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by troad 2y ago
Population, rather obviously, is not a meaningful metric for quantifying consumer spending on luxury electronics and digital services. According to Apple, the EU only accounts for 7% of their App Store revenue.[0] It's not nothing, but
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by troad 2y ago
Not OP, but as someone who hates ads and values privacy, switching to a phone built by the world's largest data broker / advertising agency seems like a bit of wrong turn. iOS has many - many! - issues, but it is a more privacy-
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by troad 2y ago
Imagine if they spent the last fifteen years hardening those privileges, rather than fighting like hell to keep everyone out of their treehouse.
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by troad 2y ago
> Mozilla is effectively being subsidized by Google for the sake of an illusion of browser competitions. If the remedy enforces "a reasonable level of bid" for these kinds of auctions, Mozilla may go bankrupt within 5 years. I
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by troad 2y ago
This is not even remotely cool. This shows a complete disregard for personal and professional boundaries and cultural norms. I have no idea how anyone thought cyber-stalking business people with a mixture of fraud, disregard for the dead, a
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by troad 2y ago
> We were trialing CrowdStrike and about to purchase next week. If their rep doesn't offer us at least half off, we are going with Sentinel One which was half the price of CS already. You’re still considering them after all this?
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by troad 2y ago
What's so bad about getting a feel for someone and hiring them on a probationary basis? See how they go on discrete - but real - tasks for a week or two, and then make the call on going forward or not. It's how most hiring has alw
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by troad 2y ago
> Because of those design tricks, the regulator says it found instances where players were charged while [...] pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item This kind of deliberately vague phrasing makes me immed
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by troad 2y ago
The UK has a weak media sector because it's impossible to compete with the 800-pound taxpayer-funded gorilla in the room, which doesn't need to turn a profit. The only way for UK media to remain remotely financially viable is to s
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by troad 2y ago
I think taking notes while reading fiction would be relatively unusual (outside fields like literary criticism), but taking notes while reading non-fiction is quite common, especially when grappling with denser material. For example, I kept
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by troad 2y ago
I don't think examples of FreeDOS being useful 'prove [your] point' about FreeDOS being useless. I think the word 'useless' is an overstatement that's very easy to quibble over, and which therefore gets in the
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by troad 2y ago
I think he's saying precisely that they won't, and I support this. What is issue sponsorship but a donation with strings attached? It would mean ceding control of the direction of the project's development to the highest bidd
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by troad 2y ago
You are definitely not the only one. It's wild to me the extent to which some devs just sorta volunteer for RCE. And often, for the most superficial of reasons? "Oooh, this plugin adds emoji error messages!" one hundred and
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by troad 2y ago
The Czechs have historically had a fairly significant animation industry, and the vast majority are very cute, e.g.: [0][1]. There also exist a few stop motion animation films intended for adults, and those can be more arthouse (e.g. Alice)
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by troad 2y ago
As a linguist, there is no such dialect of English as 'Euro English'. The idea is borderline non-existent outside of Wikipedia.[0] In order for there to exist a dialect there must exist some kind of stable distinguishing features,
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by troad 2y ago
> C has had fixed-size integers since C99: https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/inttypes.h Good point! You don't tend to see them too much in the wild, but they're available, which is good en
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by troad 2y ago
This is very cool. I've added it to my RSS reader, can't wait to see what comes of it. Genuine question: would there be any advantages in targeting LLVM IR, rather than transpiling to C? With C being notoriously implementation dep
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by troad 2y ago
The relevant statute provision is 17 U.S.C. § 501. On March 24, 2023, the Internet Archive was found liable for copyright infringement under that section by a federal court, in an order granting a motion for a summary judgment.[0] A summary
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by troad 2y ago
Should it be legal for IA to offer this, especially for older and out of print books? Yes, almost certainly. Is it legal? No, not as the law currently stands. You can support Robin Hood, but you shouldn't be shocked when Robin Hood
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by troad 2y ago
Australian English indeed has phonemic vowel length. For the average speaker, the only distinction between 'but' and 'Bart' is length.
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by troad 2y ago
> Or if someone slips up. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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by troad 2y ago
> For example, imagine you being arrested at Frankfurt airport because you posted something a year ago Doesn't this happen all the time? Wasn't David Irving repeatedly arrested and charged in many countries in continental Europ
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by troad 2y ago
This is complete nonsense (and borderline gibberish - Interpol can't 'enact' any laws in the US). Extradition generally requires that the thing you're being extradited for would also a crime in the jurisdiction you'
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by troad 2y ago
Some very fair points! I think there's more warts in Rust than just these, but if indeed Rust can be incorporated into Linux sanely and productively, I think it will be a net positive. I respectfully disagree on the Haskell front. C is
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by troad 2y ago
> I think there is a strong misconception that there is this massive pool of open-source devs twiddling there thumbs just itching to jump in on some project were they can pour time and effort for nothing more than the "good of the c
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by troad 2y ago
You hear this kind of thing constantly, but it's such an absurd claim. Imagine being a property owner and having two choices: (a) having a property you own accrue value over time, and (b) the exact same thing as before, but also gettin
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by troad 2y ago
I've been working full-time in Rust for several years, so I'm quite favourably disposed to Rust, but I don't think Rust would rank highly on my list of languages to start a kernel in. For me, the big advantages of Rust come f
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by troad 2y ago
Very fair question. It may seem surprising, but loops (especially `for` loops) don't really reflect the underlying machine code very well. There is no distinct loop concept in machine code; instead, there are ordinary instructions foll
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by troad 2y ago
Thank you, this is great! I hadn't considered changing the font for greater readability, but it's an obvious improvement. Good job with the links, too, that was a great idea. I've added 'blockquote' to your tag list
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by troad 2y ago
Thanks again! :) I’ll do some reading, maybe pencil in a simple little project for fun and experience. (A nice little MUD/MOO server, perhaps.)

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