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by sjwright 7y ago
Chilling? That’s normal corporate behaviour. It would be more weird if they didn’t react.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Given that they’re currently producing over 90,000 cars per quarter, and that their products have consistently been the benchmark EV for eight years, I think there are plenty of other favourable things you could say about them? I’m not remo
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by sjwright 7y ago
Surely by making it difficult to cancel they’re really just making it easier for people to get discounts. If I were a Comcast customer I’d be calling up to cancel every few months.
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by sjwright 7y ago
My gmail is two initials and last name, so theoretically less susceptible to such errors. Yet I get misaddressed mail all the time—and a surprising amount of it is job applications!
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by sjwright 7y ago
That's a red herring because the core of this dispute is the developer ecosystem, not the hardware. The competitor to Apple's ecosystem is Google, not Samsung.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Is it a "whim" for Apple to act in accordance with their stated policy?
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by sjwright 7y ago
As someone who owns an iPhone and recommends iPhones to older family members with a wide spectrum of computer literacy, I'm very glad about that. If you want freedom buy an Android.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Right click (or control click) the app, click open, then click open in the dialogue box.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Increasing the width of the exit pathway doesn't increase the rate at which you can deal with the mountain of crap piling up at the end of the tunnel. You sound like Elon Musk. "This problem seems easy. Clearly all existing TBMs s
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by sjwright 7y ago
Those numbers are less impressive after you correct for inflation. Meanwhile if a deposit is truly anonymous, I don't see how I could ever be reassured that I could ever withdraw the money later.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Well that nicely circles back to the OP article, which shows that privacy is either an illusion or a gamble, depending on your perspective.
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by sjwright 7y ago
TBMs can only go as quickly as you can shift earth out of the tunnel. Increasing the diameter hugely increases the volume of earth. If you want to excavate a rectangular tunnel, you want a roadheader. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by sjwright 7y ago
But old stuff tends to be adorably small compared to new stuff. I doubt the sum total of intel’s legacy firmware update collection exceeds the capacity of a ten year old piece of spinning rust.
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by sjwright 7y ago
> I'd be happier if there was some notion of an inherent value in my eyeballs Your eyeballs only have value if they’re willing to look at things that other people are willing to pay to have you see. Thus ads.
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by sjwright 7y ago
> It isn't modular just because it's divided into modules. Come on, that's literally what it means. Just because your modules aren't compatible doesn't mean it isn't modular.
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by sjwright 7y ago
> Transistors don't misfire, CPUs don't miss an operation (And if they do, that's usually solved by procurement, warranty or is otherwise someone else's problem.)
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by sjwright 7y ago
I'm not sure about systemd, but launchd uses a rather verbose yet generic xml schema that is used throughout macOS, iOS etc.
888.
by sjwright 7y ago
You can redirect logs to a different agent, or you can use systemd's journald and set it to forward to syslogd.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Given that systemd is just a set of interconnecting components, is it really fair to call it monolithic? While it does ship as a unified project, my understanding is that you can substitute individual parts of it easily enough.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Launchd is arguably the inspiration for systemd and other modern alternatives. Therefore it's very similar in scope and principle. But many parts of how it works, most notably the configuration file format, are distinctly Apple-isms (o
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by sjwright 7y ago
Having a sustainable funding model for open source isn’t necessarily a bad thing IMHO. The potential upside here is that Sentry will be able to invest more into large improvements to the code knowing that their funding is sustainable. This
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by sjwright 7y ago
It’s perfect relative to the most wildly optimistic expectations anyone could have reasonably held beforehand. The vocals don’t have any significant residual artefacts from drum hits or any residual bleed-through of instruments playing the
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by sjwright 7y ago
Few countries are like the USA if you’re willing to look close enough. The differences are there even if they don’t scream out at you.
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by sjwright 7y ago
To be clear, my objection isn't to all online advertising but specifically to Zuckerberg defending Facebook's current policy with an appeal to free speech. It's not for Facebook to protect your rights here. I don't think
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by sjwright 7y ago
I'm sorry but liberal democracy doesn't infer a strict libertarian view on political campaign messaging. I don't want to assume you're American, but your fatalistic view of government sure does point towards that. I sugg
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by sjwright 7y ago
I'm not ignoring facts; I agree we're probably never going to get away from a society where the "real" free speech is a privilege of the wealthy. I only seek to remind us of the principles which run deeper than the speci
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by sjwright 7y ago
You're arguing a point nobody is defending. Obviously it costs money to speak loudly. The question is whether political speech can withstand the age of overwhelming scale, extreme anonymity, weaponised psychology and machine learning.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Sure, but we can't solve for Facebook's market dominance.
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by sjwright 7y ago
What I will say is that both extremes are unworkable—from blanket bans to the authoritarian forcing of companies to publish poltical ads against their will. Everything was fine back when the newspapers had a healthy tension between revenues
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by sjwright 7y ago
We could solve this with just a few simple requirements for online political advertising. Here's some I came up with in the past few minutes—rough ideas but let's see how they play out. • Require all advertisements to be published

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