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by toyg 11mo ago
Probably confused 2024 with 2034, when it will actually expire.
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by toyg 11mo ago
You're buying an established brand to augment yours, regardless of what that brand does. It's a sort of SEO. In this case, though, I disagree that there was no competition. Ecosystems like Arduino are real threats to large incumbe
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by toyg 11mo ago
> Wordpad was good for some stuff, I forget what It was a proper WYSIWYG editor working with rich text, effectively a poor man's Word. Microsoft should have turned it into a markdown editor, instead of killing it.
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by toyg 11mo ago
In a culture obsessed with individual success, helping someone else does not have any obvious upside, but plenty of clear downsides - what if he gets so good that I look worse in comparison? What if he stays the same and I look like a bad m
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by toyg 11mo ago
Clinton at least has not been in office for 25 years. Trump is still in office. Surely the priority should be to get the bad people out of institutions asap...?
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by toyg 11mo ago
Just put sshd on a nonstandard port, and 95% of the traffic goes away. Vandals can't be bothered with port-scanning, probably because the risk of getting banned before the scan is even complete is too high. But I agree that keys are no
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by toyg 11mo ago
"Seem". Until they don't. I've had multiple instances of Airpods stopping to connect with phones until I charged them at least once with original Apple cables. They might work fine for months, then stop ehaving unless co
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by toyg 11mo ago
If by "the coal industry" you mean people in charge of Chernobyl and Fukushima...
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by toyg 1y ago
> They will not do that Says you. But companies can be extreme maximalists when it comes to copyright, and burn money just to "hit 1 to 'educate' 100".
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by toyg 1y ago
> Claiming that everything is a conspiracy, without evidence, except the things that have documentary evidence Because where is the fun in that? If something is documented, your brain is not doing any work; it's where the canvas i
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by toyg 1y ago
Well, the project was technically started by Mubarak, it's been 30 years in the making. Sisi undoubtedly helped, but he also helped a bunch of digs and other activities; he just sees (like Mubarak before him) Egypt's historical we
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by toyg 1y ago
> Le Méridien, never heard of Big in North Africa and generally around the Med. Ownership changed quite a few times, I didn't know it ended up in Marriott.
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by toyg 1y ago
> I know because I have seen it Companies may or may not handle strikes properly. If it were that easy, industrial interests (and their emissaries, like Reagan and Thatcher) would not have spent more than a century trying to break un
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by toyg 1y ago
> I would argue Java is more of a choice for "Enterprise". .NET was literally created to replace the Java enterprise ecosystem. It never managed to completely displace it, but effectively gained around half of the enterprise
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by toyg 1y ago
It is ironic when companies like Microsoft and Google end up showing the sort of "permanent reimplentation" behaviour that used to be typical of opensource, whereas certain opensource projects persist seemingly forever. Python, Dj
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by toyg 1y ago
Come on, it's clear he meant "commercial libraries not in the default Microsoft SDK".
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by toyg 1y ago
> certainly excluded Farage as much as they could for the longest possible time This is a narrative. Reality is something else. These stats are from June of last year; by that point, Farage (leader of a party with barely an MP for most
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by toyg 1y ago
> _contributing_ to it as members of the public on an anonymous forum Your naivete is endearing. Every general-purpose public forum, these days, is heavily manipulated by bots.
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by toyg 1y ago
Just FYI, those "number" things you mention are called "addresses" - IP address, MAC address... I don't know if your use of "number" is an affectation or intentional, but in a crowd of IT geeks it makes yo
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by toyg 1y ago
I profoundly disagree. Politicians might despise the tabloid press, but they are still very much susceptible to it - because their barrage inevitably seeps into broadsheets and the general press. A simple example: the likes of the Guardian
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by toyg 1y ago
Politicians, who write the actual laws, are all extremely sensitive to tabloids.
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by toyg 1y ago
> This is clearly [...] about controlling American corporations Not exactly. On the surface, it's about kowtowing to pearl-clutching UK NGOs that are empowered by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch's hysterical tabloids; and undernea
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by toyg 1y ago
I think it's more that fixing teeth is largely about replicating a specific material with one-off procedures, whereas fixing hair is all about controlling a complex never-ending process that is linked to all sorts of factors. Also, eve
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by toyg 1y ago
> "Ask forgiveness, not permission" is fine in order to move things forward No, in a community of peers that's a great way to burn goodwill, particularly among volunteers. One should "ask forgiveness" when mana
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by toyg 1y ago
mixed with good ol' white-man-saviour attitudes.
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by toyg 1y ago
> why does it have to be the case that the leadership of an opensource project have to emulate [...] tech sector. Because they live in the same places. They go to the same restaurants, they have the same conversations, they have person
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by toyg 1y ago
5x as corrupt as it is now, or 5x as corrupt as the Chinese counterpart? Because they're pretty corrupt too...
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by toyg 1y ago
- hair regrowth
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by toyg 1y ago
It's also dropping like a stone, which is why they are resorting to these tricks to inflate one of the few metrics that can be observed from outside (how much traffic they send to other sites). Where I live, X has completely exited pol
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by toyg 1y ago
uh, where...?

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