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by skinkestek 1y ago
Unless you’re making changes, isn’t it enough to just link back to the original repo? That said, I’ve also been in the camp that avoids AGPL-except maybe as a way to sell a commercial license while still being "open source," or ju
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by skinkestek 1y ago
At my last two workplaces Linux has been an alternative for those who wanted it, along with Mac (unlike Linux you have to ask for Mac, but you usually get it if you have a good reason or a couple of years experience it seems) and Windows (t
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by skinkestek 1y ago
2 things: 1. My brothers (I have a number of them) mostly work in construction somehow. It feels most of them drive a VW Transporter, a large pickup or something, each carrying at least $30 000 in equipment. Seeing people I work with get la
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by skinkestek 1y ago
> They want a browser that works so well they don't have to think about it and Chrome has provided that. And now Google is slowly but surely moving to shut down ad blocking. Some of us just saw it coming a mile away.
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by skinkestek 1y ago
They single-handedly dismantled a thriving browser ecosystem. They pushed Real Name policies, used Google+ to stifle innovation, and then finished the job by shutting Google+ down. And so on.
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Some did. Some like me lined up eagerly to pay the $1 yearly license and would have been happy to pay for my family too.
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by skinkestek 1y ago
The majority of Mozilla’s revenue came through Firefox—their flagship product and by far their most recognized project. And yet, somehow, they still struggle to secure adequate funding for Firefox itself , while millions are allocated to e
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by skinkestek 1y ago
> An underrated quality of LLMs as study partner is that you can ask "stupid" questions without fear of embarrassment. Even more important for me, as someone who did ask questions but less and less over time, is this: with GPTs
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Very practical, like a credit card. Let's you do what you want here and now and then pay dearly for it afterwards :-)
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by skinkestek 1y ago
I don't know what kind of ORM you have used but I probably wouldn't like it either. My ORM does extremely much more than those "SQL helper" classes and it logs SQL nicely to the console or wherever I ask it to to log. An
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by skinkestek 1y ago
People love to rant about ORMs. But as someone who writes both raw SQL and uses ORMs regularly, I treat a business project that doesn’t use an ORM as a bit of a red flag. Here’s what I often see in those setups (sometimes just one or two,
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by skinkestek 1y ago
How about spending a month (2 new devs to be fair) setting up Cucumber Selenium without anyone knowing what it will be used for ?
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Same here with Firefox, I rely on it daily. But I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with Mozilla as an organization. They’ve been actively draining resources away from Firefox, and honestly, I have no interest in supporting them further unti
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Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic's Claude tried and the results were bad(venturebeat.com)
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by skinkestek 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8289007
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Monetizing is fine with me: There’s nothing stopping creators from showing relevant ads—ones they choose themselves. Sometimes I have even found myself wishing there had been an ad a few months ago for a software conference I just realized
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by skinkestek 1y ago
I think you're right—there’s a strange blind spot in mainstream media, even when spotting patterns should be their job. I’ve followed the situation in Iran since "Women, Life, Freedom" started trending. I've also talked
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Sometimes, the goal isn’t actually to switch - it’s to have a credible threat of switching. That alone can bring Microsoft to the table with a whole new attitude toward pricing. Munich pulled off a version of this around 2010: announce a bo
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by skinkestek 1y ago
> Just set your preferred UI language to English in System Settings – Language and Region and Excel will honor that That might work - assuming IT policies don’t block it - but it could easily break a bunch of other things on my machine.
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Probably true if you’re an advanced user using a machine with American language pack. Personally, I stick with LibreOffice. The biggest win? It doesn’t aggressively mangle my data by assuming everything is a U.S. date that needs “fixing.” A
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Honestly, I’m not entirely sure. I’ve seen the name Forgerock pop up occasionally, but I don’t know if that’s just tied to the login component on the web pages. Also, they recommend Mac users stick with Safari, which is puzzling. I mean: if
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by skinkestek 1y ago
I'm currently working at a large public institution in Norway. Half the team runs Linux, and the only real constraint is using Edge for SSO. (Firefox works too - you just have to actually log in like it's 2008.) Honestly, everythi
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by skinkestek 1y ago
I am not aware of any fibre optic drones that aren't battery powered.
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by skinkestek 1y ago
> Such as the recent article by the resident of Sri Lanka during it's civil war. So because a post was wrongly flagged (I haven't checked but I take your word for it) we should also flag other posts that the community wants? Or
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by skinkestek 1y ago
A giant, incredibly detailed documentation ppackage, down to what posters are on what walls in what rooms were leaking in western media the other day.
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Even the longest recorded strike with fibre optic seems to be a lot longer than that.
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Seems like they didn't actually test anything just asked an AI to write about a test. So many give aways (claiming older language versions are recent meaning we deal with a cut off date, the code samples, the explanations).
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by skinkestek 1y ago
> I think the intro makes clear that all languages went through the same tests. I know, but then it goes on to show widely different, half baked examples with poor explanations. After reading other top level comments I agree with the oth
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Either they ran widely different tasks in each program or the article is very misleading about what they did. Go seems to have been tested with http handling, Rust with sequential computation heavy jobs, C++ with parallel processing and so
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by skinkestek 1y ago
Neither was Windows if you knew what you were doing. I ran Windows XP for years without antivirus back in the early 2000s and so did others.

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