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by toyg 1y ago
> it was just a lightning fast Java code editor Uh, I don't think it's ever been "lightning fast"... Great at refactoring, navigation, and boilerplate generation, yeah; fast, no.
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by toyg 2y ago
Star Wars was definitely not a billion-dollar franchise at that time. Alec McGuinness famously negotiated to earn a percentage of gross revenue , because the salary offered was a pittance and he didn't expect any profits to ever be ge
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by toyg 2y ago
> David Lynch gave him a role in the show Not just "a" role - he became "the" key role in the series, the evil spirit that moves the entire plot. Which was both absolute genius (turning a mistake into the first, men
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by toyg 2y ago
Don't worry, that will also end soon. Regimes that require political subservience from universities, like the current US administration, inevitably result in poor research capabilities in the long run.
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by toyg 2y ago
I think you mean it's SOAP all over again.
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by toyg 2y ago
People always forget something, when talking about Japanese vending machines: vandalism. Vandalism is relatively uncommon in Japan, whereas it's sadly endemic in most Western societies.
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by toyg 2y ago
> Apple needs tariff relief Tim Cook is going to find out very soon what happens to anyone who makes a deal with Donald Trump: he gets what he wants, and they don't get paid. > I’m sure he doesn’t support the admin Why, are y
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by toyg 2y ago
> a lot of people assume the economic consequences like these have not been understood by the WH I think you're making the same mistake a lot of observers are making: you're looking at this from an economic perspective, and t
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by toyg 2y ago
These are commercial decisions, taken way above product people in most cases. Exploitative and user-hostile management occasionally drops their mask of serene and paternalistic benevolence, revealing the ugly truth of cut-throat corporate l
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by toyg 2y ago
You can be secure in the knowledge that the Chinese Communist Party can and will eavesdrop on any session.
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by toyg 2y ago
EPM products were originally built on SQLServer (or on nothing, like Essbase), and then adapted to run on Oracle. So it's more like "the products commercially forced to run on Oracle, like EPM". Not that it matters that much
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by toyg 2y ago
Lol, nice try, I have enough self-running devs... I guess it's a cultural thing. Our CEO and CTO still commit code every other week (occasionally driving us mad), it's still a very bottom-up org despite having thousands of people
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by toyg 2y ago
Although an element of prestige was obviously there, they went high also for the usual reason: cost. Italian cities like Firenze and Bologna, at the time, were among the richest in the world, and real-estate costs were sky-high. Buying land
524.
by toyg 2y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. Firenze went through several waves of 1. being ruled by a certain noble family, usually with French or Papal connections 2. a rebellion happens; a new "communal" government sees other no
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by toyg 2y ago
There are documents from the time and even paintings from later times, supporting these projections. You can see a partial list of the towers that have since disappeared here : https://www.torridibologna.it/torri-scomparse&#
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by toyg 2y ago
> Bologna is famous for still having two intact towers Famous fact but actually incorrect: there are many more, they're just a bit more difficult to spot than the two central ones. In total there are 22 towers still standing in so
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by toyg 2y ago
They also were pioneers of modern industrial practices. They researched the best approaches to workforce scalability, settling on a model of many distributed offices spread around cheap peripheral suburbs - something that might sound banal
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by toyg 2y ago
Lol, I'm a junior PM and I have the same question - in the end, developers tend to do whatever the fuck they want anyway...
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by toyg 2y ago
That's extremely useful. Should it be also stated in documentation? Yes, tooltips alone should not be acceptable. But here they are doing their job; that's why they are called tool tips , because they give you tips about an option
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by toyg 2y ago
Although I agree on the silliness of the citizenship-at-birth rule, a maximalist approach to democracy can be very dangerous. The most unstable democracies of the past century were, often, the most democratic ones - Weimar, various French r
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by toyg 2y ago
And we should celebrate it for the civilisational advance that it is, promoting it all over the world, instead of continuously attacking its legitimacy. We have long rejected the idea that blood should dictate your social position in the tr
532.
by toyg 2y ago
Surprised why? A culture based around systems with privileged "root" and "admins" was always going to be fundamentally hierarchical. It was an accident of history that the network layer ended up getting developed in loca
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by toyg 2y ago
Where does that blurb come from, chatgpt? I don't think it's true anymore, last time I checked I think Gentoo had a "normal" liveCD installation for the base system, which you could then recompile on your own if wanted.
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by toyg 2y ago
> convenience is the most monetary exploited weakness in human behaviors. And there is generally nothing scandalous about it: I pay someone to mown the lawn when I cannot be bothered to do it myself. The problem is that one side of the
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by toyg 2y ago
> illiberalism seems to be the psychological default Because apes are not liberal, of course.
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by toyg 2y ago
> the U.K. has passed several measures to reduce shale-gas extraction, citing earthquake risks It's not a risk - we actually saw earthquakes in the areas where shale gas extraction had started: https://www.newscientist.
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by toyg 2y ago
> Russia has won the Cold War without direct military confrontation with the US. Let's not rewrite history just to score some cheap propaganda points: the USSR lost the Cold War, and lost it badly. Russia (or rather, putinism) mig
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by toyg 2y ago
> That didn't stop us from learning what we needed to know. Actually, it did. At the beginning of its intervention, US weaponry and tactics were way below their European counterparts, even in nuclear research. The difference was m
539.
by toyg 2y ago
My theory is that they sit on a mountain of technical debt that nobody dares touching. I think they started in Perl, then URLs started pointing to DLLs (!), so heck knows what they've done... They were one of the very first websites th
540.
by toyg 2y ago
That's irrelevant, we're talking reputation.

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