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by wegs 6y ago
Google is being investigated for antitrust. If this investigation moves forward -- unlikely under a democratic government as we'll probably have -- one of the potential outcomes are better corporate firewalls. If Google were broken up,
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by wegs 6y ago
I had a commercial GSuite for an organization I was running. A Google bug wiped my domain and all my data. Support was automated systems all the way down. I think the downside of Google is this happens about 100x as often as other organizat
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by wegs 6y ago
Google is pretty unique here. You can have a dedicated support team at Google with a multimillion dollar account, and still be wack-a-moled by Google's automated systems. The root issue is Google. This doesn't happen with most com
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by wegs 6y ago
Cleanroom is an overstatement. The reason people do cleanroom is to eliminate risk of liability, it's simple, and it's foolproof. You can't mess it up. It also eliminates other potential issues (like tortious interference
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by wegs 6y ago
Linear algebra, to the point of being a: * competent ML engineer; * competent at doing statistical analysis; * competent at 3d graphics; * competent at graph theory / SNA; * competent at signal processing; or * competent at control sys
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by wegs 6y ago
Clever! This seems like the sort of thing which could be adapted for amateur/DIY use. It seems like you just need some hardware, which could be manufactured cheaply and easily, air-tight fabric, and a way of joining those. I get the in
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by wegs 6y ago
I'll be contrarian. This is a mixture of: 1) Stuff I'd learn by reading Hacker News, after a few months 2) Stuff I'd learn on the job, after a few months I'm not downplaying that it's important to know, but it'
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by wegs 6y ago
Neat! Thank you for the pointers. That makes me really happy. I'll narrow my request to a suggestion for something easier (indeed, easy enough I can do a bit myself): more documentation and tutorials. I think I'll get on that (alt
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by wegs 6y ago
This is the single reason why Google Cloud will never be successful, at least in the next decade. A huge number of software engineers have been burned by being treated as Google statistics. That works great for ads or search, but Google has
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by wegs 6y ago
My wishlist: * Integration with numpy/scipy/matplotlib/etc. * Integration with Python Mode for Processing * Integration with either the Arduino or the Micro:bit ecosystem * Integration with Pygame Zero (so there are smooth, d
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by wegs 6y ago
A bit of poking suggests: 1) I'm not ready to jump installed systems to arch right now. 2) Next system I install will probably try arch. Thank you!
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by wegs 6y ago
Mostly, because as of 2020, most things don't use UUIDs. See e.g. 1) https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/insta... 2) man fdisk 3) man mkfs And so on. The /dev/sd_ is primary, with
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by wegs 6y ago
On that list, I can live without Bluetooth. Do you know if: 1) Zoom works? Linux has a blob which does. 2) OBS works? This is critical. 3) How is video support with ATI/Nvidia? Will my multimonitor setup break? The other thing which sc
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by wegs 6y ago
If this was anticipated by the architecture: * My USB webcams wouldn't show up in a different order each time I reboot. This works fine under Windows and Mac. * My monitor configuration wouldn't be hardcoded in my xorg config file
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by wegs 6y ago
Computers aren't things I enjoy. They're things I stomach. I think I'd use OpenBSD if I were confident that after setting it up, it worked reliably, without changes, for the next few decades, with transparent system upgrades.
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by wegs 6y ago
Nope. I didn't. And you can't quite decouple the two; there's a continuous lineage; institutions didn't get reinvented with the revolution: * US is a common law jurisdiction, and indeed, pre-colonization UK courts someti
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by wegs 6y ago
I ran Enlightement for maybe a month or two to try it. I mostly ran twm, fvwm, and similar at the time. Those are obviously not satisfactory for a typical user. I gave it as an example of something which ran rather sophisticated theming&#x2
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by wegs 6y ago
No one is saying everything is fine. It's not. What we're arguing is why everything is not fine. SGIs ran VR, multiple displays, and very demanding apps in the nineties too. They did all sorts of wonky, complex, 3d input devices t
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by wegs 6y ago
There isn't a magical different userbase Linux has to serve which has somehow bizarre needs not served by thoughtfully-designed older software, but which newer, poorly-designed software somehow meets. Yes, we need a newer web browser,
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by wegs 6y ago
Newer isn't better-designed. Unix was really well-designed, compared to so much of the modern stuff, and it does everything I need. Nineties Linux was a nice Unix. I wish we hadn't spent the past quarter-century turning it into ni
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by wegs 6y ago
Even the historic US legal system was designed to have parties be able to reasonably represent themselves in court. Lawyers weren't a thing until pretty recently. Earlier lawyers had fees capped at fairly low levels. Money wasn't
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by wegs 6y ago
> You don't have to be technically correct, you have to be legally correct. It's like technically correct only it's way more pedantic That's not how the law works. Legally correct is much less pedantic than technicall
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by wegs 6y ago
I have a ton of Ikea stuff at home. It's a great value for the price. "Great value for the price" isn't the same as "sturdy," though. I don't have anything from Ikea which I would describe as "made ve
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by wegs 6y ago
My experience is that commercial software has teams of programmers rewarded for velocity. Velocity doesn't encourage good architectural decisions. It rewards building stuff quickly. Most commercial systems I see become rats nests very
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by wegs 6y ago
I'm more pessimistic about Ikea quality -- virtually everything I've bought from them is in a state where I wouldn't buy it second-hand. On the kid desk I bought from them, the chairs broke. Same thing happened to my friends
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by wegs 6y ago
Elaborating would be a law class, but the short story is that laws are read by lawyers and judges, not by computers. It's not like a for-loop where a <= versus a < can trigger an off-by-one-error. To be in compliance with the lic
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by wegs 6y ago
I think the argument is that $200 crappy is better than $2000 commercial for a lot of uses. If I'm labeling pins and parts on a PCB, I'll take low-quality labels over no labels any day. If I'm labeling how wood fits together
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by wegs 6y ago
I don't think this is quite right. An open source 2d printer would allow for a lot of things commercial printers don't allow for. For example, I'd like to be able to print on things which are not paper. If I had an inkjet hea
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by wegs 6y ago
Harvard did due diligence before agreeing to release Open edX under the AGPL. That was a $30 million investment on their part. I guess when you say "has absolutely not been evaluated by people who should care," it's because y
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by wegs 6y ago
.... That's not how the law works. You're trying to interpret a legal document like a computer reading a piece of code, and not even reading it correctly at that.

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