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Both were absurdly slow and resource intensive.
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> Does having a daycare for highly paid adults to dick around all day create innovation? You can't force creativity out of people no matter how much you pay them or how well you treat them Google is proof that yes, it does create i
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> absolutely has to do with your entirely unsupported claim that chatting with an uncensored LLM will cause people to commit violent acts https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-la...
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> The vast majority of people are paying separately for all kinds of stuff. And a lot of them already suffer from subscription fatigue.
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Google didn't kill the Edge browser, Microsoft gave up. If Mozilla can have an independent from scratch browser, Microsoft of all companies could have one too. It's just easier and cheaper for them to rebrand Chromium and call it
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And they reimbursed all purchases, including hardware you got to keep. As sad as killing Stadia was (it's still the best cloud gaming service, the UX was marvelous), it couldn't have been done better.
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Because the vast majority of people don't want to and have zero intention pf paying separately for email, maps, navigation, browser, etc. In fact, that's how things used to be before Google and their ilk used ads to make an ecosys
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Because we're still in the "get them hooked" stage where AI startups and Google/Meta are losing money on AI. Once they start properly monetising (aka making users pay for what it actually costs them to train and run), it
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"for all we know", "is not proof" are not "proving wrong". It's sowing doubt of an analysis without anything concrete and without providing an alternative.
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(guessing you are American) and there have been similar abuses by US troops, like infamously in Haiti in the early 20th century, where the locals had to ask a US Marine for the ballot of the candidate they wanted to vote for. But I'm n
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> In this case, the law has no moral valence That's not how laws work.
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Voting with a foreign military presence doesn't count. Also, a lot of the kids are orphans (their parents having been murdered by the Russians). And a lot have parents trying to trace them and get them back (there's a whole associ
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Do you think JetBrains are making money of usage statistics of their IDE? It's much more likely they use those stats to know which parts and features of their products are used, and therefore which need improvements/love/prom
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> anonymised" data is often extremely easy to de-anonymise If it's location data, yes. If it's your IDE usage stats (plugins, file types, whatever), not really.
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> "People like you" - you lost me here. I'm asking out of interest, not because I'm a useful idiot for Russians I'm sorry, but you are. Might not be your intention (I strongly doubt it), but you are. > and I
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> As always, westerners leave in an information bubble. Chechnya was always a part of Russia. It was a civil war. Ukraine was always a part of Russia until 1991, btw, there was never a separate country called "Ukraine" before 1
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> There's many things in this world I would be willing to die for, but a country > human rights I see where there is a gap in your understanding. Ukrainians and the Ukrainian army aren't fighting for the abstract concept of
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No answer, good to know you agree that companies like BNSF have the money to have basic human decency and empathy towards their employees. Yes, I edited my comment to add more data points when I collected them.
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Linux and Python the projects don't make any money. Various orgs that contribute to them and build off them do, but that's irrelevant. WordPress mostly make money hosting, and are indeed a good example. Redis somewhat, but it wasn
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> I don't like that GitLab lets you nest organizations and such, it makes it so painful to find things over time. I appreciate GitHub doesn't do this, I view it as a plus Nah, I hate that. At my job we have a few different orgs
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> As far as I can tell (and I am merely hours away from the Ukraine border), the land he has occupied is precisely what he set out to achieve, and it doesn't look like that is about to change any time soon. Is that why the best Russ
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India is not US aligned. They're an independent country with an independent foreign policy, doing whatever makes sense for them. Buying Russian gas on the cheap, buying French, American, Russian military equipment.
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> Putin is a particularly deranged type of fascist though, much like Bush, who is okay making the poor calculation of a Ukrainian invasion for the benefit of a wartime economy While Putin is undoubtedly deranged, I think his goals with i
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To be fair, they have been behind the competition for many years. Gitlab had extremely good CI, security scanning, organisational concepts, etc. for years before GitHub introduced their ones (and Actions still has a worse UX, and GitHub sti
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IMO there's a higher chance they're worried about bigger fish selling their project as a service than VC investment.
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You can't make such a claim without any backing. While undoubtedly it's the case for some, I strongly doubt everyone does it on purpose. It's just that orgs mature with time and realise their original naiveté. Do you have any
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Their own website: https://www.bnsf.com/about-bnsf/financial-information/ Every quarter you click on, <70% operating ratio, $1.something billion net income.
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The topic of this conversation is BNSF and their ilk, I just threw Apple as a fun "you're even more wrong with your anecdote than with your main statement". What's your excuse for them abusing their employees? Why can&#x
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> If you believe in the ideology of software freedoms, you don’t release nonfree software. It’s open source cosplay Or, you believe in open source software, want yours to be available, forkable and even why not get community contribution
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I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro, which is made by Apple with their net profit margin of 24.3% for Q4 2024. BNSF, one of the companies which is the topic of this conversation, has an operating ratio of 68% for 2024 (how much of their r

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