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by throwaway936482 6y ago
This. She is used to working in a none (to a first approximation) resource constrained environment, in terms of time, money and probably most importantly domain experts that she can draw on to create from scratch the bits that she can'
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
I don't claim an existential risk to humanity, I claim there's an existential risk to our current global civilization which manages to feed, cloth and shelter almost 8 billion people in largely tolerable conditions and which will
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
The problem with this argument is that climate change presents an existential risk for our current global civilisation and ability to support the numbers of people currently living on earth. If climate change (along with the other types of
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
I'd actually say it's one of the primary motivations, but then I think that's the reason most people do most things. On the second point freedom doesn't exist in a vacuum and exercising ones freedoms almost always involv
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
The problem with open source is not that the source is available, that you can modify it to your own needs, or that you can contribute back, it is that anyone can redistribute your software for free, and that you can't discriminate bet
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Or more accurately - developers create software for free and license it as Open Source because of social pressure within the development community. Large corporations say thank you very much and use it to make vast quantities of money witho
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
As other posters have pointed out this doesn't really hold up. I suspect it's more that since the Reagan era the USA has frequently had a self hating government, that is a government run by people that believe government itself is
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
I'm not going to trust memory, mine, yours or anyone's on this and don't have time to traipse back in time to fully research it, but that is besides the point. The point is that Google have form for engaging in privacy violat
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Just like they would never scan the content of your emails and serve up targeted ads based on that... Oh, wait, they were doing that up until 2017...
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Their bathrooms should be accessible for their employees as well, even if they're not usable by customers, because disabled people should be able to work to.
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Or you could see it as them using the Ada for it's exact intended purpose, to force businesses not to exclude disabled customers by imposing an actual cost on them that is potentially greater than the cost of complying with the act. So
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Excels usability isn't bad though. Which is why everyone uses it. It falls down in this (and lots of other cases) but if you want to see what good usability looks like, look at what people use.
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Undo has certainly sped up in the latest version and the 2.9 build due for release at the end of this month but there's still a lot of room for improvement. I'm hopeful that the increasing number of large corporate backers are wil
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
I think my issue is that a nobleish idea that supported the freedom of everyone to be a creator has morphed into something (an ideology, a secular religion) that demands that creators not be able to make a living off their creation even if
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
That's not true though. Open source licenses (as defined by the OSI) impose specific obligations upon me as creator - to distribute the source code for "no more than a reasonable reproduction cost" to users, allow users to mo
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Can I ask why it is that the "foss community" is so hell bent on restricting the freedom of creators to call their software open source if the source is open, or choose licenses that might help them actually support themselves fin
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
In my case (in the UK) my employer would have diagnoses of diseases from sick notes, occupational health assessments that include medical information, pension details, payslips and personal details of my next of kin. All this would fall und
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
So change the economic system? The balls to the wall neoliberal, winner takes all, no safety net model that the Anglo American world has been moving towards for the past thirty years is not the only one. The Anglo American post war consensu
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
It's not actually that unusual for a country to have a shrinking population. Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, and a few other central and Eastern European countries currently have declining populations, as does Japan, some due to ageing and
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Of you've modelled it so it has holes in it then yes... This is definitely one of those where it's on the artist to make sure the mesh is manifold, watertight and orientable because you want to turn it into a physical object. Ther
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
File dialogue is also much more standard since 2.82. delete has worked as expected for many many (many) (since at least 2010) years
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
The problem with the Giesecke approach is that it relies on 2 assumptions being true. 1) that infection brings long term immunity to the currently circulating strains. 2) that covid-19 will not mutate into a new strain with equivalent patho
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by throwaway936482 6y ago
Yep. This should be step 1 to n of designing software for end users. Understand what the users problems and needs actually are by watching them do their actual job rather than working from a description of what a manager three levels up thi
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by throwaway936482 7y ago
Yes because the luxury business customer's wants to have the UHD they paid a small sum for do not trump other people's needs to be able to work from home in order to eat and keep the real economy working because of a pandemic.
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by throwaway936482 7y ago
If there is total financial destruction at the level of people losing their homes, not being able to eat, having their utilities cut off etc. it will be entirely due to policy choices that prioritise maintaining the current economic system
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by throwaway936482 7y ago
This strategy is not insane only if there is also a concerted effort to protect those who are vulnerable while the virus spreads. The problem is there isn't one. At all. None. Zip. Zero. Some care homes are, off their own back, banning
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by throwaway936482 7y ago
That's because UK isn't pronounced as a word, it's pronounced as an acronym - yoo kay, so both letters are capitalised. If it was pronounced as a word - yuck perhaps - only the first letter would be capitalises.
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by throwaway936482 7y ago
Because most start ups fail and when government's fail really really bad things happen? Because government's have an utterly different set of priorities than startups which are founded with the aim of making their founders as much
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by throwaway936482 7y ago
Social mobility in the USA is actually much lower than in other developed countries.
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by throwaway936482 7y ago
I think this is really interesting, because "the enemy landed several of our aircraft(s)" is the sort of sentence I'd have hauled a student up for using as a teacher, because 1) it's a none standard, arguably incorrect u

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