twelvedogs

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by twelvedogs 4y ago
I feel like you might be listing a bunch of edge cases that won't affect most people, or at least are as likely as a bunch of other edge cases with completely different optional solutions
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by twelvedogs 4y ago
i wouldn't do it to a real world trolley as it would cost a lot to replace something that is better in many respects to the alternatives but i wasn't taking it too seriously and they only gave the trolley negative traits within th
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by twelvedogs 6y ago
not really, there's a lot of great work i could have been doing on my past projects that wasn't a management priority
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
i would guess it makes the deck unique so cards can't be added on the fly
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
ultimately the issue is laws in favor of the incumbents, while more competition would absolutely be a better solution long term if laws aren't being made to ensure net neutrality laws are definitely not going to be made to allow more c
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
VPNs can and will adapt, they're only detectable if they behave a certain way, last article i read a while ago openvpn was generally being detected by the way it did the handshake. but yeah, the only permanent way to block VPNs is to g
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
i guess you could quantify that as the real problem if you like, it's a much harder problem however. the incumbents are currently successfully shutting out big competition from putting in their own infrastructure (google has been succe
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
not immediately, they could pass extra laws though (and probably will if they get momentum)
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
changing ISP isn't that simple for a very large chunk of americans, their options are one of the duopoly or dialup.
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
open source currently aligns with MS's business plan, they haven't turned good or bad they just see where developers want to go and think it's a good thing to go with them. it doesn't change any of their other business p
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
facebook messenger is fine, but it's exactly the same as any other messenger/texting. facebook itself is a different beast, aside from the event planning stuff it's pretty much just a bunch of "look at what people you va
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
heh, most of this stuff is extra wastes of time past the very first hurdle that you should be working on: make something that works and is useful to people. sure it would be great to have scaling to 10,000 users already sorted by the time y
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
yeah, none of that shit happens with real money
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
lol, apparently i don't understand anything
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
from what i've read they bought several other patents that kind of covered mp3 but expired later to stretch out their hold on them, i wish i'd saved them since google is just returning hundreds of articles about whether mp3 is dea
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
that's not really true, windows update has been working fine for pirated copies of windows for ages since creating spam-bots hurts everyone and doesn't really sell more real copies of windows
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
it's also worthwhile mentioning that a lot of 3rd party companies provide support for open source products, it's paid support of course but most of microsoft's support options above the base level are far from free
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by twelvedogs 9y ago
i'm in this situation as well, i've moved to a slack group with my work friends and direct messaging with others, facebook was just a shitty way to talk to people i don't really care about where my posts were spirited away al
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by twelvedogs 10y ago
aterroristsayswhat?
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by twelvedogs 10y ago
this is why we have botnets running on security cameras. you can't just demand the user be smarter, you put sane defaults on there so they actually have to go to at least a small amount of effort to shoot themselves in the foot.
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by twelvedogs 10y ago
nfc: i hold my card up the the screen, a progress bar takes 2 second to light up and i just wait for the transaction to go through. i've had way more issues with failing magnetic strips.
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by twelvedogs 10y ago
this is the point where it broke for me, i should have realised when they were going on about feeling physically sick and had thoughts of suicide but kids suddenly "seeing the light" realising the error of their ways and banning t
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by twelvedogs 10y ago
that's actually pretty interesting, i wouldn't be offended by a friend saying it but a stranger saying would piss me off, but even then it's not so much the words as the intent, i'd be just as offended if they'd sai
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by twelvedogs 10y ago
i think it's mostly that most scientific studies have no clear outcomes, people want resolutions not "we did this study, it wasn't perfect but the findings seemed to point towards this effect and more better studies should be
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by twelvedogs 11y ago
you're absolutely right, i've seen beautiful, useful interfaces impossible to maintain due to lack of backend skill, i've seen great core functionality let down by bare-boned interfaces that don't let the user easily do