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by sokoloff 1y ago
Suppose you’re going over the billing cap based on your storage consumption, how would AWS stop the continued consumption without deleting storage?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> If they win then it means any recipient of GPLed binaries can sue for compliance. I hope they win the case (meaning, I think it's both morally and legally correct), but I hope that the conclusion of the case is not what this sente
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by sokoloff 1y ago
IANAL, but my understand is that legally, the preamble is not part of the terms of the copyright license itself and if the preamble can be construed to provide something, but the actual license does not contain it, then it's not part o
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I've never worked at Google, but I'd be shocked if they won't use GPL code. AGPL, sure, as lots of companies won't touch AGPL code (so, if you don't want companies to use your code, license it under AGPL). But GPL i
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think there are two differences there: FSF wants to be able to relicense as/if the legal landscape evolves, but in a way consistent with the original license aims. I fully support this (and I want to give them this flexibility), b
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m not sure which half of the name you find terrible. I read it somewhat more positively (or at least clear in communications) as “ID. means electric” and “Polo” means what Polo has always meant in the VW lineup: their mini/compact en
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by sokoloff 1y ago
By the time detergent and water reaches the bearing, you've already lost. There is a seal that prevents that from happening and when that seal fails, the bearings will be not far behind. It is a grease-lubricated bearing; 60°C detergen
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Less than 100 lines of code to give the overwhelming majority of consumers "LanguageModel is not available." and a free snipe hunt for 0.5% of them to try to figure out how to enable it via chrome flags or snapshot browsers.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> even if they engaged in it I can't imagine any way that could be abused... (Cue "I'm going to write me a new mini-van this afternoon.")
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Most job descriptions contain some version of "other duties as assigned", IMO with good reason. No job description can realistically capture every responsibility ; this language helps prevent bad-faith disputes when new tasks or
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think most significant sized operations are built and succeed or fail based on the quality and leadership of the B players. You just can't find enough A players to build an entire [large] company of them and hopefully the C players c
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by sokoloff 1y ago
This is under-appreciated, very rarely talked about, and spot on! I am personally guilty of being far too lenient and tolerant in overlooking "hard to work with". Bluntly, as an engineer, I enjoyed working with a few particular &q
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Assuming that works for the determining of the standardized, publicized assessment method, I think it stops working as well when people look at the published assessment method and have huge incentives to find ways to boost the assessed va
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s simple, hard to game, and executable which puts it ahead of many other ideas on the topic. But: Land above a subway station or in a main business square is worth A LOT more than the same amount of land 1300 feet away. Waterfront land i
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Right, the incentive just has the opposite sign now. Find a way to take basement storage and turn it into just barely legally qualifying as bedrooms and bathrooms, even though every human would immediately classify and value it as if it was
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by sokoloff 1y ago
When I was shopping for homes, I found several things: the city's records of improvements was comically disconnected from the ground truth (admittedly much of that was due to taxation of improvements which would wash out in the long-ru
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> run a regression on comparable sales and take human judgment out of it. It's extremely rare to find enough comparable sales of parcels of land only to run a regression on. In an intensely developed area, the overwhelming majorit
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In most places, registered cars are taxed but unregistered cars are not, so classic/museum or inoperative cars can be owned without paying the government a fee every year. (This makes sense/feels fair to me. Registered cars are
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It's clear that you can opt out of AIT (mm wave) scanning if you don't have SSSS and uncertain otherwise. From the TSA website, https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/factsheets/technology , "Most pass
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by sokoloff 1y ago
My kids are teens. We have an analog clock on the wall in the dining room. It's shocking to me how many of their friends over for dinner (who are all on the "definitely not dumb" part of the distribution) either cannot read i
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think the upthread argument is the weak one in that regard. "See how terrible it is that banks offer a new method to get more convenient service for people who have an Apple or Google device? Because I choose not to, I had to use a p
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Exactly, as was demonstrated by GGP's "had to go through to second level support". That seems perfectly reasonable to me, yet seems somehow objectionable to GGP. " Can you believe that I had to prove my identity to the
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Anywhere that US TSA runs the AIT scanners, you can opt out of them*. That is domestic US airports plus airports like Toronto and Dublin where you, for practical purposes, clear into the US on foreign soil and land in the US as a domestic f
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Nor did GGP's approach require them to be in google or apple's walled garden. That's exactly the point: there's an easy and common method that many people choose to use, but there is still a perfectly working method for
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> I called their support line for a lost card, and had to go through to second level support because I didn't have the app. What’s the alternative? The bank sending out a debit card to anyone who calls up and says “I’m @kristov, tru
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Amara’s Law – “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Related to your observation: A piece of the original Wright Flyer was landed on Mars just a bit over 117 yea
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by sokoloff 1y ago
This (and other interventions) will help to the extent that they cause more housing to be built. If they will more than another change, it will durably improve housing costs. If it doesn’t make more housing, but only changes how it’s bought
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I wonder if it’s ever been tried and, if so, how those economies and populations are doing as compared to the exploitive systems that Microsoft and FAANG workers are forced to endure.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
At Signature at Logan, I had to go through formal non-FBO security (including a metal detector) in our Part 91 light piston single. I’m virtually certain it was TSA (but could have been contracted). I’ve had metal detector and uniformed sec
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> If you charter a plane you can be as anonymous as you like In practical terms: Not any more. You must present a REAL-ID compliant ID as of May 7, 2025 for Part 135 (charter) flights using aircraft with maximum certificated takeoff weig

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