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by tempest_ 6y ago
That is sorta my entire point. The fact that this has over-flowed into the public sphere is a failure. If they handled the situation correctly it should have been sorted internally. Whether the person in question spilled the beans at all is
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by tempest_ 6y ago
Ah the old I don't want to do my job and accept that there "was nothing I could do" which is middle management bullshit. It is fine if you think that, but accept that you are the weak one here. If you want to err on the side
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by tempest_ 6y ago
Exactly. If managing people were the same skill set as computer science perhaps we would not be seeing this play out as it has. This is seriously a massive failure on the part of Google to handle their own shit. I often wonder if these peop
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by tempest_ 6y ago
At then end of the day the incentives for large companies are always monetary. It might be that they follow ethics because the appearance to do so has a monetary public relations value. It always comes down to that, and for publicly traded
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by tempest_ 6y ago
Nah, the data has already been harvested and used so it isn't worth storing it anymore (except to you of course).
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by tempest_ 6y ago
This is seems extra relevant given the discussion in the Apache Open Meetings thread about OSS and UI/UX.
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by tempest_ 6y ago
These issues were only ever with the consumer lenovo laptops. Thinkpads never had an issue and generally work with Linux without issues (I heard this was because Redhat used Thinkpads and so there were lots of contributions to make things w
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by tempest_ 6y ago
At some point it is easier to have something sitting in a rack somewhere. That way you dont have to cook your ultrabook to run that stuff.
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by tempest_ 6y ago
That is what gave me the final push to move my PCs to linux. I kept disabling Cortana and telemetry and every update it would be back.
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by tempest_ 6y ago
Yeah I have definitely been keeping and eye on the pinephone and the various OSs. It doesnt look like it is quite there yet for me but I will be considering something like it in the next couple years.
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by tempest_ 6y ago
In 2020 when core counts are going up and up I reach for Elixir where I might have used python in the past for these reasons.
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by tempest_ 6y ago
Postgres views and functions that contain info you might want to know about a Postgres instance You can click on them and it will tell you more.
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by tempest_ 6y ago
Honestly I can tolerate those things if it means I can game on Linux and have no need to keep a copy of Windows installed. It's been 5 years or so since I moved all my computers over to Linux (was not a cortana fan) and proton definite
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by tempest_ 6y ago
You can just drop PDFs/Epubs on a Kobo, At least the one I have. It is a bit old now however.
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by tempest_ 6y ago
Called a vaulted or cathedral ceiling around here. Often looks nice but as you say in some climates you pay to heat or cool that space.