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by tormeh 4mo ago
To me, installing software from the AUR sounds a lot like downloading Windows software from .info sites and torrents. It's mostly fine, but it's not exactly a surprise when things go wrong.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
I think it's more that Google and Meta have the surplus engineering resources to implement IPv6 for what is essentially no reason.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
> apart from the chicken egg problem "But other than that, Ms. Lincoln, how was the play?"
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by tormeh 4mo ago
This stuff is obvious now, but I think back then this was probably quite clever.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
I accidentally became the user of an IPv6-only device a while back for some obscure reason I never could figure out. Let me tell you: There are no IPv6-only users. Absolutely nothing except Google, Facebook, and YouTube works. Any website n
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by tormeh 4mo ago
Windows where you just download .exe and .msi files from random websites. Not a Linux distro, but the closest security model I can think of.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
True, but it's a provocative and widely understood example. Some things are lost in steamrolling everyone, basically, but it's still not a mistake.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
Visited China recently and it's pretty astonishing what can be achieved if you just ignore the whiners, complainers, environmentalists, and local governments. NIMBYs? Get lost. Have unique local culture? Funny but no. There's a sp
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by tormeh 4mo ago
In big enough projects this is the job of a civil engineer. The architect vs engineer fight that ensues is widely memed. This is of course mostly an issue in one-off projects with ambitious architects.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
I learned this early in a conservative org. Preventing things is risky. Just keep the solution ready for when things go wrong because then you'll get approval.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
I'd say the evil lies in the infliction of suffering, not the killing or eating.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
Criminal gangs specifically recruit legal minors because they are able to do things legal adults can't: Repeatedly and with impunity violate the law. Whether it's smuggling or assassinations, using legal minors make it all a lot l
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by tormeh 4mo ago
That sounds like a lot, but your music player probably costs that much in RAM anyway. Seriously, with the current RAM prices we as an industry have to figure out a way to use less of it. Laptops with 4GB of RAM are still common and are goin
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by tormeh 4mo ago
This is when you say "We support Ubuntu", and honestly that's fine.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
I've been in an acquisition where code quality was important. But it was probably an edge case since the buyer just wanted to turn the company into a feature, and ease of integration into the buyer was important.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
I think in order to call youself a cloud you must offer blob storage, managed Kubernetes, and managed Postgres. That is the absolute minimum to me.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
You cannot possibly with a straight face claim that Scaleway is a VPS provider. Hetzner, sure, but Scaleway offers compute and database services in the same way that AWS does - just fewer.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
If packaging and marketing stopped mattering so much Coca-cola would go out of business immediately. Sugar water is cheap and simple to make. The off-brands taste just as good if not better in blind testing. The only defense they have is th
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by tormeh 4mo ago
It's a bit strange, but a huge handout from the EU/France and a huge AI lab investment round are different orders of magnitude. The necessary sums are just not politically possible. How do you sell spending the equivalent of ten
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by tormeh 4mo ago
It's not like the US has that many either. It's not the kind of winner-takes-all network effects industry that attracts venture capital outside of the Musk reality distortion field.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
Yeah, this is just the difference between the "cash cow" and "question mark" companies on the BCG growth-share matrix. The Chinese companies will sooner or later turn into stodgy cash cows themselves.
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by tormeh 4mo ago
I have to disagree. The low resolution of the screen is my biggest issue. Many UI elements and such are just genuinely difficult to read. Modern games are designed for 1080p or more. Rendering them at 800p gives quite poor results. I mostly
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by tormeh 4mo ago
This is a key observation and I also remember those dumb discussions. The top end of the fine scale is more or less theoretical if you demonstrate any willingness to improve. Looks like Temu has engaged in really bad practices, and they sti
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by tormeh 5mo ago
Mistral is not large, though.
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by tormeh 5mo ago
It's the opposite, if anything. The US has the best conditions for running a company. It is only natural that the highest margin sectors of the day (whatever that may be) is located there. Anything else would be evidence of market dist
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by tormeh 5mo ago
Why would anyone build that when you get curb stomped by the three US providers if you try? There's a reason EU providers don't attack that market directly. Now, if there was a market that were prohibited from using US cloud provi
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by tormeh 5mo ago
The meaning has drifted, appropriately enough. Betäubungsmittel originally meant painkillers, as you can tell from the word. It's just that now every recreational drug is labeled as such.
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by tormeh 5mo ago
Not every drug is an opioid. We have prohibition laws designed for opioids blindly applied to any (in the western context) nontraditional drug. The German law on drugs is literally called "the painkiller law", for instance.
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by tormeh 5mo ago
> Well said: why does a tax break bother people so much? Several reasons. It distorts the market for one. One tax rate for me, another for thee. That's government picking favorites. Generally regarded as a bad thing.
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Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue(revswap.ai)
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