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by tpmoney 2y ago
Even if its open source, I don't want to spend my own time or depend on other people deciding to keep the software working and building on newer devices just to configure car settings. There's no reason in the world to eschew a to
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I definitely don't want my car controls tied to a phone app. No matter what I should be able to configure my car's functions long after the company stops distributing their app. But there's no reason why we can't have a
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I think there is only deception if you believe the original words written in the original tone was the intended message (or I suppose if the intent of the communication is to demonstrate your personal ability to write in a given style). If
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by tpmoney 2y ago
How do you know any information you get from a source that you can’t personally and independently verify is correct? How do we know a tourist guide book is correct? How do we know our language dictionary is correct? You don’t. People will n
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Nonsense. Are people who use spell checkers also lying when the computer helps them not sound like an illiterate 5th grader? What about Word’s pre-AI grammar correction? Further, it’s pretty clear from the watching the commercial that the b
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Having the correct number of comments so that they add clarity to code without having too many that they become easily outdated or are redundant is part of this as well. In fact, I would argue its not only part of it, it's an esse
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Not everyone who receives a computing device is the same one who set it up. I’ve told this story before but I’ll repeat it because it’s illustrative. Back when MacBooks ran intel processors and bootcamp was both new (and explicitly unsuppor
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Does it really cost a “small fortune”? You can “rent” Photoshop from Adobe for 3¢ an hour. Way back when you could buy a permanent license for PS, you were looking at about $700, which is just shy of 3 years at the current subscription rate
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Why would they outbid each other to waste more public or non profit money? Because like it or not, even public and non-profit institutions are in competition with one another. Maybe not for money specifically, but prestige, notoriety a
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The rest of that quote very clearly demonstrates this isn’t “do what you love and money and fame will be yours” advice: > A lot of people make things that they think that other people want, but the main target audience, at least for myse
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by tpmoney 2y ago
While I appreciate that need, as a user this is the worst way to get me to review your app. Especially because so many of them aren't tuned for paying any attention at all to what their users are doing before prompting them. I had one
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Oracle also didn't support Boolean data types for a long time, and had a 20 some odd year public thread arguing that no one needed a Boolean data type ( https://asktom.oracle.com/ords/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_..
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> I've always wondered why Postgres is so insanely popular. In no particular order, my preference for postgres is driven by: * Date / time functions that don't suck * UTF-8 is really UTF-8 * 99% of a backup can be
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> As much as you can, just trust yourself, talk to people, trust that you can roll with consquences as they come, and save the deep analysis for things of much greater consequences and much lesser frequency. If I implied this was suppose
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> For example, not smoking and having an active and healthy lifestyle moves you in the distribution of people likely to get lung cancer by a certain age. You are "choosing your own luck" to some degree. It's probabilistic,
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by tpmoney 2y ago
How did you reach the conclusion that there's a strong correlation between being a Corporate IP Rights Diehard and a Gun Rights Diehard? Was there some study that showed a link between supporting the individual right to own a firearm a
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The out of context quoting of the owner summarizing an unnamed market research firm hired by the company as published on the company’s website hardly seems the sort of unbiased, well researched and documented evidence one might want for “Am
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Despite this persistent story, Hardee’s seems to do just fine with their “third pound thick burgers”. I suspect digging into this story would uncover that A&W just didn’t make a good burger that people wanted
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Newer battery tech is helping improve the “compactness” of motorized chairs. We have a “fold and go” ( https://www.foldandgowheelchairs.com/ ) which can fit in a car trunk (though still want a full size sedan or bigger if you
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The 3 things you're missing are: 1) How uncomfortable lower end chairs can be for their users 2) How many of the little design decisions in lower end chairs can add up to a lot of pain 3) The chairs you buy online are almost exclusivel
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> What would have happened if you had written those vulnerabilities yourself? Hopefully nothing. After all, if the all the open source eyeballs on those products weren't enough to stop those bugs, then surely it's unreasonable
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Is that particularly surprising or quiet? It seems to make sense to me that the people who are in the business of making chemicals that alter biological processes in targeted ways at given dosages are also making chemicals that alter biolog
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Possibly, but when the owner of that server comes around and starts playing hardball, you probably need to figure out real quick how to mollify them or get out from under them. And if you're going to just point to the software license
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> I'm curious to know what you think they should have done, because other then just heap money on a literal direct competitor, I can't imagine what they could have done. I suppose not pissing off their single and sole supplier
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Relative to the beginnings of the internet, your current internet bill is closer to "free" for communication than just about any other time in history. In 1996, AOL introduced their "unlimited" dialup plan. For a mere $1
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by tpmoney 2y ago
If I sign a contract with you for 10,000 barrels of apples, and the next day your sole apple vendor decides they don't like you anymore and cut you off, that's not my problem. I might be sympathetic to you, but I didn't sign
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The problem with these sorts of discussions is both sides always want to have it both ways. When the complaint is they aren't doing something and that's against the spirit of the thing, the response is "show me the contract t
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The converse of this is where’s the contract or terms that says WP has to keep providing API access for free? It’s open source software after all, almost all of which comes with some form of “no warranty or guarantees” of any kind. Certainl
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I've encountered situations where the requirement to rotate passwords was obligated by contractual agreements. For instance, this is still the published guidance documentation on the HHS website for HIPAA compliance ( https:/&#x2F
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by tpmoney 2y ago
When I said this convention was old, I meant it: Apple Extended Keyboard M0115 (1987): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Extended_Keyboard_M... Apple Extended Keyboard II M0312/M3501 (1990): https:/&#

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