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by tgma 2y ago
The fact that a retailer is willing to accept it despite not being forced to is absolutely the result of capitalism. If they don't, you buy from a competitor. This is not some hypothetical. People in the US routinely choose retailers b
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by tgma 2y ago
Can you think of any downside of that proposal at all? Tax inclusive total means government can screw the business and the end user and hide behind the tax inclusive price tag. Jack up the tax it seems the business is doing it.
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by tgma 2y ago
Yes I am aware and I stand by my statement. Have you actually returned stuff to stores over there? I have returned half eaten cake that I did not like the taste to Costco and didn’t have to face a weird looking employee. No law and regulati
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by tgma 2y ago
Nah. Just choose to buy the way you wish to. Vote with your money and don’t artificially restrict where there’s zero issues. Everything works out in the end. I’d much rather transact in the US than Europe. The entire retail customer experi
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by tgma 2y ago
Only one requires an overpaid clown (SCRUM master/Program Manager/etc) to do the unit conversion.
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by tgma 2y ago
Amazon is hardly close to a monopoly no matter how much some political class and their big competitors want to hammer that point. In fact I rarely buy anything from them precisely because they suck quite a bit on retail and competitors have
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by tgma 2y ago
The title is misleading. The article is not that dating apps don’t work well (they clearly work if you look at the stats for relationships). It’s that they haven’t cracked how to make dating apps be a good business for them.
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by tgma 2y ago
Why bother - isn't the return policy enough? I'm assuming they are optimistic on new returns being new, but they are liberal on the return end to compensate.
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by tgma 2y ago
Pretty much every layoff, including restructurings, are likely to select for the underperforming individuals. No additional signal really. Usually it is sugared over to pamper people's feelings.
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Welcoming Prodvana to Databricks: Investing in Next-Gen Infrastructure(databricks.com)
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by tgma 2y ago
The WordPerfect story as told by an early executive, Pete Peterson: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/almostperfect.pdf
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by tgma 2y ago
The criminal act is in official capacity. The benefit is personal.
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by tgma 2y ago
I have done it in proprietary settings. Nothing off the top of my head. The gRPC libraries themselves are pretty straightforward. You just need to use thrift IDL parser to output stubs that use gRPC under the hood. The C++ one may be slight
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by tgma 2y ago
gRPC is deliberately designed not to be dependent on protobuf for its message format. It can be used to transfer other serialization formats. However, the canonical stub generator, which is not hard to replace at all, assumes proto so when
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by tgma 2y ago
Interestingly, very often security is also not the real goal of entities that are supposedly in charge of security, whether specialized security vendors or in house security teams; compliance and cover-your-ass is. I have seen more than onc
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by tgma 2y ago
Well, one reason the analogy is bad is the HVAC industry does not have the luxury of copyright in the first place. They have to rely on patents and trade secrets. The whole GPL concept is hinged on and is a hack on copyright and would be re
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by tgma 2y ago
I don't share the same feelings about GPL idea and see it as extremely valuable, especially now that rug pull and Amazonification is pervasive. I do share the feeling towards the free terminology. Over the years he has been fond of
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by tgma 2y ago
SELinux is a couple decades old. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/selinux-gett...
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by tgma 2y ago
I don’t know where you got the suggestion of sainthood. I personally am not a communist-adjacent like he is and believe me I cringed when I typed the term “oppressed.” The point is that most people, even most new hackers, misunderstand who
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by tgma 2y ago
If some security policy is only required for compliance and the security team agrees, the security team should do the bare minimum and look the other way smiling when the users circumvent that policy. Same with a good legal team.
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by tgma 2y ago
> or write a cron job that resets a managed setting to a more palatable one every time the corporate security team enforces a value. You write as if those are things one should feel guilty for. I proudly admit that I have done such thing
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by tgma 2y ago
Yes. I was careful to say "he wrote an Emacs" mainly as a supporting argument that he indeed a Hacker, unlike many contemporaries interested in technology who merely read TechCrunch.
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by tgma 2y ago
P.S. Struck me as quite sad to see "Hacker" News crowd who presumably should know better sometime mock RMS, an actual, proven, hacker, without having an understanding of his principles, even if they are not in agreement with them.
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by tgma 2y ago
I think it is worthwhile to understand and steelman Stallman [lolz]: Stallman is not anti-security and is indeed pro-privacy[1], i.e. you should be able to deploy security systems to keep your data secure from adversaries. However, a securi
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by tgma 2y ago
We have gone full circle back to building the HPC supercomputer after quarter century of clusters.
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by tgma 2y ago
By that metric iPhone 15 is a minor variation of iPhone 4. That doesn't seem to have hurt Apple. Arguably the new S and X are built on the new 3 architecture from 2018 not the other way around.
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by tgma 2y ago
This is actually a legit context in which GNU and Linux distinction matters and improves readability. "vanilla Linux" is really referring to GNU.
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by tgma 2y ago
On servers, why would one run Ubuntu LTS instead of just Debian?
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by tgma 2y ago
It seems his philosophy is sticking it to Apple and Tim Cook. While Linux might be a decent experience, it doesn't appear to me that the Framework laptop experience with Linux is comparable to what you get from the M1+ Mac. Even Linus
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by tgma 2y ago
Now the application processor is so cheap that Apple puts one in their display out of spite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Studio_Display#:~:text=T... .

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