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by xorcist 2y ago
> some point on the spectrum between "commit your dotfiles to git" and Nix That would be configuration management tools such as Salt/Puppet/Ansible/Chef. They were popular ten years ago, and gained a lot of expos
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by xorcist 2y ago
There is no exclusive-or between business models, there is an inclusive-or. Over time subscription models will converge to subscription with advertisements. Like newspapers did.
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by xorcist 2y ago
We do not know for sure but this would be very unlikely. Several of the participants does not need to know this information and it should be compartmentalized. Information concerning capability or location should not come near unclassified
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by xorcist 2y ago
That's not at all what's it's like to work with classified data, even deep down the subcontractor chain. They constantly drill into you to respect data classification and the consequences of ignoring these rules. Nobody ever
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by xorcist 2y ago
You are using your own definitions of the term and you will find that no one else agrees with that. This is a silly game and there is nothing to be gained from playing it, for anyone.
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by xorcist 2y ago
Both of these sources contradict your somewhat bizarre thesis that sqlite, one of the most commonly used free software in the world, somehow is not open source.
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by xorcist 2y ago
They made up the term specifically from looking at word combinations that were not in common use and could reasonably be trademarked for this specific purpose. One of the problems with the at the time popular term Free Software was that it
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by xorcist 2y ago
> Wait until you realize that the EU tariff on American cars has been 4x the US tariff in EU cars for awhile. That's a simplification beyond what's truthful. Import taxes are different on different types of cars, both in the EU
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by xorcist 2y ago
This is also why some economists like them, they're hard to cheat on. Know what's even harder to cheat on and has much less long term impact on the economy? Sales tax. A federal sales tax would have been preferable to the import t
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by xorcist 2y ago
There is no "only" in advancing the inevitable. A century may be a blip on the geological timescale but it makes an enourmous difference for civilization. A century from now, global warming will be "solved", one way or a
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by xorcist 2y ago
To be fair, JWT is abysmal in more than one aspect and there's reasonable chance you'd be better off on your own. It's like "No, you don't need to write a configuration parser, you can just serialize an object"
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by xorcist 2y ago
Most of these things are much harder to get right that you make it sound. Perhaps proxying most so. It is a legitimately hard problem. Look at something like Varnish, which is likely one of the better proxies out there. It took many years t
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by xorcist 2y ago
I think what you observe is more like a natural blowback to the prevailing idea that this is somehow beyond critique because it will fundamentally change culture and civilization forever. There's a bit of irony here too. The intellectu
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by xorcist 2y ago
You don't want competition. The only competition a school can have is by proxy measurements, and then you are deep into that age old problem that what you measure will decide the outcome. Just like paying programmers for each bug the
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by xorcist 2y ago
Tools such as this should not be used. The generated commit messages are all noise, no signal. The LLM can not possibly describe why a change was made, and it can never describe why a corresponding more obvious change was not made. Should
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by xorcist 2y ago
> Trumps voters don't want America to be an empire, responsible for protecting a bunch of far-away Then why did they elect an imperialist? The current president has already announced the possibility of military interventions against
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by xorcist 2y ago
The comparison with Switzerland is stretching things a bit thin. Switzerland never threatened Germany to become the 27th canton. They didn't threaten military allies with military intervention. They also do not keep permanent military
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by xorcist 2y ago
Ars is perfectly usable without Javascript. Either use Noscript or click the uBo shield and deselect the script tag.
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by xorcist 2y ago
If the upstream project thinks there may be a potential problem with this, that is a problem in itself. Try not to get defensive about it, just pull the project and have another go at the problem in collaboration with upstream. Perhaps pa
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by xorcist 2y ago
So just turn off support for external media, which could possibly be created on other platforms, and all old file systems? Legacy platforms, like modern Windows which still uses UCS-2 (or some half broken variant thereof)? While I support t
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by xorcist 2y ago
Not at all. It's a common result of the resulting Mojibake ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake ) after moving files between platforms. It's also what made Python 3 very impractical when it orginally came a
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by xorcist 2y ago
> They also snapshot your disks, cloning them to Wiz accounts I can see how that could be worth $32B.
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by xorcist 2y ago
Vitriolic is completely uncalled for. I have no idea who Katie is. I guess I could find out by translating the text back to English again? Somebody linked a page which is more or less broken for people with other locales, and the nice thing
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by xorcist 2y ago
> Somebody is trying to be more inclusive Not likely. No one ever felt included by an automatic translation. It is impersonal and clearly comes off as such. Stastical translation tools are tremendous and helps me regularly to understand
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by xorcist 2y ago
Of course we aren't. That's the whole problem. We have different locales. That results in a header somewhere with the languages I understand in order of fluency (which includes English, mind you), as per the specification. And the
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by xorcist 2y ago
The title of the page is Underpants 2.0 , but the renderings are nothing like what the title promises. I guess there is some automatic translation going on. I've said it a thousand times but I can say it again: There are very few univ
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by xorcist 2y ago
Commoditizing your complements. In other words, wiping out your competitor's business moats. If their cashflow is dependent on selling phones, open source your phone operating system to lower the value of the proprietary system. It can
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by xorcist 2y ago
I am often reminded how similar the discussion around global warming and the one around CFCs were. There was much shouting about destroying the economy, and how the cold chain was a remarkable invention that ensured we did not die from food
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by xorcist 2y ago
It doesn't? Try loading a driver written for an old version of Windows. Third party drivers generally won't work for the next version of Windows. I have a printer that had a Windows 7 driver. It won't load on any more recent
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by xorcist 2y ago
Windows drivers are absolutely version specific. Try to install a driver for an old Windows version sometime.

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