silversconfused

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by silversconfused 7y ago
So this is like the IBM PC then? Horrible, obsolete, flawed, but adopted by everyone because it was released by a reliable business partner... I hope they call it FaceBuck.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Depending on where you are, that may be all legal and proper. Some states allow bicyclists to treat stops signs as yield signs and roll through. Additionally, cyclists ARE supposed to occupy the road so as not to allow a car to pass them IF
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Been there. Other dev on my team INSISTED on limiting to 80 char lines in a codebase with many long strings. It just wasn't appropriate.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Wouldn't the past tense of suse be susaw?
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by silversconfused 7y ago
I have children and a large dog, and my car is vacuumed regularly (by me, not a service), has no food in the carpet, and no stickers on the window. Teach your little ones to respect your tools.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Normal assets like those you list are cached on download. "Local storage" is a bit more like cookies in that the webmaster can store whatever they like there. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web&
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Paying down debt and building savings. We still go clothes shopping at goodwill regularly too.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
You're very generous.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
The jump from os 9 to OSX was about as significant as the jump from win9x to the NT based XP. Suddenly, multitasking stability without a huge dollop of luck was a reasonable expectation.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
I collaborate (er, troll and shitpost) on Freenode in #postmarketos, #reprap, and #devuan
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by silversconfused 7y ago
What jumped out to you as weaselly? It read more like a blameless postmortem to me than weaseling around (unlike any of the recent big PII breaches), and they acknowledged that this needs to be something they respond more quickly to directl
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by silversconfused 7y ago
I had been expecting a short blip of an update denying anything of consequence (a twitter post promised a status update, but well, you know...) but this transparency significantly exceeds expectations. Nicely done DO. You may want to explai
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by silversconfused 7y ago
A perfect example of a bad KPI (ticketing x violators) causing unexpected consequences (an increase of y accidents) instead of achieving the REAL goal (%z safer roads for all users).
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Having no free options is a sad state to be made aware of, but without such awareness no action could be taken to correct it.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
You can choose to depend on them if you wish, but I choose to be responsible for my own data in any way I can. I believe that it is the right thing to do, and I must do it to the best of my ability. It's not a fear thing. It's a c
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by silversconfused 7y ago
There's probably something like moores law for consumer device attachment pin density...
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by silversconfused 7y ago
That video tested insertions, which is not the only type of abuse phones take. Falling, being shoved into poor angles, being removed from charging at a suboptimal angle (eg, walking away with it plugged in), for example are more common caus
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Man that nicely spoke to a lot of my own struggles with ethical software... My wife gets it and appreciates the control we have over our tech lives, my son doesn't mind (yet, though he has been whining that he wants "a google wifi
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by silversconfused 7y ago
You can reimplement a compatible API in a different language that would share no code. This would be a clone, not a copy, as no work from the original author was used. The real issue here is if an API is just an interface, or could be consi
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by silversconfused 7y ago
It was all a marketing illusion to sell pentium chips and windows licenses. Bittersweet to see it go, as it was a great time to start being a technician and I certainly personally benefited from it. We're on the way back to using the R
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Mozilla will gladly protect you from other entities, but they are not user freedom respecting enough to realize that they should also not require you to submit yourself to them. My argument is that allowing users to "opt out" from
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by silversconfused 7y ago
You didn't miss much. Literally only "he said" and "she said" followed by her going home and some mention of human trafficking.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
> large magazines already illegal > video game feel Have you shot a gun in real life or in a game? There's no similarity. > Something about popehat Way to shoot the messenger and ignore the message...
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Barrier to entry was raised significantly. You have to partner with someone to make it work, as an individual. Helm looks expensive but interesting.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
This is how email was intended to work, but anti spam measures now prevent "any normal user's device" from originating a message. To deliver a message you would need to find a trusted relay to add legitimacy flags to the mess
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by silversconfused 7y ago
Preying on the weak is dishonorable.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
It's a tool for consuming cloud services. "Great mist" sure sounds rather cloudy to me.
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by silversconfused 7y ago
You were able to do those hacks because it was open to you at run time. You COULD fix it. Now if it breaks and there's no fix, you may as well have used boxed software because your options are only to wait for a fix or find something e
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by silversconfused 7y ago
It's funny how tech and food have so much in common. Wanna make a lot of money? Sell people absolute junk and tell them it is good for them. Once enough people have listened and you've got critical mass, wholesome healthy alternat
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by silversconfused 7y ago
GNU icecat is a nice firefox fork with all the call home bits disabled at build time.

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