wolfgke

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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Liking Apple does not make you cool, not liking Apple does not make you cool. Apple produces hardware and software, it is not a religion. I disagree: For example accepting or rejecting a golden cage is a deep decision about one'
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I'm just not sure if it's possible to reconcile thought-control in one sphere, and not in another. On Slate Star Codex, there is an interesting article about this topic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Society trains you right from the cradle to become a pathological liar.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> As an Aspie, (almost) every neurotypical person seems to be a patological liar, not able to make a small talk without committing a few lies. Having a degree both in mathematics and computer science makes me have an often unerring eye f
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by wolfgke 6y ago
"This is the root of the issue. Jira was made with project managers and product managers in mind. Not dev teams. Project and product managers (collectively referred to as PMs going forward) are the primary buyers and owners of Jira. No
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Analysis by SemiAccurate on SuperFin: https://semiaccurate.com/2020/08/13/intel-talks-about-10nm-s...
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Link is under Posts -> Info and links to https://www.flightgear.org/category/info/
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> it becomes easy to be branded not a team player. Which is not a bad thing in my opinion. :-) As they say in Germany: "Ist der Ruf erst ruiniert, lebt es sich ganz ungeniert." (When the reputation is only ruined, one lives pre
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Blender was originally a closed-source product by Not a Number Technologies (NaN). After NaN went bankrupt, the creditors agreed to let Blender become released as open source for 100,000 €.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
RedShift1: > API changes every minor release. vetinari: > the changes were pretty minor. Was this pun intended? ;-)
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Perhaps Nvidia's ASICs and/or firmware contains more legally dubious components. ;-)
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> It's an idea around a rising tide lifts all boats where an extra $1k a month or baseline income could bridge gaps Prices increase in this case - that is how markets work.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Universal basic income could cover the gap. UBI does not solve the problem outlined by jfrunyon that > expenses are higher for poor people.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
A very smart move by the political system to make activists hate some impalpable company moloch named "Disney" instead of the concretely named congressmen/congresswomen who voted for the law for copyright extension.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> It's perfectly possible to write a good Reddit web client; they chose not to Good for whom? "Good for the user" does not mean "good for Reddit".
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Who said jobs can't be fulfilling? Life experience. ;-)
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Something You Can’t Use at a Price You Can’t Resist (2018)(medium.com)
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Highly creative people generally rank low on conscientiousness. Are you sure about that? I would rather assume that highly creative people often rank low on "tolerating bullshit" instead of having a low conscientiousness.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
If AirBnB is so certain in its "we are family" speeches: Why not give every current employee who has to be laid off because of the current situation an option to get back to AirBnB as soon as the economic situation of AirBnB impro
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Archive.is: http://archive.is/MjNtl
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> And ARMs fixed length instructions allow apple to just duplication their instruction decoder logic until they are decoding (currently) 7 instructions per cycle. Only the A32 and A64 instruction sets of ARM have fixed 32-bit-length inst
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by wolfgke 6y ago
I am not sure whether it is a good idea to use an SMD component for one of the two connectors. Connectors are exposed to a lot of physical stress in particular when plugging in and out. Through-hole connectors are more robust with respect t
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Windows NT wasn't a rewrite of Windows 3.1, but an attempt of Microsoft to create a modern workstation OS that is in a completely different product category than DOS/Windows 3.1.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Content editors should not be able to add arbitrary code to a bank's website unless it undergoes review from someone who understands web security. Hardly anybody really understands web security.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> There are obviously places where it makes sense, but a $15/hr human is preeeetty cheap compared to the price, programming, and maintenance of a robot. But such a robot is a good insurance against further increases of minimum wages
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Somewhat paranoid there are zero days on libgen, etc. Do you have an alternative to trusting them?
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Because they simply cannot afford the software, they often do not have an alternative.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
"I think it would be surprising if other car makers had a large suite of crash tests they ran that aren't being run by testing agencies, but it's theoretically possible that they do and just didn't include a passenger si
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by wolfgke 6y ago
... and Paris.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Only if there really is love behind it. Otherwise, such a message is fraudulent.

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