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by virgilp 7y ago
Apple can still shut it down, and you can bet they will if it gets any sort of popularity. > Testut imagines Apple could disable the ability to sync over Wi-Fi, but that would just mean plugging in your phone once a week to continue usin
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by virgilp 7y ago
The ATM can (don't all?) take the money back if not picked up in 30s, and cancel the transaction.
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by virgilp 7y ago
But how? Doesn't the ATM eat it up if you don't take it in 30s or so?
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by virgilp 7y ago
Just looking at the chart, your article makes a case that minimum is much better than maximum, and in fact if you report one number, the minimum is the best number to report (in that particular example). If we go into details - sure, 1 numb
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by virgilp 7y ago
To be pedantic, you want the mode of the distribution. You are right though, the minimum is a much closer approximation of the mode in most situations.
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by virgilp 7y ago
> This is not "ironic" (what is that supposed to mean?) I thought you were being ironic, in the sense of "if you only use git locally you don't mess stuff up". You definitely pull the shared branches; you just do
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Pushing messed-up history is the biggest footgun. But this one is a footgun only in the sense that you may mess up things for others, and embarrass yourself. Not in the sense of "permanent data loss", right? "don't
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by virgilp 7y ago
Does it, though? It's immutable. As soon I understood that, I no longer felt that git has _any_ footgun. Whatever dumb thing you do - you can just do `git reflog`, find last good known hash, go back to it, and it fixes everything. Just
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by virgilp 7y ago
I've been at Adobe at a time when they shipped Creative Suite, as boxes (even though downloads started to be more prevalent, it was still very much pre-packaged software). People don't give Adobe enough credit for what it was achi
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by virgilp 7y ago
> No one fucking communicates. We all laughed when Tim Cook said that Apple will double-down on secrecy[1]. Who's laughing now? Turns out he was dead serious. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/tim-cook-were-going-to
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by virgilp 7y ago
Actually, to our knowledge, they provided exactly that.
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by virgilp 7y ago
I think it was the one for showing you the pin of a corporate credit card.
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by virgilp 7y ago
I’ve had the goddamn Citibank _require_ that I use a password 6 or 7 characters long on one of their systems. This year (2019).
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by virgilp 7y ago
> I eventually gave it up. Sounds like a business opportunity. An ad network where the "user interests" are supplied by the publisher (and maybe user-agent, see below), not by the ad network. The network doesn't need cooki
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by virgilp 7y ago
What's the purpose of making this public? Discuss this in private circles within GNU. If it doesn't go anywhere, and you care so much about it, just leave. What they did will fracture the community anyway. You can bet there are St
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by virgilp 7y ago
'Creepy' is so much worse than 'abusive'....
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by virgilp 7y ago
Is it a "big corporations" thing? Try saying e.g. that maybe Minsky was innocent, see how that works. OTOH who knows anymore, maybe big corporations do have something to do with it.... it's certainly convenient. If you have m
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by virgilp 7y ago
Poor Apple, that's certainly too onerous of a burden to put on their shoulders.
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by virgilp 7y ago
I could respect the signatories of the joint statement if thy sent it to RMS; Like this, what are they hoping to achieve? Ponder it for a second. They're calling for the lynch mob, they're disapointed that the lynch mob seems to h
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by virgilp 7y ago
No - analogies are imperfect. But it's certainly a better analogy, RMS is not just a rude guest.
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by virgilp 7y ago
Except that in this analogy, RMS is the one who invited them for dinner. You don't simply get to tell the host that "we don't like you but I think we'll keep meeting in your house for dinner.
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by virgilp 7y ago
RMS no longer fits your definition?
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by virgilp 7y ago
For the kids - they don't seem to take inspiration at all from us, in fact it's almost like they make a point to be as different from us as possible. Maybe that'll change after the teenage years, who knows :). But, tbh, I don
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by virgilp 7y ago
> The answer is to keep the work ethic going - working hard. That doesn't seem to work unfortunately. Good if it does for you :)
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by virgilp 7y ago
I wonder if it's "fixable", though. I come from a lower-middle-class family, so does my wife; we're upper-middle-class now. Our kids are nowhere near as "driven" as we were... but, to the extent that we can, o
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by virgilp 7y ago
You have a very weird definition of "nightmare employee". Nothing there says he was toxic; nothing there says he wasn't productive.
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by virgilp 7y ago
You're telling me that VAT refunds are greater than contribution to the EU? So basically UK has an immediate net loss from brexit?
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by virgilp 7y ago
Nice visualisation. But why is "VAT refunds" an income? And why is "Petroleum revenue tax" an expenditure? (2.2B, coming out at the top of the 241B "Taxes on income and wealth")
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by virgilp 7y ago
It's a sad story; but PIP is really the pink slip; you take it as an advance notice that you're going to be fired, and start looking for jobs. I've heard stories of people completing PIP programs successfully, but quite hones
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by virgilp 7y ago
> I may seem like an asshole, but so far it works I do the same, it's amazing how well it works. As long as you genuinely try putting (what you think is) the company interest first, people actually appreciate you more if you don&#x2

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