will_hughes

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by will_hughes 9y ago
> This is several years of development which amounts to wasted resources in light of the manufacturing setbacks of their truly disruptive product. Different teams. Model 3 design & engineering was completed in July. The folks workin
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by will_hughes 9y ago
I just logged an issue suggesting a change of license: https://github.com/Microsoft/sqlopsstudio/issues/102
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> But you can pick a time of your choice and specify a day up to about 5 days in the future or something, so it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Only if you catch it while it's prompting. I've seen people set
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> It's a shame it got so muddied. The whole structure of the survey (not vote) was deliberately done to confuse the issue. - It's not legally binding on the parliament (it's a survey, not a vote) - It's not mandatory
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> For Twitter, developers prevented monetization. Except that they didn't. There wasn't even any discussion, it was just "We're capping OAuth tokens.". Developers offered to pay for access, users offered to pay
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by will_hughes 9y ago
I'd heard stories from those involved responding to the Port Arthur mass shooting. It's obviously a completely different scale though, and they had some time to prepare before the patients started arriving.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> What sort of black markets currently exist to evade taxation for consumer goods currently I don't know about the US, but in Australia where cigarettes are heavily taxed (one packet of cigarettes can go for AUD$30) there's a s
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> Instead, they are taught incantations and rituals to get to an answer. My early school math involved memorising multiplication tables. Later on, there was rote memorisation of other aspects of math that I just never understood - you
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> I suppose you could tell them to go back to a previous version of the browser. No, you can't do that. Instead you have to tell them to stop saving passwords in the browser.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
The token is the new one-time password that must be reset upon login.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
That's certainly one view of the world. Come work tech support for a company/product with a web-based form that has a password field in it (like a CRM or other administrative system). Now explain to users why we can't stop
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Their home delivery option still requires you to go in store, take the item(s) you want off the shelves, pay for it, take it over to the delivery counter and then negotiate with them on delivery availability. You can't do it online or
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Someone who's going to pirate can readily get all of that content from various sources already. I highly doubt that anyone has been persuaded to buy a Netflix subscription because of Netflix's use of DRM. As for 'shady'
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Multithreading support. Holy cow yes. All around good stuff, but I can't wait for multithreading.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> Testable code is not a good thing in and of itself. Code should only be testable at its high level interfaces i.e. interfaces that are close to the requirements. So if the code is a library then the high level interface may be the publ
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Genuine question: Why do you care about a few hundred MB of disk space for an app? I could understand if it was a GB or so, but in this day and age it's USD 9c or less worth of disk space (assuming you use high end SSDs, if it's a
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> What else is zero-rating possibly intended to do? Zero-rating is obviously selling below cost, and businesses sell below cost to kill competition. That's not the only scenario for zero-rating. Not too long ago, getting internation
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> The government, like NZ, could have gotten the wholesale part of Telstra to start upgrading network infrastructure. They couldn't, though, without a lot more difficulty. You're missing the context that at the time of Rudd&#x2
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by will_hughes 9y ago
I've been on Android since the DevPhone1, had to import it to Aus using a reshipper. I got a Samsung Galaxy S when it first came out while on a trip to the UK. I've always thought Samsung made good hardware generally, but their in
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> It's funny really, outside of religion, people don't seem to be naturally inclined to be both charitable AND scrupulous. I think you can easily remove "outside of religion" and have this statement stand. There are f
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> But why didn't orgs like FB or Google (I forgot which) advertized SA? SA is well-known too. I don't know the actual reason. But it could be because of the religious connection. While I've seen that the Salvation Army ha
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by will_hughes 9y ago
I'm hardly socially in-touch. I just observe people's interaction with technology both at my job (Devops), and in the wider world. If you want to have some idea of the challenges - read reddit's Tales from Tech Support[1] sub
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by will_hughes 9y ago
"could easily be adapted to allow users to control their own data securely and simply" If you can solve the UX problems associated with those, you'll win a lot of praise. To be clear, even something as simple as contactless p
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> along with healthy security habits like proper secret generation and frequent rotation. While having the populace in general be security aware would be a great thing, it's barely possible to get them to do even basic shit like not
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by will_hughes 9y ago
You can pull the SIM in the car to disable access.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> My very casual understanding was that 100G was state of the art. I think you're having the same conceptual issue that I had when first reading it. The 400G in the article title is referring to the bandwidth of the chip, not the b
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by will_hughes 9y ago
Sure, those are your personal preferences, and in your current specific needs/wants. You did ask why, though, and you've been given a few examples of why someone might choose WSL over VMs.
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by will_hughes 9y ago
I'm uncertain if you're asking "Why use WSL vs VM" or "Why use WSL/Linux VM if you can run Linux directly". For the first: Unified filesystem, memory, processor resources. You don't need to have the e
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by will_hughes 9y ago
It's supposed to be like a rock at 40km/h anyway. You're supposed to slow down to 5-10km/h
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by will_hughes 9y ago
> there isn't a lot of long term data on how well they hold up yet. Whats your definition of long term? 26 years[1] is definitely getting there for me. A part of the reason for that first farm being decomissioned is because new gen

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