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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
This is a really terrible example for your argument considering that the digital camera was invented at Kodak but they refused to market it https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/1...
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
> It's like, imagine that I arrange to meet a friend in a pub, but he suggests a phone call instead. I can go to the pub and make the phone call from the pub. But why? Brilliant! I'm stealing this!
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
I think you're shooting at the wrong target. There's a profound and unfortunate association with the swastika in the western world. It doesn't really matter if there are 'good intentions', there are plenty of people
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
You seem to be under the misapprehensions that: - Anyone can re/claim any symbol - No other symbols have been banned You may not like or agree with it, but symbols do have owners and they do matter. Look at today's news around the
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Whilst the intention may be admirable, it doesn't look like this would be compliant with the GDPR right to be forgotten which applies to any natural person who can be identified.
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
This has been discussed previously and one of the major issues is that many devices require internet connectivity to complete initial setup before they can be used.
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Sounds like you haven't worked in an environment where this happens. You get regarded as 'the expert to deliver a good outcome' sure. But you're ALSO expected to deliver an aggressive roadmap of a while load of other stu
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
That's not how it's been used: You set up an umbrella company with yourself as a shareholder You pay yourself minimum wage, thus paying little income tax and national insurance You then pay yourself and any other shareholders a di
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Probably originated using speech to text recognition rather than a keyboard
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
The thing is that without some form of search cataloguing, even if there were useful information in there, you would have to already know about it in order to look for the details and the information would then lack context, e.g. subsequent
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
It's the xps13 plus. A different model with a hidden trackpad and a keyboard very reminiscent of Apple's butterfly keyboard together with touchbar
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
There's also the manufacturers' side of this equation. If you have lifetime purchase versions, users will expect a period of support that will probably be longer than the cadence between new releases. As a result you wind up suppo
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Sure it's fantastic in a corporate environment. Not so fantastic for personal devices. Basically this: https://youtu.be/XgFbqSYdNK4
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Not poster you asked but: With Uber you don't pay the driver directly. The price is set by a third party and so is the recommended route. Tricky to swindle the rate, route or tips. In areas where drivers have to be licensed, that is en
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
There's also the issue of signing in or applying a licence file on a system owned by someone else. In some environments this simply isn't allowed.
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
It's not zero sum. "Some 74 per cent of the 114,000 convictions for licence fee dodging in 2019 were for women" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/decriminalis... TV licence prosec
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
As TFA article mentions, we already have Ansible and friends. You can use Ansible with AWS https://www.ansible.com/integrations/cloud/amazon-web-servic... if you want to
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
So why describe him as a "greybeard" then? It are you claiming to have met many younger and/or female 'greybeards'? If your answer is that 'it's just part of the story'. Well that's precisely the
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
They're just begging for it to be called 'Dooku' when it breaks, aren't they?
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
What hasn't changed? There are many projects based on not following Mozilla's breaking changes https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/waterfox_firefox_fork...
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by squiffsquiff 4y ago
Probably stands for Circumference Radius Tangent In that context, but 'CRT is banned'
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
I think this take is a little bit naive given that a lot of the customers using Okta are themselves regulated by things like healthcare records legislation, financial services regulations, GDPR, and similar. It isn't an option to not u
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
I hate to burst your bubble, but Anton Babenko's terraform modules are extremely popular. The difference here is that he added a input with a default value to a specific release version. Generally, if you're using terraform profes
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
Seems pretty obvious why the account has been suspended- user created a wilfully offensive user name and email domain
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
Whilst that may be true, it's common in many fields for women to get paid less than men doing the same jobs. This has become such an issue that in some places organisations and now required to report on their gender pay disparity, e.g.
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
It's a formal capability of the device and a design goal- see https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/android-12-the-ars-t... Private Compute Core—Running AI code in a virtual machine?
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
You forgot to include long walks to and queues for oversubscribed W.C.s
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
You're thinking here of front-end developers. Everyone else: Platform Back end Mobile Etc Is not targeting median consumer grade laptops At my org the PO's had to upgrade from MacBook air to MacBook Pro in order to be able to scre
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
There's a significant precedent in this area: Rubella. Vaccinations are typically provided at 3-4 months of age (e.g. in UK). Rubella is typically a relatively mild disease with the exception of pregnancy when it can have severe effect
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by squiffsquiff 5y ago
> 'I imagine'... Yeah, you missed the part where I'm zoning out on reddit and checking my phone during the boring bits of video calls, didn't you? The real world isn't imaginary and I don't want my entire re

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