you also just, well, not u
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by sealeck 2y ago
> what has actually happened is that the domain is blacklisted by entirely too powerful entities. The problem lies with these blacklisting entities, not with the domain, and the solution must be done there, too. It should not be a domain
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by sealeck 2y ago
You'd usually describe a house as haunted if something bad has happened in the past (e.g. a murder, evil spirits, etc) and people are superstitious about this (e.g. believe some ghosts are still living in the house). Hard to see how an
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by sealeck 2y ago
I think this an uncharitable take – the parent comment is just proposing an improvement that would really help them given their colour-blindness (they also say they like the visualisation). Personally I find part of the reason for putting t
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by sealeck 2y ago
I'm aware of that.
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by sealeck 2y ago
> The other version in the West is he moves to rural Montana and sends bombs through the mail. There might be a middle ground between the two?
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by sealeck 2y ago
I think this is one of positives of standardised public exams (e.g. IB, Abitur, A Levels, etc); the people implementing them take cheating very seriously.
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by sealeck 2y ago
BYD was founded in 1995 and BYD Auto was founded in January 2003 (Tesla in July 2023).
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Same goes with Tesla. Isn't BYD a success?
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by sealeck 2y ago
At least CS is a real discipline in the actual spirit of the original prizes, whereas (as the Nobel family has pointed out) the economics prize probably has Alfred Nobel rolling in his grave.
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by sealeck 2y ago
No but if you don't have a scientific base or money it's hard to be a geopolitical power.
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by sealeck 2y ago
There will always be some crime in any financial centre, but I think there's limited evidence that there's proportionally more financial crime going on in London than e.g. NYC or Frankfurt.
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by sealeck 2y ago
For context the entire continent of Africa has roughly the same GDP as the UK.
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by sealeck 2y ago
They haven't marketed it as "metaverse" to try to please investors, it's something they've been working on for years and have now got a working initial version they've released.
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by sealeck 2y ago
And it turns out that plane crashes are much more serious failures than logging sensitive data internally. Not to say what Facebook has done isn't an embarrasing failure that really shouldn't happen, but they're clearly not t
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by sealeck 2y ago
> the most affluent areas of London are the outer boroughs Is this why housing is more expensive in central London?
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by sealeck 2y ago
> So, why hasn't any other tax haven replicated what they have? Luxembourg, Switzerland?
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by sealeck 2y ago
> Edit: in case you're wondering, no, there's no catch: Singapore has ultra-modern infrastructure, great healthcare, and they're enviable in every way. The catch is that a lot of the money comes from being a tax haven.
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by sealeck 2y ago
> The UK, for instance, has the opposite problem, where becoming a doctor is much easier According to a friend who qualified in the UK and now practices in the US the _process_ of becoming a doctor is much harder in the UK: medical schoo
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by sealeck 2y ago
Well usually what you do here is start randomly sampling.
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by sealeck 2y ago
> it is hard not to think negative things about a union being pushy at a place like Boeing Hard not to think negative things about a union being "pushy" at a place where there are serious cultural failings around safety, the co
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by sealeck 2y ago
I agree but not because "boohoo people aren't nice enough to us" – because it's a tough market to break into with (justifiably) high regulatory scrutiny, high R&D costs and few investors who know what they are doing.

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