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by toyg 1y ago
Yeah, on my work laptop after the upgrade it struggles on the most basic tasks, probably because of the crap integration with OneDrive getting even crappier. Or maybe it's the stupid extra-padded skin, reminiscent of 2005 KDE, who know
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by toyg 1y ago
> Windows Explorer is a slow piece of 90s tech, Somewhat ironically, in Win11 it has been substantiay modified. Now it crashes on basic stuff like creating an empty folder. Honestly, it's like Microsoft looked at the mess that is
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by toyg 1y ago
It has always been acceptable, in the Windows world. Machines have always been seen as inevitably fragile and ethereal. This is why the likes of Dropbox took off, among other things.
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by toyg 1y ago
> There is no longer a political home for Reagan/Bush-style conservatives That's funny, considering Bush II effectively established the coalition of business interests, religious zealots, and neofascist militias, which then e
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by toyg 1y ago
The UK PM, Tony Blair, actually pushed the "45 minutes" fabrication. Some of his MPs might have been sceptical, but Blair was very clearly itching to be a wartime PM. What you describe is more like the debate on continental Europe
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by toyg 1y ago
That's good, you might want to write that somewhere - even just to assuage people's worries in general.
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by toyg 1y ago
Yes, and "the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union" absolutely applies to examining activity of LinkedIn users from the EU. As for jurisdiction in general: the US routinely jails p
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by toyg 1y ago
> Assuming they don't have an EU presence of some sort, EU law doesn't apply to them. That's not correct. If they handle EU people's data, they are responsible for it and can still be fined. Obviously this cannot be
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by toyg 1y ago
The feature is interesting and I'm sure you're in good faith, but you're effectively doing LinkedIn-scraping, just outsourced to your users. Why not use the official API? (The GDPR implications of this service are also signif
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by toyg 1y ago
> until about 02000, Oracle's RDBMS software was probably the best in the world I don't disagree, but that's not what I said. Yes, it was a good product; but everything else that came with it was already shit. It empower
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by toyg 1y ago
I think the Oracle hate goes a bit beyond the generic hatred for successful companies (be it Microsoft, FAANG, etc). People actually used to like the products that made these companies explode. Windows 2000 was cool ; Facebook was cool
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by toyg 1y ago
Is that the one with fake breasts?
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by toyg 1y ago
> With SAAS swallowing big chunk of software business GPL is much less effective. Which is why we have the AGPL.
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by toyg 1y ago
The brand is all Tesla had left, once the competition caught up (and in practice they have). And now the brand too is damaged. Musk would have to resign and fully, publicly divest from the company, for it to recover. Or, he could start maki
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by toyg 1y ago
The coming of AR glasses has finally opened the market for "cyberdecks". I don't think they will be massively popular, but there is definitely an audience among geeks who travel a lot. I would totally buy one to pair with my
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by toyg 1y ago
Development, yes. Production, no. That's really where the rubber meets the road. Upfront costs, profit margins, and scaling challenges, are not comparable.
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by toyg 1y ago
The dullness is eerily consistent. Even in the age of privatisation, when everything is a brand, these buildings are devoid of markings. So it might well be true, we just stopped worrying about it once the cold war was officially over (once
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by toyg 1y ago
> there weren't any tech then that could think or reason The fact that we have people on HN (of all places) who are convinced that now we do have this sort of tech when it's simply not true , is really sad.
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by toyg 1y ago
Yeah but MY politics are right, and THEIR politics are wrong... /s
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by toyg 1y ago
The Renaissance might have been a golden age in certain fields , but it was a thoroughly unpleasant era in other fields. For example, people started burning "witches" at unprecedented rates. And nobody at the time was even aware
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by toyg 1y ago
I'm pretty sure plumbers do sell service plans to businesses. It's just that households don't really need regular work.
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by toyg 1y ago
This is the sort of reference I winked at - or any of the other derivatives of the infamous Clerks dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA
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by toyg 1y ago
Well, you did watch Andor, so you'll probably give a spin to the next decently-reviewed thing aimed at your demographic . Most of SW production is for children and teenagers.
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by toyg 1y ago
Rogue One was the first standalone movie in the Star Wars universe. There was a lot of uncertainty about how it would be received. I don't blame them for ham-fistedly shoving in there some extra linkage to the main canon... and even wi
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by toyg 1y ago
But there is no conflict, no interest, in exploring a building site. What are you going to talk about, contractors installing pipes? How they get the best canteen food? It's actually better for the Death Star to be unseen, so that its
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by toyg 1y ago
Yes, the overall narrative of the prequels was good and very promising. It's so unfortunate that they turned out to simply be shockingly bad as movies - "clumsly" really doesn't describe how stodgy and badly put-together
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by toyg 1y ago
> the savior of the Star Wars brand I think Rogue One is the best Star Wars ever and Andor is in the same vein. But. The savior of the Star Wars brand is always going to be the latest lightsaber-fest for 10-year-olds. That creates cust
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by toyg 1y ago
Chatting nowadays happens with thumbs. Even in previous generations, most self-taught people get fast at hunt&peck rather than learning proper touch-typing. It is not a natural skill in any way, you need a conscious effort to stop looki
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by toyg 1y ago
If you think the US is "well-educated" or that their electoral process is "the best effort", I'm afraid there is a lot more stuff you need to read about political systems and the reality of class before you can pass
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by toyg 1y ago
This would basically be VbScript 2.0, and MS killed VbScript because it had become a massive security hole.

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