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by toyg 2y ago
He was very much an '80s/'90s exec. Back then, execs were not "visionaire rockstars"; they were wisecracking boomers in suits. Microsoft walked a very thin line between very different worlds, and Ballmer was closer
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by toyg 2y ago
> Now the company seems fully baked I to LLMs with everything they do chasing that Them along absolutely everyone else . ChatGPT was an iPhone moment.
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by toyg 2y ago
This. Once the money is digital, in most cases it has already been washed - or it didn't really need to be washed in the first place.
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by toyg 2y ago
> where this [...] sentiment of letting people ride public transport for free has suddenly come from? It has been there since public transport has been a thing. Its popularity ebbs and flows with the years, because it's fundament
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by toyg 2y ago
The main theory is that it actually came to Venice from the sack of Constantinople. Which would make a lot of sense: placing proof of your military power in your main square is something that people would do, and the Eastern Roman Empire pr
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by toyg 2y ago
I think it boils down to "nobody likes a showoff", really.
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by toyg 2y ago
It's not poisoning, it's blocking.
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by toyg 2y ago
DNS.
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by toyg 2y ago
Airplane mode is mostly a power-saving feature, because WiFi drains the battery pretty hard. As others said, leaving wifi on will kill your kindle in a week or so, whereas it can go on for months without it.
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by toyg 2y ago
It's sad because 1) this sort of nationalistic chest-thumping is stuff we should have overcome, after WWII, and 2) why is it so hard to accept that an Italian navigator with a Greek surname and (maybe) Middle-Eastern blood, used Spanis
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by toyg 2y ago
The fact that he was Italian and Catholic is beyond dispute. The possibility that he might have had some Jewish blood, doesn't really change anything except for the most tribal-inclined people (who typically make for terrible historian
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by toyg 2y ago
> The evidence of Columbus's origins in Genoa is overwhelming: almost no other figure of his class or designation has left so clear a paper trail in the archives.
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by toyg 2y ago
That's actually a point against: Jewish financiers would have expected interest, surely. It's Catholic ones who had to loan without interest.
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by toyg 2y ago
> since the Greeks that people knew the world was not flat Actually, most Greek knowledge had fundamentally disappeared from Western Europe for centuries, even before the official dissolution of the Western Roman Empire. Some of it had
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by toyg 2y ago
> makes you immune to the consequences of speech from the state Not all consequences, technically speaking. USSC has already carved out exceptions to that rule in various cases. This said, you're correct that the quote about &qu
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by toyg 2y ago
Technically, the current Pontifex Maximus is (or at least claims to be) the official inheritor of the original title (which is very likely to pre-date the creation of the surname Caesar in the Julia family). That's not the case for &
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by toyg 2y ago
> foo foo=foo I hate those. I always make an effort to avoid using the same name for different things, e.g. MyParamName=MyValue indicates clearly that the two concepts are different and can be independently customized.
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by toyg 2y ago
No, it's a reference to the fact that USB-C is really a meta-protocol, which can (and is) implemented in many different ways by manufacturers - and thanks to variation in power handling, it also carries the odd chance of frying your de
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by toyg 2y ago
Yeah that is the case with V as well, even when you turn off all the bells and whistles.
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by toyg 2y ago
I bought VI with a humble bundle, and just didn't like it. V was fine, people just wanted some flexibility when decorating cities; but developers built an entirely new set of mechanics on top of that request, and made the game more com
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by toyg 2y ago
> There is no amount of "decolonizing" the UK can do that will put an end to the grievances. That's not true. Plenty of decolonized countries just go about their business, once the outstanding issues are solved; or even
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by toyg 2y ago
> they were literally not inhabited until Europeans settled them Decolonization is not simply about removing troops from here or there, it's about taking responsibility for actions that enriched $motherland at the expense of $colo
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by toyg 2y ago
> Twitter, tho. It's not been doing very well lately I know, but it has taken more than two years to take serious wounds and it's still very far from being dead.
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by toyg 2y ago
These are all small potatoes when compared to Musk's antics.
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by toyg 2y ago
> hire strategic H1B employees [so that] you can maintain operations with desperate staff that can't afford to leave In other words: slavery has only upsides for slaveowners.
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by toyg 2y ago
That's uncharitable. Mullenweg has been pretty good for the FOSS ecosystem as a whole, and he's just going after one particular company (arguably one particular board member of such company, the SilverLake guy), that he now sees a
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by toyg 2y ago
Movable Type never had the foothold that Wordpress has developed over the years. Once you reach a certain size, inertia alone will allow you to survive for a very long time, even making bad mistakes. Digg died because it was still small eno
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by toyg 2y ago
> Poettering who's actively solving decades-long problems He's doing that only because it's his job: his employer has an agenda (i.e. steering Linux fast enough and disruptively enough at a low level, so that serious com
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by toyg 2y ago
> Do the Chagossians support this claim by the Mauritian government? They've complained about not being part to the discussion, but in practice most of them have Mauritian citizenship now, and it should be easier for them to deal
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by toyg 2y ago
You don't know that.

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